>>> WELCOME BACK TO "MORNING
JOE," JUST ABOUT 7:33 HERE ON
THE EAST COAST.
NEW DOCUMENTS REVEAL ADVANCE
WARNING THE FBI HAD OF THE
VIOLENCE THAT WOULD ULTIMATELY
ENSUE ON JANUARY 6th.
AN FBI AGENT ACKNOWLEDGED IN A
FEBRUARY INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
THAT ANGRY TRUMP SUPPORTERS WERE
TALKING OPENLY IN THE DAYS
BEFORE THE ATTACK ABOUT BRINGING
GUNS TO THE CAPITOL SHE WROTE
USERS IN MULTIPLE ONLINE GROUPS
AND PLATFORMS DISCUSSED
TRAVELING TO THE CAPITOL ARMED
OR MAKING PLANS TO START A
REVOLUTION ON THAT DAY.
THE DOCUMENT WAS ENTERED INTO
COURT RECORDS LAST WEEK.
IT DOES NOT SAY WHETHER THE
FBIS REVIEW OF SOCIAL MEDIA
POSTS WAS BEFORE OR AFTER
JANUARY 6th.
IT CLASHES WITH DIRECTOR
CHRISTOPHER WRAY AND HIS
COMMENTS THAT THE BUREAU DID NOT
HAVE ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE
ABOUT THE DEADLY CAPITOL ATTACK.
THIS RUNS INTO THIS CONVERSATION
WHETHER IT WAS ONLINE CHATTER
THAT THE FBI DIDNT HAVE ENOUGH
TO GO ON OR WHETHER THERE WERE
REAL THREATS TO THE CAPITAL THAT
DAY AND WHAT AGENTS KNEW ABOUT
IT.
>> JOINING US CONGRESSMAN JIM
HIMES FROM CONNECTICUT.
THIS NEW INFORMATION, I MEAN, IT
ALSO BACKS UP THE CLAIM THAT
SOME ARE REFUTING OR IGNORING
THAT THIS WAS PLANNED, THAT THIS
WAS PUT TOGETHER AND THIS WAS
PUSHED BY TRUMP AND MANY WHO
FOLLOW HIM TO HAVE A RIOT AT THE
CAPITOL, AN INSURRECTION.
WHETHER OR NOT THE FBI IS STILL
TRYING TO IDENTIFY SOCIAL MEDIA
POSTS AND FACEBOOK, WHICH IN A
LOT OF CASES, THE ADVERTISEMENTS
DISAPPEAR AFTER THEY GO OUT
THERE.
ITS GOING TO BE HARD TO PUT
TOGETHER WHERE ALL OF THIS CAME
FROM BUT THEYRE SLOWLY PIECING
IT TOGETHER.
>> WHAT DOES THE INTEL SHOW?
>> AT SOME LEVEL THIS IS NOT
SURPRISING.
WEVE KNOWN THERE WERE GROUPS,
THE PROUD BOYS OR THESE WEIRD
MILITIA GROUPS THAT ACTED, YOU
CAN SEE THAT WHEN YOU WERE
WATCHING THE TELEVISION, ACTED
IN MILITARY FASHION.
THERE WAS NO QUESTION THERE WERE
PEOPLE HELL BENT ON DOING
VIOLENCE.
THERES A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
WERE GOING THE TAKE A GUN AND
HURT PEOPLE TO WERE GOING TO
HAVE A REVOLUTION.
>> THEY DIDNT HAVE ACTIONABLE
INTELLIGENCE THE FBI DIRECTOR
WAS SAYING.
>> AT SOME POINT IN TIME THATS
ABSURD.
WHETHER THAT POINT IN TIME IS
TWO DAYS BEFORE, THIS IS WHY WE
NEED A JANUARY 6th COMMISSION TO
FIGURE OUT IF, IN FACT, THEY HAD
INTELLIGENCE AND IF SO, WHAT
THEY DID WITH IT.
BUT WHEN THERE IS A MARCH ON THE
CAPITOL, YOU SEE THOUSANDS OF
PEOPLE, THATS A WALK THAT TAKES
45 MINUTES OR SO.
AND IN THAT 45 MINUTES WHAT
HAPPENED AS WELL?
THATS A QUESTION WE NEED
ANSWERED.
>> MIKE IM REMINDED AND I WONT
REVEAL THE FBI DIRECTOR WHO TOLD
YOU THIS IN THE YEARS AFTER
9/11, BUT HE TOLD YOU IF YOU SAW
WHAT COMES ACROSS OUR DESK EVERY
DAY, YOU WOULD CRAWL UNDER YOUR
BED IN A FETAL POSITION, TALKING
ABOUT ALL THE THREATS, RIGHT.
