far left extreme candidates tonight. that will be raphael warnock. that s coming up. but first tonight, just breaking now, a major new report from the washington times. it just broke. it says rank and file fbi whistleblowers coming forward. many are now saying that director christopher wray has lost control of the agency and needs to resign. according to the washington times report, these whistleblower claims include allegations of bias even being forced to sign false affidavits. and according to my sources tonight who i spoke to within the last hour, that are directly involved with the whistleblowers, there are at now at least 20 confirmed whistleblowers that have come forward. and according to their attorney, quote, i m hearing from fbi personnel that they feel like the director has lost control of the bureau. he said they are saying how does this guy survive? he s leaving. he s got to leave now. also breaking tonight, a new memo from the attorney general merrick garland an
politics reporter at the washington post. also the co-author of the book his name is george floyd. so happy to have all of you on. why don t i start with you. good evening to everyone. to the trump pressure campaign. last week the committee focussed on the intense pressure on pence and how much danger that put him in. this week it is the pressure on state officials to overturn the election. remember this call that trump made to georgia secretary of state? here it is. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. so what do you think it is going to mean to hear publically from these election officials? well, this is part of a methodical approach by this committee to lay out what happened after the election. it included not only former president trump when they went into court but after they were thrown out of court for all these failed legal efforts, they put pressure on these state lawm
eastern time. the committee saying tomorrow s hearings will focus on former president trump pressuring state officials to overturn election results and pushing to advance phony slates of electors. a lot to discuss with doug jones, charlie dent, a former republican congressman, and political analyst, the national politics reporter at the washington post. also the co-author of the book his name is george floyd. so happy to have all of you on. why don t i start with you. good evening to everyone. to the trump pressure campaign. last week the committee focussed on the intense pressure on pence and how much danger that put him in. this week it is the pressure on state officials to overturn the election. remember this call that trump made to georgia secretary of state? here it is. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. so what do you think it is going to mean to hear publically from thes
gets raided. i hope he feels the same way here on this program. we want to be very clear . we condemn all threats and all attacks on law enforcement, not one . it s just politically convenient as a matter of fact, on this program for the rank and file, the ninety five ninety eight , 99%, we are very grateful for all the good fbi agents and employees that risked their lives to keep us safe. we support them now, but the fbi is not immune from oversight and they re not immune from criticism and they re not immune from having bad apples or being called out for massive agency wide failures. and the failures inside, especially the upper echelon of the fbi. now also breaking tonight, we re now learning that amid growing scrutiny of the fbi and the doj that the department is now banning political appointees from partisan events. but i m sorry, that just isn t good enough. fbi director and attorney general garland, now they have done a disservice.
should have just gone in. that s what their protocol suggests, and to yield to this motion of there was an incident commander. maybe there was. maybe there wasn t. just isn t good enough. for 48 minutes and beyond, children were left in a room scared to death, calling 911, and, yet, no one went in. what happened here was the worst tragedy in recent law enforcement history in this state, and this governor has failed in his leadership. he s failed in his leadership to demand answers. there is a transcript of body camera footage also reviewed by the statesman, and it shows that the chief of police for the uvalde school district trying to get keys to open the classroom door, but officials say they don t believe officers tried opening that door in the first place. i mean, the details we learned it just seems to be getting worse, senator. do you think that is why it has been so hard to get information