on the republican party. new york times puts it like this, republicans are putting trump out to pasture. that dynamic was on display the final hour for the battle of speaker, with republican members of congress playing not it, not me, as margorie taylor greene tried to get them to take donald trump s call. then there s the global condemnation for the insurrection in brazil, tragically similar to the attack on our own u.s. capitol, but is straight out of trump s playbook. that is all a very bad look for the ex-president. now today, the walls are closing in on donald trump, even more legally. legal one-two punch, if you will. first, a district judge has ordered trump s deposition in a defamation lawsuit to be unsealed. it s a deposition trump fought for years to avoid giving. now comes news that it is pencils up for the special grand jury at a fulton county, georgia. the 26 jurors spent eight months examining potential criminal interference in georgia s 2020 presidential elec
temporarily seized control of the plaza that houses the residents of brazil s new president, also the congress and supreme court. neither were in session. but two years and two days after the snushg on insurrection insu- damaging property and rifling through paperwork, using barricades as weapons and injuring officers along the way. the similarities are no coincidence. from the associated press
deep state conspiracy theories. and i think the damage they will do will be incalculable. what it will mean is that the intelligence agencies will be very reluctant to share important information with policy makers because what i think is the takeaway is that if two months advance notice gets us what happened last week then we are really in for a dysfunctional and chaotic congress. i m worried about our seeing more of the same. where that chaos persists and we are not effectively governing. our general concern is that the dysfunction that was historic that we saw this week is not at an end, it s just the beginning. so alexi, you ve got congressman schiff talking about the damage to our intelligence agencies and national security. you ve got the wall street journal warning about dangers to military readiness. then you ve got democrats now who would like to go and govern saying it won t be possible with
but here, one of the most telling pieces of evidence is that there is really a dearth that the justice department was looking at people in the white house prior to the january 6th committee. that there are just whisks of evidence that was happening. phone records, you know, we have the evidence that when cassidy hutchinson testified, there is a lot of reporting that the department of justice was as surprised as everyone else. that s not a good position to be in when you re the department of justice. i think that really explains why you had adam schiff being so vocal about the incredibly unusual situation, where congress is out ahead of the department of justice, which is something the department usually does not want. barb, you and andrew have been super candid about this, and i appreciate that. i ll give you the last word on all of this, and i think the
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