by democrats in a hearing that at times got fiery today democrats say he didn t prove anything at all as the country heard from the special counsel for the first time our findings were sobering. john durham appearing the first time in front of the house judiciary committee about his scathing 300 page report which found the fbi had no actual evidence of collusion when investigating links between russia and the 2016 trump campaign. i have had any number of fbi agents who have come to me and apologized for the manner in which that investigation was undertaken. but durham was met with a barrage of attacks from house democrats right out of the gate. you can hold yourself out as an objective department of justice official or as a partisan hack. the difference between your investigation and mr. mueller s was that mr. mueller actually found actual evidence of a crime. and multiple attempts by congressman adam schiff, who pushed the russia collusion theory to pin durham on
crucial witnesses in any of these trump probes. i m talking about the man atop the white house during the january 6th insurrection, and he was chief of staff during that period, chaotic and otherwise of trump s departure when we know the secretive classified documents were taken, stolen, or mishandled. the man you see on the screen is your witness, mark meadows. the times has just crossed that news in the last few minutes. we have that news. we ve also got this video, providing a rare look at trump council jack smith heading to work today, apparently escorted by security. msnbc news cameras with this exclusive. i want to show you what we have here. it s the first known video of smith going about his job, going to work in this role. the at the high stakes job with where his approach has been discreet, secretive, and low profile. we can show you how the reporter did his job today, asked the questions, and smith responded by showing exactly how he does his job no comment wha
thanks so much. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. a we begin with this ongoing and conservative hunt for some kind of evidence or damning narrative about political opponents and how this keeps coming up empty in revealing ways. this is one a those stories that s crested this week because we had the trump era investigation end. i have new material on that, including how it s playing on the right and why that matters. at the same time, house republicans are struggling with their own investigations into the biden family. but it is telling to watch how people are dealing with the evidence this week, especially evident that was channelled but none other than a trump/barr hand picked prosecutor. part of this is playing out on a platform that s been recently discredited. i m talk about fox news, which was caught lying to their own audience and lying so badly and blatantly they were worried they broke illegal lies and they broke history the bad way work a $787 million settleme
donald trump in jail since 2015. today, democrats have gotten them closer to that goal. let s be very clear, the white house is the key player in the game of political vengeance. joe biden bears the ultimate responsibility for what this will do to america. our nation s chief executive has the inherent duty to do everything he or she can to preserve america s standing in the world as the world s leading democracy. that means whether through back channels or public speeches, biden should have made it clear that his party would oppose any local prosecutor who uses trumped up criminal charges to punish and humiliate a former president. of course, biden didn t do this. instead, he bowed to far left which has been salivating over the prosecute of trump in a mugshot for years. a lot of democrats spouting off saying they think trump should go to jail. president trump could end up being prosecuted. once he become a civilian, donald trump may have to go to court and could go to j
president was going to turn publicly against the vice president, and there could be a security risk to mr. pence because of the. the vice president team feared that the president of united states posed a legitimate threat to him, believe it or not. in the very next day, sure enough, the trump mob stormed the capitol, chanting, hang mike pence. more from the report, quote, mike meadows, the white house chief of staff, is reported to have told colleagues that mr. trump said that perhaps mr. pence should have been hanged. we now know that the january six committee is investigating this reporting. they are also looking into a newly-revealed plan to overturn the 2020 election. in a recent court filing, we learned of a memo approach up attorney, john eastman, that sketched out a plan for mike pence to hold out the certification of the victory, overturning the election. a judge memo said that it is potential criminal acts committed by donald trump and john eastman. against the backd