it s 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-president s ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report the washington post described this way as, quote, landing with a thud resulting in no new charges and none of the widespread abuses trump and his allies have alleged for years now. special counsel john durham testified today before the house judiciary committee. now, despite all those facts durham described his findings sobering and it was left to it democrats on the committee to point out the truth of his own investigation, an investigation that trump and his hand picked attorney general bill barr setup to inves
gop donors. we have covered extensively the reporting of conflicts of interest when it comes to justice clarence thomas and his relationship with harlen groh, and this time justice alito. according to new explosive reporting, alito took a luxury fishing trip with paul singer, a hedge fund billionaire. singer flew alito to alaska on a private jet. if he chartered the plane himself, it could have been as much as $1700,000 one way. u and then there was a case,
taz you out of the blue. so he spoke about tasing cops. this seems to be a case, but it s the lack of intelligence, the brazenness, and the lack of remorse as well as the belief in the lie itself that seems to make him a particularly dangerous example of what doj is prosecuting. that s exactly right. and i think it also is reminder this case is a reminder that there are just little things we re going to be learning about january 6th for forever, right? because, you know, we got a lot of these details early on but it was only a few months ago when danny rodriguez pleaded guilty we found out lo and behold that hideaway office he was smashingw on video, actually belonged to a republican senator, who had stayed quiet about the fact his office his trashed. i think it s remarkable to see
stupid and, you know, sort of crying to himself, he was saying he was going to fight this. he was going to take this to trial. but this really was the best outcome for him because had he taken this to trial of course he would have been looking at a lot more time. but under this plea deal he s still getting one of the most significant sentence. i believe it s the third longest sentence we ve seen in connection with the january 6th case to date. bryan, i sometimes forget when we re talking to you about all offense your investigative work, but the fruits of it are in the actual indictment. i want to read from some of the other maybe crowd sourced investigations into him and the other insurrectionists. this is what he posted in the patriot s 45 group chat. quote, omg, i did so much f-ing s, tell you later.
relationship can thomas where he s lavished him with trips and gifts. but paul singer did have multipare case in front of the court where billions of dollars was at stake. this was a breathtaking conflict that when we presented to experts, who just thought this was an intolerable mistake to have not recused. alito said who could have known that paul singer, who i barely knew, but i did take the flight from, i was on a lavish alaska fishing trip, but it was only three dales and not that lavish, trust me, it s accommodations were not that swank, and who would have known that paul singer would have had this case. it was reported in several areas that everyone understeed he was in a multiyear on multiconsequentially fight with