misinformation that can kill their own customers and supporters. it s wrong. it s immoral. i call on them to stop it, stop it now. the country is back on a war footing in its response to covid-19 and indeed very much a war. in the u.s., covid has killed more than 820,000 people. confirmed cases have topped more than 51 million. the president today unveiled the battle plan that focused not only on vaccines but also testing. the initiatives include 500 million rapid at home covid test kits shipped free to americans starting next month. new federal testing sites with several of them debuting in new york city before christmas. use out defense production act to produce the tests and fema response teams prepared to help hospitals at capacity. it comes two years in a pandemic that refuses to quite. the anxiety and frustration and fatigue of the moment is amplified by the unpredictable nature of the variants how they can get us back to the early days of the pandemic. the long testi
welcome to a special hour of msnbc reports, attack on the capitol. we re less than a year away from that day that i will never forget. we don t know what that material was. there are people that are watching all of this happen, watching these protesters at the capitol. and they re cheering it on, they re saying go, go, go, keep going. you saw people aiming a fire extinguisher at police. it s obviously pretty contentious right now. that day haunting so many of us even today. tonight we ll explore the recent testimony or lack thereof given to the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack, who is being held accountable for their actions, and who is not. what repercussions former top aides and allies of the trump administration face for dodging subpoenas. and what steps are being taken to prevent these actions from ever taking place again. as three generals come forward in a piece published by the washington post, warning of, quote, lethal chaos inside
there are people watching all this happen, watching these protesters, and they re cheering them on, they re cheering on, say go, go, go, keep going. throwing a fire extinguisher on the capitol police, and you saw some sort of pepper spray. you can see obviously, it s pretty contentious right now. that day haunting so many of you say even today, tonight we explore the testimony regarding january 6 attack, who is being held cup accountable for their actions and who is not, what repercussions trump administration and allies face for dodging subpoenas and what steps are being taken from preventing these actions from ever being taken place again as three generals come forward in a piece published by washington post warning of, quote, lethal chaos inside our military with the next u.s. election. with that, let s get started. we ve been tracking major developments this week in regard to the january 6 capitol, on monday, text messages sent to and from trump s former chief of staff
north carolina himself is the first former lawmaker to be held in contempt, criminal contempt of congress in nearly 200 years. just before last night s vote, the panel unveiled more alarming text messages sent to meadows, including a text from a currently sitting lawmaker as yet unidentified, revealing that lawmakers in the white house discussed plans to overturn the election as soon as the day after november 3rd, election day. we ll have more on that in a moment. here is congresswoman liz cheney. some of those text messages, madam speaker, came from members in the chamber right now. members who understood that a violent assault was under way at the capitol. members who pleaded with the chief of staff to get the president to take action. mark, one member said, he needs to stop this now. in all caps. tell them to go home. potus has to come out firmly and tell the protesters to dissipate. someone is going to get killed. also this hour, president biden departing for kentucky
and did not do in the hours leading up to the deadly attack and late out in painstaking detail the case to hold mr. meadows in contempt. paula reed starts from the capitol. it was a revealing hearing. what new information did the committee lay out? reporter: extraordinary is exactly the right word. the house select committee laying out new evidence they have obtained, including messages that the former chief of staff mark meadows received from several fox news personalities during the insurrection. this includes messages from sean hannity, ryan kill immediate, and laura ingraham urging meadows to get the president to do something. they also described messages from the president s son, donald trump jr., also pushing meadows to have the president say something, do something. here the vice chairwoman of the committee liz cheney lays out the evidence they collected. let s take a listen. according to the records, multiple fox news hosts knew the president needed to act immedia