A woman is dead, shot in the chaos. Bombs have been discovered as well as a truck loaded with molotov cocktails nearby. And yet despite it all, some lawmaker, as they count the electoral votes still cannot stop thepss from raising the same unfounded objections to the outcome that have fuelled todays insurrection, objections which are based on lies. Such as Missouri Republican josh hawley, for instance, the man who raised his fist, as you see there, today in solidarity with the same people who would later storm his workplace. He is still objecting to the vote and covering his factually unfounded decision in a thin layer of smooth talk. So, to those who say that this is just a formality today, an antique ceremony that weve engaged in for a couple of hundred of years, i cant say i agree. I cant say our precedence suggest that. I think its vital what we do, the opportunity to be heard, to register objections is vital because this is the place where those objections are to be heard and deal
Highest level of americas government helps explain this. Then fbi director james comey deciding to take the reigns and ending the investigation into Hillary Clintons emails. A decision he made on his own. It generate add fury. Now it seems that News Conference probably would have not happened without russian intrusion. Trump fired comey 17 days ago initially claiming it was domains handling of the Clinton Probe that forced him to give the fbi director the boot. Dana bash has been following this store. What are you learning . Then fbi director james comey that the investigation was fake. He felt like he needed to take action anyway because he was concerned that if the information became public, it would undernine the investigation and the bureau itself. Talking to my colleagues. These concerns were a major factor in comey deciding to publicly declare that the Clinton Probe was over last summer without consulting then attorney general loretta lynch. You may remember the Washington Post r
But first, memo mutiny. A growing number of republicans are pushing back against the president and his assertion that a controversial memo has, quote, totally vindicated him in the russia probe. That part of the story with we go live to cnns Boris Sanchez in west palm beach. Boris what are those republicans saying . Reporter some of them outright contradicting President Trumps stance that the nunes memo vindicates him. Hes been on twitter saying this essentially proves that the russia investigation say witch hunt. At one point he tweeted the wall street journal editorial that supposes that there are political actors within the department of justice and fbi that are antitrump. We also saw donald trump jr. Last night on fox news saying that the release of this memo is sweet revenge for him and his family. Republicans are not going nearly as far. Many of them stopping short of saying that the memo has anything to do with the russia investigation. I want to listen to three republican lawma
Single greatest witchhunt in political history . Isnt this the same Mueller Investigation that he has publicly attacked 361 times by one count . With so many attempts to discredit this investigation, why would he now want all of us to see it . Lets start with abby phillip. Shes in lima, ohio, where the president will soon be speaking. Just last month the president wouldnt commit to making the Mueller Report public telling cbs, quote, it depends. I have no idea what its going to say. So whats up with the switch . Reporter its not clear whats behind that switch, brooke. It doesnt seem that he knows any more today about whats in the Mueller Report than what he knew several weeks ago, but the president said today that he thinks that his 63 million voters want to see whats in it, they want to see what this is all about and so hes encouraged the House Republicans who had a vote on this just about a week ago and voted unanimously to release it to go ahead and vote their conscience, vote for t