Taken root abroad and at home. We have to prove to the world and to our own people that democracy can still prevail against the challenges of our time and deliver for the needs of our people. We have to root out corruption that siphons off our strength, guard against those who would stoke hatred and division for political gain as phony populism. Well, to that note we have reporting tonight as well as remarkable congressional testimony on the domestic version of what the president warned against. He had another example of how thoroughly the former president tried to coopt and recruit the justice department to help him overturn the election that he lost. First, the summit seen as kaitlan collins traveling with the president joins us from geneva. What are we hearing about the format of the summit? i think, anderson, it will be pretty tightly scripted and if you talk to the white house of they ve kind of been running through the actual format of it. But the details weren t figured out unti
Mob would descend on capitol hill. A new court filing seems to contradict that. Nbc s ken dilanian reports, it was acknowledged in february, a february investigative report, that angry trump supporters were talking openly in the days before the siege about bringing guns to the capitol to start a revolution. The fbi document doesn t say where the fbi s review of social media posts were conducted before or after january 6th. But if the fbi didn t know about the social media post, what exactly were they doing? if they did know, why didn t they take any action to warn anyone? the fbi has charged 40 individuals with using deadly or dangerous weapons or causing serious bodily injury to officers. The fbi has arrested around 465 people so far in question, the insurrection and we re continuing to learn more and more from their court hearings. This morning, hunter palm pled not guilty to charges including violent entry and disorderly conduct on capitol grounds. The fbi provided screen shots from
the imminent expiration of critical federal aid programs by the end of the year. nearly 8 million americans have fallen into poverty since the summer. that s according to a new report in part because emergency benefit programs expired. more americans are filing for unemployment benefits and the pace of hiring has slowed. the covid relief legislative break through is good news for those americans no doubt but the story on capitol hill today includes plenty of evidence of the fever swamp s tight grip on the gop. amid record numbers of deaths from covid the afore mentioned economic despair in this country and an historic cyber attack from the russians, the senate homeland security committee today devolved into something indecipherable from a news max streamed hour of conspiracy theories. ron johnson, he s a senator from wisconsin who heads that committee, today convened a hearing to focus on something that four dozen junls adges and president s own attorney general said doesn t
senate confirmed directors, and those directors all have a few things in common. they are all white men. they all favor a clean cut look, and each and every one of them, every senate confirmed director since the dawn of the fbi has been a republican. that includes current fbi director christopher wray, who was appointed by donald trump. but you would not get that impression, given the way director wray s fellow republicans attacked him in his agency during a hearing today on capitol hill. when the court says the fbi misled, that s a nice way of saying they lied. how many individuals were either fbi employees, or people that the fbi made contact with, we re in the january 6th entry of the capital? i m going to make the assumption that there is more than one, more than five, more than ten. i will say this notion that somehow the violence at the capitol ungenerous six was part of some operation orchestrate by fbi sources and their agents is ludicrous. your job s review w
was part of some operation orchestrated by fbi agents is ludicrous. your job is to review what they do. your job is to protect the american people from a tyrannical fbi storming the home of a american family. i could not agree more with your description of the fbi being tyrannical. you preside over the fbi that has the lowest level of trust in the fbi s history. people trusted the fbi more when j. ed gar hoover was running the place. respectfully, congressman, in your home state of florida the number of people applying to come work for us is up over 100%. the american people fully understand there is a two tiered justice system that has been weaponized to persecute people based on their political beliefs and that you have personally worked to weaponize the fbi against conservatives. i would disagree with your characterization of the fbi and certainly your description. the idea i m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me given my own personal backgro