. ch. ch purpose of that meeting yesterday was to try to persuade putin not to invade his neighboring country of ukraine again like he did a few years ago. russia is a dictatorship. assassinated and imprisoned all the opposition leaders that may have posed a threat to him. he's running a criminal-gangster state where his government is merged with organized groups. targeting infrastructure and towns and hospitals but especially in the u.s. with protection from the russian government while they do it. i mean russia is not the good guy here. ukraine is our ally. a democratic country, the largest country in europe, they have been independent for 30 years, 30 years ago this month. not for nothing, we the united states made binding security pledges to ukraine 30 years ago when we persuaded them they should give up thousands of nuclear weapons they were stationed in ukraine. we told them in a binding document, you give up those nuclear weapons and we'll accept some responsibility. it's a good thing ukraine did as the other former soviet states. we hope that promising we'll take care of you and be your ally and watch out for your security. >> for putin, he appears to be bored of having russia so play with. he thinks we know for sure that the soviet union never broken up. he apparently thinks he should have control of ukraine even though ukraine is a separate country. like the idea of renewed russian empire of his own to play with. he did send troops to invade ukraine and he sees part of their country and now that's part of russia several years ago. he's now threatening to do it again. and the united states does have an ally in this site and antagonist. russia is the antagonist and ukraine is our ally. here is president biden trying to convene the democracy of the world among other things, no, russia, you are not invited. he's doing that not coincidentally p warning putin not to invade our ally ukraine again. look at what's going on inside our country. i mean here is biden trying to say we lead the free world and we want democracy to once again fill its sails and be the rising form of government on this. we want to lead that both as a democratic leader and lead by example. here is cover right now of "newsmax" on the political right. vlad the great. look at our friends at the fox news channel, why should we be responsible for ukraine's safety? nato only exists to torment putin. oh, poor putin. or this one, putin just wans to keep his border secured. look at his perspective. russia wants to keep invading neighboring country and taking over bases with them. come on, the guy is hungry. look at how big and strong he is. strong like bull, he needs protein. he's so great, let's see if our other allies may seem like tasty snack to him. he's strong like bull. very hungry. all those pictures of putin shirtless, we got from the fox news channel they show them on a loop because they got a thing for him. that's weird. there is a weirdness on the political-right right now. this is aggressive, expansionist dictatorship. they want to root for the invader if and when it happens. that side of american politics right now is hard to swear with the whole concept sticking up for democracy, defending democracy. on the political right, they're just on the opposite side of that. but then you look internally and domestically, it's the same problem. the center at nyu today put out a practical guide. it's very how to. therefore students should not land with a very emotional punch. the reason for this guide, the practical problem they are giving advise about is enough to send your stomach plunging into other parts of your body. the title is addressing insider threats and elections, there is an active effort to sabotage elections across the country. election officials were some of the biggest heroes of the 2020 election after a grueling year through the pandemic and disinformation efforts and the highest turn-out, election officials stood up seeking to overturn and cast out election results in key states. this helps avoid a constitutional crisis last year. following the threats and political pressure and disinformation and general exhaustions that many officials faced in 2020, many are choosing to leave the election administration field all together. people are seeking to fill these open positions now are those activated by the conspiracy surrounding the 2020 election and most determined to abuse their authorities. ten candidates running for secretary of state and eight running for attorney general seek the backing of former president trump. what happens if such people are entrusted with the people of our elections. lawmakers should act now for 2022 and 2024. they give a big long list of practical steps that we ought to take now. things we never thought to our democracy, people who the republican party has put into election administration jobs specifically so they can sabotage future elections. and it's all this practical advice, election officials should receive funding to install key card access at facilities that hold voting systems, which would create a record of who enters the area. voting systems and ballots should be under 24-hour video surveillance allowing for review and comparison with access logs in the event of unauthorized activity. an individual should only have access to critical systems both physical and digital if the access is necessary for the individual to perform the official responsibilities of that job. people should go through background checks before receiving access to critical systems. officials and workers who actively undermine election integrity should be removed and prosecuted. states have different processes for removing election officials. in some cases the entity that