from his own lawyers, and furthermore, there s evidence of him saying things that are completely incompatible that this was an idea. do you believe he lied to the justice department do i personally believe it? yes, i do. that s former attorney general bill barr, continuing his criticism of done in another sunday show interview. we ll have more of barr s damning comments about the president in just a moment. meanwhile, 2024 republican presidential candidate chris christie is mocking the rnc for its loyalty pledge we ll explain. and we ll have the very latest from beijing as u.s. secretary of state antony blinken meets with chinese president xi jinping amid heightened tensions between the world s two largest economies. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 19th, juneteen. i m job nathan lemire. thank you for starting your day and week with us. former attorney general bill barr is offering a scathing new case against former president donald
police after firing a nail gun into the fbi s cincinnati field office. while on saturday, armed protesters gathered near the fbi s office in phoenix, arizona. and in the last 24 hours, just checking the ex-president s truth social account, he is still releasing statements criticizing the fbi and justice department, just as his explanations for why he even had classified documents at mar-a-lago keep shifting. as the new york times lays out, first, he says that he was working and cooperating with government agents, who he claimed had inappropriately entered his home. then, when the government revealed that the fbi had recovered nearly a dozen sets of documents that were marked classified, he suggested the agents had planted evidence. finally, his aides claimed he had a standing order to declassify documents that left the oval office for his residence and that some of the material was protected by attorney general/client and executive privilege. the evolving arguments are ex
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Moment but first of all, let me tell you where i am. This is the very landing area in order to get to Ketron Island where the 29yearold crashed that plane. Now, to give you an idea of how sparsely populated that is, the last census said theres only 17 residents living there. We now know theres dozens of investigators at that site. They would have left from here in order to get there. It is about a 10 minute ferry ride. The first as well as the data recorder. Ultimately, what evidence they could yield . We dont know. Of course, we do have a lot of conversation between air Traffic Control and the horizon employee. As for the pilot himself, obviously, he went through extensive needs means to get that. He had to taxi it and take off. Here, theres a lot of questions how this person who seemingly had no fliying experience was able to get that aircraft airborne. He played a lot of video games. Maybe that gave him the wherewithal to do this but still, so many questions as to how he got that ai
elites these are people who are the insiders these are people from the deep state. they re not the true believers. the true believers will stick with donald trump and, of course, the true believers would staff a trump 2.0 administration, wouldn t they? yeah, and i think that s a dangerous thought for us all charlie, let s get you in on this idea of a pardon. this has been a strange republican litmus test, the idea of how the candidates in the field, you know, when asked if they would pardon if trump were to be convicted on federal charges. some suggested even president biden should do it preemptively, in a moment of national unity. pretty sure that s not going to happen. pretty sure. what do we think abilout the republicans and how they re responding to it it is interesting, the degree to which the republican party internalized the idea, that they re launching against the fbi. that s an issue. the issue of pardon will haunt them the next year it is strange they d be talking ab