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 of repo
Too. I have to say this is a big night. Let me start right here. This is who is going to be our guest tonight, and this is from page 184 of the book. On the evening of december 18, mark meadows, my because, Chief Of Staff, returned from a meeting of the oval office and abruptly asked if i wanted the detail i could go home. His detail quickly prepared the limo and left campus without explanation. Shortly after marks departure i walked down with molly to get a sense of the president s evening plans. Usually if the president went home i would stay at my desk but since mark had left early with such confidence i thought perhaps the president was wrapping up for the evening and i would get to go home early, too. When i walked into the outer oval i saw the president was meeting with general mike flynn, the former National Security advisor who had pled guilty to lying to the fbi about his involvement with russian officials, cutting a Cooperation Deal in special counsel Robert Muellers inquiry
much more than the fringe and it gives a level of acceptance and permission to those who want to then use violence, intimidation and threats to advance their ideology. yeah. i mean, i think what mary s hitting on, charlie, is really important. it s an important distinction to understand. what trump did was create a permission structure for white supremacists and domestic violent extremists to be part of the republican coalition in good standing. right? stand back and stand by. very fine people on both sides. there were very fine people on both sides. that was the permission structure. it is more than that now. i said this jokingly. i said pardoning the january 6th defendants is going to become a litmus test for the republican primary and proof that the world is so f-ed up it s actually happening. here is ryan riley s latest report. in a jailhouse phone call proud boy joe biggs recently convicted of seditious conspiracy calls on supporters of capitol attack defendants to nail down ron
making them suspicious of everything. and, look, if south park predicts the future, whole fortune favors the brave misquote that matt damon had is going to be one that i think we all regret, look back on and laugh at. howard: yeah. i never fully understood crypto. [laughter] it did seem like the whole point was to be exempt from federal regulation, but now everybody s piling on and filing these lawsuits or, in the case of the justice d., duty. as for the question, laura, about what would sam bankman bankman-fried have told congress if he had been allowed to testify the, miraculously, journalists found out. somebody leaked to reporters his opening statement, and it taliban with if-ed up it began with i f-ed up. so it would have been more of the same, i think. well, and also, howie, we just five days ago got the ftc charges brought against sam bankman-fried, and he was on a pr blitz in between that time.
how much of this is effectively an empty, you know, product? reporter: for his part bankman-fried taking to twitter saying he f-ed up. and in an interview with a vox reporter last night showing little remorse for money lost, saying he s trying to fund-raise to pay customers but it s likely the billions will never be recouped. now, we reached out to a number of celebrities named in that suit, didn t get a response. on a larger scale, brianna, this is having an impact mainly nuft jt crypto world. financial experts are hopeful that doesn t change. it s still unclear what the aftermath of this is going to look like. washington it s taking notice and speeding up the prospect of instilling regulations. bryn gingras, thank you for that report. and our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, the end of an era on capitol hill. house speaker nancy pelosi closes the book on her historic