this is outnumbered. i m harris faulkner and here with my co-hosts and joining us today, ainsley earhardt, fox news and contributor and show, . special counsel report on the trump-russia investigation detailed the f.b.i. failure to adhere to the rule of law and claims the bureau had no basis to launch the probe in the first place. on july 31st and my view based on the investigation, there was not legitimate basis to open as a full investigation. an assessment is something that needed to be looked at, gather information such as interviewing the people who provided the information and checking databases and other intelligence agencies and the standard kinds of things you would do in an investigation like this. durham explained how multiple f.b.i. agents apologized for mishandling the trump-russia investigation. mr. durham in your report and here today, you said your findings and conclusions are sobering. could you unpack a little more what that means? why do you say sob
paul caruana galizia, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you here and, indeed, also a pleasure to read your book. you ve just published it a death in malta: an assassination and a family s quest forjustice, you call it. you ve worked on this book for a long time. it is six years since your mother was murdered. working on the book, do you feel you have come to understand her in a new way? a different way? yes. so the funny thing about the book was, i thought writing about her murder would be the very difficult thing, you know, for all the obvious and gruesome reasons. but in the end, what proved the hardest was learning about her life before the murder. in fact, before my brothers and i were born, so what made her a journalist, the kind of country she grew up in. and that was all new to me. and it made, for personal reasons, the book its own reward. and it was only once i learned about her early years that i understood why sh
the country, including a former president, was the subject of a hearing today in a federal courthouse in washington, d.c. attorneys for donald trump and federal prosecutors argued over trump s claim that the federal election case against him should be dismissed because everything he did in the postelection period was in his official capacity as president. the three-judge panel that is hearing the case appeared spectacle of that claim. the ex-president and jack smith were in the courtroom today. trump has been claiming that president joe biden has been forcing him to appear in court, which is not true, he did have no obligation to appear at today s hearing. trump s attorney argued that allowing the prosecution of donald trump would, quote, open a pandora s box, but the judge has pushed back on that and many of the arguments he was making. trump s lawyer also argued that the president could only be prosecuted if he was impeached and convicted by the senate first, no matter what
is my guest today. what are the lessons of this tragic death in malta? paul caruana galizia, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you here and, indeed, also a pleasure to read your book. you ve just published it a death in malta: an assassination and a family s quest forjustice, you call it. you ve worked on this book for a long time. it is six years since your mother was murdered. working on the book, do you feel you have come to understand her in a new way? a different way? yes. so, the funny thing about the book was, i thought writing about her murder would be the very difficult thing, you know, for all the obvious and gruesome reasons. but in the end, what proved the hardest was learning about her life before the murder in fact, before my brothers and i were born so what made her a journalist, the kind of country she grew up in. and that was all new to me. and it made, for personal reasons, the book its own reward. and
there. laura coates, really unbelievable moment there. i hope that that judge is safe tonight. it s unbelievable to think of that. and you hope she is safe. and also reminds you of the danger that many of the judicial branch are facing on a day-to-day basis. not just the supreme court. not just the more high-profile matters but every single day what it s like on the front lines of justice. thank you so much, abby. thank you, laura. thank you. well, donald trump going to the supreme court. but what took him so long? tonight on laura coates live. now, this is the case we ve all been watching and waiting for. some might call it the big kahuna. donald trump asking the united states supreme court, the highest court in all the land, to overturn the colorado state supreme court ruling that took him off of the ballot under the 14th amendment s insurrectionist clause. now, team trump says, one, he s not an insurrectionist. they say what happened at the capitol on january 6th,