Administration face this thorniest of foreign Policy Challenges . Ill speak to the u. S. Special enjoy for iran Robert M ha Lley And Ben Jerrys Ice Cream engaging in terrorism . Thats what Israel President claims, and its just as absurd as it sounds. Good evening. Im Mehdi Hasan. Its been six months since many republicans helped incite an attack on the united states capitol. Its been five months since republicans refused to impeach or convict Donald Trump for his role in that violence, and its been two months since republicans rejected the formation of an independent barn 9 11style Commission to investigate January The 6th, but finally on Tuesday A House Select Committee will begin investigating how that armed insurrection came about it. Will be led by democrats but feature republicans, too, and not just Liz Cheney. Will you be appointing more republicans to the committee like Congressman Adam Kinzinger . That would be my plan. Within Hours Pelosi named kinzinger to the committee but frankly unlike so many here in d. C. I care less about the bipartisan composition of the committee and more about what they plan to find out because there are in my mind five main questions that this committee has to get to the bottom of starting tuesday. Number one, were republican Members Of Congress involved in organizing stop the steal rallies, including the big one on January The 6th in washington, d. C. . Im not just talking here about those who spoke at such rallies like congressman Jim Jordan who gave a speech at a stop the steal rally in pennsylvania two days after the election. No Wonder Nancy Pelosi blocked him from joining the committee. No, i want to know if elected republicans helped organize the big one because the far right Protrump Activist behind that rally has said this. I was the person who came up with the January 6th idea with Congressman Gosar and Congressman Mo brooks and Congressman Andy biggs. Representatives gosar, biggs and brooks all deny alexanders claim, but why should we take their word for it. The committee needs to look into this. Number two, werent republican Members Of Congress in contact with the insurrectionists before the attack on the capitol . Remember all the talk of reconnaissance tours being offered to the rioters by certain Members Of Congress. Democratic House Member Steve Cohen said he and another member witnessed Freshman Congresswoman Lauren boebetter giving tours in the days before 1 6, something she denies but she was tweeting the Speakers Location an movement to the world during the midst of the attack on the capitol and we know that some House Gop representatives have ties to the well some of the farright militias whose members were involved in the attack on the capitol like gosar and the Oath Keepers or Lauren Boebetter and 39 iers seen touring 2019 in her Campaign Posing with members from the group. A Conservative Youtuber seen on tape breaching the capitol on January The 6th later appeared to accompany a group of gop House Members, including republican Study Committee Chair jim banks to the border. No Wonder Nancy Pelosi blocked banks from being on the select committee, too. So what the committee needs to investigate is whether there were connections or contacts between specific Members Of Congress or specific rioters or militia groups on or immediately ahead of January 6th. We need to know. Number three, what happened to the d. C. National guard on January The 6th . Where on earth were they . For three hours the head of the d. C. National guard had to wait to get the authority while we were all watching on tv these insurrectionists breach the police line, break the glass. The Defense Department still didnt give authority. Why not . We know that one of the top military guys involved in the conversations around the National Guard that afternoon and reportedly not keep on involving them was lieutenant general charles flynn, brother of the promartial Law Proqanon national Security Adviser to Donald Trump Trum Lieutenant general michael flynn, so was the guard blocked from deploying, and if so by whom . We need to know. Number four. Why were Capitol Police so unprepared for the attack despite numerous warnings in the run Up To January The 6th in the Capitol Police had clear advance warnings about the January 6th attack according to a report by their own inspector general, but overs were instructed by their leaders not to use their most aggressive tactics to hold off the mob. Sorry, what . Congress needs to investigate this. And number five, perhaps most important of all, what did the president know and when did he know it . When trump tweeted big protest in d. C. On January The 6th. Be there. Will be wild. What did he think would happen . What did he want to happened . Since nowadays hes openly saying stuff like this about the rioters. What i wanted is what they wanted. As propublica has reported, the Trump Team had been warned the January 6th owe vents could turn chaotic with tens of thousand of people potentially overwhelming illprepared Law Enforcement officials. Rather than trying to halt march, trump and his allies accommodated its leaders. On the day of the attack, why didnt trump take action . Did he block others from taking action. According to testimony from republican congresswoman maime Herrera Beutler when House Republican Leader Mccarthy Ran Trump from the White House on January 6th to demand trump call off his mob the then president replied well, kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. Those