criminal because he had unauthorized possession of secret documents that very same joe biden himself had unauthorized possession of secret documents. but don t worry, it s not a big deal unlike you and that despicably orange donald trump joe biden is a good person. joe biden is so virtuous. he is transcended temporal law. it s not a crime when he does it. so that s the frustratingly familiar headline from this week s story, which you probably seen by now. but the details of the story are actually pretty interesting. so a week before these last midterm elections, joe biden s lawyers were for some reason rooting around in a locked closet in the washington office of something called the pen biden center for diplomacy and global engagement. and while in that locke s closet, biden s lawyers find a sheaf of highly classified government documents. so the first question here is , why were joe biden s lawyers doing this in the first place? and we can t say for sure because they
so at one day you wake up inh kamala harris is the vice president . how does that happen, youyo wonder? no one will say, but youu can r be sure there s a story there.ef so here s the latest example of unexplained weirdness in the news. mike pence, of all people, has just swooped in to save joe biden. yeso , mike pence, a man so flamboyantly pure he won t have minner with ladies, not his wife. and yet mike pence also hadkp secret documents in his house, just like joe biden that you didn t see tha that coming. it wasn t so long ago thatene pence was on television saying was sure he had no classified documents in his possession. he said that a few times. then just days ago, then mike pence sent his personal attorney to searche sent his fah home in carmel, indiana, fore in classified documents. now, if mike pence didn tnk think he had classified documents, why would he send his lawyer to go look forhe sen classified documents? we can t say for certaihin, but it s
with artemis, we are going to stay. proving humanity. can live on the moon. mars. and other worlds. the countdown is on. a historic launch just hours away that could pave the way for a mission to mars. newsroom starts right now. hello everyone. thanks for joining me. i m fredicka whitfield. we begin with major developments into the investigation of former president donald trump, the director of national intelligence now telling congress she is conducting a damage assessment of the classified documents seized by federal officials from the president s home. according to the heavily redacted affidavit released on friday, 184 classified documents were recovered from mar-a-lago in january months before the fbi search, some of which were labeled among the highest classifications of top secret intelligence, and there is new movement in the courtroom. a federal judge overseeing the case says she has preliminary intent to appoint a special mas s master as trump requested
january 6th, gas prices have doubled, drug o.d.es have reached their highest point ever come of the u.s. economy is careening toward the devastatind scariest and least noteworthy of all, this country has never in its history been closer to a nuclear war. if the other networks cannot be bothered to cover any of that tonight, instead they ve interrupted their regularly scheduled programming to bring you yet another extended prime time harangue from nancy pelosi and liz cheney about donald trump and qanon. the whole thing is insulting. in fact, it s deranged and we are not playing along. this is the only hour on an american news channel that will not be carrying their propaganda live. they are lying and we are not going to help them do it. what we will do instead is try to tell you the truth. we ve attempted to do that since the day this happened. we hated seeing vandalism at the u.s. capitol year and a half ago and we said so at the time, but we did not think it was an insurrec
Post9 11 period, and how both the government and his own paper the New York Times suppressed his reporting, including on the Bush Administrations warrantless wiretapping program, for which he later won the Pulitzer Prize. After i told him what was going to be in my book, what they said was, ok, we will think about putting it in the paper but thehey were not committed to it. They wanted to negotiate again with the government. There was a whole series of new meetings with the government. Which was refreshed rating to me. Amy james risen describes meeting with top officials at the cia and the white house. His refusal to name a source would take them to the supreme court. He almost wound up in jail until the Obama Administration blanked. Blinked. The hour. Es risen for all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Trump Administration has proposed allowing offshore oil and gas drilling in nearly all of the United S