the former president himself has said the report would uncover the, quote, crime of the century. but despite the underwhelming results of durham s investigation of the investigators, trump and others on the right are claiming a victory. trump posted about it several times on his pledgeling social media network yesterday comparing it to election fraud, treason, and yes, doubling down on the whole crime of the century idea. he also bragged about firing former fbi director james comey. meanwhile gop senator lindsey graham released a lengthy statement calling the report, a quote, damning indictment of the fbi. he also called for senate george w. bush chair dick durbin, democrat of illinois to hold a meeting on it. nikki haley, trump s u.n. ambassador and now his current opponent in the 2024 republican presidential race said the report was damning evidence of the rot in our government. she added there must be
playground. thank you so much for joining me. elon musk claims this is thank you for having me. thank you for being here. he claims it s about free speech but what do you think as his end game here? elon musk is not about free speech but speech without consequences. he uses twitter to do everything from harass and belittle people who are critical of him or tesla to commit securities fraud. what he wants is for the platform to be more hospitable to him and to people like him. he has called twitter, a quote, war zone, that shouldn t have any rules. he doesn t like the fact that his speech has power and it carries the weight of his office as a ceo and his money and all
eventually. now congressman, let me turn to the aftermath of the january 6th insurrection. freshman republican congressman madison cawthorn of north carolina referred to insurrectionists as, quote, politically prisoners at a party event this week. he also falsely claimed the recent election rigged and said there would be bloodshed, this a quote, he said bloodshed. despite denial from his office, that seems like a pretty clear threat to me. what is it like to come to work every day with someone like cawthorn? will there be consequences for his threat, congressman? reverend, i made a note because this is such an important issue. he also said he would dread having to pick up arms against a fellow american. that s pretty strong language, reverend. and it does make it difficult
before biden meets with vladmir pu putin. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. president biden called the meeting productive and assured allies that the u.s. has nato s back. he said he s not looking for conflict with russia but will stand up for democratic values calling russian president a quote, worthy adversary. let s get right to cnn s kaitlan collins. biden said he would make clear where the red lines are for putin. reporter: yeah, he did. he also said he wasn t going to negotiate with the press and talk about what he expects the outcome of that summit with the russian president to look like. he was saying he s going into it and he is communicated to nato allies while here in brussels what he intends the say to president putin while they are in geneva on wednesday meeting. one interesting thing the president said is he has not
he publicly called the whistle-blower a quote, disgrace to our country. and said that his identity should be revealed. he suggested that those involved in the whistle-blower complaint should be dealt with in the way that we quote used to do end quote. for spies and treason. he called ambassador taylor, a former military officer, with more than 40 years of public service a quote, never trumper, end quote, on the same day that he called never trumpers quote scum. the president also tweeted accusations about many of the other public servants who testified. including jennifer williams and ambassador yovanovitch. and as we know, the president s latter tweet happened literally during the ambassador s testimony in this room in front of the intelligence committee. which she made clear was intimidating. conversely, we know that the president has praised witnesses