appointed an official may simply fire that person. in others, state officials may hold power to remove election administrators or stripping them of their responsibilities. officials may seek permission from the courts to do so. state and local officials as well as their attorneys should be familiar with the removal options available and be prepared to take steps necessary to protect our election infrastructure from insider threats. where appropriate, law enforcement officials should pursue prosecution against election workers who tamper with or allow unauthorized access to voting systems and election materials. state laws may require updating to address this conduct. again, it's a laundry list of practical security stuff that can be put in place now. it's all very practical nuts and bolts stuff. but the fact that this is needed, the fact that we need to do this now because of the systematic effort by the former president and his party to stuff people into elections administration specifically because they are pledging that they will overturn election results for them unlike the people who wouldn't do it for him in 2020, i mean, that moment is upon us. addressing the insider threats in elections. i mean, just take one high-profile example. there's been a lot of political coverage this week over former president trump endorsing republican david perdue to run for governor in georgia. the reason he wants somebody else to run for governor in georgia, even though the republican governor there standing for re-election, is because the republican governor there, brian kemp, certified the georgia election results, which were that joe biden beat donald trump there? 2020. so donald trump wants somebody to unseat brian kemp as georgia governor because governor kemp certified the election results. david perdue reportedly didn't want to run for governor. he apparently doesn't particularly want to be governor of georgia but trump wants him for that job. trump pushed him into that race, and then he endorsed him in that race, and then of course naturally today david perdue proclaimed outloud if he were elected governor, he will be an insider threat in that state's elections. he told axios today flat out had he been governor last year, he would not have certified the election results in georgia where biden beat trump, he wouldn't have certified those results, which means presumably the reason trump's promoting david perdue for governor is if perdue gets the governor's job this time around, he really won't certify the election results in georgia if and when joe biden beats trump there again in 2024. so yeah. we're the leader of the free world, and we're hosting the summit for democracy, and we've got our own challenges on that front, both in terms of whether or not, you know, half the governing -- one of the two governing parties and its support irv media in this country actually supports democracies around the world against authoritarians that want to invade them, and whether or not the same governing party and media supports it, whether u.s. elections should be continued to be carried out over the centuries, right? whether or not u.s. elections, u.s. small d democracy should be a technocratic nonpartisan thing. today in the january 6th investigation, the investigation into the violent attack by trump supporters on the u.s. capitol in january to try and stop the election being certified. today former president trump's white house chief of staff mark meadows, he declined to appear for testimony that he had been subpoenaed to give this morning. the investigation says that mark meadows is, therefore, likely to be found in contempt. he's potentially going to be criminally prosecuted for contempt. but mr. meadows ended the day today by suing the committee that's conducting the investigation in what appears to be an effort to drag this thing out, to slow it down. on top of that, in another surprise today we also learned that before mr. meadows decided to bail on his subpoenas and sue the investigation, he did hand over some materials to the committee that they find useful for their investigation. in a letter to mark meadows' attorney from the chair of the investigation, congressman bennie thompson today, thompson writes this, quote, despite your broad claims of privilege, mr. meadows has produced documents that you agree are relevant and not protected by privilege, including an email from november 7th, 2020, discussing the appointment of alternate slates of electors as part of a direct and collateral attack after the election, and an e-mail dated january 5th, 2021, the day before the attack on the capitol, regarding a 38-page power point briefing titled election fraud, foreign interference and options for the 6th of january that was to be provided quote on the hill, and also among others, an email dated january 5th about having the national guard on standby. in addition to those documents -- oh, wait, there's more -- chairman thompson also describes, quote, the text messages you did produce to the investigation, including a november 6th, 2020, text message exchange with a member of congress, apparently about appointing alternate electors in certain states as part of a plan that the member of congress acknowledged would be highly controversial and to which mr. meadows apparently said, quote, i love it. so a text message with a member of congress three days after the election about a plan to appoint alternate electors in certain states, alternate electors, meaning that's having states declare that trump won when in fact biden won. meadows, the white house chief of staff at the time says quote i love it, as in i love that plan. also, an email exchange the following day on the same topic, calling