heilemann. and co-founder of punch bowl news, jake sherman is with us. he's an msnbc political contributor. let's get to the news. the acting chief of the u.s. capitol police testified yesterday on the intelligence failure leading up to the january 6th riot. the chief, who was not in charge of the department on the day of the riot, addressed the controversy surrounding an fbi report received by the department a day before the insurrection which warned that militia groups were "preparing for war and targeting congress." >> it was shared with task force agents that are imbedded from capitol police with the fbi. they, in turn, sent that email that they received to a lieutenant within the protective and intelligence operations side of the house. that information was not then forwarded any further up the chain. so that is a lesson learned for u.s. capitol police. >>> acting chief pittman also said that the enhanced level of security around the capitol will remain in place at least through president b

john heilemann, impeachment rolls into its second day. yesterday obviously very eventful for many reasons. what should we expect to see today? >> so, joe, we have two days now starting today and tomorrow where the prosecution is going to actually make its real case, not just get things rolling as it did yesterday and address this constitutional process issue which is what yesterday was about. if you think about what the president's defense is built on, right? no one -- none is morally and intellectually and politically bankrupt as they r none of these republican senators believe or would ever entertain the notion that trump's behavior was defensible on january 6th or before. no one is going to defend donald trump. there's only two paths. the first path was the path of process which is exhausted, defeated yesterday, beaten back on the question of constitutionality. now there's this free speech argument. i think the democratic house managers want to get in front of that. the free speech argument being, hey, this was all figurative speech wh

heilemann is following events for us from mexico city. i think this is the 1st time that he's been directly signalled that he's being investigated by the united states it's not however the 1st time he's been implicated in the same case back in january he was quoted in court documents as saying he wanted to shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos referring to the americans that's what someone else said that he said back in 2019 his own brother was convicted of drug trafficking so there's been a lot of rumors and a lot of controversy swirling around one orlando and on this for some time now the country that he presides over honduras is 157180 countries in the corruption perception index of transparency international so i think a lot of people in that country that we've obviously visited many times are going to be surprised by this tool they've seen the rule of law in that country continually undercut by this administration itself and by politicians in general in the country now what there is an implication here for is not just one

our john thanks a lot john heilemann reporting from mexico city opposition politicians in haiti have named the president an effort to drive out jeff in the moyes as joseph messina as your louis who has been selected as the new leader is the oldest judge in the country supreme court the opposition says that president is his 5 year term expired on sunday but the president says he still has another year to rule more than 20 people were arrested on sunday for an alleged coupe thought or joseph messina as your louis has released a video message accepting the appointment by haiti's opposition. following the resolution of the judiciary officially noting the end of the constitutional mandate of the president of the republic has excellent seems to recover no moyse on the 7th of february 2021 i declare that i accept the choice of the opposition and civil society for serve my country as in term president of the transition of rupture the united states says it will reengage with the un human rights council after leaving under former president donald trump back in 2018 states anthony blinken echoe

heilemann. >> john who? john -- i never heard of -- how do you pronounce that last name? heilemann? >> no. >> the host of "way too early" kasie hunt is with us. and founder and author of the conservative bulwark and how the right lost its mind, charlie sykes. >> boy, that title just keeps getting morel vanity by the day. >> as willie mentioned, the third highest ranking house republican liz cheney will remain in leadership after beating back a secret ballot challenge to strip her of her title as conference chair. sources say 145 house republicans voted to keep cheney on while 61 backed the resolution to remove her from house leadership because of her vote to impeach former president donald trump. that is just under 30% of the conference, far fewer than what was anticipated. one source affiliated with the freedom caucus said they couldn't believe the whip count was so off. here's congresswoman cheney after the meeting. >> we did have a terrific vote tonight, a terrific time this evening laying out what we're

heilemann al-jazeera mexico city. israel has begun demolishing a bedouin village in the occupied west bank for a 2nd time in just 3 months rights groups say they're trying to displace an entire palestinian community from the area to make way for illegal israeli settlements israel says the village was built on military land neither abraham reports now from the occupied west bank. only a few hours after israeli forces demolished their homes these palestinians are rebuilding their homes sold for coverage in the northern jordan valley in the occupied west bank has been home to dozens of palestinians who have lived here for decades israel declared the area as a military training zone in the 1980 s. and has been demolishing structures here ever since it was going to be after rebuild they come back take pictures on the mall is the village again we are tired of having slept. 3 months ago israeli forces raised the whole village on once they came back and demolished what has been rebuilt when we had. the children already scared

heilemann reports. joe biden had said things would change on the very 1st day of his presidency for the thousands in the same position as martinez she's from cuba and crossed 9 countries to ask for asylum in the united states but under a program begun 2 years ago by ex president donald trump she was put back to weigh in mexico between her court hearings she spent 2 years now waiting in see it at what is for a decision. the misfit i was that the baby can also it's quite dangerous because we're on the border we're not from here and dangerous present all the time so we put our hope in president biden and everything he promised in his campaign we hope he sticks to his promises. what joe biden promised was to end the program could remain in mexico which is see more than 60000 asylum seekers put across the border from the u.s. while they wait between court dates many were placed into gang ridden cities like qualities or matamoros with this tent camp sprung up isn't done that yet what he has done is to stop hi