another act of violence targeting a member of congress. two people in virginia, in democrat jerry connolly s district office, are attacked by a man with a metal baseball bat. this is a gentleman with a long history of mental illness. he has been engaged in bizarre behavior in the past, including violent. he decided today for whatever reason to come to us and inflict more of the same. a trump justice department special prosecutor investigating the fbi over the russia investigation for bias issues. his report after four years. not recommending any indictments. i will speak to andrew weismann about the results. mike pence and florida governor ron desantis making big moves ahead of expected announcements to take on donald trump. good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington. this afternoon, the second big showdown between president biden and house speaker mccarthy over the debt ceiling. a critical moment says the treasury secretary, as the president is about to leave for a
you are totally right. i know you deal with the law, not politics. but this is going to be an issue in 2024. donald trump is heralding the report as complete vindication. we will have to deal with more fact checking on it. andrew weissmann, thanks for starting us off with that. a move ripped from a television plot, there s a new campaign announced today from the cia to recruit disaffected russians in sensitive intelligence posts to become cia moles. the video posted on social media apps and confirmed by our people in moscow, widely read in russia, those apps, shows the cia is offering russians a secure way to share state secrets, promising to protect the tipster s safety. it shows fictional russian officials making the decision to contact the cia saying we succumb to lies but we know our reality.