that sort of plan a direct and collateral attack after the election, a direct and collateral attack on the election results, having a republican controlled state just declare that trump won in states he didn't win. this is a few days after the november election. we already know that mark meadows made a surprise visit to georgia in december to look in personally on that state auditing and counting its votes. we know he also hosted the january 2nd conference call in which trump repeatedly badgered and pressured georgia secretary of state that he needed to find exactly enough votes to declare trump the winner in georgia even though georgia is a state that he lost. meadows also repeatedly pressured justice department officials that they needed to open investigations into bogus and bizarre conspiracy theories about supposed fraud. he did that in late december and january. but now today these new revelations showing that meadows was knee deep in the deepest end of this stuff, trying to get states to send alternate electors declaring trump the winner when biden had won. he was knee deep in this stuff in the immediate aftermath of the election. joining us now is a leading member of the january 6th investigation, california congressman adam schiff. congressman schiff, nice to see you. thanks for making time. i know it's a busy night. >> good to be with you. >> what do you make of the fact that mr. meadows is not only not cooperating with the investigation, defying subpoenas from the investigation, but he's now suing members of the investigation, including each of you individually, in addition to the whole committee? >> well, it's a frivolous effort to try to delay matters or to appease the former president. as a former member of congress himself, he knows he can't bring lawsuits against members of congress under the speech and debate clause and that his lawsuit will be dismissed as unmeritorious, but i guess this is part of his decision to try to go back to being in the good graces of donald trump, who's apparently upset by the book or upset that he's cooperating or who knows what will account for this about-face. but as you point out, there's no way to sustain the argument that i can't come in and testify because that would be privileged, but here are all of these documents on this very subject, which i admit are not privileged. i can't comment and testify before congress, but i can write about it in my book. you can't have it both ways. and so we will proceed, and i believe hold him in criminal contempt, refer to the justice department as we did with mr. bannon. >> do you have any sense of what the timing would be on that? obviously time is of the essence here. it seems like a lot of these tactics are delay tactics of various kinds, hoping to stretch this out as long as possible, hoping to run out the clock on the investigation. if there is going to be a contempt vote for mr. meadows, potentially a contempt referral for him to be prosecuted, how soon would that happen? >> i think it will happen very soon. we are mapping out how quickly we can produce the committee report recommending the course of action of criminal contempt, when we can take that up, we are in the last days of this year, and there's still some vital work that has to be done on raising the debt ceiling, so we know we'll be here for part of next week, and i know we want to get this done right away because as you say, they're trying to delay, we're trying to get to the truth. we've had one violent attack on our capitol. we don't want another, and getting to the full ground truth of who was involved, the president, members of congress, the chief of staff, whoever was involved, they're trying to overturn our election, we need to get to the bottom of it, and make recommendations to protect the country. >> congressman, one thing we have covered recently on this show is an assertion in a recent deposition by an investigative council working for the committee that this document that justice department official jeff clark sent trying to get georgia to essentially overturn the election results there. it was a very controversial document from jeff clark, something obviously the committee has shown great interest in talking to mr. clark about. it would put the justice department -- essentially put its gravitas and authority behind the effort they need to tell state officials they need to change the results. it appears from a discussion in the recently deposition that there was white house meta data on that letter to georgia officials suggesting that the letter to those georgia officials might have originated in the white house, that this might not be just a jeff clark problem. it might be a trump/white house problem. is that your understanding of that situation? are those the implications of that meta data? do we have this the right way around? >> i think that you do on the basis of what the committee has disclosed about the questions we posed to mr. clark, that there was meta data indicating a white house role of some kind or communication through the white house of some kind. this is exactly why we need these witnesses to testify so we can understand what part of this plot to overturn the election was the white house involved in, what part of it was the president personally involved in, what expectation was there that the last-ditch effort might involve violence against the capitol to delay or obstruct the certification of the electors, and i'm so glad you previewed the segment with the analysis of the democracy efforts abroad because when this stuff comes to light and we see at the highest levels of the justice department and a deep potential involvement of the white house in trying to overturn the election in georgia, as