it s 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-president s ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report the washington post described this way as, quote, landing with a thud resulting in no new charges and none of the widespread abuses trump and his allies have alleged for years now. special counsel john durham testified today before the house judiciary committee. now, despite all those facts durham described his findings sobering and it was left to it democrats on the committee to point out the truth of his own investigation, an investigation that trump and his hand picked attorney general bill barr setup to inves
america you re still innocent until proven guilty. we re in a situation where there are people in my own party who are blaming doj. how about blame him? he did it. a few of donald trump s challengers in the 2024 race reacting to his indictment as the former president is now just hours away from his arraignment on several federal charges. we ll have a full break down of what is expected from today s hearing. and we ll look at the extra security measures in place outside the miami courthouse amid possible protests and threats of violence. meanwhile, house speaker kevin mccarthy refused to condemn those threats, some coming from members of his own party as he defended the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, june 13th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. it s a historic day, and former president donald trump is now just hours away from his first scheduled court appearance as a federal criminal defendant. bu
police response in the atlanta metro region, as you might imagine. we don t know anything further about possible motive as of yet. as we said one custody right now, eight are dead. this ongoing story tonight. we will keep an eye on it. also this evening, the nypd is confirming to us they are deploying officers to asian communities in and around the city of new york out of an abundance of caution following these atlanta shootings. eight dead tonight in atlanta. now, we turn to what was day 56 of the biden administration. we have brand-new revelations tonight about what vladimir putin and the kremlin were up to when it came to ensuring the 2020 election ended with the defeat of joe biden and the re-election of donald trump. the director of national intelligence has released a report on how moscow tried to carry out in effect a sequel to its 2016 election interference that was less eliant on actual hacking and cyberattacks and focused more on the people close to trump. the rep
charlie s reporting and garret s he does not come out and refute the facts that predicated the opening of uninvestigation. it s simply this rather technical dispute about whether it should have been a preliminary instead of the full. but the wreckage, the blast radius, four years of donald trump and sean hannity and everyone on the right building up the durham report is coming. the durham i remember being in washington with trump-era justice department officials on the eve of the mueller report coming out, and they said this is nothing, wait until you see what durham s got, and i said, oh, yeah, what does durham have? durham never had anything except a tip to open an investigation into donald trump. and that was something he couldn t even answer for today. what did you think? you were someone whose conduct as a public servant was scrutinized. you were exonerated by everybody, but tell me what you
again, the fbi did its best to try to understand what is happening to our country as a result of russia s interference in the election. garret, there is a piece of this that requires us to stand back, i think, and recognize that before jim jordan there was devon nunez, that casting doubt on the very concern about russia middling in our elections was always a political mission that trump s allies took very, very seriously. reporter: yeah, that s right. and there s been this long-term effort to kind of throw sand in the gears not just from russia but from the apparatus as far as back as congress. there s this hype machine i remember i guess it was 2017 when the nunes memo was coming. they were going to shutdown the russia investigation, it was going to be over. there was like a weeks long hype