decades ago. retired detective and former fbi joint terrorism task force member is standing by with his expertise. first to christina coleman live with the latest on this case. today we learned disturbing details on this investigation from the nucleus released newly released arrest affidavit. police believe the suspect, 38-year-old cleotha abston is a man seen in that video who rushed her and violently forced her into a black suv. the two struggle during that incident. several witnesses including his own brother added he try to clean out his suv with floor cleaner and he was behaving oddly. they believe he is trying to clean blood out of his vehicle and fletcher was seriously injured. trying to get away from u.s. marshals yesterday when they found him in his suv. he was taken into custody. he has now charged with tampering with evidence and what is called especially aggravated kidnapping. the police have worked very quickly on this. probably getting the vehicle and gett
in the capitol and being targeted by the mob. during all those hours refusing to call the pentagon or any law enforcement for reinforcements. in fact according to aides even refusing to take a call from pentagon officials offering their help. are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the secretary of defense that day? not that i m aware of, no. are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the attorney general of the united states that day? no. are you aware of any phone call by the president of the united states to the secretary of homeland security that day? i m not aware of that, no. did you hear the president ask for law enforcement response? no. as the men and women in charge of protecting vice president mike pence became more and more desperate about their ability to get him to safety or even save their own lives. and we ll replay in that context an insight to every key moment from last night
host of the beat, ari melber joins us this morning. joe. you know, ari melber, over the past several years, we have been a constitutional republic run by people who have little respect for the rule of law. a former president with his henchman who didn t think twice about breaking the law, didn t think twice about breaking constitutional norms or calling for the arrest of their political opponents, whether it was hillary clinton in 2016 or joe biden in 2020. in 2016 with chants at national conventions for doing far less than donald trump did when he was president of the united states. and then in 2020, donald trump is president of the united states, ordering his attorney general to arrest his political opponents. and i ve heard it. i know you have. so many people, good democrats and independents and republicans asking the same question. is this guy above the law? well we wake up this morning, and we have an inkling. perhaps a belief that in the early morning hours of augus
and what they seem to be hiding . there s a clue a lotlue,. a but first, good eveningppy fr and welcome to tucker carlsonid and happy friday. every year since 1970s., a state department has published a document called world military expenditure and arms you pr transfers. you probably haven t read itoba but it is interesting. detaile it s a detailed accounting of global arms sales. what weapons were sold and where they wound up after they were. the u.s. government publishedbl its report in the interest ofe o transparency and then continued to publish it through multiple politically charged scandals and conflicts that would include through iran-contra, two separate wars in iraq and all twenty years that wet we occupied afghanistan. a report like this wouldseful th be especially useful to have right now. we d be criticale an to have ase bush administration sends billions in high tech militaryns equipment every month toh to corrupt oligarchs in eastern europe corrupt where all of
trump and hillary clintoasen, yn potentially because ofto political bias. so unfortunatelypotentiall, we a don t know exactly what the fbis was searching for and we don t know the justification behind the raid as great jarretnd thett it in a piece on fox news .com, quote, the doj redacted trumpdad rade affidavit revealed precious little in earlier today.e in earlier former president trump reacted. soc on truth social writing, quote,l nothing mentioned on nuclear. a total public relations subterfuge by the fbi and doj or our close working relationship regarding document. turnover. we g so the bigav question tonight, where does it all go from here? well, joining us now wit with analysis, the author of the price of principle, harvard law professor alan dershowitz, along with former us attorney brad tolman and fox news legal d analyst greg jared. gentlemen,x ne thank you for joining us . brad , you re former u.s. attorney. i want to start with you will starti cannot get past thet