don t. attorney general merrick garland facing the self righteous indignation of ted cruz and other republicans. new reporting tension between the fbi and justice department over the mar-a-lago raid. cpac is back, home of normal conservatives nothing more than a clown show. it does reflect the current state of the republican party. and from performative to alarming, republicans and ron desantis s florida are cracking down on lgbtq people and moving to cancel the entire democratic party. we begin tonight with a lingering question from the 2016 presidential election. what was going on inside the fbi? remember, just 11 days before the election, fbi director james comey announced that the agency was reopening its investigation into hillary clinton. effectively costing her the election. the motivation behind comey s move seemed to be coming from the fbi s new york field office, which, according to reuters, had a faction of investigators based in the office known to be host
elections. and house speaker kevin mccarthy trading partisan political fights for a diplomatic one, meeting this hour with the president of taiwan mccarthy says the meeting will help make the world safer. china says it s doing just the opposite so a lot to get to we start with today and donald trump embarking on an effort rarely tried in american history running for president while simultaneously fighting criminal charges. his late night speech at mar-a-lago gave us a glimpse of what s to come, a defiant trump surrounded by a loyal band of ardent supporters thumbing through a well-worn political playbook lashing out at his perceived enemies and seeming a little stunned by what happened. i never thought anything like this could happen in america never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it one of many things that need fact checking. i want to bring in nbc s vaughn hillyard outside
they are venturing into people s homes. look at this surveillance video. homeless woman walks in to someone s house. finds the nearest bedroom and lays down for a nice little nap. this is a child s bedroom by the way. i don t know at 9 years old this would give me nightmares. mom before you go to bed could you check under the bed for homeless people. motel 6 bedroom nothing compared to what californians are dealing with. california taking homelessness to the extreme. are you in haiti? no, that s an american tent city. can t wear sandals even if it s hot because needles are sticking up out of the street. remember the 90 s, remember fights, dvd, don t need it. go look outside. they have middle weights, heavy weights going at it 24/7. and how could i forget? people are also slinging bags of feces at you. last night we showed you a homeless guy doing his business on l.a. sidewalk but he is not done. he takes the bag of crap and throws it at a local business owner. the guy owns
believes you have to basically burn the system down to rebuild it and fix it. steve bannon on trial in the first of several major developments this week related to the capitol insurrection. right now the secret service is getting ready to hand over subpoenaed text messages as the january 6th committee gets red for thursday s primetime hearing on the 187 minutes when trump did nothing to quell the violence. in uvalde, texas it was 77 minutes that police, hundreds of them, did nothing has children were being murdered. what a damning report reveals about policing in uvalde and beyond. we begin with a day in court for steve bannonch the right wing podcaster and one-time adviser to the twice-impeached former president. his trial for contempt of congress got under way today. jury selection wrapped just a short time ago after two last-minute attempts by bannon s team to delay the trial, including an offer to testify before the january 1th committee. narrowing the jury pool from
where he stood a year ago. if we break out independents for a closer look, 27% of them say the president is doing a good job. that is a 15-point drop in just over a year. analysts say a lot of that decline is likely fueled by voters that are fed up with record high inflation. we have brian brenberg, a hot take for us on the new numbers. first, we go to karl rove, former deputy chief of staff to george w. bush and a fox news contributor. good afternoon, karl. we re now by my count i m not very good at math four months from the mid-terms. republicans hold a three-point edge over democrats what odds do you give that holding? pretty much things get baked into the cake in june and july. that s where they are when you come around to voting in october and november of a mid-term. so it s baked in. what is amazing is how badly the president is doing on major issues. these are his disapproval numbers on major issues. biggest issue obviously inflation and the economy. 73% disappro