happens. our justice department, which i try and stay away from, but at some point, i won t coming up, on the second hour of ayman, democrats historic august. i will speak with congresswoman barbara lee about the big wins the biden administration s notching up, and how to turn those winds into electoral victories. plus, merrick garland finally takes action against donald trump and republican lies about the fbi search on mar-a-lago are fueling concerns of political violence. i am charles blow in for ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. it s hard to overstate the massive, historic month the biden administration has had. the sheer number of legislative and foreign policy victories in such a short span of time is historic. this week, democrats successfully passed the inflation reduction act, which will provide 430 billion dollars for fighting climate change, lowering prescription drug prices, and reforming the tax code to ensure corporations pay what they owe. once biden
enforcement officer of the country. i said i will stay out of it. i wish i did not make that statement. there s no reason why i have to. what happened to durham? bill barr could go down as the greatest attorney general in history, or go down as an average guy. it depends what will happen. he was put, there we have an election coming up, i wish he was more forthcoming. attorney general says he will i will queues myself. why did he not tell me that before i put him in? 33,000 emails, we have a great attorney general, let s see what happens. our justice department, which i try to stay away from, at some point, i won t. coming, up democrats historic we ll speak with barbara lee about the big wins the biden administration is notching up, and how to turn those winds into electoral victories. plus, merrick garland takes action against donald trump. i m republican lies about the fbi, they re feeling political violence. let s get started. it s hard to overstate the massive h
everybody has been asking me about it we may have the answer later in the show. while i was away in the beautiful state of mearch sur rowmpedded by liberal family members i couldn t stop thinking about the mar-a-lago raid. i know. why did they do it? what did they take? they leaked that trump was hoarding nuclear secrets. they charged him under the espionage act. they must think he is trying to sell our secrets to the enemy. we had the team here at primetime do digging. i kept thinking about how sloppy bill clinton was. and then we came across this old doocy. president bill clinton actually lost the nuclear football. general hugh shelton says in the year 2,000 the clinton white house lost the presidential codes needed to launch nuclear weapons. newly released memoir general shelton writes the codes were actually missing for months. this is a big deal. a gargantuan deal and we dodged a silver bullet. jesse: we couldn t launch nukes for months because slick wily fumbled t
general in this letter we ve seen expresses some frustration in how difficult it has been to get records from the secret service, especially around that time, january 6, important time, and then the house select committee and other congressional committees are concerned as well partly because the house, too, they re trying to nail down on their own the details of january 6. that includes what secret service agents witnessed of donald trump that day, what they said about it afterward and that s a big part of what they re continuing to probe, especially now after the testimony of white house aide cassidy hutchinson which did highlight the secret service and what happened there. caitlin, cnn also has new reporting about a d.c. metropolitan police officer who is corroborating details of what cassidy hutchinson said. tell us about this. right. it wasn t just the secret service who witnessed that motorcade on january 6th that donald trump was in. when cassidy hutchinson testifi
and the president biden national security team an entire american government remain committed to bringing brittney griner home safely to her family, friends and loved ones it. more breaking news from the justice department. attorney general merrick garland announcing federal charges against four current and former metro police officers for alleged crimes connected to the warrant issued in the death of breonna taylor. those alleged crimes include civil rights offenses, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction offenses. the four defendants were charged through two separate indictments. democrats facing election battles in the fall are hoping the massive turnouts in the kansas abortion probe is a sign of things to come to well the party waits to see whether kyrsten sinema will sign off on legislation to lower healthcare cost and boost climate initiatives. in the next hour, president biden will talk with senate democrats about the package. the pres