general bill barr name john durham to investigate the investigators and predicted he d find the crime of the century. durham didn t have much luck in the courts. now, four years after he started, durham s harshly critical report saying he relied on raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence along with seriously flawed information has plunged us all back into the same old, familiar debate, the story that seemingly will never end. i m howard kurtz and this is the mediabuzz. howard: the report by special counsel john durham exploded like a neutron bomb, and the media are deeply divided over his conclusion that the fbi acted on such flimsy evidence that its investigation of possible collusion between donald trump and the kremlin never should have been launched. first among those claiming vindication, the former president. this was a coup that they were looking at. these are sick people. howard: and many of those on fox news and elsewhere joined in castigating the m
thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. a we begin with this ongoing and conservative hunt for some kind of evidence or damning narrative about political opponents and how this keeps coming up empty in revealing ways. this is one a those stories that s crested this week because we had the trump era investigation end. i have new material on that, including how it s playing on the right and why that matters. at the same time, house republicans are struggling with their own investigations into the biden family. but it is telling to watch how people are dealing with the evidence this week, especially evident that was channelled but none other than a trump/barr hand picked prosecutor. part of this is playing out on a platform that s been recently discredited. i m talk about fox news, which was caught lying to their own audience and lying so badly and blatantly they were worried they broke illegal lies and they broke history the bad way work a $787 million settleme
baseball bat at the office of congressman gerry connolly. threats against members of congress continue to rise. this is just the latest. at the white house, we re just hours away from another high-stakes meeting between president bidened and top lawmakers to negotiate a detd ceiling deal. we ll play for you a brand new warning from the treasury secretary about what could happen if the country goes into default. overnight, a massive wave of russian attacks targeting ukraine s capital. the biggest in weeks and come as more european allies pledge new support. we begin this hour with that deadly rampage in new mexico. three people were killed, six others were injured after a gunman appeared to open fire at random on a residential street, according to local police. authorities say the suspect shot at least six houses and three cars with an ar-style weapon. the 18-year-old gunman was confronted and killed by law enforcement. according to the gun violence archive, there hav
what is white house reaction to special counsel durham report on how the fbi handled the trump-russia probe? i leave to the doj to speak to. does he agree there needs to be changes at the fbi? that is with the d.o.j., as you stated in your question, we believe in an independent d.o.j., that is what the president has said. thank you, see you guys in japan. lucas: they said not everyone that worked for felt safe, adam schiff took over leadership of the committee and the researcher took that as a mild threat. adam schiff rebuking the durham report. the durham investigation was flawed from the start, it began to satisfy trump and resulted in two failures at trial and end with nothing to show for four years of effort. bottom line, fbi had a good reason to investigate, durham didn t. speaker mccarthy questioning schiff s suitability for public office. it raises the question about adam schiff. he told the american people he had proof and didn t know the whistleblower a
i m sally bundock. welcome to the programme. we begin with breaking news from ukraine. the capital, kyiv, has come under heavy fire with officials calling it exceptional in its density. they say the vast majority of missiles were shot down by air defence systems. these are the latest pictures, and government messages warned people to keep away from windows as debris from intercepted missiles was falling from the sky. the mayor of kyiv, vitali klitschko, said some of the debris fell on the city s zoo. in the past few days, president volodymyr zelensky has been on a european tour, in which he was promised several billion dollars worth of military equipment by western allies, including uk prime minister rishi sunak and president macron of france. these are the pictures we have been receiving. a heavy artillery fire overnight in the capital, kyiv, with many being warned to move away from windows, to go to safety, go to bunkers as ukraine does try are as many missiles as possib