>> THATS CORRECT.
>> SO ITS ALWAYS AFTER THE BOMB
GOES OFF ITS EASY TO FIND THAT
STRAND THAT EVERYBODY CAN SAY,
SEE, LOOK AT THIS, WHY DIDNT
YOU ACT ON IT?
WHEN AS YOUR OFF-THE-RECORD
CONVERSATION WITH THE FBI
DIRECTOR REVEALED, THERE IS SO
MUCH, QUOTE, ACTIONABLE
INTELLIGENCE THEY HAVE TO SORT
THROUGH AND FIGURE OUT WHATS
REAL AND NOT REAL.
>> YEAH.
THE DIRECTOR AT THAT POINT IN
TIME WAS TALKING ABOUT THE INTEL
REPORTS, THE OVERNIGHT INTEL
REPORTS THAT HE GETS ACCESS TO
OR GOT ACCESS TO EARLY IN THE
MORNING PRIOR TO GOING TO THE
WHITE HOUSE.
ITS THE SAME TODAY, JOE.
WE KNOW THAT.
THE OVERNIGHT INTEL REPORTS
ABOUT THREATS POSED TO THE
UNITED STATES AROUND THE WORLD
ARE COLOSSAL IN NUMBER.
CONGRESSMAN HIMES, I WONDERING
HOW YOU DEAL AND SPEAK WITH
COLLEAGUES WHO, IN THIS VAIN,
KNOWING WHAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY
6th, REFUSED TO GO FORWARD WITH
THE ULTIMATE COMMISSION THAT
WILL TELL US THE ROOTS OF HOW IT
HAPPENED, WHO PUT IT TOGETHER,
WHO WAS IMPACTED BY IT, AND THE
IMPACT IT HAD ON THE COUNTRY AND
OF YOU PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE
CAPITOL?
>> ITS VERY HARD.
ITS VERY HARD.
YOU KNOW, I SOMETIMES SAY THE
AMERICAN PUBLIC DIDNT
APPRECIATE THE EXTENT THAT
BEFORE JANUARY 6th, THERE WERE
DEEP PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
ACROSS THE AISLE, UNLIKELY ONES.
THAT BEGAN TO CHANGE ON JANUARY
6th.
IT WASNT THE REZWREKSJECTION OF
1/6 COMMISSION.
IT WAS WATCHING OUR COLLEAGUES
AFTER AN ATTEMPT ON THEIR LIVES,
STILL FILE INTO THE CHAMBER TO
PROMOTE THE LIE THAT HAD LED TO
THAT VIOLENCE.
THAT WAS BEYOND PAINFUL TO
WATCH.
AND THEN, AS YOU POINT OUT, TO
SAY LETS JUST PUT THIS BEHIND
US, THATS WHAT THEYRE DOING,
INSIDE THE REPUBLICAN CONFERENCE
THERE ARE PEOPLE APPALLED BY
DONALD TRUMP BUT THEY DONT WANT
TO TALK ABOUT IT.
WHAT THEY DONT REALIZE IS IF
YOU DONT TALK ABOUT IT, THE
QUESTIONS WERE ASKING THIS
MORNING MAY NOT GET ANSWERED AND
THAT MEANS THERES A HIGHER
PROBABILITY IT HAPPENS AGAIN AND
BECAUSE OF THAT THOSE PERSONAL
RELATIONSHIPS IM TALKING ABOUT
HAVE BEEN BADLY DAMAGED AND
THEYRE GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME
TO REBUILD.
>> WHAT DO YOU DO TO REBUILD
THAT?
AS YOU SAY, PEOPLE WANT TO WATCH
THINGS GET DONE AND WERE GOING
TO TALK ABOUT ONE OF THE ISSUES
YOURE WORKING ON AT THIS
MOMENT?
BUT HOW DO YOU SIT ACROSS FROM
PEOPLE, SOME OF THEN CYNICALLY
SAYING NO, JANUARY 6th WASNT AS
BAD AS YOUR EYES TELL YOU.
ONE MEMBER OF CONGRESS FROM
GEORGIA WHO BARRICADED THE DOOR,
KNEW WHAT THE THREAT WAS IN
ADDITION THAT CHAMBER, CAME OUT
AND SAID, THEYRE JUST TOURISTS
ON A VISIT STROLLING THROUGH
STATUARY HALL.
HOW DO YOU WORK WITH THOSE
PEOPLE?
