[highpitched rewind whine] [projector humming] i grew up as a bigheaded baby in seattle, moved to nicaragua when i was three, made friends with parrots and sloths. Moved back to Washington State when i was five, learned to play the bassoon. Moved to illinois and joined the drama club, and eventually, i landed in los angeles as dunder mifflins assistant to the regional manager. Please welcome rainn wilson. Rainn wilson. Yet for all my success, my wife and son, whom i love, a nice house, people tattooing my face on their feet. [beeping, whirring] [sighs] youd think id be happier. [upbeat music] but like so many others, i struggle. To find fulfillment. Amy. To find true joy. I need to be honest with you all. Its just ive been going through a really hard time recently on a number of different levels, and ive been feeling a little bit low, a little bit less than, a little depressed and humbled and lost these days. And so ive churned through countless therapists and selfhelp books. Ive tried
the fbi has had only eight senate confirmed directors. those directors all have a few things in common. they are all white men. they all favor a clean cut look, and each and every one of them, every senate confirmed director since the dawn of the fbi has been a republican. that includes current fbi director, christopher wray, who was appointed by donald trump. and you would not get that impression, given the way the director wray s fellow republicans attacked him and his agency during a hearing today. on capitol hill. when the court says that the fbi misled, that is a nice way of saying they lied. how many individuals were either fbi, employees, or people that the fbi could make contact with, to be in the january 6th entry of the capital? i m going to make the assumption is there is more than one, more than five, more than ten. i will say that this notion that somehow the violence at the capitol on january 6th was part of some operation orchestrated by fbi sources into
politicsnation. ten nights lead, the showdowns to come. culture or politics have consumed the republican party as we approach an election year. threatening the legislative agenda in congress in the house speaker kevin mccarthy s concessions to the hard right flank of his caucus have led to the passage of a military spending bill. bogged down with amendments targeting diversity programs and lgbtq protections. in the meantime, alabama senator tommy tuberville is holding up dozens of military appointments over the pentagon s abortion policies. some colleagues are warning the blockade could endanger national security. against that backdrop, a potential government shutdown. the showdown looms and the first presidential caucus of 2024 is just six months away. delaware congresswoman lisa rochester joins me shortly to talk about all of it. plus, the phony war on critical race theory is still raging in state houses. and on school boards across the country one of the intellectual archi
turkey dropped its year long objection. adding finland and sweden to nato is consequential. i still think that president putin thinks not going to do that. the question now facing nato leaders, should they welcome ukraine next even as russia wages war on that country. also ahead, historic flooding, vermont s capital surrounded by water. take a look at this. there is still danger this flooding could get even worse in the coming hours. and later details of the grand juries being seated today in georgia that could decide whether donald trump will be indicted over 2020 election interference in that state. so a lot to talk about. let s begin with the historic nato summit unfolding across the atlantic. next hour we are expecting a bilateral meeting with president biden and turkish president erdogan there in lithuania. this will be an important one to watch. after turkey dropped its objections allowing sweden to join this alliance. sweden s leader, part of this big group p
indictment he is facing. plus, actor marcus scribner is in our simone spotlight. once the child star on the comedy, black-ish, now in the final season of grown-ish. what is next in his career and his role in climate change activism? i have something to say. it s been just over a week since the six conservative justices on the united states supreme court upended decades of precedent, banning the consideration of race in the college admissions process. now, americans are beginning to evaluate this new terrain with some launching new efforts in the fight for racial equity and education, others working overtime to shut out students of color. this week, a group called lawyers for civil rights, or lcr, filed a complaint against harvard university. one of the response to the supreme court admissions cases one behalf of three civil rights organizations based in boston. they are asking the federal government to intervene and abolish a system called legacy preference. legacy preferen