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resolve quickly. i think you will find there is nothing there. i have no regrets. i m following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. exact will i what we re doing. there is no there there. harris: critics reacting with this. this just in. china and ukraine have no regrets about their access to biden s documents, either. another pointing out the president s totally different reaction to trump s document scandal. the washington post reporting quote, a justice official asked specifically that biden s legal team secure the materials from the penn biden center and refrain from further reviewing them or other relevant documents that might be stored at different locations. did they do that? white house correspondent jacque heinrich live from the north lawn. that s an important question. harris, the president is being investigated for whether or not he took classification laws seriously. the expression of no regrets is giving a lot of fodder to his biggest critics.
president, a terrifying and very familiar scene out of brazil. supporters of former brazilian president jair bolsonaro who attacked the countries congress over the result of their presidential election, they ve been climbing on top of its roof, breaking the glass and a windows and crowds of demonstrators also gathered outside at the supreme court and the presidential palace. where is bolsonaro right now? he is thousands of miles away soaking it up in orlando, florida. he has yet to comment on these riots back home. let s bring in ap result news director david miller. david, the images we ve seen today, they look a lot like january the 6th 2021 here in d.c.. what went on there today? what is the latest? they look a lot like january 6th. we ve been warning that this, or something like this, it could happen for a long time, jair bolsonaro sowed doubts about the election results for a long period, the voting system was susceptible to fraud and many of supporters came to believe
has died at the age of 95. we will have a live report from the vatican in just a moment. plus, new year and even more legal troubles for the former president of the united states after decades of flying under the radar was 2022 the year that accountability finally caught up to donald trump? plus, the halls of congress will be crawling with election deniers in 2023. with a divided republican party set to take over the house, you can put democracy at the bottom of the gop agenda. good morning. it is saturday, december 31st, new years eve. i am mehdi hasan, sitting in for my friend ali velshi this morning. not only is today the last day of the year, it also marks the official end of the january 6th committee. it s a series of blockbuster public hearings dominated the news this year with its many revelations about donald trump s desperate and anti-democratic attempts to cling on to power. the committee repeatedly made the case that trump was culpable and liable for the insurrec