your power to align with these forces. well, look, i mean, ashley babbitt s mother went through a horrible tragedy losing her child. i think we can all be sympathetic to that loss. there was an injustice, and the injustice was the president of the united states incited people to attack the capitol, and tragically, she lost her daughter during that attack on the capitol. that s the injustice that kevin mccarthy recognized at the time. but now he wishes to deny. and so he is aligning himself with people that believe that those who attack police are somehow the victims. this is a very trumpian thing. it shows his continuing dominant influence on the gop. and that is when you commit an offense, when you abuse your office, when you incite an attack, you never go on the defense. you just attack the other side. you try to flip the script. the insurrectionists here in trump s view are the heroes.
that went from dominion to all various points at fox news, it s clear that i think tony frato was the dominion messenger. he worked in the bush white house. had ties to fox news on the air, on the board, at other levels. it seems like an important part of the fact pattern. can you talk about not just the sending but the receipt and how they were disseminated within fox news? i think it s crucially important. even if fox could argue that at the beginning when it first started putting giuliani and powell on the air it didn t know that what they were saying was false, after all they were working for the president and the president was making these allegations. but as time went on and dominion provided fox with information suggesting and strongly indicating that a lot of what giuliani and powell were saying
in 2024. this is going to be a slog. i think we should take seriously this threat and not just take comfort in the fact that mitch mcconnell is on board with support and matt gaetz is a nut case. this is where donald trump is and we have seen time and again in the last six, seven years where donald trump is usually where the republican party ends up. that s exactly right, david jolly. mitch mcconnell, importantly, had president joe biden s back this year, announced his support for the trip and the aid announceed. mitch mcconnell said his vote in 2024 goes to donald trump if he is the nominee of the party. not even mitch mcconnell tried to lessen trump as a power center in the party or as someone who would determine the republican party s stance on foreign policy. let s start with matt gaetz. sometimes it s difficult to
[ laughs ] mara, your parents are exactly like me? i know, right? well, cherish your friends and loved ones. let s roll, daddio! let s boogie-woogie! there is some incredible new reporting that came out today that takes us inside a previously unknown months long clash over the decision to search the ex-president s home for classified material. the washington post is reporting that it was a showdown between doj prosecutors who were ready to search mar-a-lago because they did not trust what they were hearing from trump s attorneys versus fbi agents,
crimes and the prosecutors who are still responsible for deciding whether to charge the former president with a crime were really duking it out, ever since basically april and may of last year. what we found was in the most dramatic sort of face-off, a knock-down, drag-out argument, the fbi agents basically said we are not interested in raiding or doing a surprise unannounced search of the former president s home in florida. the prosecutors were convinced that there was evidence of obstruction, that there was evidence donald trump and his aides were concealing classified records there and flouting a federal subpoena, both of which are chargeable offenses, and they said it is time to get into mar-a-lago and start searching for these closely guarded, you know, gems, these national secrets that we try to protect from other people s eyes.