we start with the bombshell new details in the justice department s investigation into the capitol attack. nbc news confirming with an administration official that the doj has been asking questions about former president trump s actions leading up to january 6. the official adds there is not a criminal investigation of mr. trump himself. nbc news reached out to a trump spokesperson for comment. the doj is not officially commenting on the story but in an exclusive interview with lester holt attorney general garland states that no one is above the law. we will hold accountable anyone criminally responsible attempting to block the peaceful transfer of power. that conversation between merrick garland and lester holt. we want to bring in pete williams, charlie savage, chuck rosenberg. we have a great group to get us started. pete, confirming the questions asked related to donald trump s actions on that day and leading up to that day. what specifically do we know? what is the f
The shutdown meeting when he walked out. Exactly, thats according to two democratic sources with knowledge of that meeting. Well hear from Senator Schumer and Speaker Pelosi any moment now. But thats it for me. Andrea mitchell picking things up right now. Ill see you tomorrow morning. What a day. Craig melvin, thank you. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. We are awaiting comments at any moment from House Speaker nancy pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. Moments after President Trump suddenly appeared in The Rose Garden to lash out at them, pouncing on Comments Pelosi had made this morning, that the president had engaged in a coverup, comments she made in part to slow her own caucus march to impeachment. The president walking out of that prearranged meeting over infrastructure and trade with pelosi and schumer, and leading democrats on capitol hill. Heres part of it. Instead of walking in happily into a meefg, i walk into look at people that had just said
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in terms of what they call reconciliation, the democratic agenda to try to pass some real agenda items on this issue. so given it looks like they ve run into a brick wall on that, what other tools do you think washington, the white house, needs to use right now to try to help those at the state level do something about this? well, when you run into a brick wall you go around it and that s why we are looking forward to president biden s leadership on this, he s already taken announced executive action to build off-shore wind, which is a very, very clean source of energy, and now we re looking forward to him taking five more actions. number one, a regulatory approach to regulate some of the pollutants that are coming off our coal-fired plants. number two, certainly there are places where we should not be drilling, including offshore. he s going to help us, i believe, to electrify our transportation fleet, electric cars are really the thing right now. we just need to increase the