the trump russia probe. he found not much, but we ll tell you about the brand-new reporting later in the program. we re also waiting to see the police body cam video from the horrific attack on paul pelosi, the husband of speaker nancy pelosi last year as well as the audio from the 911 call he made. a judge ordered that evidence to be made public in response to requests from multiple news organizations. that includes nbc news. and we ll bring you that footage as soon as it is released and we re able to turn it around for you. we begin with breaking news, the tragedy out of memphis. criminal charges have just been announced in the case of police brutality that stunned the nation and the world in just the past hour, the shelby county district attorney announced the fire officers involved in the fatal beating of 29-year-old memphis resident tyre nichols have been charged with second degree murder. here is that announcement. earlier today, the grand jury returned indictments ag
investigation into potential russia collusion, that wasn t good enough for durham or barr and durham put out a statement which is unprecedented saying, you know, basically, this is not the end of this. we have access to information and evidence that horowitz didn t have and we disagree with some of his conclusions an that is remarkable. as for the reporting, i think it is an incredible piece. there is so much in there. it i will say it troubles me a little bit that so many people were speaking anonymously about this. i don t see any classified information revealed in it or anything like that. but it is you know, it is just hard as a former department official to see people who are, you know, revealing all of the inside information while we still are awaying for the report. but maybe that is important because i don t know that the report is going to say any of what charlie and his colleagues reported and certainly it is in
say the attorney general could countermand and order the special counsel if it is sort of so outrageously outside of department policy that no reasonable prosecutor would contemplate it. and then he has to consult with the special counsel and give great weight to his views and he has to report to congress on why he countermanded this special counsel. so the bar for countermanding is really high. and while i think what durham did is outrageous in these two cases, it clearly doesn t meet that standard because not only did a grand jury vote to bring these two cases, but in both cases a federal judge let the matter get to a jury. didn t dismiss it. and so, you know, this was bad decisions and they were inappropriate decisions and they may have been ill-motive decisions but they re not so
john durham, the federal prosecutor barr tapped to lead a different, a separate, review of the russia probe. that is still ongoing right now. the report is forthcoming. it also said or jon durham also said in a statement that he disagreed with the ig s report. joining us now to discuss former deputy assistant attorney general and u.s. attorney harry litman. and columnist tom nichols. harry, let s talk with you first. who s right here? look. there is a disagreement and there is a way to resolve these disagreements. it s called the inspector general. that s the reason we have an inspector general to make an apolitical call on the facts. the attorney general suggested maybe he knows other facts. but that doesn t make sense. whether it was predicated or not has to do with what was in front of the fbi at the time. he gave the information that did did the attorney general to horowitz. horowitz didn t change his mind. that really, really should ve
did did the attorney general to horowitz. horowitz didn t change his mind. that really, really should ve been the end of it. incredibly unusual and aberrant for the attorney general then to come out and contradict that statement. what s the point of having an inspector general if that s what s going to happen? and there s the process of process. in that, you wrote in an op-ed here, harry, barr allegedly wanted to avoid public confusion. but he caused more. that was your washington post op-ed. and let s go over to tom on this. because if you re you re an everyday american, like myself, and you look at this. you re saying, well, which way is right? i m not sure. everybody is contesting each other s opinion. and report. the attorney general the attorney general s a cabinet officer. he works directly for the president. he heads the department of justice. i think most people are going to take barr s view on this because most people out there, understandably, don t really