spy balloon making its way across the continental united states, then the diplomatic fallout trailing behind. it we re going to go right to beijing for the latest. plus, if republicans find use their house majority to target democrats and the biden administration with bogus, politically motivated investigation, they re going to have to get through veteran trump impeachment manager, stacey plaskett, first. she was just named the top democrat on a key panel created by the newly empowered house republicans. i ll talk to her later in the show. and in the wake of tyre nichols killing in memphis, another push for real reform. my congress fell just short of making history with the george floyd justice and policing act, and why you shouldn t believe the reason you re hearing from so many republicans who want to sound reasonable, but who will not support that bill. then, the crucial advancement separating post roe america from pre roe america s medication abortion. the abortion pill.
authoritarian leaders and they really ran for office while they were under investigation. they include ben s kony, putin, trump, and netanyahu, because in government is to be able to shut down any investigations about you into your corruption, and this is on a larger scale, what the gop is doing now. they are really terrified of what it has come out about their complicity in january six, this violent coup attempt. so, they are marshaling all their resources, both to punish people, to tie up media attention, it s going to be very important to the media coverage. this because it is a distraction. i sometimes call this garbage. this is a garbage investigation. this is what authoritarians specialize in. in about an hour, ruth, i will speaking with the new ranking member on the weaponization committee,
now to my special report tonight. bob mueller will eventually finish his investigation, potentially as soon as next month, and mueller s boss, rod rosenstein, signaling he ll leave the doj soon once mueller is done. but the final decisions about mueller s work will soon be in someone else s hands. not mueller. not rosenstein. so even as president trump rages about his wall and these battles over the shutdown, keep your eye on what else trump is doing that he s not tweeting about tonight. he s trying to put the future of the mueller probe in the hands of william barr. next week, even as this shutdown may certainly grind on, these mueller questions will come to a head. at a senate confirmation hearing for barr. when a new attorney general is appointed during a criminal probe involving the president, it tests our system. the founders knew that. our constitution is built to hold politicians accountable. not let them cancel out the rule of law or separation of powers just because the heat i
now, back in 73, the senate didn t simply vet richardson, it used those hearings as a high-stakes opportunity to extract a binding arrangement under oath to protect the special prosecutor s watergate probe. demanding that the watergate prosecutor would get final authority, which richardson initially objected to. saying he needed the ultimate responsibility for matters in the doj. the senate stopped him right then and said they wouldn t even hold a hearing until he committed to more independence. members of the judiciary committee greeted richardson with smiles and handshakes, but the friendly greeting was deceptive. we have to create the appearance of objectivity and fairness in this investigation. whether he had an independent prosecutor or not, but who would buy it? no more hearings will be held until richardson names a special prosecutor acceptable to the
violation of the justice department rules. it surely looks like an illegitimate investigation. you can describe it a lot of ways, a hoax. it s a witch hunt. is it political or is it a real law enforcement investigate? this totally garbage investigation. this is a completely tainted investigation. this has become a witch hunt. crimes have all now been committed by the government. they have committed numerous violations. that should be investigated fully. you want another special counsel? get one for that. michael steele back in the house. i m going to ask it like this, what did i just see? a whole lot of crazy. that makes no sense. you actually think robert mueller s going to say, why don t we send this over to rudy giuliani and have him take a look at it before we send it to congress or, you know, release it to the public or whatever. it doesn t even strain credulity