Thank you so much for letting us into your home during these extraordinary times. We are grateful. Beth beet with ari melber start rights now. We start with Breaking News a legal first for President Biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland Upending Washington today with an announcement, he is appointing a special counsel to hand it will probe of classified do you means found in joe bidens office at home. This is a significant legal development. No matter what happens from here. Its also the kind of twist that would have seemed like a movie plot even just a few months ago when former President Trump was clashing with the doj over his handling and alleged mishanding of classified material. Would have felt like a twist in the last couple weeks when bidens team was optimistic after the midterms and then the gops chaotic start to the congress. Garland did not preview plans at all. He announced he would deliver remarks today. Didnt deliver the topic and then said the words that tend to rattle
the following is a cnn special report. multiple capitol injuries. multiple capitol injuries. an assault on democracy. the capitol has been breached. an attack on the capitol, fueled by a president s lies. this election was stolen. trump wanted the crowd to turn into a mob. inspired by a delusion, an enraged mob of true believers attempting insurrection. you are a traitor. we were in a medieval battle. trump s soldiers. there is a sea of nothing but red, white, and blue. patriots of trump. trump s true believers. i feel like he was anointed by god. i don t think joe biden is the president. new exclusive interviews. the sound surrounded us but then once they started banging on the door, that s all i heard. new details. overran the capitol. i never dreamed that he would ever do anything like that. new denials. you call january 6th a peaceful protest? i do. and why it s not over. in fact, it is just getting started. tonigh
thank you so much for letting us into your home during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. beth beet with ari melber start rights now. we start with breaking news a legal first for president biden. attorney general merrick garland upending washington today with an announcement, he is appointing a special counsel to hand it will probe of classified do you means found in joe biden s office at home. this is a significant legal development. no matter what happens from here. it s also the kind of twist that would have seemed like a movie plot even just a few months ago when former president trump was clashing with the doj over his handling and alleged mishanding of classified material. would have felt like a twist in the last couple weeks when biden s team was optimistic after the midterms and then the gop s chaotic start to the congress. garland did not preview plans at all. he announced he would deliver remarks today. didn t deliver the topic and then said the words
and you know, we get into law school every so often on this program and we get into barack obama s unearthed law school manuscript and what he says about safeguarding american democracy, which is pretty relevant. but we begin with huge breaking news. a billion dollar verdict. that is the total damages for the liar proven in court to be a liar and right wing conspiracy theorist, alex jones. the lies matter. because the sanctions for them matter. because what is happening right now tonight in america is according to so many victims family, justice long overdue for these families who lived through the unthinkable. the murder of their children at sandy hook and the man you see on your screen tried to lie about and harass and defame and profit off all that. well that ends. that ends today. that was put to an end in court with and i want you to hear this number because it is way larger than any number i have ever read in any newscast to you as news. $965 million in damages against
dominated, driven, and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. that is a threat to this country. maga republicans do not respect the constitution, believe in the rule of the law, recognize the will of the people. they refused to accept the results of a free election and promote authoritarian leaders. they fanned the flames of political violence. they are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country. they look at the mob that stormed that united states capitol on january 6th, be brutally attacking law enforcement, not as insurrectionists. they placed a dagger the throat of our democracy, but they look at them as patriots. they see their maga failure to stop a fees peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 in 2024 elections. and now america must choose to move forward or to move backwards, to build a future obsessed about the past, to be a nation of hope and un