GIVE PEOPLE HOPE, IF THERE IS
SOME, THAT RELATIONSHIPS CAN BE
REPAIRED AND THINGS CAN GET DONE
INSTEAD OF TALKING ABOUT WHY YOU
GUYS ARE SO SPLIT.
>> ITS VERY HARD, WILLIE.
CANDIDLY, UNTIL THE REST OF THE
REPUBLICANS IN THE CONFERENCE
UNIFORMLY REJECT THE RESHAPING
OF HISTORY THAT YOU SEE OUT OF A
RELATIVELY SMALL NUMBER -- THE
ONES WHO SAID THAT WAS JUST A
NORMAL TOURIST DAY OR IT WAS THE
FBI OR ANTIFA, ALL THE LIES IN
AN ATTEMPT TO RECAST THIS AWAY
FROM DONALD TRUMP.
UNTIL THE BULK OF REPUBLICANS
REJECT THAT AND SAY WE KNOW WHAT
HAPPENED, THATS NOT TRUE.
BUT ITS GOING TO BE HARD.
I WAS ELECTED TO GET THINGS DONE
I WAS ELECTED BY MY CONSTITUENTS
TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF PEOPLE
IN CONNECTICUT, IF THAT MEANS I
HAVE TO WORK WITH PEOPLE THAT
HAVE DONE TERRIBLE THINGS FOR
THE HEALTH OF OUR REPUBLIC, ILL
HOLD MY NOSE AND DO IT.
I WAS SENT THERE TO MAKE
PROGRESS FOR MY CONSISTENTS
SOMETIMES THAT REQUIRES HOLDING
MY NOSE AND HAVING A GIN AND
TONIC TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
>> YOU LOOK AT THE SENATE AND
THERE IS SOME BIPARTISAN
LEGISLATION GETTING PASSED IN
THE SENATE AND ITS BETWEEN
PEOPLE THAT DIDNT VOTE TO
UNDERMINE THE ELECTION.
SO THERE ARE -- WE ALWAYS SAY
HERE, THERES THREE PARTIES,
REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS AND
INSURRECTIONIST PARTY.
IT HAS TO BE FRUSTRATED TO SEE
SOME OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT VOTED
AGAINST CERTIFYING IT AND WANTS
TO PRETEND IT DIDNT HAPPEN.
LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT A PROJECT
THAT NANCY PELOSI HAS PUT YOU IN
CHARGE OF.
AS A FORMER CONSTITUENT OF YOUR
DISTRICT, IT SEEMS VERY
APPROPRIATE THAT SHE ASKED YOU.
>> YEAH, YOURE TALKING ABOUT
THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC
DISPARITY AND FAIRNESS AND
GROWTH.
IT PLAYS INTO THE THING WE WERE
JUST TALKING ABOUT, WHICH IS
DISPARITY IN THIS COUNTRY,
ECONOMIC DISPARITY IS AS BAD AS
IT EVER HAS BEEN.
THE TOP 1% IS DOING AS WELL
RELATIVE TO EVERYONE ELSE AS IT
HAS DONE.
IT BECOMES CORROSIVE TO OUR
POLITICS AND ECONOMY AND OFFENDS
US MORALLY AT SOME POINT.
>> MY FORMER DISTRICT, A PLACE I
LOVE, NEW CANNON, THAT AREA, YOU
REPRESENT CONSTITUENTS FROM
GREENWICH TO BRIDGE PORT.
>> THATS RIGHT.
>> AND THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE
IN THE TOP, TOP .01% AND THOSE
AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ECONOMIC
LADDER.
>> TEN MINUTES AWAY.
TEN MINUTES AWAY.
HERES WHY IM EXCITED.
WE WERE TALKING ABOUT
BIPARTISAN.
ITS NOT A BLUE PROBLEM.
I SEE A FORM OF DISPARITY IN
FAIRFIELD COUNTY WHERE YOU USED
TO LIVE GO INTO APPALACHIAN, RUB
RED DISTRICTS AND YOU SEE HUGE
DISPARITY.
>> MIDDLE AMERICA.
>> RURAL AMERICA, REPRESENTED BY
REPUBLICANS.
WERE GOING TO SAY FOLKS THIS IS
A PROBLEM EVERYWHERE.
AND IN THE SPIRIT OF WHAT WE
WERE TALKING ABOUT, NO SUBJECT
IS GOING TO CREATE SUCH AN
ARGUMENT.
IM GOING TO WORK HARD TO FIND
EVEN IF ITS A SMALL OVERLAP IM