And all promises of that irrefutable evidence in a report on Election Fraud in georgia. Were on the trail with Chris Christie, the republican president ial candidate says hes leading a Truth Movement to be an alternative to trump. Plus, Hunter Bidens tax charges dismissed, at least for now. The latest in the saga over the president s son and the plea deal that fell apart. Our nbc News Reporters are following all of the latest developments. We start in lahaina, where there are still more questions than answers, and a new investigator has been brought in to find them. Nbcs dana griffin just arrived there. Dana, this investigator comes as the islands top Emergency Official resigned. What more can you tell us . Reporter yeah, so a day before Herman Andaya resigned, which was on tuesday, he faced some tough questions from reporters. Listen to what he told them. Do you regret not sounding the sirens . I do not. Had we sounded the siren that night, were afraid that people would have gone into
a hearing in the subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government to investigate abuses by the fbi. the whistleblowers testifying at the hearing to suspended fbi agents and one former agent all claim the fbi retaliated on them for speaking out on the practices at the bureau . now, if i may, maybe just as a reminder, a couple of stories on those practices. in 2020 one , the fbi counterterror division raided the home of a red cross volunteer named joseph bolaños . bolaños is sixty nine years old, anonymous hipster s claimed bolaños was at the capitol on january 6th. there s no evidence, though, that bluenose was there, much less that he did anything violent, regardless of the fbi. regardless, they showed up at bolaños house. they were armed. they seized his electronics, and the raid was so traumatizing. the bolano suffered two strokes. then there were the pro-life raids on christians. mark and paul von again. no evidence that either of these men were threats
the subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government to investigate abuses by the fbi. the whistleblowers testifying at the hearing two suspended fbi agents and one former agent all claim the fbi retaliated on them for speaking out on the practices at the bureau. if i may, may be just as a reminder, a couple of stories on those practices. in 2021 the fbi counterterrorism division raided the home of a red cross volunteer named joseph. he was 69 years old. anonymous tipsters claimed he was at the capitol on january 6. there is no evidence, though that he was there, much less that he did everything violent. regardless of the fbi, they showed up at his house. they were armed and seized his electronics. the raid was so traumatizing that he suffered two strokes. then there were the pro-life raids unchristian and paul von. no evidence that either of these men were threats to society but armed fbi agents raided their homes anyway. and then there is you and me and those of
tonight may soon be the top story in the markets or even on main street. the president summoning leaders to the white house scheduled for next week to face what they re now calling a far more urgent threat of default with some republicans threatening to take the economy hostage. the final deadline is earlier in the month, republicans doubling down on threats which you may recall picked up in the obama years that instead of voting against new spending, which is the standard way that a politician or a legislator can curb the size of government, totally fine, you say, hey, let s not spend as much. nowadays you may have heard, republicans try to hijack the process of paying the bill, the debt, and they do that as a sort of a voodoo to scare the market, scare the white house, e tract concessions and keep the government from paying the bills it has, that includes naturally bills run up by both democrats and republicans, including recent spending under former president trump. we
strohmier in for carley shimkus. todd: i am griff jenkins and for todd piro. entered in the chaos but it will smash the windows out of two police cars and sell fireworks towards the officers. at one point a giant mob with the cruiser down a freeway. lauren blanchard has more from washington, good morning, laura. good morning, griff. this is wild and dangerous and dumb. this was saturday. [bleep],! [tire squealing] ashley: so in between the street racing, spinning and forcing a patrol car and one officer injured and several police cars damage. here is the problem they are understaffed from officers on the street to 911 operators. in october just 66% of calls answered within 15 seconds. the actual standard is 90%. they also have to lower minimum job requirements just to fill an unprecedented number of job openings. one councilwoman reported being on hold for 28 minutes saturday night to report the street racing. in 2020 the allston state council voted to slash the polic