garland did today does nothing to change that fact. i think we re going to see some delay, unfortunately, as a result of this. but at the end of the day, i think jack smith sounds like a very qualified individual and i believe there s only way, just based on the publicly available evidence from mar-a-lago to read it, which is that donald trump will be indicted, it will just take longer. neal katyal, mike schmidt, thank you so much for starting us off on an extraordinary day of news. we re grateful. ahead for us, we will get reaction to the news that merrick garland has appointed a special counsel in the investigations into the ex-president, from january 6th select committees zoe loftgren, what can only be described as a slow-motion train wreck, we re talking about twitter led by elon musk increasingly looking like it s on the verge of collapse. we have new reporting on that story to tell you about. and the brand-new documentary, split screen, which chronicles everything that led
. we re back with katie benner, mary mccord, pete strzok, and peter vance. pete, you said something on the show i think it was yesterday with me and mary about the national security implications of a second trump candidacy. and your book is titled compromise, and it really explores all of the trump questions, not through a political lens, but a national security lens. and you said something that s been haunting me since you said it. i think it was two days ago. you said, we still don t know. does the special counsel have the opportunity to maybe get to the bottom of those enduring mysteries of whether or not trump is, indeed, compromised? well, nicole, i think he has certainly the tools to try to do it. at the end of the day, there s a little bit of a split there. the special counsel s goal is to evaluate the evidence and pursue violations of law. that s different from sort of the national security and counterintelligence mission that the fbi and others in the intelligence commun
have been watching this from the outside, there is the looming unanswered question at the end of the day, why did trump take and keep all of these documents? and why is he working so hard to this day, apparently, to still maintain some documents, because doj seems to think that he hasn t returned everything that he has. it s important not just retrospectively, in the context of, why did he do it? does that represent a violation of law? but it s important because he s now announced he s a candidate for the president of the united states. he s going to be getting the presidential daily brief every month or however he chooses to get it, have access to all of this classified information all over again, with the same context that he s had with all of these foreign governments from saudi arabia to russia, to turkey, to you name it. and none of these questions have been resolved. this isn t just a historical concern. it s now more than ever a current and ongoing concern. whether or not the sp
talking us through it. katie benner for your reporting and for your years of expertise and expertise, thank you so much. next, how the news is being processed politically speaking, including some of the unsurprising responses from the ex-president s most extreme and loyal allies. and how democrats are planning to counter a new house gop majority. those stories are next. don t go anywhere. those storiears e next don t go anywhere.
24, as well. that to me is tantamount to rewarding donald trump for all of the maneuvers that he s making, including announcing his election right now. you know, i don t really get it. you know, i think in the last hour, you had, you know, a description of how jeff sessions wasn t up to the task and then you said robert mueller wasn t up to the task, and bill barr certainly wasn t up to the task. now it seems merrick garland isn t up to it, either. now zach smith is up to it. i think he will indict, particularly on the mar-a-lago stuff, because that is such an open and shut investigation. but precisely because it s so open and shut, i don t see why a special counsel was needed. it doesn t make sense to me. and if it s because there s a conflict of interest, because president biden is going to run in 24, i would the end to think that means there is also a conflict of interest about the hunter biden investigation and a special counsel would be merited there, too. so i guess i just don