hashtag long form. hashtag, good to see you. have a good show. okay. hashtag, thank you. always good talking, nicole. i m ari melber and we re reporting live from somewhere, as the saying goes, specifically washington. congress under new management after the bruising fight to elect speaker mccarthy and for all the talk, among gop hard liners about how that clash, remember, they said that would really change things. it would upend the d.c. games, that s what they said. well, tonight for top republicans, i can tell you, it s business as usual. the same playbook the republican party used during the last time that the republicans were in the white house and they had the congress. it s the brinksmanship that can rattle the economy and some conservatives argue actually hurts them too. it drags down the gop in the long run miami talking about another threat to exploit the financial rules and govern by ransom. this story involves some beltway jargon that you ve probably heard b
defense, how he issued his own purported legal conclusions that had very real consequences and really scooped the mueller report. i read he did give you that. no, he did not, okay? so when he came in by the way, there was no pressure for him to give it on any day. he could have taken his time and redacted it. he came in and they gave us on friday the report unredacted. it was illegal to put it out. i felt that i had to say something to give the bottom line of what he decided, number one, i said, he found there was no collusion. it s like going out and announcing a verdict. i didn t regale the whole trial, but i said, there was no dlurks well, you framed it as he was innocent and everything else was argued against that. he said, we can t come to the conclusion that he didn t obstruct justice and you said, he didn t obstruct justice. barr is being tricky there, and this is important for the record and for the world. barr knows any call about presidential lawbreaking in this t
criticism and after taliban bomb killed a us servicemember. they are suing to have the names of 366 anonymous interviewees in the report unredacted. the post says it wants the publish story anyway setting the trump administration s renewed talks with the taliban and that began over the weekend. moderate democrats frustrated and angry about a tough impeachment vote next but the real news roundup, threat for goldendoodle. university law professor jonathan turley testified in the impeachment inquiry hearings last week saying sit he and his wife and even his dog of gotten threats. he was testifying everyone including linda seems to be bad these days. the organization to 9 chris credentials to media outlets forcing them to buy tickets if they want to go. those denied include the washington post and the press of atlantic city, longtime hometown
less of chemical president trump sought a deal to end u.s. involvement in the war that reportedly included hosting the califano camp david. he gave that up her intense criticism, and after a taliban bomb killed a u.s. service member. the post is suing to have the names of 366 anonymous interviewees in the report unredacted. penta pending a court decision, th the post sd he decided to publish the interviews anyway, citing the trump administration s resumption of talks with the taliban over the weekend. bret? bret: doug mckelway at the white house briefing room. thank you. the panel on the inspector general report and the impeachment. jerry nadler making his closing arguments. they have offered not want such a danny ford and the president s defense i suspect that is because there is, at base, no real defense for the president s actions. president trump put himself before his country. there is a constitutional remedy for a president who undermines
muller report. it s likely that decision will be appealed. but if the intel commit eat gets that report unredacted. what are they going to see? there are about a thousand redactions in the mueller report. one surprising thing people might not appreciate is all of the redactions aren t necessarily going to damage president trump. one of the reactions i was able to unredact through reporting, it concerns an allegation that the russians intercepted a phone sex conversation of president clinton when he was in office potentially making him vulnerable to blackmail. there may be surprises in there. jon: tom mcclintock says the ruling on the mueller investigation transcripts will be challenges. that ruling is not the last