are just the five main questions on my mind. There are many more unanswered January 6th questions out there, and to be colleagues, im not prejudging. Im not suggesting i know for sure the answers to all these questions, though, as ive common straight tonight Theres Plenty of prima Facie Evidence suggesting a lot of evidence including the former president have a lot to answer for. Look, thats the whole point of having a congressional investigation, to get to the facts, to get to the truth, and hopefully to get justice for the people who died. Im joined which Barbara Comstock who served two terms in the house as a republican representing Northern Virginia including during the trump virginia until she was defeated in the 2018 midterms and shes since become an outspoken critic of the former president and her party. Thanks for joining me on the show tonight. Are you happy to see Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney on the January 6th collect committee . You must be welcoming the move seeing that Kevin Mccarthy and the rest of the republicans took their toys and went home last week . I certainly thrilled to see this. The investigation is bipartisan and whats important is the information thats been subpoena and ive been saying since january 7th, for example, that the president that Donald Trump who was then the president on january the 7th, that his phone records, his texts it, all of the documents from that day should be subpoenaed and now we know from these many books that are coming out theres a lot of details from the people with him there on January 6th. The whole time frame before i was a member of congress i was a chief couple on the Government Reform Committee which is the largest investigative committee, and what we would do is get a timeline and subpoena all the documents, and i think in this case you want to go, you know, around Election Day through january 20th. Yeah. And find all of the people who were involved in meetings on challenging the elections, these rallies, what were his real lawyers like Pat Cipollone and the White House counsels office, bill barr, what were they saying, and he was ignoring their advice and bringing in the kooks and at cranks and get the republican voices working with Donald Trump at that time officially and then on the campaign, get their voices and then you will have republican voices who will put truth to the Big Lie. So those are great points, important points. Simple question then. Why are so many of your fellow republicans in congress, your former congressional colleagues, so keen and so desperate not to talk about what happened that day, not to find out what happened in the days and weeks that led Up To that attack . Well, it is sad. I think actually a lot of them will be happy to have Liz And Adam there, maybe some who are quiet to get that information out because Donald Trump continues just as he did last night to, you know, perpetuate a lot of lies, but i think. Yes. He is becoming diminished and even though hes still dangerous hes a diminished force, and the more the facts and the truth come out, and thats what this committee will do. I am thrilled that were going to hear from these frontline heroes, you know, that were there on January 6th saving the capitol, saving Members Of Congress. Yes. Saving the staff. These are people who put their life on the line and now you have some Members Of Congress who, for example, wont even shake the hand of michael fanone, an officer traumatically injured on that day. And well hear from those heroes and the firsthand account but its democrats that are in channel of the subpoenas so they need to get ton it and get those subpoenas out to mark meadows, to Iavaca And Trump jr. Everyone who was involved in all these meetings. Remember, there was a December 21st meeting you had on your list where Marjorie Taylor Greene was at the white House Planning for January 6th. Mo brooks has already said in sworn documents that the White House invited him to be at that rally, so what was the extent of the white House Involvement and the Trump Involvement you . Know, weve all seen that video given the tent with all threatening everybody that you better stick with us, so you have a lot of information thats already out there that needs to get a a lot of information. Im going a lot of information well summed up. Im glad you mentioned December 21st as well, but theres also a poll this week that found that a majority of trump voters that described what happen ridiculously shamelessly as defending Freedom Or Patriotism and youve become a critic. When members of your party have gone so far, why would you want to remain in the party with those people . I dont want to give them the satisfaction of having Donald Trump dominate this. As i say, its like chipping away sort of at the berlin wall. Eventually its going to come down because it is a fraud. You know, you see the 75 Million that hes raising. Its not even going to things thats been recently report. Its not going to the stop the steal things. Its who knows what hes doing with these things, so it really is i think im very happy to see conservatives. Adam kinzinger and Liz Cheney are very conservative republicans but this is about being prodemocracy, not were youre a democrat or republican. Its being for the rule of law, for the constitution and for getting the facts on the record and so i am thrilled that they will be doing it and hopefully my friend i appreciate Deb Wriggleman will be there. I appreciate