california history. ahh! lucky for us, the fires hadn t made it to where my family lives in oakland, but the air had gotten so bad that it wasn t safe to breathe. so my wife and i took me, the asthmatic, our elderly parents and kids straight to vegas. not because we wanted to gamble, but because it was close and there were cheap flights. back then, it seemed like a once in a lifetime thing, but every year since, the fires in california have gotten worse. the dixie fire. the hill fire. there are more towns being burned to the ground, more people whose lives are devastated, and more wildfire refugees. this episode is about californians and fire, because we ve got to learn how to get along. now, if you re thinking that you re safe because you live outside of california, nope. wildfires happen across america, from alaska to florida, and they happen all over the world. wildfires sweeping across australia cape town sonia and turkey. all the way to the north pole
very good week for president biden with some major victories in congress while republicans were doing the usual, like voting against veterans and american technology. plus, the republican embrace of christian nationalism proves they do not know their history. we ve seen this story before and it doesn t end well. and trump is playing host to the big saudi golf tournament this weekend insulting 9/11 families in the process. trump actually defended the saudis saying, quote, nobody s gotten to the bottom of 9/11. seriously. we begin tonight with a major development in the duelling january 6th investigations. the house select committee has agreed to a formal path to share evidence and witness transcripts with the justice department as it escalates its own investigation. first reported by politico chairman bennie thompson confirmed the agreement on a template for evidence and witness transcript sharing. it is a major step at the extent of the justice department s investigation
text messages from january six itself, also the day before that were deleted as a part of a bias replacement program. we don t know what the facts are, we will get to the facts about why that happened and we will do whatever we can to retrieve the substance of those tax. that committee subpoena the math at the agency summit relevant records by tuesday and that s just in time for the next high-profile crime here on thursday. let s get into this joining me now is elie mystal. he is an author of the new york times bestseller, allow me to retort a black ice guide to the constitution. mandatory reading that tell. you so happy to have you here, i know your weekends are very busy so i was grateful when you can join us. i have to ask you first, what do you make of this whole report on the secret service text messages around january six been deleted? how does that happen? it s hard for me to believe that secret service is saying there was not done maliciously, maybe it was not mal
building get defaced over a lie. and it was something that was really hard in that moment to digest, knowing what i ve been hearing down the hall in the conversations that were happening, saying that we come up, and knowing what was happening on the hill, and it s something that i still struggle to work through. the emotions of that. joining us now is olivia troye, former top aide to vice president mike pence. she attended the hearing today. she is a former colleague of cassidy hutchinson. olivia, i just want to read for the audience the tweet that she was just talking about. it was donald trump tree tweeting at 20 4 pm on the capitol, and that was being televised, he was watching it. he tweeted, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. usa demands the truth! and
happening on the hill, and it s something that i still struggle to work through. the emotions of that. joining us now is olivia troye, former top aide to vice president mike pence. she attended the hearing today. she is a former colleague of cassidy hutchinson. olivia, i just want to read for the audience the tweet that she was just talking about. it was donald trump tree tweeting at 20 4 pm on the capitol, and that was being televised, he was watching it. he tweeted, mike pence didn t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution, giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. usa demands the truth! and so, donald trump further endangered mike pence s life with that tweet. and what cassidy hutchinson seems to be saying is, we knew. she knew that that tweet was further endangering the vice president. yeah, and i can only imagine i