you say appoint electors who don't represent who actually won, you see how much vacillating there is at home even as we try to champion democracy abroad. >> california congressman, member of the january 6th investigation, congressman adam schiff, i know it's a busy anything. thanks for joining us. i really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we've got much more ahead tonight. one of those shows that's like 10 pounds of show in a 5 pound bag. lots to get to. stay with us. stay with us for rob, it took years to find out why his constipation with belly pain just wouldn't go away. despite all he did to manage his symptoms... day 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want to bring you an update on a story we reported here a few weeks ago that was infuriating and seemed to resonate with a lot of you watching at home. we heard from a lot of you after we did this story. it's a story that started january 2020, january of last year. the u.s. launched a drone strike that killed a famous general in iran's guard. a few days after that, they launched a missile attack on u.s. troops stationed at the air base. iran launched 13 missiles that were huge. each had an explosive payload of a thousand to 2,000 pounds, missiles that were the size of trucks, and they landed more than a dozen of them on this one base. it's the largest ballistic missile strike against u.s. forces in world history. and it was clear from looking at the aftermath at al asad how much damage the base had sustained. the u.s. soldiers at the base at the time of the attack, they sheltered in bunkers. dozens of soldiers at the base were wounded. many were diagnosed with serious traumatic brain injuries from those blasts. but for whatever reason, the president at the time, president trump, decided that he didn't want to admit that american soldiers were hurt in the attack. he wanted to play down and even denigrate their injuries. even for a president for whom we were used to hearing shocking things, it was kind of a sickening display. >> a question on iran, initially you said repeatedly to americans that after iran retaliated for the soleimani strike, no americans were injured. we now know that at least 11 u.s. servicemen were airlifted from iraq. can you explain the discrepancy? >> no, i heard that they had headaches and a couple of other things, but i would say, and i can report it is not very serious. not very serious. >> not very serious. just some headaches. i don't know what all the belly aching is, oh, they wanted rides on airplanes, they wanted rides on helicopters, why? that's what president trump said at the time, not very serious. not serious. amidst those repeated just astonishing claims from the president about those battle injuries, cbs news reported last month that the dozens of u.s. soldiers who were injured in that attack either never heard back after they sent in their paperwork for purple hearts or, according to reporting from "usa today," they were, quote, discouraged from filing the paperwork to apply for a purple heart. i mean wounded soldiers discouraged from filing paperwork at all to get a purple heart. purple heart is a solemn, sacred commendation from the u.s. military. it also comes with a bunch of practical benefits, including priority medical care at the v.a. it's an important, important thing. captain geoffrey hansen was an officer at the base at the time of the attack. he himself was wounded in the attack. he told cbs news last month, quote, the messaging i was getting was just the political situation wasn't going to support more approvals. meaning more approvals of more purple hearts. we spoke with him here on this show last month on veterans day. >> when the word came down who was going to get the purple heart we asked, you know, what the criteria was and who was going to get them and who wasn't going to get them, and the message we got back was don't ask any more questions, you're going to get what you're going to get, and be happy that you're getting what you're getting. >> as i said, when we covered this story a few weeks ago, we heard from a lot of you because it was just galling, right, what a shameful chapter in our history. we talk about supporting the troops. how about supporting the troops wounded in battle by a foreign enemy attacking them for being u.s. troops? well, here's the update. tonight we can report, thanks in large part to cbs news really breaking this story wide open, today the u.s. army has announced that it is awarding the purple heart to 39 more america soldiers who were injured in that attack. purple heart nominations for an additional 11 u.s. soldiers are also being considered. when we heard the news today, we called captain hansen who we had interviewed last month and asked him for his response. he told us this tonight, he said i am extremely grateful for the army leadership who conducted this review in such an expeditious manner. the numerous leaders who worked tirelessly to make this happen are validation that we take care of our soldiers above all else. again, he, himself, wounded in that attack. it has taken nearly two years. today something astonishing and astonishingly cruel that was done to dozens of wounded america service members is finally getting undone. unded america service members is finally getting undone it's a thirteen-hour flight, that's not a weekend trip. fifteen minutes until we board. oh yeah, we gotta take off. you downloaded the td ameritrade mobile app so you can quickly check the markets? yeah, actually i'm taking one last look at my dashboard before we board. excellent. and you have thinkorswim mobile- -so i can finish analyzing 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the state. the