0 that they are the ones that have protected our nation for the past two decades by taking the fight to the terrorists in iraq and afghanistan, and not allowing them to attack our homeland. and, unfortunately, we see the resurgence of the taliban and the reconstitution of al qaeda in afghanistan. so i worry about the homeland. but that is the very first thing that our president needs to communicate is to these brave men and women, a heartfelt thank you. the second thing is how are we going to evacuate all of these americans, all these afghans, and then, third, how are we going to contain the terrorists in afghanistan, not having our personnel on the ground? and we only have a little bit left because we just got the two-minute warning from the white house. but, lastly, would you be in some support of some sort of bipartisan effort to grant and expedite the siv, the special immigrant visa program? it s been held up, frankly, for years. and neither the obama nor the trump nor the biden
the house homeland security committee. bennie thompson. mr. chairman, grateful for your time today. when you listen as you did right there to the former president over the weekend doubling down, tripling down, i don t know what to call it, on the big lie in the context of your investigation, do you feel any burden to look back to bring people in to document, again, unfortunately, that the election was fire? trump had every chance to challenge it. he lost in court. do you feel that because of what he s saying and is going to continue to say that you need that as part of the record, or will you start with the morning of january 6th and go forward? well, you know, thank you for having me, by the way. the charge to our select committee is to look at the facts and circumstances surrounding january 6th. to some degree we ll look at information sharing, intelligence sharing. we ll look at the collective
the president is clearly feeling the pressure from the impeachment inquiry, but one source says trump is going for broke on his discredited biden conspiracy theories. here to discuss, anthony scaramucci. anthony, good evening. it s good to be back. so tonight let s start with this. a source close to the white house, as i said, says the president is going for broke. yeah. what do you make of his strategy, his demeanor, his behavior? because this is only one week into this inquiry. well, i mean, there s a little bit of sadness for the country. when the reuters reporters asked him a very simple question, what did you want to get out of the phone call and he goes up like a saturn 5 rocket and he s doing it on international news, there s a little bit of sadness for the country. but if you re asking about the strategy of doubling and tripling down, that s the
tripling down, that s the president s strategy. so today by declaring and calling for china to investigate his political adversary, that s full-blown trumpian gaslighting. he s trying to do that in the open to sort of anesthetize everybody to it. so what i m concerned about is we predicted the meltdown, we predicted the literally the nervous breakdown the president s having. but what i m shocked by is that there are 53 senators that really haven t come out and spoken out. i m just shocked. i would love the people that do the reporting to ask the questions of either of these 53 republican senators, excuse me, are you supporting the president s call for the chinese to investigate his political adversary? and get a call back or get a comment from one of these guys as to what it is. you know, and the president s an ironic guy because he s for lower taxes but he s put the highest imposition of taxes through with this tariff. it s a punitive tariff on lower and middle-class people. he s fo
washington post, who has a great front page story this morning all about this. so now we know why the birmingham office sent out a true tweet saying alabama was safe. they did the right thing. they warned the public not to take trump s tweet seriously. this is not sharpiegate. forget about the sharpie. this is lying about a hurricane gate. he shared incorrect information about dorian s path once, twice, three times last sunday. and when tv networks pointed this out, he wasted the week trying to prove he was right. and we said things like doubling down, tripling down, quadrupled down. it sounds strong, like he s winning a fight, but this mess really exposed his weakness. instead of doubling down, we should say, he continued to confuse people spreading bogus information. that would be a lot more accurate than saying sharpiegate day six. no matter how much trump complains about the media, we