capitol police, quote, was aware of the potential for violence in the days and weeks ahead of january 6, but the, quote, decentralized nature of the intel operation meant some officials were out of the loop. there are new details about the extent of communication among those rioters, trump supporters posted violent threats online ahead of january 6th. traffic spiked to a website about washington s underground tunnels. but the report says intel officials struggled to see the differences between protected political speech and these dangerous threats, but for all the new revelations the report is also notable for what it leaves out. cnn s manu raju has more this morning from capitol hill. reporter: good morning, christine and laura. now, this is the first authoritative report about what exactly happened on january 6 and why law enforcement was so ill-prepared for the events of that day. it really details a stunning failure among law enforcement agencies from the u.s. capitol
on their tinder profiles. you re going to come on! it was a picture of me! i was literally in a best buy yesterday and, yes, it was very strict. mask guidelines may be getting more confusing, even as the pandemic shows signs of abating. for the first time, covid cases are down in all 50 states. now the biden administration is poised to send more vaccines overseas to countries that are desperate for them. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it s monday, may 18th, along with joe, willie and me, we have chief white house correspondent for the new york times, peter baker. white house correspondent for politico and co-author of the playbook, eugene daniels. he s also an msnbc contributor. and former democratic congresswoman jane harman of california. she s a distinguished fellow and president at the wilson center and author of the new book, insanity defense: why our failure to confront hard national security problems makes us less safe and what a really important
and jerusalem. this is early start, i m laura jarrett. good morning, i m christine romans. it s tuesday, may 4th. for you star wars fans may the 4th be with you. 5:00 a.m. in new york. we will begin with science. next week the fda is expected to authorize pfizer s coronavirus vaccine for children and teenagers 12 to 15 years old. 12 to 15. a major expansion in the campaign to get americans vaccinated. kids can be better protected this summer, herd immunity will be that much more attainable, more children will be able to safely return to school and sports and more parents can return to the workforce. pfizer conducted a clinical trial involving more than 2,200 12 to 15 year olds, none of them, none of that cohort developed symptomatic infectiones. really important stat there. the vaccine is currently authorized in the u.s. for emergency use in people 16 and older so the fda will have to amend the current eua. expanding the vaccination pool does invite questions, though,
from senior national security and military officials, but the president decided to go ahead and withdraw. concluded that it s time to end america s longest war. we went to afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened 20 years ago. that cannot explain why we should remain there in 2021. the president underscored his announcement with a visit to section 60 at arlington national cemetery where iraq and afghanistan war dead are buried. the image there told the story, more than 2,300 u.s. military lives lost over the course of those two decades. tens of thousands of americans wounded, countless afghans wounded. more than $2 trillion in taxpayer money spent, yet parts of afghanistan are still controlled by the same oppressive taliban leaders who were there 20 years ago in 2001. nick paton walsh was based in afghanistan at the height of the conflict. he is live this morning for us in kabul. nick, the cia director says gathering intelligence and acting on potential thre
welcome to a special hour of american voices. hate on the rise. the brutal murders in atlanta, the latest in an unrelenting cycle of violence against asian-americans and other marginalized communities. with this lethal combination of racism, misogynymisogyny, an enr dedicated to addressing why this is happening, what is fueling it and how we fix it. margaret cho, amanda wynn are here. and we are congressmen here with what washington can do. and we have expert advice on what you can do to counter hate in your community. american voices hate on the rise starts now. it is the question we ll work to answer over the next hour. how do you solve a problem as big and complex and deeply rooted as hate in america? just this week a new report from the intelligence community warned of the growing threat of homegrown extremism in our country. saying specifically that racially motivated extremists are those most likely to carry out a mass casualty attack. and in 2019, the fbi reported 7300