bennie thompson, just told reporters today he s freshly signed 20 new subpoenas he says are being sent out, quote, soon, possibly as soon as tomorrow. things are moving fast now and with quite a lot of volume in terms of the flow-through. watch this space. that s going to do it for us tonight. way too early is up next. after months of negotiations, lawmakers are expected to hold a vote today on president biden s sweeping infrastructure plan and bipartisan bill. the question is are we finally going to see democrats get something done? plus in georgia a murder trial gets under way for the three men who killed ahmaud arbery, but there s controversy. only one person on the jury deciding the case is blachlkt. and lesson learned.
anti-freedom agenda. okay. but this is another huge scandal for the nra, which is already on the ropes, right? the new york attorney general i trying to dissolve them as an organization over their top o leaders allegedly raiding the organization s coffers for their own personal gain. the nra tried to declare bankruptcy in response, and a judge told them that they couldn t because it was a bad t faith effort to declare bankruptcy just to avoid accountability in that lawsuit.j they re also trying to claim bankruptcy while also bragging to their supporters that they w have just as much money as ever and just as much influence as ever.as an nra affiliate is the plaintiff in this major gun il right case argued before the supreme court yesterday, a case which if the court sides with the nra, way, way, way more americans will bey, allowed to carry concealed firearms in
we ve seen that in schemes over the years. from the misuse of donor money that attorney general james has documented uncovered just in case after case they think they can get away with it. for years they were right, but i think that s finally starting to change. is there any sense in these allegations, is there any documentary evidence that the campaigns knew what they were i on here? obviously we ve got representative former representative matthew rosendale and josh hawley as named defendants in this case. but trump, ron johnson, tom cotton, thom tillis, they re all mentioned as beneficiaries of this scheme. is there evidence that they knowingly accepted this money? that they knew it was illegal and they took it anyway? there is some evidence to that effect, and i think the most striking event is that matt
to keep secret during the election. the special counsel appears to be trying to make that allegation about those computer contacts between the trump organization and alfa bank, he tried to appear to be making those allegations seem crazy and even criminal. but by charging somebody relatee heki to those allegations, somebody who brought those allegations to the fbi, what that indictment did is ended up dragging the initial allegation about trump back into the news where it has now gotten more attention and more of a live issue than it ham in years. a bit of a boomerang effect for them on that. now today in this new indictment it s against a researcher that was interviewed by the fbi multiple times in 2017. he s now been charged with making false statements during those 4-year-old fbi interviews. but, again, the indictment in this case tells a story beyond just the charges. the indictment in this case is 39 pages, and it s written well
all.om or senate intelligence committee did look into it. they ve just concluded that they couldn t figure out what those communications are themselves, they never sorted it out. john durham s choice to bring an indictment against somebody who brought those allegations to thc fbi has sort of boomeranged on t him in terms of how those in allegations are viewed. once those charges, once that indictment was filed against somebody who had brought those w allegations to the fbi, people o connected to that case, people involved in turning up that evidence of those weird computer contacts in the first place, n they apparently were spurred by that indictment to come forward, to revive those allegations, to defend those allegations, to make a public case that, in fact, it does sort of look like that trump organization and that kremlin-connected russian bank did have something going on surreptitiously that they tried