what youre saying and other republicans speaking out against trumpet you are saying you dont want him to dominate your party. Your critics will say you should have spoken out while you were still in office and i know you criticized the muslim ban and a few other things that happened on trumps ban but you had a 98 record of voting with trumps priorities. In fact, your democratic opponent Ran Ads against you calling you trumpstock in 2018. I wonder in Hindsight Shouldnt you have come out against trump and your Partys Craziness much sooner than you did . Well, actually i voted against him in 16 and publicly when i was on the ticket with him said that i did, but i am a conservative republican also. I voted for tax cuts. I voted for increasing the military, and so the policies that i voted on are republican policies, bills that he happened to sipe, things like Opioid Legislation and others, so because im a conservative republican doesnt mine supported trump and i did regularly speak out against him and i did not support him in 2020, but i think the important thing now is that everybody who cares about the constitution and the rule of law, about backing the blue, about our officers who were brutalized, many of those people, know, live in my community. I was on the committee that worked with them. Yeah. I was concerned with the deal of a lot of the threats during the kavanaugh, you know, confirmation hearing. There were a lot of protesters then and i worked with them then so i feel very strongly that their voices need to be heard and they need to get their story out. Yes. And thats what will happen on tuesday and going forward. Were almost out of time but i know this is a subject you care very strongly about. Very briefly, how much should the select commit be looking into facebook and Social Media in producing the January 6th attack . They banned after the attack after the horses had already bolted but Theres Plenty of dangerous incitement still on those platforms today, isnt it . Actually, its the people who did it. Its the people who are inciting the violence should be held accountable and thats what the hearings are going to do. Thats what the prosecutions are going to do, and youve seen, you know, discussions of, you know, who on the media are are putting these things, you know, whether its lies like Donald Trump putting forward or others. You know, Trump Ironically is suing Social Media companies for banning him and they have banned him and he calls them State Actors that ironically he says facebook who banned him is the government when in fact when he was banned he was still the president in charge of the government, yeah, so his attacks on Social Media also are a big Fundraising Thing just like his promotion of the Big Lie. Very good point. Its all about raising money, and thats, you know. Yes, it is. All people do, for one thing, his chase is unconstitutional that hes bringing against Social Media and even Alan Dershowitz reportedly wouldnt sign on to it, but he was immediately sending out fundraising emails after he put the case out so its a frivolous case. Its not serious as so many ump, congresswoman, were out of time, but it is a frivolous case. Im glad you made that point. Former congresswoman Barbara Comstock of virginia. Thank you so much for your time and insights tonight. Appreciate it. 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President , and as we know there was no love lost between trump in particular and the iranians. The former president applying what he called maximum pressure as he tore up barack obamas nuclear deal with tehran in 2018. So where is Joe Biden on iran six months into his presidency . The president had promised to rejoin the deal, but talks in Vienna Arent exactly going at lightning speed. In the last week irans Supreme Court national Security Council rejected a Draft Agreement negotiated indirectly with the u. S. , and as a result the iranian economy remains under immense Pressure Due to u. S. Sanctions. Protests breaking out this week as ordinary iranians suffer from extreme Heat And Power outages and Water Shortages and, of course, the pandemic. So is there any hope for a new deal between iran and the united states . Joining me now is Robert Malley, the u. S. Special enjoy to iran. Rob, thanks so much for come on the show tonight. I want to start by asking you about the vienna talks. Iran has rejected the latest proposal, and some might say thats understandable. I spoke with democratic senator Chris Murphy from the senate foreign Relations Committee on this show a few weeks ago and said, look, were the ones who pulled out and, therefore, we should be the first ones back in. Hes right, isnt he . The burden is on us first to get back into the deal because it was america that pulled out of it first. So, first, thanks, mehdi, its great to be on the show. Listen, we inherited a situation that President Biden decided were going to try to end which is a maximum Pressure Campaign that the Trump Administration had imposed on iran which has failed miserably and has hurt u. S. Interests. Were seeing iran accelerating its nuclear program and intensifying its regional destabilizing activities, all of which happened after the maximum Pressure Campaign which was supposed to address those problems was implemented, so President Biden ordered us to go meet if we could with the iranians or indirectly as they requested and we said very clearly were prepared to come back into the deal if they are prepared to do their