what did we learn from the unsealed affidavit? let s bring our panel also journal columnist dan henninger and kempster also part columnist in manhattan senior fellow jason riley. kim, you have had a chance to go through this document. what have we learned? here s what we learned, paul in terms of a timeline. apparently there was extensive discussion for the national archives and the trump team about the retrieval of some documents they felt along to others at the presidential record act with the archives. fifteen boxes of those were delivered to the archives in january. in february the archives at a referral to the department of justice because they said they had found classified information in the boxes. sometime after that the fbi start a criminal investigation. fast-forward up until may when there is discussion with the trump team about getting a hole of more of this information. at some point the department of justice seemed to feel as though there was a risk there were
john: begin america reports with form president trump under investigation by the justice department as the agency appears slow to act on the current president s son, with one republican senator now alleging a cover-up. john roberts in washington. good to be with you again. sandra: we made it to wednesday. i m sandra smith in new york. washington post reporting the justice department is looking into the former president as part of a criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. the post says phone records of some trump officials have been seized and witnesses have been questioned before a grand jury. john: as iowa senator chuck grassley accuses the fbi and d.o.j. for trying to bury the dirt they have on hunter biden. jacqui heinrich is live at the white house with the latest on the hunter biden investigation. rich edson, how deep does the investigation go? john, the justice department is investigating the attack on the capitol and phony electorat
Which george h. W. Bush was. And by not going partisan, george w. Bush helped remind us just how starved we are for decency in American Public life. And im going to leave you with that picture, get ready to put to rest one of our points of light, one of my points of light, the 41st president. Thanks to nancy, brett, nick, elise. Thats it for this hour. Im any coko nicolle wallace. Mtp daily is next with chuck todd. Good evening, im chuck todd here in new york. And welcome to mtp daily. Moments ago, president george h. W. Bushs remains arrived by train in college station. Next is a Burial Ceremony at the george bush president ial library. We will be keeping an eye on these proceedings as the 41st president is officially laid to
rest in a few minutes. Well take you back there, but were going to begin tonight with yet another piece of reporting that raises questions if the trump administrations Foreign Policy is for sale. It raises other questions about whether bob mueller might be invest
A junior conservative justice on Wednesday launched a bid to become president of Israel's Supreme Court, an unprecedented move that legal scholars said is yet another challenge to the tribunal's independence as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government advances with its plan to overhaul the judiciary. In Israel's 75-year history, the committee that selects the president of the country's top court has always nominated the most senior judge for the position. With the court's current president, Esther Hayut, due to retire in October, Judge Yosef Elron's decision to throw his name in the ring as her replacement represents a departure from tradition.
include jamie raskin and david cicilline, and kurt bardella joins me along with charles blow, new york times columnist and msnbc political analyst. kurt, you wrote the article. you have seen what it looks like when republicans go wild on oversight. that is going to be the committee where all the crazy is going to take place. what should democrats do? they need to match up. back in 2010 when republicans took back congress after that election, democrats actually realized they were in some deep water. they knew that they needed to make a change, so they ditched the seniority system. they benched ed towns and replaced him with elijah cummings. i was on the oversight committee, we were not happy about this. cummings was a brilliant tactician, an amazing communicator. and he could get the best of us. he could win on that dais, on those hearings. now, here we are in a similar situation. there s a competition right now for who is going to lead the oversight committee. jamie raskin, gerry c