line in orange represents the handful of counties in kansas that were requiring masks. the line in blue was everywhere else, everywhere without a mask rule. surprise, very clear results, the infection rate was way lower in places where people were required to wear masks because, hey, look, science. masks work. when the kansas health secretary presented these findings to the public last summer, he bluntly explained how this worked. he called it a natural experiment in kansas. that kansas health secretary is a physician trained in family medicine. his name is dr. lee norman. dr. norman took the top public health job in kansas in 2019. he's led the state's covid response since. he stood alongside the governor during her covid press conferences. he did his own daily briefings. in those briefings, dr. lee norman became known for and respected for being a blunt talker, a straight shooter. when the republican led legislature in kansas, for example, undid the governor's ban on large gatherings early on in the pandemic, dr. norman released a statement blasting the lawmakers for having neokneecaped the pandemic response. nothing fun, nothing fancy, whatever kansas legislatures do, doesn't reverse what the public needs to do. stay home so we can beat this scourge, despite what leaders of the legislature say, we are so close, and they are doing politics, don't fall for it. i'm so angry. shame. that was the kind of guy kansas had in charge of their covid response, unafraid, blunt talking, no politics, let's just talk about the pandemic and public health and what needs to be done. here's the evidence. that's what he's been doing. until now. dr. lee norman has now been pushed out, told to resign from his job as secretary of health in kansas. according to emails obtained by "the kansas reflector" newspaper, the governor's office told dr. lee norman that his blunt talk about covid that he had been so admired for, was apparently exacerbating tensions with republican lawmakers in the state. his public remarks were making it harder for the state governor to persuade republican legislatures to okay policies to try and keep the pandemic under control. too much straight talk. dr. norman told kcur radio in kansas city that he believes that tension between the governor's office and the republican legislature is the reason he was asked to resign. he said he feels like he was, quote, fauci'd out of his job. joining us now is dr. lee norman who until recently was secretary of the kansas health department. dr. norman, thank you very much for being here. i'm sure this has been a tough time for you. >> thank you, rachel. always good to see you again, even under these terms. >> these are unusual terms. i'm sorry that you have been asked to leave your job. all i know about it is what i have been able to follow in the local press and to the extent that you've been able to do local interviews about it. let me ask if i misconstrued any of that and why you understand you think you were told to leave. >> no, you pretty well nailed it there, rachel, and i have always been a rather frank talker when it comes to things that i think the public needs to know, and i think that is at the origin. i loved working in the kelly administration, i must say. and i just think that it was hard for me to not disclose and be transparent about the things that i thought the public needed to know, even if we needed to give them early information today, and whether it's tomorrow or a month or a year from now to correct that information as we got more information in, but i like to put it out there and really speak the truth, and i think it was poorly received in some quarters, needless to say. >> and to be clear, it doesn't sound like you and governor kelly had strong differences of opinion in terms of what needed to be done in kansas to try to hold the pandemic at bay, to try to mitigate the devastation of the pandemic. it sounds like the issue was your sharpness of tone, your acuteness of tone that was a diplomacy issue, not policy differences. is that fair? >> well, it's really fair to say that i'm not a politician. i'm many things. i'm a doctor. i'm an army colonel, and many things, but politician i've never been accused of being that. and i don't think it's really about sharpness of tone, although, i have to say that when people misrepresent the facts very deliberately, and they put the public in jeopardy because of their misrepresentation, then my retorts might be -- might hurt their feelings a little bit, but it's really not about people's feelings when it's legislators, for example, and we need to correct misinformation to protect the public. this isn't about egos of politicians, this is about what do we do to help get our public through this pandemic. >> dr. norman, one of the reasons i wanted to talk to you tonight is because i wanted to hear from you what happened here. particularly because we have been following your leadership in kansas. it has been a beacon, but it's also -- what's just happened to you in terms of you being pushed out of this job also feels like a story about this country right now. you talk to kcur about this, the hostility toward public health officials, this is not unique to kansas, not unique to you, we saw it at the national level, targeting public health officials, including dr. fauci, but we're seeing it in a lot of states around the country and even with local county health officials. now that you have been on the receiving end of it, do you have any ideas or suggestions about what the anecdote might be, so more people like you aren't forced to resign so that people who speak bluntly and clearly on public health matters without regard to the politics are protected. >> you're absolutely