it s 4:00 in the east. a stunning comprehensive brand new piece of reporting that really amounts to a first drafrt of history for merrick garland s justice department a piece of reporting that answers questions we ve been asking for years now questions that have dogged doj for many many months why did it take so long for d.o.j. to investigate? the first formal step into probing the campaign to overturn the 2020 election. the criminal inquiry now into the fate of electors did not take place until april 2022 more than a area after the insurrection and well after the january 6th select committee had begun to uncover a complex multipronged plot and democracy with donald trump in the driver s seat. the washington post is reporting in the immediate aftermath of the january 6th insurrection, acting u.s. attorney michael sherwin, senior justice department officials and paul abbate quashed a plan in the u.s. attorney s office to directly investigate trump associates for any links to
and the gop s dog and pony sho comes to manhattan jim jordan s desperate attempt to attack the man holdin donald trump to account. good evening, i m mehdi hassan tomorrow morning in a court in wilmington, delaware, fox will finally be put on trial for it lies the media giant is facing landmark defamation case fro dominion voting systems, who allege that fox knowingl pushed false claims that they re voting machines rig th 2020 election. they didn t. and the days and weeks after that election, fox and its hos devoted hours of primetime t coverage to the voting machine company. to minion voting systems. dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion voting systems dominion. dominion voting systems dominion voting systems now, over two years later fox terrific tucker carlson, and sean hannity, and even found a rupert murdoch me if i themselves on the witnes stand. and the stakes here could no be higher.
senate. president biden plans to sign it into law tomorrow. joining us now, cnn chief political correspondent, dana bash. the co-anchor of state of the union. and dana, this will be an east room address, we understand. and we are told new details this morning. the president will honor the 500,000 lost to covid, the millions of people being affected. he ll discuss what s being done to accelerate vaccination efforts and lay out the next steps in getting the pandemic under control. that s the what. what about the why? why are we seeing this tonight? why is because the people in the biden white house, starting with the president himself, remember 2009. remember what happened the last time a democratic president started his administration with a giant piece of legislation that was passed by democrats. and it was completely attacked in such a big way that it helped to create the tea party and helped to create the 20102010 republican takeover of the house of representatives. a
Translator in total, its about 79. The constitution says the census must count everyone so that means noncitizens, too. As we head into the 2020 elections, can Americans Trust the system . Or is the swamp too deep . Thats a challenge in parts of drain the swamp the country like this. Where theres a fear of the government, a fear that only increased since President Trump took office. What are the people so worried about . Translator because the i never thought in Elementary School growing up families here are mixed. Some of them may not have their learning about elections in documents. America that one day i would be some were born here. Talking about the worlds so youre giving your addresses, greatest democracy, vietnam. Youre giving your personal vietnam has the best Voter Turnout. Information, where you live. So i think that could be they put us to shame. Intimidating to the community. Vietnam, dominica, uruguay, malta, seychelles, ecuador, turkey, then on page, basically at the end,
where you have to just make the right decision and suffer the consequences whatever they are, knowing that you did the right thing. at the fbi, there was an unfortunate phrase that people had within the bureau. which was for agents who didn t really get the purpose of their mission. the phrase was, big cases, big problems little cases, little problems. no cases, no problems. that was for the people who didn t want to take on the big cases. and donald trump made it absolutely clear that if you did that, that you would be subject to being excoriated, whether you are pete strzok or andy mccabe or bob mueller so there was going to be a price to pay if you hadn t prepared to pay that price and do the right