the woman tapped to run it is not instilling confidence. bill: she dismissed the hunter biden lap stop story, misleading claims on the steele dossier. mayorkas standing behind her saying the board will focus on security threats and not political speech. there is no question that we could have done a better job in communicating what it does. it does not infringe on civil rights. civil liberties. it is not about speech. it is about the connectivity to violence. that is what we need to address. you know, an individual has the free speech right to spew anti-semitic rhetoric. what they don t have the right to do is take hostages in a synagogue. that s where we get involved. bill: david spunt leads our coverage from there today. good morning to you, david. good morning to you, dana, good morning as well. this new disinformation governance board falls under the department of homeland security and also focuses on disinformation or misinformation, whatever you want to call it,
too far but essentially wasted americans times and efforts is now coming with the is dotted and the ts crossed. david spunt has more from the justice department. good afternoon. 306 pages from john durham transmitted this to attorney general merrick garland friday. garland looked it over, decided to release it to the public. did not change one word. he didn t add anything. so now it s public. durham says the conclusions from his own research and we re talking four years, he said those conclusions are sobering. may 13th, 2019, when he came on board at the request of then attorney general bill barr to look at the origins of the trump russia collusion narrative. he lost two high profile cases in court but secured a guilty plea from a former fbi attorney. this today is his narrative to the public after four years of work. the cost over $6 million in taxpayer money. first we have to do back, neil, to the years 2016 and 17. the primary focus of this report. the overarching theme
his resume was largely fiction. the press card. no surprise that he is enemies of york times. coming to smear his good name. this week he admitted the times report on this fabricated background was true. journalism 101. graduated from new york s brook college. he said he worked for goldman sachs and citigroup. neither company had heard from them. he and his family on 13 real estate properties. there are records showing he was evicted from two queens apartments for not paying rent. which it makes it even more mysterious that he loaned his house campaign $700,000 for company with no clients and has no website and no linkedin page. none of this would ve come out of george santos had made his second try to win the house c. leaving him struggling to defend what he calls mere embellishments to his resume. i am howard kurtz and missus media buzz. my thoughts on the passing of barbara walters. twitter pressured into spending journalists and experts for contrary views on covid. ge
fight ahead. another hour of velshi starts now. good morning. there have been many attempts to hold donald trump accountable for his actions over the years. he has been criminally indicted multiple times since leaving the white house in just the e past couple of years he has been found liable for sexually abusing and prodding writer e. jean carroll. now, he is the first former american president to be convicted of a felony. he will be sentenced on july 11th, just two weeks after his first presidential debate against joe biden and one week before the gop officially makes him its presidential nominee at the republican national convention in milwaukee. and his sentencing, he faces the possibility of being penalized with a fine, probation, or prison time. but none of the efforts to hold trump accountable so far have succeeded in humbling the present or changing his behavior or curbing his attacks on the rule of law. he is the same polarizing and boorish politician we have alw
night? next four years behind closed doors, president biden is huddling with advisers at camp trump were that s according to some of the sources we re talking to for his part, trump s debate prep appears to include posting on his truth, social official account. consider this rant that says, quote, drug test for crooked joe biden. i would also immediately agreed one that s from the former president and club. it s the latest bizarre and baseless suggestion for trump and his allies that biden will need some sort of performance enhancing drugs for the cnn showdown, recovering both campaigns this morning with cnn s kristen holmes and kevin lip tack. kevin, let s begin with you. there s a new ad from the biden campaign. what s it say? yeah, i think it does give you a preview of the economic message that they re going to focus on the debate because as you mentioned and as is typical, the president and his team are getting a lot of incoming from democrats. they re concerned about t