Thank you so much for letting us into your home during these extraordinary times. We are grateful. Beth beet with ari melber start rights now. We start with Breaking News a legal first for President Biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland Upending Washington today with an announcement, he is appointing a special counsel to hand it will probe of classified do you means found in joe bidens office at home. This is a significant legal development. No matter what happens from here. Its also the kind of twist that would have seemed like a movie plot even just a few months ago when former President Trump was clashing with the doj over his handling and alleged mishanding of classified material. Would have felt like a twist in the last couple weeks when bidens team was optimistic after the midterms and then the gops chaotic start to the congress. Garland did not preview plans at all. He announced he would deliver remarks today. Didnt deliver the topic and then said the words that tend to rattle
thank you so much for letting us into your home during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. beth beet with ari melber start rights now. we start with breaking news a legal first for president biden. attorney general merrick garland upending washington today with an announcement, he is appointing a special counsel to hand it will probe of classified do you means found in joe biden s office at home. this is a significant legal development. no matter what happens from here. it s also the kind of twist that would have seemed like a movie plot even just a few months ago when former president trump was clashing with the doj over his handling and alleged mishanding of classified material. would have felt like a twist in the last couple weeks when biden s team was optimistic after the midterms and then the gop s chaotic start to the congress. garland did not preview plans at all. he announced he would deliver remarks today. didn t deliver the topic and then said the words
he is the only person to be secretary of state and world leader. he didn t seem to mind. his greatest concern was that the influence of the united states would collapse as a super power. he was concerned that the united states had to get out of vietnam, so he designed this structure with nixon, and it continues to influence us to this day, and as we are controversial with china, the foundation was begun with henry kissinger and richard nixon. he loved to be the limelight and on the world stage and other stages, too. he was perfectly adept at charming those who entinteracte with him. he was not a retiring professor. he was a professor who loved theater. lashing out, deflecting and denying. george santos is speaking on capitol hill as he is staring down the possibility of being expelled, and what is to happen in the house. and what the former president said that he was told and absolutely understood that failing to comply with the subpoena of the justice department would
dana: yeah. hi, bret. bret: welcome, i m bret baier. will he or won t he. we ask west virginia senator joe manchin the question on everyonens mind in a different way. large numbers of social media posters say usama bin laden was actually right. we ll tell you what they are talking about and the fallout from this viral moment over the last 24 hours. and a scathing ethics report spells big trouble for an embattled republican congressman. bret: but, first, breaking tonight, we re being told israel and hamas are working on a deal for the release of dozens of hostages. also this evening, israel says it has recovered a laptop used by hamas terrorists inside that gaza hospital, used as a staging area by the terrorists. it reportedly contains information about the prisoners. and the body of one hostage has been found had inside gaza. correspondent alex who he begann israel. the idf says it found the body of that hostage outside of gaza s largest hospital. she was a woman in
eventually he will, and that s going to happen when a criminal indictment comes because a this $100,000 mystery contribution he got which could very well have been from a foreign country, which is completely illegal. as you know governor, because i know a little by about vermont, from politics to yoga, if you have no backbone, you can stretch more, right? mollusks can do downward dog with the best of them. but in the analogy you draw, it s worse if we want some backbone from leaders. we re not talk about some superbig ask. kevin mccarthy is supposed to have a powerful job. how hard is it to say, we don t truck with lies. that s concerning. but democracy will have its day. i understand the due process point. due process doesn t mean you re innocent. it means there s a process beforeu demmed guilty. i get. that mr. santos has owe longer record. i want to lack at his rise briefly with you, look at where