problematic authoritarian tendencies throughout the society. now, that warning was followed by the announcement of that year s pulitzer prize for national reporting which went to the new york times or and the washington post, for quote relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest on russian interference in the 2016 election,ru and its connectionso the trump campaign, the president-elect transition team, and his eventual administration. now that choice naturally drew the ire of then president donald trump, who did not stop complaining about the decision, even after he left the white house. it actually led the pulitzer board to open two separate independent investigations into the awarding of those prizes. and this week, the pulitzer board has announced the results of those investigations, and here is part of what they said. no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that subsequent to the con fe
2021. the contents of which we reported on last week. on the tape lindsay graham predicts a backlash against donald trump and the entire stop the steal movement in light of the horrific violence on january 6th. take a listen. we ll actually come out of this thing stronger. moments like this reset. people will calm down. people will say i don t want to be associated with that. this is a group within a group. what this does, there will be a rallying effect for a while in the country that says we re better than this. biden will help that, right? totally. he ll be maybe the best person to have, right? i mean, how mad can you get at joe biden? joe biden will be the best person to have. of course, lindsay graham s prediction there that there would be a post-january 6th moment of national unity, one that would include the republicans, at least didn t come close to happening because of, frankly, lindsay graham. instead of turning the disgraced ex-president and allies into p
the transcripts immediately. after the hearing on thursday night, the january 6th committee should turn over the transcripts immediately. there is no reason to sit on them. the justice department needs them. and you know, everyone should put down any sort of turf battles and focus on a full investigation of donald trump and his actions. sadie gurman, reporter for the wall street journal, covering the justice department, david, executive editor of news fort new yorker.com. thanks to the both of you for starting us off tonight. greatly appreciate your time. and new details tonight in the investigation into why members of the secret service deleted their text messages from january 6th. turns out they were told multiple times not just once, but multiple times, not to delete them. former fbi official peter strzok knows a thing or two about recovering deleted text messages. he joins us next. covering delet aren t you jonathan from tv, that 995 plan?
justice department, in recent weeks, has been ramping up resources, particularly toward a unit that has been focusing on the more complicated aspects of the investigation, the more complex conspiracy cases, and looking in to a little bit more than just the violence of that day.e so we didn t get a lost substantive information from the attorney general today, but i think we did getbs a commitment that the justice department is continuing to investigate anybody and everybody. and a part of the clip that you did not play, the attorney general actually said, there s nothing in the justice department policy that prevents us fromin investigating anybody who, you know, is responsible for criminal conduct. i am glad you brought up that point, because david, that leads me to my question to you. the justice department is clearly aware of this criticism to. sadie s point, there what did you make of what garland said and do you think the justice department is wrestling with the
all of the transcripts from the january 6 committee. they don t have them. they would like to have them. but garland has adopted this very slow cautious fed.d and i think in the end, if the process would be that, you know, rely on prosecutors, and deputies would recommend an against trump to prosecutor not prosecute and then it comes down to garland, would he override that recommendation. the team that has been on this investigation, will garland defy them or follow them? most people i know who know garlandow say he would go along with that recommendation. but this is all moving very slowly and i m not sure that will happen any time soon. i want to get to the issue of the line prosecutors in just a moment but i want to go back to something you reported over the weekend, that the justice department is actually adding prosecutors and resources to its investigation, perhaps a signal that itur is ramping it up, but the attorney general was asked