Watching symone. Im charles enforcement sanderstownsend. Crisis averted, even though no one got everything they wanted, President Biden says americans got what they needed in the debt ceiling bill. Today, the president signed the bill into law. We are talking to the democratic lawmaker about why she voted against it, and what happens next. And republican primaries are about to get more crowded. Some highprofile republicans are jumping in next week. Will that hurt donald trump, or enable donald trump . Our Political Panel ways and. Now, trump may be riding high on the campaign trail, but the thing that could be dragging him down, legal troubles. The Special Counsel in the classified documents case has obtained a recording of trump discussing a document he kept after leaving office. Trumps lawyers said they havent found it. We will unpack what all of that means for the investigation, as you can see, we have a lot to talk about. A resolution to the monthslong a Debt Limit Debate finally m
he has relationship with some of these world leaders for decades and he never thought that he would hear that and so you hear him say that, you hear him talk about it. another part of it too how unprecedented, how unprecedented that moment was on january 6th when a mob of 2000-person mob went to the capitol because they were lied to about the results of the election. because they wanted to overturn the election. so, just really want to make sure that we get that, that we understand why the reason he was telling that story and look, you know, look, as it relates to the names and what he was trying to, you know, what he was trying to say, many people, elected officials, many people, you know, they tend they can misspeak sometimes, right. and look, let me give you a couple of examples. you know, on sunday, speaker johnson said iran instead of israel. this happens. joe is not here, many times i call joe from u.s.a. today michael, i m sure he does not appreciate that. [laughte
justice is protected by the constitution. there s growing evidence that equal justice in the u.s. is being replaced with a system of selective prosecution. agencies are targeting citizens they re supposed to protect. under president biden the justice department mass prosecuted his direct political rivals, no better example than donald trump federally indicted. to be clear can you disagree with trump s actions and believe what he did was wrong. i did. but this is the president s main opponent. his al it s like steve bannon peter navarro rudy giuliani have been targeted and maybe that s all right and proper. in the interest of democracy to question it. many believe these agencies have become unaccountable and too powerful. so, i watch with interest the questioning at the house judiciary committee today. you preside over the fbi. it has the lowest level of trust in the fbi s history. people trusted the fbi why j. edgar hoover was running the place and the reason is because you
so their actual records can be assessed. for only understandable focus on trump s nickel problems and controversies and rhetoric, it was his substance handling of the covid pandemic that impacted so many laughs and dragged him down in the eyes of mary and americans who concluded he found the task when faced with that all-important leadership test. as for trump, he said at the time he did not see the emergency as his test of a lifetime. was there a moment in all of this, the last two months, where you say to yourself, a, this is the leadership test of a lifetime. no. no. no hesitation. that is a small part of one of trump s new for the interviews with bob woodward, conducted across the upper of the pandemic and through the campaign. wilbert secured more time with trump than any other writer. 20 and others across that stretch, trump sometimes making the calls, something he apparently not regret. the former president is so when woodward, we should note, over publishing the
an fbi form which senator grassley says includes the claim that a burisma executive has 17 recordings of meadings with the bidens discussing bribes for policy. could it reach president biden? that is also an open question today based on weiss s latest comment. but weiss is also arguing strongly that the doj did not impede his investigation into hunter biden. that is the that is not what the whistle-blower, gary shapley has claimed. he says he never saw an investigation that was so buried, so back burnered intentional as what he witnessed in the treatment of hunter biden. so who is telling the truth here? we re going to sort it out with shapley s attorney, mark lytle in moments. first to david spunt. good afternoon. a lot going on here. david weiss for the third time contradicted irs whistle-blower gary shapley. in his third letter to congress yesterday, he once again said that he was fully in charge of the investigation, he never asked for special counsel status and never