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
My temptation would be to start with current events. I really enjoyed your july 3 column, the hijacked american presidency. Im going to read a little bit from it. I thought it was so powerful. Every now and then we are going to have to do this, step back from the onslaughts of insanity presidency,trumps registering its magnitude in its full, devastating truth. Ourselves routing than rising to the honor of the office, trump has lowered the office with his whiny, fragile, vindictive pettiness. The presidency has been hijacked. There are no words to express it. There is no new and novel way to catalog it. It is the most extraordinary and profound electoral mistake america has made in our lifetimes, and possibly ever. Powerful stuff. Why . Charles why not . There are a lot of different people who play different roles in society. , part of the job is to bear witness. , what else should i be writing . How else should i be considering what is happening . Reporters, who their job is to follow
My temptation would be to start with current events. I really enjoyed your july 3 column, the hijacked american presidency. Im going to read a little bit from it. I thought it was so powerful. Every now and then we are going to have to do this, step back from the onslaughts of insanity presidency,trumps registering its magnitude in its full, devastating truth. Ourselves routing than rising to the honor of the office, trump has lowered the office with his whiny, fragile, vindictive pettiness. The presidency has been hijacked. There are no words to express it. There is no new and novel way to catalog it. It is the most extraordinary and profound electoral mistake america has made in our lifetimes, and possibly ever. Powerful stuff. Why . Charles why not . There are a lot of different people who play different roles in society. , part of the job is to bear witness. , what else should i be writing . How else should i be considering what is happening . Reporters, who their job is to follow
The Wall Street Journal Opinion page has a history of publishing pieces based on inside court info aimed at helping the court s staunchest conservatives.
also joining us executive director of demand justice brian fallon, and msnbc contributor tim miller is here. jesse, they seems to be raw about the revelations and the revelations seems to be so indisputable that all they know to do is to go sort of blast their silly defenses in the pages of the wall street journal. take me inside this reporting, which is not disputed at all by a very defensive justice alito. my reporters have been reporting on this. you referenced the clarence thomas stories. i hope your readers have read every word, and today we