address the domestic terror that is pervasive in this country. the scale up in response to this public health crisis that is done violence. the president also took time to meet with the families of the two nypd officers who were killed in the line of duty two weeks ago. with that, let s bring in our lead off gifts for this thursday night. philip rucker, pulitzer prize-winning senior washington correspondent for the washington post. carol leonnig, the washington post protests are prize-winning investigative reporter. together, they wrote the new york times bestseller, i alone can fix it. and former u.s. attorney joyce vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. she hosts the podcast sisters in law. but to see all of you. carol, i would like you to have both you and phil to break down the thinking in trump world with so much going on. tell us more about this memo suggesting the use of an intelligence community to
who spent 21 years as a federal prosecutor sir. good to see all of you. carol we re gonna have both for you and fill with us to break down what trump has going on. tell us what about this memo expanding the use of this to overturn the election. and the efforts to get the trump. will cool owes to my colleagues at the washington post for digging into this. a group of conspiracy theorists, and a group of what i call another member of source the colleagues heads as well. the amateur hour was trying and succeeding in getting inside trump s white house to try to use the amazing, powerful tools that he had in the oval office, to block biden from becoming president. in this case it was drafting this idea in which three men, all who had questionable backgrounds to execute anything,
graces. but the reality is, they want the focus on other issues. they want to call out inflation, they want to call out gas prices and grocery prices and hit democrats. but with that me if they actually had a platform. which we know mcconnell said they re not gonna release. they re still trying to fall along behind trump s lies to certain degree. but it just shows the chaos within the republican party that is going to continue through the midterms. and it could come back to haunt them. let me ask you something about the washington post michael garrison warned about the trump s influence on the gop, he said will be long-lasting. this is what he writes, quote, a man who reintroduced raw racism and white grievance into our politics is approved of by more than 80% of republicans. a man who gathered and incited in the salt on the u.s. capitol is approved of by more than 80% of republicans. a man who contemplated a military coup against the constitution is approved of by more than 80% of
is speaking at a federalists society in florida and will likely draw the ire of his former boss, again. the washington post reports the former vice president will address and defend his decision to certify the election. at the same time, the rnc will be voting on a resolution to censure liz cheney and adam kinsinger. congresswoman cheney released a statement ahead of tomorrow s votes saying, quote, i m a constitutional conservative and i do not recognize those in my party who have abandoned the constitution to embrace donald trump. history will be their judge. i will never stop fighting for our constitutional republic. no matter what. still with us, when eta tolliver and mathew tao. when you, the nbc reports there has been this lengthy debate in the resolution against cheney and kinzinger that s going to be presented to the full rnc tomorrow. reportedly it s a watered down
make that decision not based on what the press briefing at the state department and the pentagon does. he s going to make that decision based on his cost-benefit analysis of whether you have something to gain, or whether he has more to lose. that is where the administration has to affect this. let me ask you as well about the successful mission to take out the isis leader. and vice president joe biden was opposed to the raid that killed osama bin laden, but he made this call to decide on a special forces raided, not an airstrike, to minimize civilian casualties. you have watched these life and death decisions being made up close. what goes into them? do you think that as leon panetta told the washington post, biden knows this kind of judgment affects how he is viewed by history. look, first of all what goes into that is months. what people do not see, they just see the operation at the end, you find a compound that you associate with an isis leader like this, you watch it, you gath