twice impeached once indictment ex-president and his loyal attorney general s pledge to investigate the investigators. it was a flashing red warning sign, though, of the politization of the trump era justice department. now, after an investigation that lasted four years, twice as long as the russia probe, it was initially set up to investigate, special counsel john durham has released a final report. it s more than 400 pages long. our team of experts and reporters are combing through it. but the probe s many failures and contradictions and chaos that surrounded it have been reported on and they are out there for everyone to see including high-level resignations. john durham is not today bringing any new charges. he s lost both of the cases that he decided to bring to trial. that s why some of the people at the highest levels of that probe left. the probe s stunning clashes and ethical lapses and internal chaos have been documented and detailed in an extraordinary body of repo
former chief of homeland security and intelligence for washington, d.c. the editor at large of the bulwark, charlie sykes is back. and the former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the u.s. department of justice, mary mccord is here. mary, i want to start with you. and i want to understand as a baseline the threat. i know chris wray testified under oath, so we assume he was telling the truth as he saw it. in early fall of 2020 that the greatest threat to the homeland is domestic violent extremism and inside that the biggest bucket is the white supremacist variety. is that still the case? and has it gotten worse since that congressional testimony? that is still the case. i mean, director wray has repeatedly testified including in his most recent testimony in capitol hill that that remains the greatest threat, and close behind it is militia violent extremism. and i would note that in my own work, you know, tracking the
intelligence failure. if there s any excuse and it s not an excuse, obviously the people who think about this stuff had never seen anything like this. there were plenty of indications on social media that people were planning violence. they had looked at the graphics of the architecture of the capitol. it was also a failure to prepared. our national security and our police forces and capitol police, all of the associated agencies, they re there to prevent the worst-case scenario. we weren t close to preventing the worst-case scenario on january 6th. so the fbi director has been warning now of the threat of domestic violent extremism, particularly the white supremacist variety, since september. we now have an ongoing two bull fins i believe have been issued since president biden was in