taxpayer dollars on an illegitimate impeachment inquiry because donald trump, the puppet master, has directed extreme maga republicans to launch a political hit job against president joe biden. that s house minority leader hakeem jeffries calling out republicans in the lower chamber before the vote to authorize an impeachment inquiry into president joe biden. that came after hunter biden defied a subpoena from house republicans challenging them to hold public hearings for his testimony. we ll have much, much more from a bitter and partisan day on capitol hill. plus, the supreme court will hear the first case tied to abortion rights since it overturned roe v. wade. we ll get expert legal analysis on that just ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, december 14th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we have a busy morning ahead, and we ll start here. the republican controlled house has voted to formally authorize its impea
all officers in new york city expressing major concerns for their safety over bragg s proposal. the commissioner one of several leaders calling out bragg. i think it will create a situation where you have a society of lawlessness. quality of life issues seem like small-level crimes they are a big deal to the people in those neighborhoods. and quality of life complaints have gone up 59% in new york city since 2019. every day more criticism rolling in. the union representing nypd sergeants is saying the d.a. is leaving out details. they believe they are doing it to lessen charges in specific cases. that union told their officers to not sign off on any of those incidents and those that do not reflect the fagts of the case and the things they saw at the
they had a lot of sovereign tee. and it s yes, california has a heck of a lot of voters just in one state. virginia had a larger population than the rest of the states as well. this is just the way our system works. he s not too concerned. are you? i m working on a book dealing with a flap lot of the issues. i think the biggest issue is the more our democinacy and i say twhat a small d and not a party. the last fagts we have in it. the more that papens we drieft into a system called hungry.
department, the intelligence community, and science. is there anything, as someone who has served our country and has worked in the has run these agencies that gives you pause about his skepticism about evidence-based practice s? oh, this gives me pause without question. i mean, fagts are facts. they are. rudy doesn t think so. again, so there s some degree of difference here obviously. but you were asking me about the strength of the institutions. and again, i think these are very, very strong institutions. with centuries of history and tradition and so forth. we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us and so forth and, therefore, stand very tall. and by the way, many will say that about the senate standing on the shoulders of john mccain. you know, i might want to point out here, a lot of people i think are already saying he is the irreplaceable man and so on. and there is much to this. i mean, you can t look out there and see another senator mccain right now.
american people should see both of the memos. they re both just summaries and both partisan to some extent. but there are underlying documents to these fisa applications. i am one of a few members of congress that have seen them. ultimately what we re trying to do for anybody who had the opportunity i ve had, we ve seen abuses to the fisa process where people have taken powerful surveillance tools for law enforcement and counter intelligence that are vital, appropriate and necessary but have used them for political agendas. i think those fagts need to come to light and how we restore faith and trust in the f.b.i. and department of justice that has been shaken with the american public. sandra: does it concern you, the back and forth and political nature of all this? absolutely. the f.b.i. and the department of justice are supposed to be decidedly apolitical. they aren t supposed to be the