justice and go after trump s political rivals. also tonight, we have come to know lindsay graham as the most cravenly opportunistic politician in america, and that s saying a lot. and now two months after saying that states should decide on abortion, he is pushing for a federal ban. and giuliani biographer andrew curtsman joins me on rudy s disgraceful dissent. he was once called america s mayor, and now he s a laughing maga stock. trump saw the governmental ageany as his. it s run by the attorney general, but when said attorney general is one william barr, things get murky. which brings us to geoffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york who trump fired in 2020 after he refused barr s request that he resign. a lot has happened since 2020, a lot. but you may recall berman s firing was a big deal. we re talking about an american president strong arming a u.s. attorney general to fire a prosecutor because he refused to obey and to twist his offi
during covid how prepared is it for the next pandemic? good evening a catastrophe is how kentucky officials are describing the deadly situation unfolding there tonight after one in a thousand year floods left residents stranded on roof tops, washed roads away, and triggered mud slides after at least 9 inches of rain fell over 12 hours. by late afternoon the death toll climbing to eight with more feared all of it part of the same storm system that triggered massive flash floods in st. louis. it s the kind of heavy precipitation event experts say are becoming more common as the climate continues to change. the hard hit city of hazard, kentucky tweeting, help your neighbors and pray for a break in the rain. but more is expected the rain a compound disaster in a state still recovering from a deadly hit by an ef-4 tornado in mayfield back in december in a moment i ll speak to the governor for a late update. reporter: in a swath of the south submerged total devastation and a de
also, will the administration talk nancy pelosi out of her trip to taiwan as she riles up china with her travel. huge economic data released almost every day this week, will it point to a recession. and as russian forces strike the main ukrainian port is the grain deal between the two countries already in jeopardy? let s going to sunlen serfaty live for us on capitol hill. the january 6th committee doesn t plan any more hearings until september that doesn t mean they are not going to be busy. reporter: that s absolutely right. almost all the work the committee will be doing over the next month will largely happen behind closed doors. the committee says that a number of significant leads have come in and so they will be using this next month to gather new evidence, to talk to new witnesses potentially even or visit some previous witnesses who have already testified. this committee entering a crucial fact-finding mission over the next month. the house select committee i
the pair were on separate stages in arizona. and no sick days for president biden at the white house while recovering from covid. we ll have the latest on his health. a very good morning to all of you. welcome to way too early. on this monday, july 25th. we begin this morning with the latest developments from the january 6th select committee over the weekend. vice chair liz cheney one of only two republicans serving on the committee went on fox news yesterday to defend the committee s work, she exposed the network s audience to former president trump s role in the capitol riot, even noting a key editorial from the right wing new york post which is the same owner as fox, slamming trump as unworthy to become president again and pushed back on a talking point some republicans have been using to shift the focus on the law enforcement response to the riot. questioning house minority leader kevin mccarthy s motives and placing the blame squarely on trump s role that day.
richard haass. and nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. also with us, the founder of the conservative website, charlie. liz cheney, one of two republicans serving on the committee, went on fox news yesterday to defend the committee s work. here s how she responded to a question about why capitol police weren t better prepared for the attack. it s an entire focus of the investigation. you will see in our report. you ll likely see in upcoming hearings, so it is certainly something we re going to be focused on. but what we aren t going to do, brett, is blame the capitol police, blame those in law enforcement for donald trump s armed mob that he sent to the capitol. kevin mccarthy decided not to participate in the committee, that, somehow, the house of representatives cannot investigate the single worst attack on the capitol since the war in 1812. cheney discussed the committee s interest in interviewing ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas.