broke that story and expert guidance on what that means. first, let s remember how we got here. today in washington for only the second time a federal judge sentenced a january 6th rioter to more than five years in prison. at 63 months, it is tied for the longest sentence ever imposed on a participant in the capitol attack. and it s not hard to see why. in screen shots taken from officer body cams on january 6th, this guy is seen swinging t pole at a police officer so hard it snaps in two on the officer s riot shield. so then the guy goes and finds another pole and starts swinging that one at officers. the officer he hit with the first pole the one he hit so hard, the pole snapped in two, that was capitol police sergeant, ganel. he gave emotional testimony about the horror of that day to the januarye 6th investigation last year. and today he testified at that rioter s sentencing hearing saying he suffered physical and mental injuries from the attack that forced him to leave t
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. Historically, because a lot of our viewers will remember. When you and bob woodward were working on the watergate related stories, was president nixon as anxious publicly during your reporting as we now see this president being very anxious, deeply concerned about the Mueller Probe . First, i think what were seeing is more than anxiety on the part of donald trump. We are seeing a president who is behaving and acting unhinged. Nixon did not really publicly act unhinged, but i think we need to look at something larger. That is that in watergate, the system worked. The president of the United States did not publicly declare the press an enemy of the people and seek to undermine the First Amendment and the very legitimacy of what the press did, though he did try to make our conduct an issue, or the issue in watergate, rather than his own conduct. Can share my own personal perspective. Ive certainly received my fair sh
the man who was in charge of prosecuting the more than 850 people charged in connection with january 6th. and may possibly at some point thinkan about prosecuting donal trump himself. attorney general merrick garland satp down for an exclusive interview with nbc s lester holt. you said in no uncertain terms the other dayin that no o is above the law. atyeah. that said, the indictment of a former president or perhaps candidate for president would arguably tear the country apart. is that your concern as you make your decision down the road here, do you have to think about things like that? look, we pursue justice without fear or favor. we intend to hold everyone, anyone, who is criminally responsiblene for the then surrounding january 6th for any attemptrr to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another accountable. that s what wera do.
this is going to be the talk of the country for the next couple of days. really this is a big problem. it needs big solutions, notin just guns butg, sentencing but really understanding what we do with mental illness.no you know d what weo o really do on all fronts in terms of fighting crime, maybe even going back to a broken window unless we really have some big solutions here, we re not going to solve this problem nowin and again, i m just, going to go back and when the economy goes down, the worst of what we re seeing now aren t going tong get any better t. sh i mean and tom, to mark s point, shortly after the shooting today a witness i thought very interesting on msnbc watch. t t we liveof in the neighborhood i used to. yes. t and what do youou make ople this ? you know what you ve heard i that has happened to people i injured? l ti m thankful to have gone out the neighborhood, thankful i don t live arounde here anymore because it s only s getting worse every single dayin and not ge
briefing scheduled to begin any moment now. two brief in addition two dayin. sort of unusual. what are you hearing? reporter: well, the white house was receiving a lot of scrutiny for not holding a lot of briefings. they re no longer daily briefings. they re weekly briefings, on average. although, the last couple days we re having briefings. we ll have to see what happens in the next several minutes. perhaps the white house will have a guest or two to come out here today. maybe that s why they re having two briefings in a row. i think when sarah sanders begins to take questions here in the briefing room, she is going to be asked about what president trump s daughter ivanka trump said earlier this morning with mike allen. that is not only the president s daughter disagreeing with the president of the united states, it is an employee who works under the president. the president doesn t usually take too kindly to his subordinates going in another direction. so when ivanka trump says, no