election. once again in the spotlight, no one other than wisconsin s senator ron johnson. after the committee revealed on tuesday that one of his top staffers messaged an aide to vice president mike pence about johnson passing fake slates of trump electors for wisconsin and michigan to vice president mike pence by hand on january 6th. a pence aide promptly shut it down texting the johnson staffer this, quote. do not give that to him, end quote, but that attempted handoff still begs many questions like what did ron johnson know about the scheme to set up false electors which is under criminal investigation by the justice department. here s johnson on capitol hill dodging questions from reporters. how much did you know about what your chief of staff was doing with the alternate slates of electors? no, you re not. i can see your phone. i can see your screen. did you know what your chief of staff was doing? does your chief of staff still work for you, sir? can you expla
president in american history, unfortunately. so much of it is much of it is preventable. and the devastation is amazing. that was in a meeting with the new zealand prime minister. the united states has its first confirmed ambassador to ukraine in kyiv in three years. she arrives at a critical moment with president zelenskyy saying that russia achieved, quote, maximum combat power in the eastern donbas region. president biden has reaffirmed his support for federal reserve independence in fighting inflation in advance of a meeting today with fed chairman powell as the national frustration with rising inflation becomes a midterm threat for democrats. we begin in uvalde, texas, with nbc s sam brock, and tom winter and former u.s. attorney joyce vance. sam, while federal investigators are looking into the police response to this mass shooting, we are hearing stories about the day as the community attends services for loved ones. tell us what s going on down there. this is a
on the campaign trail. but he has been out and about in bristol. a campaign asset or a ticking time bomb? what about you? and we speak to the human and animal residents of dumfries and galloway to find out whether scottish independence would be a deciding factor in their vote. no coalition of chaos here. we will be getting the pet theories of our panel, stephen bush from the new statesman, and the sun on sunday s dave wooding. let s catch up on the latest developments from the campaign trail today. the liberal democrats have launched their party manifesto in east london. leader tim farron called on voters to support his party and ensure they get a choice about britain s future relationship with europe. i believe that our children will have a brighter future if we are inside the european union. that they will be safer and better off. that our economy will be stronger and our country will have more influence in the world. butjust because i believe that doesn t mean i think peop
They investigated the israeli lasers. i think that was too weird. they used taxpayer money to do that even though they were being thrown out of state courts by the hour. what is your sense of the people who come in behind bill barr and the interplay with trump and their testimony about trump s role. we have in donohue s notes, and i think this came out from the senate judiciary committee s hearing, it seems that they implicate trump as the leader of the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election result. what s clear, and make makes a very important point, the justice department broke all kind of norms, target trump s political opponents, to investigate his own pet theories, and even to try to delegitimize his political opponents. but for barr the line was obstructing the peaceful transfer of power without any
This also establishes some of the parameters that tom is talking about here. these are very narrow and very limited charges. the failure to convict today largely was a result, this my judgment, of the fact the fbi has to establish that not only was their general counsel lied to but it was material. the defendant maintained he never lied about who he represented or why he was there. also, the lie, even if there was one, wouldn t have been material, because the fbi would have still investigated this information. so this entire situation smacks of sour grapes, perhaps at best an effort by former attorney general bill barr to curry favor with the white house, at worst an effort to appease donald trump and investigate one of this pet theories, what trump called the russia hoax. thank you both for jumping in on that breaking news. john durham has issued a