hosted by alex witt will start at 5:00 a.m. eastern. that is going to do it for me. deadline white house begins right now. hi there, everyone. happy friday. it s 4:00 in new york. donald trump s once loyal attorney general bill barr recently said that the classified documents probe was the most threatening to trump, and brand new reporting in the new york times reveals why that may be the case. new york times out with some blockbuster new reporting that shows that special counsel jack smith is leaving no stone unturned in his pursuit of answers to questions about trump s conduct. namely, whether he sought to obstruct efforts by the government to get back classified documents. some of which contained incredibly sensitive national security secrets. from that new times story, quote, federal prosecutors investigating former president trump s handling of classified documents have obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for him at mar-a-lago. it
were already very and mangeing them more virulent. dana: we are digging into the new covid report. this is a 300-page report. senator marshall tells me it involved 20 months of pretty extensive research using classified and unclassified information with dozens of experts. the report s conclusion is an accidental chinese lab leak back in november of 2019 is likely what started the covid-19 pandemic weeks before china ever even acknowledged the virus was out there publicly circulating. here is part of that conclusion. it reads the an unintentional research-related incident that resulted from failures of bio safety containment during cars covid two related research. it suggests covid-19 may have leaked twice at the wuhan institute. once in september or october of 2019, which was contained. then again on a much bigger scale in november 2019 when chinese researchers were conducting highly risky gain-of-function research in an effort to develop a covid vaccine. senator marshall
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york. two years and two months after what the fbi describes as an act of domestic terrorism, and acts of violence, vice president mike pence and his family ran for their lives. fox news laura ingraham warned mark meadows that the events on january 6, quote, will ruin our legacy, a revision of history as those republicans described it under way. it s not enough to significant more what kevin mccarthy and tucker carlson are doing out of fear of amplifying their idiocy and radicalism. the truth is they don t care what we do. but we seek the clear and cold facts how republicans viewed january 6. i remember the day as a low point. i think it s inexcusable. completely 100% inexcusable. i don t care the motivation. it was a very disturbing day yesterday. i had a lot of anger as my colleagues that the capitol got overrun. these are anarchists and terrorists. steve, right, steve? we all know this is what happened after the truth bubbled out
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i ve seen more devastation than i ve seen in my lifetime. i m on the ground in the middle of it, it looked like a war zone. i never felt so good about the cooperation of the federal, state and local government. ashley: alexandria hoff live from washington with the latest, good morning. alexandria: good morning. the people of mississippi are not the type to wait on help, people came from across the state to lend trucks, equipment and medical expertise. where assistance will be is temporary housing and loans for unsured properties. alejandro mayorkas took a tour of the small delta community where residents say every marker of existence is gone. flower shop, beauty shop, barber, law offices just down the street are all gone. there was an auto parts store, local restaurant that has been there for i don t know how many years, since i was a child. service stations, tire shop, just gone. alexandria: 26 lost their lives in mississippi and alabama, one death was reported.