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
this. if the propublica s reporting is building on previous reporting with clarence thomas. alito s arguments look even flimsier. cleric thomas said it was okay, because it was my friend, and alito said it s okay because they weren t friends. bloomberg subsequently supported that yes, he did. now it s well known that sam alito s sponsor, benefactor here, mr. singer, did have multiple cases before the court where he was a direct litigant and stood to gain a windfall of $2.5 billion, thanks to a ruling that alito joined in 2014. so sam alito s arguments don t
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all i can say is, again, thank you. because of the letters and the calls and just amazing support that we received from people all over the world, especially here in seattle, that we ve been able to endure and that we ve been able to, you know, make sure amanda had the support she needed. there there s no way we can thank everybody. so here individually, so here s our way to just say thank you. i d like to add in one more thing. we would also like to send our appreciation to our italian lawyers. they did a fantastic job on that side of the pond and ted was phenomenal on this side of the pond. and obviously we couldn t have done it without you. so appreciate that. do you want to talk? yeah. ed and i will take any questions if anybody has any. there s a couple hands over there. how are you going to hear it? [ inaudible question ] i can t hear. do you want to talk? amanda! they re reminding me to speak in english. because i m having problems with that. i m really overwhe