reminded myself, he did a lexus nexus search. he couldn t have done a google search. he wanted to see to what are people attributing the rise in crime of the 90s? and nowhere on the top ten list did anybody factor in the change brought on by roe versus wade. that was the whole starting point for he and for donahue. look, it s no less provocative today than it was 20 years ago. that s for sure. but i find it fascinating and well researched. i want to remind you, go to smerconish.com and answer this week s survey question, is the u.s. sharing of military intelligence with ukraine worth the risk of further inflaming putin? register for the newsletter while you re there. up ahead, the assailant who tackled dave chappelle as he walked off stage at the hollywood ball had a knife in his backpack but the los angeles county d.a. did not charge him with a felony. facing recall efforts.
tapes that the fbi made of russian svr agents speaking in the new york resident torah about trying to recruit carter page as a asset to russian intelligence. this is someone who this is not something that just popped up last summer and was rubber stamped by the fisa court. one thing i would say, republicans, if you re going on the steele dossier, any way that could read the reports from the carter page can read. let maybe they should do a lexus nexus search before they lease this stupid memo. if you re going to release it, release all of it. the more important thing is again, don t listen what amanda was talking about earlier. this is all obfuscation to keep the real issue at hand away. this is an administration that does not enjoy or respect the rule of law. this is an administration that wants to run as a des pit and
and they did a lexus nexus search of four newspaper, usa today , the l.a. times , et cetera, washington post, and said, that these words, security and terrorism, were used more than words like civil liberties which is kind of a bizarre argument to me. if you are presenting a news story, you have to show both sides of the story. so of course you re going to say civil liberties on one side or security and terrorism on another but, there is is also in the journalism community i think a fear that you re not going to be hawkish enough based on what has happened with 9/11. jon: yeah. there may be that fear in the oval office as well. lauren ashburn, judy miller. thank you both. thank you, jon. jenna: now a little little business news. u.s. home construction tapping the brakes slightly last month. the commerce department says housing starts were down nearly 10% in december from the previous month due to decline in single family homes and
philadelphia on trial for murder and you may not have even heard about it. some of the mainstream media has been a little bit late to coverage for this story, the trial of kermit gosnell on the screen facing fault am counts of murder. kristen powers writing, a lexus nexus search shows none of the news shows on the three major national television networks has mentioned the trial in the last three months. the washington post has not published original reporting on this during the trial the new york times saw fit to run one original story on page a17 on the first dave the trial. they ve been silent every since despite headline-worthy testimony. jim pinkerton joins us and alan colmes joins us. gentlemen, good to see you both. alan what do you make of the way that suddenly after kirstin s piece and there have been a number of blogs that have mentioned this.
you betcha! joe and mika, those were some excited voters there, huh? no doubt about it. willie from the christine mcdonald desk in d.c. o donnell. sam stein, you have dug through the arrives. what did you find? well, it took a lot. but i went to lexus nexus search and found she did appearances on scar borrow. yes. i didn t remember that. what was she talking about. mostly cultural topics. i ll have to go back. it might have been sex and the city. i m not even sure. she has been on our show. i don t feel so bad now. sam, where did joe stand in these debates? he was more for the conversation chris hayes next. what s up, chris?