right, rachel, there's been hundreds of public health officials that have been retired, resigned, fired, you pick the word, even step down, and i think the public health is always political, you know, whether it's around contraception of sexually transmitted illnesses or many of the things we've talked about in the past, but it's never been so partisan, and i think the hardest thing, particularly in a state like kansas, there's many other states where there's such bitter partisanship, and especially in a state like kansas where the governor is one party, and the dominant forces in both parties -- both houses of the legislature are on the other side, and then it really gets partisan, and i think what gets lost in this is the fact that we should put people's health first, and i think a lot of times partisanship is trumping public health, and it should be absolutely the other way around. and i think the only way we can do that is to try and find the common ground in the middle, and i think there is common ground, and that is we're both afraid. you know, people who don't want vaccines are maybe afraid of the side effects or the long-term effects of that. people that get vaccinated are afraid of catching the illness. if we can start talking about fear and meeting in the middle, then maybe we can have some productive dialogue, but otherwise we're going to be very decided. >> dr. lee norman, former secretary of the kansas health department, recently pushed out of that job in his words, fauci ed out of that job. sir, thank you for your service in the army. thank you for your service to kansas, and thanks for being here. i know you're nowhere near retiring and you're not the type. we expect to have you back here soon, sir. thank you. >> thank you very much, i appreciate it, rachel. good to see you again. >> you too. take care. we'll be right back. stay with us. h us number 360 s. what if i sleep hot? ...or cold? no problem, the sleep number 360 smart bed is temperature balancing so you both sleep just right. and it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both effortlessly comfortable. so, you can really promise better sleep? yes! 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conservative political points on this as he can, when all is said and done, though, he won't be the one to pay the price. he won't be the one who has to cash this check that his mouth has been writing. it's all the members of the oklahoma national guard who might have been listening to him and following him down this path because today the pentagon made very crystal clear that if national guard members in oklahoma follow their governor on this, it will cost them their careers. this is the policy the air force laid out today in detail, outlining exactly what refusing to follow the vaccine requirement will mean if you're a member of the air national guard, quote, excluding members with pending or approved exemption requests, air national guard members that haven't initiated a vaccination record, may not participate in drills, training, or other duty conducted under title 10 or under title 32. those with remaining military service obligations will be involuntarily assigned to the individual ready reserve. now, to unpack that a little bit, i'll tell you first, the individual ready reserve is part of the military that doesn't train or drill, which means they don't get any pay or benefits, so involuntarily reassigning people to a part where they get no pay or benefits means they don't get paid anymore, and they don't get any benefits anymore. that reference to title 10 and title 32, that's the two different ways the national guard is activated. most of the time they operate under state jurisdiction, but sometimes they also act under federal authority. what the pentagon made crystal clear today is it doesn't matter for these oklahoma guardsmen and women when it comes to vaccine status. if the governor has them sandbagging under rising floodwaters or operating a vaccine clinic or the president sending them to a war zone under federal authority or if they're training under either of those things, under state or federal authority, they have to be vaccinated or they're out with no pay and no benefits. the governor of oklahoma has been telling guards men and women in their state otherwise for a month now in what appears to have been a political stunt. what he has been playing with is their careers leading members of his own national guard off a cliff on this one. we know the edge of that cliff will be at the end of this month. well done, gov. do you take aspirin? plain aspirin could be hurting your stomach. new vazalore is the first liquid-filled aspirin capsule clinically shown to cause fewer ulcers than plain aspirin. vazalore is designed to help protect... releasing aspirin after it leaves your stomach... where it is absorbed to give you the benefits of life saving aspirin... to help prevent another heart attack or stroke. heart protection with your stomach in mind. try new liquid-filled vazalore. aspirin made amazing! all right. that is going to do it for us tonight. i'll see you again tomorrow. "way too early" is up next. major developments in the probe into the january 6th attack. a looming contempt charge, a lawsuit, and new information on the role that mark meadows played in trying to overturn the 2020 election. the question is what impact will all this have on the investigation? and new pushback against president biden's covid vaccine mandate including from some democrats. with promising new information concerning the pfizer shot, the question is could opposition to the mandate hinder efforts to get the virus under control? plus, he's back, and this time with his kid. tiger woods announced he's