his mindset was to keep his fellow passengers safe. it has nothing to do with race. companies vowing to leave chicago. new mayor brandon johnson defending rioters and defunding the chicago police. defunding chicago police is an actual goal. oh the batter is on. where that landed up there. that guy did not expect to get a ball. good tuesday morning. we start this day with a fox news alert. as you probably heard yesterday, special counsel john durham s final report finds that the fbi had no factual evidence when it opened the trump-russia collusion probe during the 2016 election. ainsley: and now house lawmakers are calling for durham to testify on capitol hill next week. brian: that will be great. alexandria hoff is live in washington with the latest. good morning to you. this report more than 300 pages the culmination of more than four years work at the core the question was did the fbi properly vet what ended up being politically motivated evidence that
the 16 committee, hinting at criminal acts by the former president and his posse. mark garland says no one including trump is about the law. well, is he about to prove it? this is american voices. we begin this hour with the misogynistic politics of the republican party. well, sexism is nothing new in american politics. the lasting effect of trumpism continues to fuel absurd attacks against women. this weekend, in a conference for young conservatives, florida congressman matt gates called abortion rights protesters, disgusting, and unattractive. and said, quote, nobody wants to impregnate them. now, it s not surprising and matt gates said this. he has said something like this before. he will likely do it again. and what i generally don t like to reward the congressman from florida with the attention he clearly so desperately craves, which was striking to me was the cheers from a crowd that reports to be the youthful future of the gop. this behavior, a move right out o
they did make one observation and that is he did recommend that the department of justice consider assigning an official to internally challenge steps taken during politically sensitive investigations. in other words, remember when it was inside of an election, six months before an election, and you know, people said why are you investigating, to mr. comey, hillary clinton? because it s in that sweet spot where you are not supposed to do anything. well now apparently mr. durham is suggesting why don t you have somebody who actually can inside the doj act as a referee, whether or not something is appropriate or not, given the rules that mr. durham said, do not have to change w but someboy needs to stay in charge. brian: how about stay out of politics. this is so damning. worth every dollar 6.5 million. and just because people weren t arrested or convicted it doesn t mean it wasn t unethical and wasn t immoral. sometimes you can arrest people for being terrible at your job and being po
and put him in jail, it s to get the information they are looking for. this is another layer of pressure on bannon to do adjust that. all right. ryan nobles. jeffrey toobin. kaitlan collins. guys, thank you very much and to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, the biden agenda stalled as the president claims he is still optimistic and wants to make sure his plans are paid for by people paying their fair share of taxes so what is fair? plus breaking news. the president just telling reporters that the justice department should step in and prosecute those who defy subpoenas. will the doj act? or is trump ally steven bannon to testify before the january 6th committee. and pete buttigieg fighting back tonight against tucker carlson who mocked him for taking parental leave. let s go outfront. and good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, biden s misplaced optimism.
very basic mistake about two statutes. very simple point about these two statutes is it says there s a doj statute and there s this broader vacancies reform act. and they said the reason why this broader vacancy reform act applies and allows whitaker to be appointed is it refers to the doj statute. and they call it a cross-reference. and because the broader whitaker act cross-references the doj, it means the congress meant it to super se sup supercede or apply to the doj act. the doj act was passed long before the vacancies reforms act. there s no way the doj act could cross refer to something that wasn t passed until 20 years later. in the original law the department of justice outlined a line of succession in an attorney general vacancy. that s right. and it would specify the