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Accountable. In their motion for a protective order, the Justice Department says, quote, such a protective order is needed in this case the because the defendant has released statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys and other associates in legal matters pending against him. In recent days the defendant has issued multiple posts, either specifically or by implication including the following which the defendant posted just hours ago. If you go after me, im coming after you. The filing including a screen shot of that ominous threat. Prosecutors went on to say, quote, if the defendant were to begin issuing public posts using details or, for example, grand jury transcripts obtained in discovery, it could have a harmful, Chilling Effect on witnesses or adversely affect the Fair Administration ....
the terrifying shooting spree, but the gun violence this weekend was not limited to philadelphia. three people were killed in fort worth, texas, another lost their lives in shreveport, louisiana, and nine were injured in a drive-by shooting in our nation s capital. we re live from philadelphia. this country needs to re-examine its conscience and find out how to get guns out of dangerous peoples hands. also this hour, a scorching day for most of the country after the world marked the unofficial hottest day on record yesterday. and later, suspected cocaine in the white house, the new steps in the investigation on how exactly the illegal drug ended up inside the west wing. we re going to begin this morning with the devastating outbreak of gun violence and the frantic search for answers in multiple communities including philadelphia, where the suspected philadelphia mass shooter appeared in court for the first time since five people were gunned down. no cameras or phon ....
twice impeached once indictment ex-president and his loyal attorney general s pledge to investigate the investigators. it was a flashing red warning sign, though, of the politization of the trump era justice department. now, after an investigation that lasted four years, twice as long as the russia probe, it was initially set up to investigate, special counsel john durham has released a final report. it s more than 400 pages long. our team of experts and reporters are combing through it. but the probe s many failures and contradictions and chaos that surrounded it have been reported on and they are out there for everyone to see including high-level resignations. john durham is not today bringing any new charges. he s lost both of the cases that he decided to bring to trial. that s why some of the people at the highest levels of that probe left. the probe s stunning clashes and ethical lapses and internal chaos have been documented and detailed in an extraordinary body o ....
say, listen, listen to what we re going to tell you. in addition to what we told you in the previous handful of hearings. listen to what we re going to tell you. watch what we re going to show you today. after he was told by officials on the federal level, inside the white house, on the state level, anybody who he could listen to, who actually knew what was going on, who had the evidence. especially bill barr, he just looked for people who would tell him what he wanted to hear. and then what today showed was that when he didn t get those people to help him, he turned to the people he knew would listen, his twitter followers, oath keepers. just to underline what we re seeing now, we re seeing, if you put the pictures back up, we re seeing images of some of the police officers that have already testified and specifically the one in the middle there, sergeant acalino. staff sergeant, a former u.s. army sergeant, iraq war veteran, who was so gravely wounded defending the ....
weapons of war. i d like you to think about that because this whole conversation defies logic, and you know what, it s actually insulting. you know what, you know what, in fairness let s just take a moment to step back and think about each of their arguments and whether that is the environment that you want or that they want for their children. let s start with mental health. as far as we know there was no mental health issue with the individual who stole the futures of 19 children in uvalde, texas. governor greg abbott even said it himself before he contradicted himself. there was no known mental health history of the gunman. we would have a problem with mental health illness in this community. greg, you flipped it around. now you said mental health was the problem. okay. yet nbc news reports abbott slashed more than $200 million from the department overseeing mental health programs in a state that is already dead last in the country for access to mental health car ....