Be close to death without it. Our exclusive sitdown with one senator. A lot to get to this morning. We start with that Explosive Reporting on the nations top military leader. Head of the joint chiefs of staff, general Mark Mille Sharing concerns about a potential Nazi Germany eraesque coup, General Milley reportedly describing weeks after the election like a reichstag moment. Milley looked at the pres supporters and farright extremists taking to washington on that million Maga March, describing what he saw as Brown Shirts in the streets. Phil rucker and carol leonig. Mark murray, senior politics editor, courtney cube, and mark jacobs, nbc military analyst. Mark, there are some experts in this book that we now can report that demonstrate how real milleys fears were, right . A description on the evening of that million Maga March you referenced, he called mcmaster to ask if a coup was eminent asking bluntly, what the f am i dealing with . He then began to strategize how to block Donald T
in a fight with france. okay? i don t want anyone over there getting any ideas about me, you know, next time i show up. which who knows when that will be. well, france s ambassador to lawrence was never recalled. that s right. that is correct. things, you know, you can talk about how rough things got or how smooth things remained. absolutely no conflict. the 10:00 p.m. msnbc had no conflict. france and i were never on speaking terms to begin with so for us no relationship to lose. i m glad to hear you re fine. thank you, rachel. well, today president joe biden took over the negotiations among democrats on how to pass the two track biden infrastructure legislation in congress and the president began a series of meetings today with democratic members of the house and senate beginning at the top with house speaker nancy pelosi and senate majority leader chuck schumer. as usual, there are no real reports of what was said in that private meeting but i can guarantee you h
about the election results. meanwhile, the department of justice, the current one, weighing potential criminal charges against the ex-presidential aide turned right-wing podcaster steve bannon over his refual to coop cooperate over the subpoena. every democrat in the house voted in favor of this. nine republicans joined with democrats which is indicative of how divided this country s political parties are over things they should come to consensus on. the capitol was attacked by violent mob supporters of a failed president. we all witnessed it. democrats want to get to the bottom of how this was allowed to happen. most people want to brush it under the rug from the other party. this dismissal doesn t make sense to rational people until you think of the gop s real audience. a party attempts to mainstream extremism. when it comes to bannon, he is portraying himself as a martyr for a cause and defending those who stormed the capitol. they want to portray as brave patriots when th
would expeditions. they ve already begun us strategizing their next move. one democrat on the judiciary committee has this message for the republicans. we re prepared to fight. make no mistake. we are prepared to fight and use all the options we have to get this job done. it is a job that he will get done. this nominee will be confirmed. this afternoon justice breyer appeared with the president at the white house to formally announce his retirement detailing his plans to remain on the court through the end of the current term this summer and to not leave until successors confirmed. president biden outlined how he plans to move forward with the nomination. once isolate a nominee, i will ask the senate to move promptly on my choice and in the end i will nominate a historic candidate. someone who is worthy of justice barrett s legacy. my intention to announce my decision before the end of february. i ve made the personable nominee will be someone with extraordinary quali
sent from the white house to detail his plans to remain on the court, through the end of the term this summer and to not leave until a successor is confirmed. president biden outlined how he plans to move forward with the nomination. once i select a nominee, i will ask the senate to move promptly on my choice. in the end i will nominate a historic candidate. someone who is worthy of justice breyer s legacy. it is my intention to announce my decision before the end of february. i ve made no choice at this point. the person i will nominate will be someone of extraordinary qualifications. character, experience and integrity. and that person will be the first black woman ever nominated to the united states supreme court. justice breyer than warned of the challenges that he sees ahead for american democracy. this is a complicated country. more than 330 million people. people so different and what they think. and yet, they ve decided to help solve their major differences unde