have been held accountable. hunter biden accepted money from foreign officials while his power was vice president, no problem. there are ordinary people, honest people locked up this morning because they were on the capitol on january 6th protesting the 2020 election. this week the january 6th commission goes prime time, gearing up for a big show of hearings beginning thursday night at 8 p.m. eastern after doling out subpoenas to several trump supporters. coming up, the recipient of one of those subpoenas, republican leader kevin mccarthy, on january 6th, the democrat agenda and the november elections. then, corruption in plain sight. hillary clinton s lawyer gets off, but witness testimony puts the fbi and hillary herself front and center for their role in creating and spreading the big lie of trump-russia collusion just as then-congressman john ratcliffe told us here three years ago. even if you concede that there was a predicate to start this, there was no predicate to c
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. As has peter baker, correspondent for the New York Times thanks to all three of you for staying up late. Congressman, again, just a civics and kind of a Physical Plant question. The winner gets to be an incumbent member of congress. The winner will go, will get really bad office space. Theyll be on the bottom of the seniority list. Hell get his predecessors office. You do inherit the office space . How does that work . I replaced the most Senior Member of congress. For eight months as a freshman, i had the best office on capital little. You had a beautiful view of the dome. Then reality sets in. But they cant move in. They cant feel as much as anyone can move in with a twoyear term. Lets say its 12 weeks before the next election. House is out till labor day. Because it is an election day, theyll be in for about three
weeks. Whoever the incumbent is, they will be an incumbent for all of about three weeks. What they will
to be temporary. the risk of inflation, i think there s a small risk, and i think it s manageable. most economic analysts believe it will have a temporary transitory impact. reporter: when are you guys going to admit that you were wrong about inflation? [laughter] no easy questioned today, huh? maria: well, temporary, transitory, manageable, all words is white house used to downplay the inflation threat as the cost of living began to climb one year ago. one year later gas prices have doubled, and the administration is on an apology tour trying to convince americans that the economy is not as bad as we think it is. here s treasury secretary janet yellen on cmn last week cnn. has downplayed this inflation risk. does that corrupt to the problems we re all seeing right now? well, look, i think i was wrong then about the path that
on in the southern district of new york. what is the relationship. it appears the mueller team wants to stay focused on the mandate as special counsel to focus on election interference. in order to stay focused and to preserve resources they ve farmed off certain pieces primarily to the southern district of new york. that said, i have no doubt if mike cohen cooperates or anyone else of value cooperates those resources will be shared with the mueller team. they re all part of the department of justice and they ll put on the best case they can. i heard maggie haberman on cmn tonight said her guess was that by tomorrow, we would learn about the contents of rudy jo giuliani s letter to the mueller team about a potential interview. are you where i am on this? and that is i ll believe it when i see it? yeah, i think so. it s kind of amusing to see giuliani demanding these terms for the interview because the fact is, he doesn t have the upper hand here. he knows that. he was a prosecuto
five people are dead from injuries related to a suspected tornado in woodward, oklahoma. and the kansas governor has declared a state of emergency. let s go to susan candiotti in wichita. i m wondering whether the early warnings in the region that you are in right now might have helped the situation. reporter: i can t imagine that they didn t, howie. they had to have played a huge role in that. after all, this is the first time i think since 2006 that they were able to give people who live in this region at least two days warning to be prepared for the storm. now, certainly it may have helped in many instances, but tornadoes, you know, can hit at random, but you can t help but think that it did help some people to be better prepared for the storm. weather system the weather forecasters doing their job. this is not over, and so at this point what s our information on where the greatest threats may lie in terms of other communities that might be struck by these twisters?