some clerks looking to lawyer up after being asked to turn over cell phone records. joining me now, doj prosecutor jim trusty. jim, good to hear or see there s movement on this. where are we right now with the process? yeah, great question. seems like we re in an ice age for this investigation. i m worried that the supreme court police department is a little overmatched. they typically focus on security, not on investgative type of materials. each justice has about four clerks. so it s a good pool of people. we re starting to hear some rumblings that the law clerks or some of the law clerks are considering getting counsel rather than volunteering any of their personal data to the investigators. charles: what is interesting to me that is whoever is the leaker was lauded as a hero be many on the left and maybe this
overmatched. that s what happened in buffalo anyway. also, this idea of a single point of entry. just one way in, one way out. thinking that would be easier to safeguard. but aren t there actually an extraordinary amount of dangers to that proposal? yes. it is incredibly dangerous. as a teacher myself, a former fbi agent, i mean, part of why i am no longer a law enforcement officer is that, as a law enforcement officer, you have an ethical obligation to engage a target and proceed to where violence is occurring and try to stop it. i wasn t willing to do that any longer. you know, as a teacher, if you have one egress point out of a school, you are dealing with, if it is at a high school, you could potentially have 1,200 kids trying to enter and exit from the same point. we have to remember, you know, i m here in texas. we have tornado drills. we had a tornado not far from
commented publicly about what this means for their relationship or mccarthy s ambition to become house speaker. lester all right, kelly o donnell at the white house tonight, thank you. on this earth day president biden signed an executive order to protect forests from wildfires on federal lands. this comes as fire season strikes early and severely in the west where a number of fast moving blazes are out of control one of the most dangerous is in arizona. and miguel almaguer is there for us tonight reporter: overmatched and understaffed tonight firefighters across the west are on their heels. a series of destructive and fast moving infernos devouring homes. you could hear the fire coming it was so intense. reporter: facing extreme conditions the most dangerous fires today are whipped by winds. here in arizona where dozens of structures have been obliterated crews are struggling to stay ahead of the tunnel fire and are mopping up in its
underappreciated or not communicated as clearly and i wonder if you can talk about and pivot off what you re reporting today, how those assessments have had to be recalibrated given what former ukrainian ambassador, bill taylor, described ukraine as the most tested, best, one of the best militaries in europe. yeah, that s right. and you have to remember that russia hadn t been a part of a ground invasion of this size, scale, and magnitude in years. in decades. they were not tested. whereas ukraine, they had been invaded only eight years ago and in that time, their military really built up and they became a much more capable forced. they have been overmatched in personnel, numbers, in equipment to russia, but in the ensuing weeks, the world has flowed in
know there is fighting. in your experience over the years, an armed citizenry, how much of a problem can that realistically create for an invading force? well, look, the citizens are going to be overmatched in every dimension by the russian military. the firepower, the mobility, armor, artillery and so forth. the citizenry have none of those military capabilities. but what they do have is a fierce desire to defend their own country. and in at the end of the day, over a long period of time, not days, but weeks, months, and even perhaps years, that difference in will can spell the outcome. when you see some of these moments that have gone viral, the snake island, even though those 13 ukrainian guards were as we understand it destroyed by russian forces, they were destroyed saying, russian warship, you know, eff yourself. you have this ukrainian fighter pilot who appears to have been