ministry of truth. as a result judge doty issued an injunction against all federal government employees from having contact with social media companies and discouraging and removing free speech. that means the cdc, the fbi, the doj, the white house. the judge specifically name checked white house spokeswoman karine jean-pierre, hhs secretary and surgeon general lévesque murphy. on your screen, is a list of prohibited activities for the feds which include meeting, e-mailing, flagging, calling, collaborating, urging, following up or issuing be on the lookout for censored content with social media. it is an absolutely stunning rebuke of the censorship deep state in the biden administration. it is a win for us free speech. as of this are the biden administration has appealed this judge s injunction. now judges don t usually talk like this. they don t issue such scathing opinions or broad injunctions. why here? well, judge doty wrote if the allegations made by the plaintiffs are
dishonesty. and key exception. to ascend to the halls of congress. in essence doj alleges officially now what many have been alleging for months now george santos is a complete fraud. prosecutors claim that santos cheated his own supporters from that indictment, quote, in and about and between september and october 2022, the defendant george anthony santos devised and executed a scheme to defraud supporters of his candidacy for the house and that the false pretenses that the money would be used to for his candidacy. and doj also accuses santos of applying for and receiving unemployment benefits and ten different people who had lost their jobs during the pandemic, all while keeping a job. prosecutors also say santos lied on the financial disclosure forms required of every house candidate. despite these damning allegations that relate directly to how santos ended up in congress in the first place, house gop leadership is as of this house refusing to call for his resignation. ke
tonight on the reid out . is this debate or is it just false? no, it s not false at all. it s debatable. as prosecutors open an investigation into the lies of republican congressman-elect george santos kevin mccarthy is facing a caucus in chaos just six days before the house votes on a new speaker. meanwhile serious questions are being raised about where santos got the money to run his campaign. also tonight the death toll is rising after a winter storm dumped more than 3 feet of snow on buffalo. we ll check in to see how the city is digging out and getting back up and running. good evening, everyone. i m jonathan capehart in for joy reid. republican leader kevin mccarthy faces a vote for speaker of the house next tuesday with a razor thin republican majority and the very real prospect of an open fight over the gavel. it s a predicament underscored by the saga of incoming republican congressman george santos of new york who again tried to explain away lies about
for one of the former president s attorneys, sidney powell. this video was taken the same day that a voting system there was in some way breached. cnn s drew griffin joins for more on that, but for now, it is enough to say the facts of drew s story say this was part of a larger plan to subvert the election. this isn t just about some threat that has come and gone. when it comes to election subversion, the past is never dead, as william faulkner wrote. it s not even past. worst, the signs right now point to it being prologue. shakespeare. nevada republicans have nominated an election denier for secretary of state. also in arizona and michigan, people who actually oversee the 2024 election in those states. the republican nominee in at least 21 of this year s governor rations is someone who has rejected, declined to affirm, raised doubts about, or tried to overturn the 2020 election. the former top of the ticket can t seem to quit it either. this is him on saturday. it was cor
yes, that investigation goes all the way to the top. and the fed all but certain to jack up interest rates this afternoon. but how big a hike will tell us a lot about the inflation problem. as new numbers on housing and what we re buying spell more economic trouble. up first, the details that point a glaring legal spotlight at the former president donald trump. this banner headline courtesy of the washington post, the justice department investigating trump s actions in the january of criminal probe. new york times adding critical detail detailing the fake elector scheme and including references to the president being looped in. post account saying that prosecutors have spent hours asking witnesses about conversations with trump, his lawyers and others in the former president s inner circle. the questions revolve around that fake elector s plot and what instructions trump may or may not have given to his lawyers and advisers. we do know there has been an uptick in gr