part. In other words, well lift the sanctions if they are prepared to come back and to come into compliance with the nuclear constraints or the nuclear obligations that they signed Up To in 2016, and that deal has been more or less on the table. There never was a deal but they have been sort of ideas that weve put forward. You dont want to take my word for it. Ask the iranian president and the iranian Foreign Minister both of whom have said several times including last week that if iran wanted to see the sanctions lift it had could have had them lifted in march, april, in may, in june and july because at all of those sages there was there were ideas that the u. S. Had presented about lifting all of the sanctions that President Trump had imposed in violation of the nuclear deal, in exchange for iran coming back into compliance. Rob, what about the humanitarian situation in iran . Coronavirus cases are surging. The country is crippled by those economic sanctions from the u. S. , many of them from trump. President biden talked extensively, i remember even during the campaign, about humanitarian exemptions, a pause on sanctions. Where is all that have . If you were an iranian sitting in tehran this evening, rob, struggling to put food on the table for your family, would you think President Biden has done enough to help during this pandemic . Well, my first blame my government first but ill let the iranian people say that. President biden is right, said it during the campaign and said it since that we inherited a Sanctions Architecture that hes asked his team to review to make sure that the humanitarian sanctions can be effective. The administration issued a general license to allow iran to more easily import all what have it needs to combat covid, but lets be honest. All that have could help, none that have will make the real difference. What will make the real difference is if the sanctions are lifted because they are so multilafrd and that what weve prepared do if iran is prepared to do if they will do what they said they would do which is a mutual compliance. Were prepared to go much further and lift sanctioned imposed in Vie Haitian of the Deal And Iran has to do its part and what is trouble that at this point its still not prepared to do it, and it needs to it needs to do more than the deal requires. Just to be clear very briefly. Mutual return means America And Iran at the same time or are you still insisting iran goes first . No, were not insisting and we never insisted that iran go first. What were saying were happy to talk and have a creative secret. Were not going to do steps in a way that theres a sequence that will be pragmatic and creative. That will not be the obstacle to a deal. The obstacle is as of now iran is asking us to do more than we signed Up To do and is offering to do less than it signed Up To do. Rob, weve learned to recent days that trump reportedly told associates that he killed souleymane because he was under pressure from senators before the Impeachment Trial and general milley wanted him not to strike iran after the election saying youre going have an fing war. Done the iranian people have a right to be outraged to know that our country killed their Top General for domestic political purposes and our general had to stop them from starting a war with them for nakedly political reasons. I dont know exactly what happened but i think that the american people have the right that a policy designed that claimed was going to keep american safe by Killing Sule Maine and providing a maximum pressure case, three years on america is less safe. The very steps that the Trump Administration says was going to tackle through its campaign and killing souleymane. The question is whether souleymanes killing made America Safe or not. It just invited more trouble rather than deescalate tensions. The incoming Iran Nan President Ibrahim Raisi is a hardliner and has been accused of mass murder. Can America Work with this are iranian president as he takes office . I think what other Human Rights Organizations have laid out is very clear and not surprising to say the least that our goal in negotiating with iran never stemmed from a view that we had the same Value System or that we agreed with them. Its because we believed that an iran with a nuclear weapon is something we couldnt tolerate or accept and all of our problems would be much worse if iran were heading in that direction so if anything this makes it each more imperative to reach a diplomatic outcome that would curb irans nuclear ambition and make sure its not going to seek a bomb and then we can try to negotiate to solve the other problems. It wont be easy. It will take time. Diplomacy is the answer. Its certainly not war as you laid out at the outset. And just well, thats good to heart. Finally and briefly i want to ask about the Pegasus Spywear Report out this week saying the emiratis and sawedies were spying on their opponents. Well cover this later in the show but i want to know your personal reaction that you were on the list of potentially hacked Phone Numbers and will the u. S. State department be taking any action on this . So im not going to speculate about what might happen. Ill say this, that its an operational matter. The operational questions and im not going to comment and ill low of it to others to take this in the direction that the administration decides. All right. Well, i had to ask the question. Rob malley, thanks so much for being with us tonight. Appreciate it. Theres a new ben Jerrys Ice Cream flavor and its bittersweet, but first Richard Lui is here with the headlines. Hey, mehdi. Some stories were watching for at this hour. Team usa winning six Swimming Medals at the tokyo olympics on sunday. Kalisz took home the gold in the individual Medley And Emma weyant won silver. A bus ran off a highway and crashed in croatia. That bus was coming from kosovo. 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Once in the phone it can track just about everything you do, your data, keystrokes, location, even hijacking your Phones Microphone and camera. Globally more than 50,000 Phone Numbers of potential Pegasus Surveillance targets have been revealed. The Nso Group denies the allegations, but the numbers include those of journalists, activists and academics. Even rob malley, the biden administration special enjoy for iran who we spoke to earlier on the show, his number on was on there. How do we stop this . The secretarygeneral of Amnesty International joins me now. Thanks for coming on the show. I want to start asking you about the death of journalist jamal khashoggi. You concluded in a report in 2019 you conclude that Saudi Arabia was responsible for jamals premeditated execution. We now know Nsos Spyware was used by the saudi to monitor people close to khashoggi, Family Members before and after his death. How much of a surprise was that to you . Not quite. You know, it was an important crucial part of the execution. He was monitored before and clearly his death did not stop the monitoring because it also targeted his fiancee for the four days after his murder. There was an intent to control the information after the murder and to keep track on the trial itself. And what do we do about this Spying Software because its coming out of this Israeli Firm, but its not just them. Its technology thats proliferating across the globe. Edward snowden, the famous whistleblower, is calling for a Spyware Trade Ban or more Tomorrowium N. Israel lawmakers are saying they may look into Spyware Export restrictions and nso, the company at the center of all of this, says this is used to fight crime, terrorists. What do you believe is the appropriate reaction to this huge story . The first is to realize that what were dealing with actually a weapon. Its a weapon that is used to undermine Human Rights. Its a weapon that is used to undermine fair trial, to undermine democratic Price Supports and to violate freedom of the press. The best way to look at it is as a weapon and the weapon is to be regulated and the moment its on published theres no control and no regulation and basically everything that they want at the moment with a particular weapon. We need the moratorium while were developing the regulatory framework at international level but we also need that at the national level. And the french president Emmanuel Macron who has been identified as being one of these potential numbers on the list, hes getting a new phone as im sure many people are on the list of 50,000 numbers. How worried are you about your own phone and what measures should people like yourself journalists, activists being taking now . Is anyone safe . No, nobody is safe. The instead of becoming more transparent they are becoming more and more secretive that means you can become infected without even clicking on anything. Nobody is safe. I am right now safe apparently. Ive checked knew phone has been checked many times, but everyone should understand that they can be a target even though right now the targets are Human Rights defenders and potentially it is a survey of society that is being constructed. That is why we need to intervene. We need to create a ban at the international level and at the national level there needs to be a proper legal framework, policy framework, oversights over the use and the sale of that weapon. One last quick question before were out of time. Amnesty international helped get ahold of these 50,000 leaked numbers. Is there more to come . Im pretty sure this is not the only leak of professional targets so there will be more to come. There will be you know, as long as we dont take action to curtail and regulate that particular spyware and similar spywares you can believe that there will be more leaks and more victims around the world. That is depressing to hear but great work from Amnesty International. Thank you so much for appearing on the show tonight. Please do stay safe. Coming up, one republican governor finally said out loud what the rest of us vaccinated folks have kind of all been thinking when it comes to this new covid surge. Its time to start blaming the unvaccinated for example, not the regular folks. But is it too little too late from the gop . Thats next. Little too late from the gop thats next. [swords clashing] had enough . No. Arthritis. Here. New aspercreme arthritis. Full prescriptionstrength . Reduces inflammation . Thank the gods. Dont thank them too soon. Kick pain in the aspercreme. This chimes is the sound of change from pnc bank. 