tell you to go next? attorney merrick garland today explaining that 150 misdemeanor cases have already been resolved related to people who took part in the january 6th attack on the capitol. those have already been resolved with defendants pleading guilty. he said 17 felony defendants are already scheduled for trial. more than 300 other people today stand indicted on felony charges. he s laying all that out, as you just heard there, to make the case that small fry defendants always go first, that s on purpose. people who do less overtly obvious crimes come first because the more easily prosecuted stuff often provides evidence you can use in other cases. helpful. but still, the basic question remains, is he only talking about crimes that were physically committed at the u.s. capitol building on january 6th between the hours of 2:00 p.m. and dinner time that day a year
0 speaking with him. it has been once again, as usual, now he s the man of the center of the question of what can or cannot be done in washington. but the biden administration can or cannot get past. we ll be speaking with senator schumer, live in just a moment. today of course is january 5th, a year ago today in the great state of georgia, georgia voters elected to new u.s. senators, democrat jon ossoff and democrat raphael warnock. they were runoff elections for both of georgia s u.s. senate seat one year ago today. at the democrats won both of those races. now, georgia electing to democrats to their two u.s. senate seats. that is how we got senate majority leader chuck schumer. that is what flipped control of the u.s. senator from republican control to democratic control. that is what made it possible for the biden administration in its first year to an act all the legislation that they have passed in the past year. including covid relief, the big infrastructure bill, and all the re
of someone who explains a big problem by saying just connect the dots, especially if that someone is shirtless brian kilmeade and he s handing me a magic marker. usually what follows that is an insane conspiracy theory which sounds like one of bill hemmer s hot tub parties. will never hear of another terrible crime, i keep asking why and how. it s the same thing e.r. doctors ask me after looking at an x-ray of my. this time connecting the dots is super easy because the left has given us more dots than a braille addition of moby dick. first, chicago, the most homicides since 1994, more than a thousand. during kim fox s first three years as county prosecutor, her office has dropped all charges against 30% of felony defendants. despite having video evidence of witnesses to crimes connected to
jacob chansley faces a felony account. acknowledge and take the felony in his plea agreement which would almost guarantee prison time and does that send a message to other felony defendants? 160 accused of assaulting police, dotzs more accused of other felonies. do they see the chansley takes and run toward plea agreements of their own or run away and take their chances at trial? we ll have the latest on nbc. thank you. we have developing news from capitol hill. senator dick durbin announces as it relates to the controversial, new texas abortion law there will be and looking at our notes coming in, there will be a hearing in the judiciary committee about this. i bring in sahil kapur on capitol hill.
facing misdemeanor charges. because he entered the well of the senate during that sort of extraordinary shocking visual scene we saw unfold inside the senate chamber, that s really what escalated these charges and why he s one of the felony defendants in this sprawling investigation. clint, obviously the closer he got to any senators or members, a graver danger he represented. i want to ask you about something that you can sort of surmise from the prosecutor s written sort of filings and ask you about this. special assistant u.s. attorney mona sedkey cited in director wray s testimony in march at the senate that the problem of homegrown violent extremism is metastasizing. she asked that the court recognize prior court filings, though they may have no prior history she believes it makes them unique among criminals in the likelihood of recidivism.