because senator but you, know just between us. just between you and me. thank you, buddy it is always good to see. thank you for a great show and thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. a match and there were 50 50 odds that you had just been chosen as one of the people who would decide whether or not to criminally indict donald trump. that may very well be the case for the grand jurors who were just seated in fulton county, georgia. today, about 100 georgians showed up at the superior court of fulton county in atlanta. and for the sake of the privacy, we are not going to show you any of them by you can see, fulton county district attorney fani willis was and there. out there she is right there. now the judge sent about half of the potential jurors home. the other half he directed to one side of the room, towards the other. they were split into grand jury and grand jury be. h one was made up of 20 theaters plus alternates. now other than a $25 a day these grand jurors w
garland. controlled by the democratic party in a radical left. as somebody who served there for many years, first it is associate deputy attorney general and then it is special assistant to the attorney general and then finally chief of staff to the attorney general and in my view the greatest attorney general ever. this department, this department is destroying america. it is destroying the 2024 election. it is violating every norm, every tradition, everything it inherited to ensure that that department would be trustworthy and could be reliable. it has criminalized politics and i want to say this, if we do not break the back of the department of justice, and i will explain what i mean in a moment, it will destroy this country and we will not be able to claw our way back. this is not hyperbole. i don t need to be. let s start. cnn. exclusive special counsel prosecutors question witnesses about chaotic oval office meeting after trump lost the 2020 election. multiple sources t
donald trump in a defamation lawsuit. we ll explain why the doj is backing off its previous position. plus two months worth of rain in two days. vermont is just starting the recovery process from that disaster. we ll get an update from one of the state s top lawmakers. all right, good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, july 12th. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. we begin with the major developments out of the nato summit in lithuania. the alliance says it will invite ukraine to join but only when allies agree and conditions are met. the group did not give a time line or details on what those conditions might be. vague wording is in line with what president joe biden said last week, calling a pathway to membership for ukraine, quote, premature while it is at war with russia. as the new york times points out, it appears the president and like minded allies have prevailed over poland in baltic nations that wanted a formal invitation for ukraine t
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tonight. and breaking america is now responding to the attacksed thr that killed three us soldiers in jordan. so far, the u.s. militareen y launching 85 retaliatory airstrikes against iranian and e in iraq and syria. and there could be many more rounds ahead. but iran is responding now with defiance, saying they knew the u.s. would not dare attackat insidetack iran. the senior correspondent mike tobin is live in tel aviv with breaking in reactiono the to the first round of airstrikes. miked of , what are you hearing? well, trish, we re hearing dhat an iran backe paramilitary group inside of iraq is now claimingaimi that they launched a barrage of rockets at a u.s.ng t airbash west of ramadi in iraq. this in response to us strikeeae earlier today. this is we rr y. e getting the first images out of western iraq verys near o the syrian border, out of iraq, as the u.s. has battled damage assessment is currently underway. we know that iraq is not happy with the strikes inside of