it s 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-president s ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report the washington post described this way as, quote, landing with a thud resulting in no new charges and none of the widespread abuses trump and his allies have alleged for years now. special counsel john durham testified today before the house judiciary committee. now, despite all those facts durham described his findings sobering and it was left to it democrats on the committee to point out the truth of his own investigation, an investigation that trump and his hand picked attorney general bill barr setup to inves
going forward. i made the final decision. it was a dramatic inflection point in the durham investigation when his long-time partner left the probe. that question was posed by our next guest, congressman adam schiff of california. congressman, thank you for being here. good to be with you. what did you think of that response? he wasn t particularlyforth coming, but he didn t deny she leftover a difference of strategy or opinion. yeah, he clearly didn t want to talk about why she left. and i asked him did it have to do with disagreements about whether he should make a public statement during the penancy of his investigation, something that violates doj policy. initially he feigned ignorance about whether he knew it was a violation, maybe it wasn t, maybe it wasn t, said something along those lines. and i asked him was this one of the reasons why she left. i asked him about his pursuit of