hello, everyone. i m alicia menendez. donald trump has been out of office for over 140 days now, yet the damage he s inflicted on democracy continues to be revealed. new reactions tonight to news from the new york times that his department of justice subpoenaed the communications records of lawmakers and their families, including a minor. illinois congressman raja krishnamoorthi called for attorney general merrick garland to clean house. i was a little disappointed quite frankly that we learned about this secret subpoenas of intelligence community members from apple and not from merrick garland s justice department. they need to also show that they are cleaning house and that they come clean with any other secret subpoenas or investigations or inappropriate targets. the justice department s internal watchdog is launching an investigation into federal prosecutors use of secret subpoenas to obtain records from apple concerning two california lawmakers on the house intell
Democrat joe mansion because it s not just country roads after all. A live report shortly. First, though, a different kind of legislative dysfunction. This one in the face of an on going threat to democracy. It has to do with not seeing the true nature of its first violent chapter, which is one thing and refusing to even look, which is another. And when the full history of the january 6th insurrection is written, the words of the man that insighted it for week after week right through the moment it began will figure prominently into the account. How could they not? well, here is how. Look through today s senate report and you ll find new and damming details, security failures, unheeded intelligence, miscommunication and inadequate police training. The committees that wrote it do a good job of laying out mechanics of what went wrong and why in and around the day but make no mistake, these things are important to know but by no means all there is to know which is not much what made it ha
From congresswoman into taxpayer larry kudlow is here. John: will begin the tugofwar over legislation. Democrats abandon the state capital on sunday effectively blocking at least for now. Welcome for a tuesday edition of america reports. Sandra: governor abbott announcing he will call a special session to finish the job which will happen as early as this week. Republicans say legislation is necessary to ensure voting integrity after combat of 2020 election cycle. Democrats claim the bills of ports voter suppression. John: we will hear from our political panel later on. What is the latest from there? texas governor greg abbott said that he expects legislature here to have it worked out by the time they return for that special session. Now, when is that going to be? there s a pretty special session on the calendar in the fall. We talked to the governor s office in the fall and if this issue would be added to the agenda. The governor not giving a timeline. The democrats walked out to avoi
Congress woman alexandria ocasiocortez, rasheeda talib opposing the sale of $735 of u. S. Weapons from israel to defend itself in the battle against hamas. So after this tense and lengthy tarmac exchange with congresswoman talib yesterday in michigan, you can see the two of them speaking to each other, talib has family that lives in the west bank. She was slamming israel s role in the violence. President biden nine quickly praised the palestinian board member of congress this way. Watch. I admire your passion and i admire your concern for so many other people. It s from my heart that i pray that your grand mom and family are well. I promise you i ll do everything to see that they are good in the west bank. You re a fighter and thanks nor being a fighter. Martha: after that, president biden told president netanyahu that he expected significant deescalation today. In a moment, jack keane joins us with his strategic analysis of what is going on right now. First, geraldo rivera, fox news c
For my money he is reprehensible. Quickly because we know ther is a break coming up and this i light. We saw progress with north korea. This is such an opaque dictatorship. He force people into labor camp if they violated policies. Any quick last words? if you are going to start banning cultural items you may want to start banning things that people actually say it are in style. The younger generations have artie outlawed these things. There is no need to abandon now. Lets ease into this one. There are several hours difference between them and us. You see them and bringing in ai to the palestinians. They were hit in that something right off the top that we saw. I want to talk about this for a second before we go to a break. The world looks to us to be in a leadership role as an ally to israel. But i don t know if we ve yet seen as our administration. My prayers are with them but we aren t seeing an administration giving that support. There s a bit of irony with people on the ground we