ages, and a legal headache for all involved. our richard louis in for a man let s get started. while house republicans are doubling down on their criticism of the department of justice. on the heels of donald trump s second indictment, and hunter biden s pleaded with federal investigators. political reports as committees controlled by the gop will make finding the doj and fbi the cornerstone of the party s agenda in the coming months. multipronged assault could include attempts to impeach attorney general merrick garland. fbi director christopher remembers is a trump appointee from his position. flash the budget for various law enforcement agencies, and count the fbi surveillance authority. first days of best buy is expected in the coming days. wednesday the fbi director will testify before the house judiciary committee. donald trump is similar media platform, including from a few hours ago, trump went after that special counsel jack smith and what he calls the corrupt do
house republicans are doubling down on their criticism of the department of justice, on the heels of donald trump s second indictment, and hunter biden s plea deal with federal investigators, politico reports house committees controlled by the gop will make finding finding the doj and the fbi, the cornerstone of the party s agenda, in the coming months. a multi pronged assault could tuned include attempts to impeach attorney general merrick garland, who fbi director christopher wray remember, is a trump appointee from his position slashed the budget for various law enforcement agencies and cut the fbi surveillance of 40 authority. the first phase of that fight is expected in the coming days. wednesday the fbi director will testify before the house judiciary committee. donald trump s efforts are similar. in a barrage of new posts on his social media platform, including from a few hours ago, trump went after both special counsel jack smith and what he calls the, quo
At todays sessions hearing. The equivalent of being made to go to the back of the bus. Major holes in tillersons sanctuary. Were we lobbying before or against . Im a germaphobe, believe me. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. There are just nine days until donald trump becomes president of the United States. Today we were inundated with news, much of it disturbing, about what to expect when he takes office. In fact there was so much news today it is, frankly, impossible for us to fully cover what we saw and heard, which may well have been the point. We are going to aggressively cover the issues we have deemed most important and they are big ones. Among them, the President Elect evoking nazi germany to characterize u. S. Intelligence agencies, offering kind words to the russians who the Intelligence Community believe hacked the dnc and clinton campaign. Trumps Secretary Of State pick exxonmobil Ceo Rex Tillerson possibly lying under oath at his Conf
Greg thanks, joe. Thats the smartest thing you have said in eight years. [applause] [applause] greg all right, the u. S. Intel report released friday directly accuse russian president Vladimir Putin of ordering a campaign to influence the election. I wish they told us this thursday we could have skipped listening to this. First we cannot say they did not change in the vote tallies or anything of that sort. We have no way of gauging the impact that certainly the Intelligence Community cant gauge the impact it had on choices the electorate made. Greg what is with this guy over here . Its like he just saw one of my nudes on snapchat. [laughter]
this is serious. And its on tv. Friday President Elect trump met with experts to discuss the findings. What does russia really to . For one, they had to John Podestas email. How did they do it . First they found one of his passwords. What was one of his passwords . Password. [laughter] this may be the greatest achievement in espionage history. Righ
Use propaganda and the ability to reach out as terrorists are doing and try to incite, and match that up with the tremendous power that Social Media Tools allow to make that easy and simple and effective and broadly applicable. So, given that this is a strategy, and given that its aimed not just at the United States, particularly with respect to interference in our elections, but at Western Europe and eastern europe, for that matter, is there an effort underway to work with our allies through nato or otherwise . Ive been to the Cybersecurity Center in estonia, but there didnt seem to be a nato agreement that this is something we should be working on together to respond to. So is this an effort that is underway . Speaking from my lens on things, there is a lot of interest in doing that and doing it more effectively and more comprehensively, but we have not cracked the code on doing it effectively yet. And so we need to keep the pressure on ourselves and our nato allies, who are likemind