don t. attorney general merrick garland facing the self righteous indignation of ted cruz and other republicans. new reporting tension between the fbi and justice department over the mar-a-lago raid. cpac is back, home of normal conservatives nothing more than a clown show. it does reflect the current state of the republican party. and from performative to alarming, republicans and ron desantis s florida are cracking down on lgbtq people and moving to cancel the entire democratic party. we begin tonight with a lingering question from the 2016 presidential election. what was going on inside the fbi? remember, just 11 days before the election, fbi director james comey announced that the agency was reopening its investigation into hillary clinton. effectively costing her the election. the motivation behind comey s move seemed to be coming from the fbi s new york field office, which, according to reuters, had a faction of investigators based in the office known to be host
tonight on the reid out . is this debate or is it just false? no, it s not false at all. it s debatable. as prosecutors open an investigation into the lies of republican congressman-elect george santos kevin mccarthy is facing a caucus in chaos just six days before the house votes on a new speaker. meanwhile serious questions are being raised about where santos got the money to run his campaign. also tonight the death toll is rising after a winter storm dumped more than 3 feet of snow on buffalo. we ll check in to see how the city is digging out and getting back up and running. good evening, everyone. i m jonathan capehart in for joy reid. republican leader kevin mccarthy faces a vote for speaker of the house next tuesday with a razor thin republican majority and the very real prospect of an open fight over the gavel. it s a predicament underscored by the saga of incoming republican congressman george santos of new york who again tried to explain away lies about
i worked with firms. is it debatable or just falls? it s not false at all. it s debatable. as prosecutors open an investigation to the lies of republican congressman elect george santos, kevin mccarthy is facing a caucus in chaos just six days before the house votes on a new speaker and meanwhile serious questions are being raised about where santos got the money to run his campaign. also tonight, that ll rising after a winter storm dumped more than three feet of snow on buffalo. we will check and see how the city is digging out and getting up and running. good evening everyone, i m jonathan capehart in for joy reid and we begin tonight just six days from the start of the new congress. republican leader kevin mccarthy facing a vote for speaker of the house next tuesday with a razor thin republican majority. the very real prospect of a open fight over the gavel. it is a predicament underscored by the saga of incoming republican congressman george santos of new york. who
first of all, as someone who served in afghanistan, served my country and was in harm s way, i did not risk my life for something like this to happen, to really hand these back over to people to go ahead and potentially raid the capitol again if whomever they want isn t seated as president. but also the way i look at this, strangely, is actually no different than what edward snowden did. if you think about it, he took these documents. these classified documents, laid out blueprints of our satellites, gave them to the media. in this case tucker carlson. then the media selectively chose what was out there. then it s a huge breach to our national security, all these countries know what we have in terms of our capabilities. and the reality is this information is put out there and isn t handled carefully, we could more so than just the proud boys be giving this sensitive information to other countries. that s a huge national security problem. absolutely. especially given the affinity of t
has not sufficiently explained. as has been noted, he left his campaign more than $700,000. he claims the money comes from the organization, which is been shrouded in secrecy. there s no public website. there s no linkedin page. it has been dissolved previously. and so, whether smoke there s fire, it needs to be both criminal and civil investigations. robert, amid and with you, let s say george santos for one reason or another, either isn t seated or a new election is held. would you run again? well, i ve already issued a declaration the george santos, assuming his name is george santos, he should be in fact, because of his lies, the emissions of criminality, he should resign from the seat. and i would face him in ahead of, in a face-off, the public can decide who s speaking the truth the best represent a district. that s one offer i made. frankly, i don t envision that happening. i don t to make this about me. quite frankly, jonathan, i want