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
we begin tonight with some breaking news, in the lead up to hamas s october 7th attack. according to new reporting not yet verified by nbc news, israeli intelligence obtained hamas s detailed battle plan for the october 7th attack more than a year ago before the attack took place. cogent from the new york times. israeli officials obtained hamas battle plan for the terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails, and interviews show. but israeli military and intelligence about dismissed the plant as aspirational, consider it too difficult for hamas to carry out. the approximately 40-page document, which the israeli authorities code named jericho wall outlined, point by point, exactly they kind of give us a thing invasion that led to the deaths of about 1200 people. hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision. the document cold for a barrage of rockets at the outset of the attack. it cold for drones to knock at the security cameras and autom
someone not andonovski is the part we have to clear. i would love to get off without power. a sign of the times. thank, you as always. thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. we begin tonight with some breaking news. the new york times has just published a major new report about israeli intelligence failures in that lead up to hamas photos have been attack. according to this new reporting, not yet verified by nbc news, israeli intelligence officials obtained hamas s detailed battle plan for the october 7th attack more than a year ago before the attack took place. cogent from the new york times. israeli officials obtained hamas battle plan for the terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails, and interviews show. but israeli military and intelligence about dismissed the plant as aspirational, consider it too difficult for hamas to carry out. the approximately 40-page document, which the israeli authorities code named george it will outlin
environment that prosecutors handling cases involving the ex-president are facing right now. in the federal indictment of a man who allegedly made let s to fulton county district attorney fani wli and fulton county sheriff patrick la bat. arthur ray hanson ii was charged on monday for making threats to willis and la bat back in august, days before willis charged trump and 18 others in a sweeping rico case alleging a, quote, criminal enterprise that sought to overturn the r new york times reports this, quote, in a voicemail message for sheriff labatt mr. hanson threatened the sheriff to not take a mugshot of,quote, my president, donald trump, that s according to the indictment. i m warning you right now adding that t sheriff to,quote, get hurt real ba he also left aoicemail message for ms. willis in which he threatened her and referred to the georgia case. ing to your car at night, when you re going into your house. tch everywhere that you re going mr. hanson said according
a hearing today about mr. durham s probe into the russia investigation. it s where we begin with some of our favorite reporters and friends. the new york times washington correspondent charlie savidge is here. he did the definitive piece of reporting on the durham report earlier this year. also joining us senior capitol hill correspondent garret haake, and former cia director now msnbc senior national security analyst john brennen. i want to start with you. that question from zoe lofgren seems to come from a revelation that the public learned about from your reporting. mr. durham doesn t directly answer it, but he certainly doesn t deny anything you ve reported. what did you think of that? well, obviously my ears picked up at that point. i should hasten to say adam goldman and katie benner were coauthors on that piece. scattered throughout this hearing which was mostly just republicans railing about the