morning. it is sunday october the 9th. i am velshi. it is 21 months ago, just hours after the halls of the capitol were cleared of the insurrectionists tomb of the building in an attempt to prevent joe biden from becoming the presidents. 147 republican members of congress, remember that number, voted against certifying his victory. now, as we head into the final weeks of the 2022 midterms, it appears likely that the number of election deniers and congress is going to increase on november 8th. according to a new washington post analysis, the majority of the republican parties candidates for congress, and top state executive positions this year, are election deniers who have spread donald trump s big lie about baseless, unfounded, in debunked claims of widespread election fraud in 2020. by the washington post county, take a look at this, there are 299 republican candidates vying to be representatives or attorney general. that s all the squares. to 99. they ve denied the in
agents cracked open saves and took boxes of documents from the former president s current primary residence. here is what trump said in a statement. prosecutorial misconduct. the weaponization of the justice system and attack by radical left democrats who doont want me to run for president in 2024. many echo that sentiment today. what you have right now is an unchecked democrat party. most americans right now are horrified. they are doing it because the establishment is terrified of president donald trump. he doesn t play their games. 30 f.b.i. agents can take over the house of a former president of the united states, what can they do to you? if those organizations that are remaining in their current form there needs to be a top-down clean out of all the upper brass and all the upper management in all those organizations starting with merrick garland and the f.b.i. director. harris: let s think about the political things that are coming here. the raids 91 days out fro
leading up to the fbi raid of trump s florida resident that turned up a trove of classified documents. even if you are, and most bizarre right, now enclosed trusted to julia dealings from our twice impeached ex president, this one is actually a doozy. let s get up to speed on all we have learned about the mar-a-lago document investigation just this week. number one, according to reporting from the washington post stating multiple sources familiar with the matter, earlier this year, trump asked his lawyer, alex cannon detail the national archives that trump had already returned all of the documents that they national archives for seeking. canada refused to convey the message for trump, because he was not sure if it was true. spoiler alert. it was not true! trump still had thousands of documents, including some highly classified ones according to publicly released inventories, from the justice department. we should note nbc news has not independently verified the post verifying on that s
has to be an accommodation process. with the clintons and bushes, i m certain with president obama, there was a discussion with the national archives as to what they had and what should be turned over to the presidential record. i think this process should have played out here. instead they got the f.b.i. involved to raid his home. harris: the f.b.i. raid of trump s mar-a-lago, his primary residents has credits crying hypocrisy when it comes to hunter biden. you mentioned the clintons and i ll mention what is current. they say they aren t doing nearly enough when it comes to investigating the president s son. former a.g. bill barr calling for a special counsel after whistleblower s revelations how f.b.i. agents handled information about hunter. it time for merrick garland to give the current u.s. attorney in delaware the protections of the special and
this memo that president trump ultimately used to defend the decision to fire james comey, the former fbi director. but it also alleges that rod rosenstein and james comey are good friends which a source familiar with the source says isn t true but it essentially says that the reason that rosenstein allowed the investigation to expand is retribution because the white house allowed his friend james comey to be fired. all of this, of course, appears to be an effort to undermine the deputy attorney general at a time when president trump is considering firing him. the days following the decision to fire james comey white house officials heaping praise on rosenstein. they were. of course, that was after he wrote this memo helping the president defend the firing. here s what sarah sanders said last may. somebody like the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who everybody across the board has unequivocally said this guy is a man of upstanding character