new reporting, pushing the white house for answers, an nbc news exclusive. house committee s becoming more clear this afternoon. up first, the biden administration on defense over how the president handled classified documents. we ll tell you what the press secretary is saying just as we were coming on the air with our team at the white house and doj standing by live. also this hour, some new reporting you will only see here out of new mexico with the targets of that shooting spree are telling us after the arrest of a losing republican candidate. plus, kevin mccarthy saying the gop is going to be finished doling out committee assignments today. new details on where hard line conservatives and election deniers are landing including the controversial member the speaker confirms will be seated somewhere. with me now is kelly o donnell and justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian. we re about to see the president soon at this event for the golden state warriors. we
made its way to our doorstep right here in aalbuquerque, new mexico. fundamentally at the end of the day this was about a right-wing radical, an election denier who was arrested today, and someone who did the worst imaginable thing you can do when you have a political disagreement, which is turn that to violence. wow. saddest of all perhaps is that such incidents of dangerous domestic extremism are starting to feel routine in our country. amid a sharp rise to threats of public officials over the last few years, are any of us even surprised in what plays out almost every day. what did republicans expect or want when they spent the last few years talking like this. we re not allowed to punch back anymore. i love the old days. you know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? they d be carried out on a stretcher, folks. i m eric grietens, navy s.e.a.l. and today we re going rino hunting. now today we face the greats danger we have ever
A person who might have been motivated by anger over nonexistent fraud in his landslide november loss. pena stands accused of conspiring with and paying four men to carry out four shootings at albuquerque area homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators. among his alleged targets, homes belonging to officials with whom pena met after his election loss in his attempts to overturn the results. quite thankfully, no one was hurt but that does little to ease the shock. one of the bullets flew through a 10-year-old girl s bedroom. here s albuquerque s mayor after the arrest. this situation today i think obviously points out that the shootings were orchestrated, they were dangerous attacks not only to these individuals, which is personally the most terrifying for them, but fundamentally also to democracy. that is why this is so terrible. this type of radicalism is a threat to our nation and it has