the fbi has had only eight senate confirmed directors. those directors all have a few things in common. they are all white men. they all favor a clean cut look, and each and every one of them, every senate confirmed director since the dawn of the fbi has been a republican. that includes current fbi director, christopher wray, who was appointed by donald trump. and you would not get that impression, given the way the director wray s fellow republicans attacked him and his agency during a hearing today. on capitol hill. when the court says that the fbi misled, that is a nice way of saying they lied. how many individuals were either fbi, employees, or people that the fbi could make contact with, to be in the january 6th entry of the capital? i m going to make the assumption is there is more than one, more than five, more than ten. i will say that this notion that somehow the violence at the capitol on january 6th was part of some operation orchestrated by fbi sources into
Known, these to always say to me, i made you. So we have cities each other about that. Like one, day im going to be teasing fabulous son. I came behind, you girl. I came behind you. He paved the way, rev. Thank, you ill be watching, take it away. Good evening and welcome to politicsnation. Tonights lead, grand juries and grand strategies. In the Trump Classified document case, they will meet this week. The procommittee took a firstever federal indictment of a former president. One who happens to be seeking to return to that office in 2024. Trump was one of the few republican president ial hopefuls not to appear at a Motorcycle Themed Campaign Event in iowa this weekend. He will be jumping into the race officially this week, along with former new Jersey Governor Chris Christie. The number of republicans running continues to grow, even as the rnc adopts rules aimed at narrowing access to the primary debate stage. Meantime on the democratic side, President Biden this weekend is signing a
meteorologist on why it feels, quite literally and figuratively like a turning point on climate change. this is american voices. as the battle for control of congress heats up ahead of the 2024 election, republicans are showing up how they plan to govern if they win. case in point, they are attacking civil rights under the guise of military readiness. on thursday, the house passed a new defense spending bill, going after anything they deem as quote, woke. republican amendments to the bill include ending diversity training, limiting health care for trans service members, that bill would also rollback a pentagon service policy covering travel expenses for military members. who must now travel out of state for abortion access, following the overturn of roe v. wade. this legislation made possible by a far-right faction of the house that demanded these controversial amendments to negotiations with house speaker kevin mccarthy. and this week could be a preview of the battle over
next step, a showdown in the senate. jack smith now challenging former president trump s efforts to delay his criminal trial on the classified documents until after next year s election. raising the possibility he could pardon himself. jared kushner has spoken to prosecutors about trump s alleged attempts to overturn the election. we will check in on trump s republican rivals without him in iowa for the informal launch of the republican caucus campaign. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. hollywood comes to a standstill for the first time in more than six decades. sag-aftra, the union representing film and tv actors is now on strike after talks with studios collapsed following four weeks of negotiations. in a blow to the $134 billion industry, of course, the two sides clashing over residual payments in the age of streaming and the usual of artificial intelligence to replace actors. the union president blasting the studios yesterday. i am shocked by
i do want to especially thank president trump. i don t think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning. somebody wrote that out when he was there, and he was all in. given mccarthy maybe the speaker, but this is donald trump south. it s built on the back of trump republican acolytes whose job depends on the support of trump s own base. the dynamics that were on display during the four-day speakership battle have continued to play out in six months since. chaos caucus republicans, many of whom are trump loyalists, and some of whom participated in the attempt to deny mccarthy the speakership, brought the entire country to the brink of economic default just a few weeks ago. and encouraged by trump to stonewall efforts to reach a deal on the debt limit. but mccarthy s speakership so far will likely be remembered for republicans many efforts to avenge donald trump to take action against his critics, and to rewrite the narrative of his first presiden