today by john durham, by the special counsel who bill barr appointed under trump, who was left at the justice department, left behind at the justice department after barr resigned and after trump left office. they left special counsel john durham in place at the justice department in the wake of the trump administration doing an open-ended investigation into everybody who took part in the russia investigation. the trump administration and bill barr in particular viewed the russia investigation as itself a scandal. they assigned john durham to go investigate and try to find crimes among people who were involved in the investigation, and that s what he has been doing ever since. special counsel john durham unsealed an indictment a few weeks ago against a lawyer who brought the fbi allegations about the trump organization having some sort of surreptitious contact with a kremlin-connected bank during the 2016 election. brthsortt ing obe allegation ann never really caught that much public a
the vaccine will be free and you get paid time off to go get the vaccine. that said, if you opt for not getting vaccinated and instead being regularly covid tested, well, that s on you. the government is not going to pay for the testing process the way they pay for the vaccine. so lots of republican governors have already started saying and started suing, saying their state won t do it and the federal government can t make them do it.ve the government plainly thinks that it has the authorities to do this, but those cases will start working their way through the courts. but, again, the administration announced today that the deadline for those requirements to go into effect is january 4th, and that s a big deal. i should also tell you on tonight s show we re also going to be talking tonight with a former counterintelligence official at the fbi, about a new indictment,ew new charges unsead
doing and the importance of what he has done today with this indictment. what do you think people should understand about it? well, i think the primary thing people need to understand are that the people that he s indicted to date and charged to date, whether that s michael sussmann, whether it s kevin klein smith, and today igor danchenko, let me be clear, lying to the fbi is a significant, significant crime. it s a crime if the national security advisor does it. it s a crime if as alleged mr. danchenko did it. i have some concerns with the indictment of michael sussman. i m concerned about whether or not that s a good use of government resources to charge him. but at the end of the day it is a crime to lie to the fbi. but what isn t true is the backdrop to all this. you know, next saturday john durham will have been going on for two and a half years. now compare that to robert mueller who lasted less than two years and in that time charged and convicted people like trump s national
beyond those specific charges. it, like the other indictment from john durham, seems designed to try to further this project of making the russia investigation itself seem like a scandal. we re going to get into it, we ve got more on that coming in in just a few minutes with a former fbi senior counterintelligence official. but where i want to start tonight is with a story that i think isn t getting nearly enough attention. i think this story is lightning in a bottle. it has broken this week, but not broken nearly widely enough.ghth in the last midterm elections, the elections we had in 2018, you ll recall that was a really good election for democrats. the so-called blue wave election right in the middle of president trump s term. trump and all the republicans got elected in 2016. 2018 the democrats came back, swept to power in the u.s. house.01 there were hopes at the time something similar might happen in the senate. republicans had just a narrow majority heading into the 2018 midt
0 race. virginia and new jersey are the only two states that hold their governor races in a year like this, the odd numbered year right after a presidential election, they are the only two states that do, if they do it every four years, all the way back to the 1980, every year t the president has seen the governor loose his race bothe in virginia and in new jersey. that s the way the pendulum swings. president biden this week actually became the first newly elected president of the united states since ronald reagan to not fall prey to that curse. to not have his party lose bothe those governorships. biden s democratic party did e lose the virginia governor s ir race but they won in new jersey, which we found out this time last night, when nbc news made the call. well, that said, tonight within the past hour the republican candidate in new jersey, jack ciattarelli, has just posted a video on twitter saying he is not conceding that race. he does not think this is over. he says he has a t