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Lease the 2021 is 300 for 379 a month for 36 months. Experience amazing. Tonight on the spread of the coronavirus. Louisiana republican congressman, clay higgins, confirmed this hour he contracted covid19 for the second time. The congressman has encouraged people to get the vaccine but has not said whether he, himself, has been vaccinated. And now some republican governors across the south are changing their messaging on getting the shot. Joining me to discuss this further, is former republican governor of New Jersey. You have gop governors like Desantis And Abbott who have allowed covid to run rampant in their states, and you have sanders running for governor of arkansas and saying stuff like this. If i am elected governor in arkansas, we will have mandates on the Vaccine And Shutdown churches and schools and other large gatherings because we believe in Freedom And Self responsibility. Do these republican governors have blood on their hands . In one way you could say this is darwinism. 99 of those over 99 of those that died in the resent outbreak were unvaccinated, and they were in the republican states where the gunfires governors have been saying fauci should be taken out and nobody should listen to him, and the best analogy i have heard, its a bit like titanic, and offering a Life Vest as the boat goes down and having them refuse to take them, and its mindboggling. Now what they are saying is going to make that much of a difference unfortunately, because people have heard this other message for so long. Yes. Mindboggling is the right phrase. You had to deal with Climate Change among other issues, and today you have a bunch of prominent republicans like senator Ron Johnson of wisconsin who are antivaccers and Climate Change deniers. Its basic denial of basic science . They could win back the house in this next election cycle, because thats kind of typical of the cycles, once the president ial election is over the party out of power tends to pick up seats, but overall longterm, this is not a winning strategy. Its just not. People understand that the vast majority of the american people, better than 50 , and even among republicans know Climate Change is occurring and we need to do something about it, and the floods, droughts, wildfires, the extraordinary storms we have had, people understand. This is what we are doing to mother nature, and we are so exacerbating a natural trend. The climate has been changing since the earth was formed but what we are doing now to nature means nature can no longer absorb the changes and were page the price, and it will only get worse. You can look at coronavirus and say this is one of the things that happens when you change the environment and you change ecology, then you have things happening and joining together that you never did before. So earlier, dr. Anthony fauci told cnn that bringing back masks for Vaccinated Americans is back on the table. If you were still the governor of New Jersey and you have seen the kind of case rises we have seen nationally right now, what other steps would you be taking that some of your fellow republicans arent right now . Obviously i would be strongly encouraging taking the vaccine, and i would be working with businesses to encourage them to say that they require their employees to do that, and you would say schools, you would require at least the teachers to do that and the older students to do it. I would call for mask wearing, even for those of us who have been vaccinated inside. I think its an issue with the younger children. The older children who are 15 and older, at least in the state of New Jersey, now you can get the vaccine at 15 and hopefully its going down to 12 or 11 soon, then those children might not have to wear masks all day, but its starting to get to the point where this new Delta Variant that were going to masks are going to be part of our lives in the future, and yes, they are uncomfortable and nobody likes to wear masks, but its not the end of the world. It could be if you dont wear it. Yes. It isnt the end of the world, although dying is. One last question, you were nearly one of 150 republicans that wanted to leave the gop and form a new group, and is that still on the table . What we want to do is support the candidates that stood up against the Big Lie and go after those that supported it, and see what happens in the next cycle or two. In this country third parties have not been terribly successful, except the last one was the republican party and that was back in the 1850s and 60s. Thats the last thing we want to do but we will do it if we have to. I suspect that moment is getting closer and closer, and its not getting any saner in the republican party. Thank you for your time tonight. Appreciate you coming on. Thank you all at home for watching as ever. Were out of time. Well be back here next sunday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Catch me monday through thursday at 7 00 p. M. Streaming on the peacock, and now its time to get to joshua johnson. Before we go, you asked her about some republicans breaking away from the party. What do you think . Its very hard to start a new party, and i dont think the fight back within the republican party will work either. Its a bad case regardless. Yeah. Be interesting to see how that turns out. Anyway, appreciate you making extra time. Good evening. Its good to be with you tonight. Tonight house speaker Nancy Pelosi announced another republican member of the committee investigating the capitol riot, Adam Kinzinger, and we will see if the longawaited Infrastructure Deal will get done. Texas democrats is still in d. C. Tonight. Six of their members have tested positive for covid. Speaking of which, covid cases are on the rise across the country and vaccinations flat lined. You will hear from a Emergency Room Doctor what its like fighting the Delta Variant right now. I am joshua johnson. Welcome to the week. Okay,