now. it is turning out to be an unusual news day which may be in part a function of the holiday i don t think so i think it is just turning out to be an unusual news day. this remarkable search and rescue operation is still underway about 370 miles off the coast of new foundland in the north atlantic a sub marine is an autonomous submersible, as opposed to a sub marine, goes under the water but it is not autonomous it has to use a ship or a surface platform as a kind of home base to which it is linked. the vehicle that has been lost, that they are lack for right now, is a submersible. the ship from which it launched lost contact with it yesterday about 1:45 after it started a dive the dive was supposed to be about two and a half hours down. three hours on the bottom of the ocean, and then another two and a half hours back. it was supposed to be about eight hours beneath the waves. about 1:45 into that mission, they reportedly lost communication. on the submersible, there are
that sound from today s episode, episode number 2 of my new podcast, deja news i m really proud of it and really happy with the way it came out there are six episodes altogether the second one posted today. you heard it along with my guests from the florida naacp and also, the conservative florida legislative leader charlie johns complaining so bad about these witnesses who had humiliated him at his own hearing. so the reason we just did a podcast about this, about the florida inquisitions in the 1950s and the 1960s, and those inquisitions going so poorly for florida s state government conservatives who thought they would be great the reason we did this about this time in history in florida is because it does give you a
exclusive story about basically what took justice department so long to get to this point of bringing federal charges against trump. specifically, what took them so long to even start a concerted investigation, not under the espionage act, about him mishandling classified information. the stuff he s already been charged for. what the post really looked at today is what took the u.s. justice department so long to start investigating trump s role in trying to overthrow the u.s. government trying to stay in power by force after he lost re-election. the bottom line finding of the post investigation is essentially that it has taken so long taken long enough that if there are charges brought, it will be not only butting up against the other federal case against him it will be definitely leaking into the presidential primary calendar under which he is running for president to try to be the republican nominee again.
individual rioters from january 6th, and not worry so much about the people who orchestrated it as a way to overthrow the u.s. government so in early 2021, doj declined to investigate the electors and instead close to go after the people who physically attacked the capitol. the national press has started to pick up the story dana nessel announced on our air that she wants the justice department to investigate this the january 6th investigation in congress starts very publicly lack into the fake elector plot themselves now thanks to this new reporting today in the washington post, we know that those things combined finally got the justice department interested in the fake electors again. quote, one person directly familiar with the department s new interest in the case said it felt as though the department was reacting to the house
the post bottom line in their investigation is that this has all taken so long basically because the justice department under merrick garland has been very cautious and very slow-moving. also, that the fbi under christopher wray has been something more than that they ve essentially been throwing sand in the gears not just slowing things down but also, saying no to participating in certain investigations. even when they later say yes to those same requests. now that the government overthrow part of the trump federal criminal investigation is under the auspices of special counsel jack smith, so it s being run in some ways independent of the justice department, that part of the investigation into trump, which could theoretically yield a second federal indictment of him. the post does portray that as now moving faster under jack smith, potentially even toward a close, but it was a year plus of