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dozens of people were kill and injured in greece when two trains collided head on at high speeds. what we know ahead. and we begin on capitol hill, where right now attorney general merrick garland is fielding questions from the senate judiciary committee. as the justice department investigates classified documents found on the properties of president biden, former president trump, and former vice president pence. today s hearing comes after congressional leaders received the classified briefing from the doj yesterday, which they said, quote, left much to be desired. and this morning, the washington post reports that leading up to the doj s august search of former president trump s mar-a-lago estate, two senior fbi officials who would have been in charge of leading the search resisted the surprise plan as too combative. and proposed seeking trump s permission to search his property according to four people familiar with the discussions. i want to bring in nbc news ju ....
Inside the biden agenda. Overnight a stunning report in the New York Times on how top Trump Justice Department officials were nearly forced to resign after the former president and his supporters hatched yet another plot to overturn the election results. Well have more on that in just a moment. First, this week ushered in a time of change and renewal in this country. The inauguration of joe biden and Kamala Harris representing the peaceful transition of power that is central to our democracy. It took place at the same site where over two weeks ago there was a violent attack on congress. Unlike in years past crowd size at the event of the limited because of covid19 and security concerns. Joseph r. Biden was sworn in as the 46th United States president and sou ....
Conversations between this administration and mexico, especially as they try to get mexico to agree to take back more migrants that the u.s. is pushing back into mexico, both under title 42, which we have discussed a lot, jose, and under the new asylum policy set to launch when title 42 expires. to hear garland call out mexico and say they re not getting enough, especially on the fentanyl issue, it is really pretty strong rhetoric, especially coming from someone like garland, who doesn t go that far very often. indeed it was. i was surprised by just how clear he was on that answer. carol, what questions are you hoping garland will answer today? well, i think it is interesting too hear what the attorney general has to say about his reasoning for appointing a special counsel and two incredibly highly charged and sensitive probes, mar-a-lago and the effort by the role of former president trump and his allies in trying to block the peaceful transfer of power. what we have been focused ....
Julia ainsley and msnbc contributor carol lenny who broke that washington post story. julia, what do you know from your reporting about where the doj investigation stands today? well, we know that it is ongoing. we just reported last week that jack smith, a special counsel in that case, asked the judge to compel testimony from mike pence, which might indicate that they re pretty far along in that investigation, considering that pence would be such a high value person that they would want to come in and testify for the grand jury. we should note that pence has been fighting that and that s why jack smith asked the judge to compel his testimony. as things are heating up here between garland and congress, we expected this judiciary committee hearing to have some fireworks and right now we haven t heard quite as much about the special counsel, but we have heard garland be pinned on a number of topics and really pushed, especially on fentanyl and lindsey graham asking ....
Risky. they don t trust donald trump or his lawyers at this point. so, those are the three big moments that have never been really revealed about this case until today. carol, julia, thank you, both, for being with us this morning. really appreciate it. also on capitol hill this morning, lawmakers are introducing a bipartisan bill in response to the massive train derailment in ohio that triggered the release of hazardous chemicals last month. the bill would introduce new safety measures to prevent future train disasters. this as the head of norfolk southern, the rail company behind the incident, has now agreed to testify before the senate environment and public works committee next thursday. joining us now with more is nbc news capitol hill correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, good morning. what more do we know about this bill? reporter: well, you know, jose, this could be one of the rare moments of bipartisan cooperation from the united states congress, especially because ohio is re ....