appointed to investigate classified documents that were discovered at former vice president and likely presidential candidate mike pence s house, right? documents returned according to an adviser for the former vice president mike pence. aides to former vice president mike pence found a, quote, small number of documents bearing classified markings during a search of pence s indiana home. according to the archives and the fbi collected the classified documents from the home on january 19th. the discovery comes as a shock, sort of. given that pence stated over and over again since his former boss s home was searched by federal officials after he failed to turn over classified documents to the national archives that he, mike pence, did not take any classified documents with him. this is what mike pence said when asked about it to cbs s robert costa just over ten days ago. he was asked a specific question, did you take any classified documents with you? watch. our staff reviewe
that the district attorney likely errored in exercising its jurisdiction to enjoin the u.s. use of the classified records in its criminal investigation. we agree. and there s more. the three-judge panel tears to shreds the arguments that trump and his lawyers have been making in public and in the court of law, that the records belong to him, or that somehow, at some unknown and unstated point in time, that he declassified the documents. also, from the ruling, quote, plaintiff, meaning donald trump, has not even attempted to show that he has a need to know the information contained in the classified documents. the plaintiff suggests that he may have declassified these documents when he was president. but the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified. in any event, at least for these purposes, the declassification argument is a red herring, because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal. so even if we
jobs in and live in day in and day out. paul pelosi, he is the husband of speaker pelosi, was violently assaulted during an early morning break-in by an assailant who was reportedly searching for nancy pelosi. a source telling nbc news that mr. pelosi was home alone when the attacker broke in. the attacker was armed with a hammer. paul pelosi reportedly suffered multiple blows to the head and is currently in surgery. the speaker was in washington, d.c. at the time of the attack. as for the assailant, he is in the custody of the san francisco police department. officials say he will face a number of charges including attempted homicide. the motivation for the attack is still under investigation at this hour, but a look at his digital footprint reveals he posted a whole host of conspiracy theories including anti-establishment ideas as well as anti-semitism and vaccine conspiracies. this attack is raising questions about the security of our lawmakers and their families in this i
made its way to our doorstep right here in aalbuquerque, new mexico. fundamentally at the end of the day this was about a right-wing radical, an election denier who was arrested today, and someone who did the worst imaginable thing you can do when you have a political disagreement, which is turn that to violence. wow. saddest of all perhaps is that such incidents of dangerous domestic extremism are starting to feel routine in our country. amid a sharp rise to threats of public officials over the last few years, are any of us even surprised in what plays out almost every day. what did republicans expect or want when they spent the last few years talking like this. we re not allowed to punch back anymore. i love the old days. you know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? they d be carried out on a stretcher, folks. i m eric grietens, navy s.e.a.l. and today we re going rino hunting. now today we face the greats danger we have ever
who s at the center plot to overturn the election. the man whose lies about the results pose a threat to democracy to this day. the ex-president himself, donald trump. that subpoena promises to add to his mountain of legal trouble and peril. the ones he already faces. multiple investigations into his handling of government records, family businesses and his attempt to overturn his defeat. it sets the stage for a number of big decisions for the january 6 select committee. abc news is reporting this. on internal deliberations within the committee on what his testimony could look like. there s been talk for months about whether they want trump to testify in a live setting. no doubt they want him to testify under oath. some members are hesitant to give him a live stage while others view it as beneficial to the investigation as they would get to question him under oath and there appears to be more of an openness to committee members having him appear live. should he refuse, the co