dear colleagues, your subcommittee could become part of a proud history of serious, bipartisan oversight, stretching from the teapot dome investigation to the boeing investigation to the watergate hearings to the tobacco hearings to the select committee on the january 6th attack. or you could take oversight down a very dark alley, filled with conspiracy theories and disinformation. a place where facts are the enemy and partisan destruction is the overriding goal. appears house republicans are going to go with the dark alley path. the first hearing for the subcommittee to investigate the, quote, weaponization of the federal government was nothing but grievance politics. meanwhile, in the senate, minority leader mitch mcconnell is trying to distance the party from a fellow republican senator. who could that be? it comes as president joe biden takes his post state of the union message to florida, keeping the focus on the fate of social security and medicare. and the admi
through something like this. yet again, black parents grieve a son s death from police brutality. it s a story that dates back to the very origins of america. and it s a history that conservatives are fighting very, very hard to eliminate from our schools. also tonight, the unanswered questions in tyre nichols death and the police chief responsible for hyperaggressive police units with names like scorpion and red dog. plus, the possibility that a former fbi official accused of secretly working for a russian oligarch could have played a role in tipping the 2016 election to donald trump. we begin tonight with the fallout over the tragic death of tyre nichols at the hands of five memphis police officers. now, if you have a heart, what happened to the 29-year-old father, skateboarder, fedex driver and amateur photographer should outrage you. it should shock and disgust you. as should the so-called brothers who chose to begave like a little blue gang rather than black men
long-running saga of the ex-president s legal woes, with donald trump taking the stand in a civil lawsuit today and facing the prospect in taking the stand in the congressional investigation into january 6th, as well. and his private club and residence, donald trump sat for a sworn deposition in the defamation lawsuit brought by e.g. carol, who has accused donald trump of rape. the associated press reports this, the deposition will give her lawyers a chance to interrogate trump about the assault allegations, as well as statements he made in 2019, when she told her story publicly for the very first time. trump says the rape allegation is a hoax and a lie. his legal team has worked for years to make this day never come, to delay the deposition that was filed when he was still president. and the january 6th select committee is set to ask for the same thing, trump s testimony as soon as today. the vice chair liz cheney said last night the panel s decision to issue a subpoena to
to render judgment r on the unprecedented moral atrocities our leadership class has committed over the past twos years. the shameless lying, shamelthe arrogance, the stupid the total incompetence, the unfairness, the relentless and vicious racism toward the majority of the americans rm population, all of whichlation. together amount to, yes, attacks on democracy itself. if you believed in democracy, you would not act like this. dec no one has ever run a developed country with this degree of recklessness. puniquestion is , is anyone ever going to be punished for it? that s what s really on the ballot. this november eight . so for republicans, the election should be easy. nothing you should ever for a second underestimate their ability to screw it up anyway they may. but the template formber success is right in front of them. just run against joe biden. there may be people out thererug who feel sorry for joe biden, pl but there s absolutely nobody who thinks or can arguo feeled
temperatures as low as minus 22 degrees. in fact, families scrambling to find food and essential supplies, homes along lake erie completely covered in ice, and heartbreaking accounts of stranded drivers who froze to death in their cars. the storm also leading to anarchy in cities like buffalo, looters have been ransacking stores while police have been inundated. buffalo mayor byron brown blasting those who would take advantage. people who are out looting, when people are losing their lives in this harsh winter storm, it is absolutely reprehensible. i don t know how these people can even live with themselves, how they can look at themselves in the mirror. they are the lowest of the low. jessica: the winter chaos also wreaking havoc at america s airports. travelers were left stranded across the country as thousands of airlines canceled and delayed fights. more than 10,000 flights have been canceled since christmas eve, leaving behind what is being described as mountains of