it s 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-president s ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report the washington post described this way as, quote, landing with a thud resulting in no new charges and none of the widespread abuses trump and his allies have alleged for years now. special counsel john durham testified today before the house judiciary committee. now, despite all those facts durham described his findings sobering and it was left to it democrats on the committee to point out the truth of his own investigation, an investigation that trump and his hand picked attorney general bill barr setup to inves
admonishments from district court judge or at least one judge when he tried to get these public records. this has been something publicly reported. if he did that as it s been rorred, that doesn t seem consistent with what he was doing as a prosecutor previously. or maybe i just don t know his record that well. but, yes, the failure to defend others and the willingness to do things you wouldn t ordinarily do is characteristic of that administration. there was also something weird. i mean he wasn t just investigating any investigators. he was investigating the investigators of russia s attack on u.s. democracy in 2016, and he knew very little about it. was that a do you think that was just performative, i m only going to talk about what i wrote about? hoar what did you make of that? it came up in your questioning. you know, it was very shocking. i asked him, for example, about trump making a public rush, hey, if you re listening hack hillary s e-mails and you ll be rewarded by the