hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. a new chapter in the house gop s plan to govern for fox news and fox news only began today. the committee set up for one purpose only, that is to fuel the right s favorite conspiracy theory, but somehow, the deep state, is out to protect democrats and persecute conservatives and the disgraced ex-president and his allies. the so-called select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government held its very first hearing today. republicans invited a panel that included senator chuck grassley, who once said this, that the fbi was, quote, corrupted to its core. senator ron johnson, who has never met a conspiracy he didn t really like a lot. and former congresswoman and current fox news regular tulsi gabbard. here s just some of what they had to say. it s clear to me that the justice department and the fbi are suffering from a political infection that, if it s not defeated, will cause the american people no longer to trust thes
was not covered by the republicans today, the fact that the multiple probes by doj taking place at this moment into trump s conduct are examining an unprecedented violent, deadly insurrection at the u.s. capitol. as well as a months-long effort by the ex-president to resist handing over some of the country s most sensitive intelligence secrets. and that even the probe launch bid trump s hand-picked a.g. bill barr to investigate the investigators didn t just come up with nothing, it actually uncovered more evidence of potential criminality on the part of the ex-president, donald trump. it was left to democrat to make these points. here s congressman jamie raskin doing just that, with a stunning takeover about who is really trying to weaponize doj. trump and his obliging attorney generals like sessions and barr, repeatedly pressured career prosecutors to go hard or go soft in particular cases, always seeking to reward trump s
friends or to punish his enemies. if weaponization of the department of justice had a meet meaning, this is it. the durham investigation closed as a total flop without unearthing anything like the deep state conspiracy that republicans have been denouncing around here for years. it couldn t find anything of substance to it. amazingly, when prosecutors participating in this wild goose chase actually came into possession of evidence of a real offense, from italian government officials of a potentially major financial crime committed by donald trump, durham was suddenly deputized to investigate it and the whole investigation mysteriously disappeared without a trace. trump s enablers now want this subcommittee not to examine the durham debacle, as a case study in dangerous weaponization of the justice function, but rather to pick up the baton from the
so far, it s frankly not going well for my republican friends. i mean, we had a big hearing yesterday in oversight, train wreck, exactly the opposite of what they wanted to establish was established and i i don t think today went much better. except that it was more boring. yeah, i mean, and i guess i only ask because it seems like the audacity of this committee s existence is that the evidence of trump s weaponization of the federal government happened on his twitter feed. it happened in full view. it happened in the form of two senior prosecutors quitting the durham probe, one one his prosecutorial partner for decades, the other left farther along in the probe for ethical reasons. it seems there are some legitimate questions about politicization at doj on that front. yeah, there are two you know, several classic things going on here that are part of
we are in the third week of the proud boys seditious conspiracy trial linked to the u.s. cap on the on january 6th. the prosecution unveiling text messages detailing the extent to which the proud boys believed they were taking orders from donald trump, a twice impeached disgraced ex-president, in the leadup to january 6th. an fbi agent called the response from the proud boys, quote, jubilation, after trump made his now infamous stand back and stand by comments in september of the general election 2020. in a text exchange shown to the court, proud boys are gushing over the ex-president s comments, saying this, quote, we are bigger than jesus. quote, kings. quote, boys, we are the number one media point from the largest debate that has ever been seen or heard in the history of the world. and we will be part of the conversation. let s hope daddy trump plays it