the lead starts right now. 11 victims now dead with the latest update from the hospital from the massacre in monterey park, california. today what we re learning about the victims and what we re trying to piece together about the 72-year-old gunman s motive. he s been described as quick to anger. plus, a high ranking fbi official now in federal custody. he s facing money laundering charges and questions about his connections to a sanctioned russian billionaire. plus the bizarre defense in court for the january 6th rioter who kicked up his feet on the desk in speaker pelosi s offic. how a stun gun in his pants was key evidence in the case. we start with our nation lead-in. a search for answers in monterey bay, california. what started out as a festive lunar new year celebration in the town outside los angeles became a nightmare on saturday when a 72-year-old asian man opened fire inside a dance studio. this afternoon we learned the death toll has risen to 11 with 10 o
pelosi s office. he said he thought the weapon didn t work because it had been washed in a shower. he was seen in a video showing an envelope he took from nancy pelosi s desk. i paid a quarter for this. i left her a note on his desk right now. nancy, when you get back, you can read it. it says, nancy, biggo was here you [ bleep ]. bitch was the word he said if they bleeped that out. he s sentenced to be sentenced may 3rd. can t believe the jury didn t buy that explanation. also, the daughter of house democratic whip katherine clark is facing charges. she allegedly spray painted on a
guess, was that the parties involved in the investigation were biased against donald trump. they didn t want him to be president, which is a crazy point to make because i can think of someone else back then who didn t want him to be president too. he s a race baby, zine know phobic religious bigot. i think he s a cook. think he s crazy. think he s unfit for office. he doesn t represent my party. he s a jackass. as a political car wreck. at the end of the day he would be the most flawed nominee in the history of the republican party. donald trump is the most unelectable represent i ve seen in my lifetime. he would be a terrible commander and chief. he doesn t have the temperament or judgment. he would get slaughtered as a party if donald trump s our nominee and quite frankly we would deserve it. why this, i don t know. i guess he had a change of heart. yeah. yeah. susan del percio s telling me it s all about his approval rating which shut up when he
duty if the fbi hadn t pursued it. you had the ag coming out and saying the exact opposite of what the fbi was saying. and the only people that benefits is president trump. absolutely. jonathan lemire. this has been an extraordinary display from this attorney general acting as the president has wished, as his personal attorney, his roy cohn if you will. we know how frustrated he was with jeff sessions when the former attorney general didn t play that well, particularly when he recused himself from the russia probe. so, tom, i want to get your take on this. on holder s op-ed to be sure, i think there are probably things with eric holder you disagree, but also with your just evaluating how barr has conducted himself in office, that federalist society speech that we made a big deal of on the show when it happened to what we seen last week where it seems like he s trying to sort of shade and establish the narrative around this ig report and the upcoming durham report where it seems lik
that has allowed him to keep that ground game going. it s the top of the hour on this thursday, december 12th. again, this morning, the action focuses on capitol hill where members of the house judiciary committee are expected to vote on articles of impeachment for the president of the united states. joining the conversation, national security expert columnist at usa today and author of the book the death of expertise tom nichols . white house correspondent for pbs news hour, yamiche. and former chief staff for the cia and department of defense nbc news national security analyst jeremy bash joins us. and let s start with the showing of another divisive strategy from republicans defending the president, us versus them. they couldn t believe trump won, didn t want him to believe didn t want him to win and when he won couldn t tolerate the fact that he won. and all these smelly people elected him. this is bad stuff.