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being here with us tonight. the remember when donald trump and his allies were very, very concerned about the mishandling of classified information? it was the thing they cared about almost more than anything else. much of trump s presidential campaign was premised on the idea that his opponent could not be trusted, because she mishandled classified information. in fact, trump s campaign was so concerned about the proper handling of government documents, they believed hillary clinton should go to jail. if i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation. it s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. because he would be in jail. should hillary clinton be in jail? yes or no, mayor giuliani? you know her. you are a prosecutor. if i did what she did, i would be in jail. if i did a tent a tenth of what she did, i would be in jail tod ....
any more red lines when they talk about how the field candidates. anything goes when you talk about these republicans. nonetheless, jarred majeski doesn t have access to i m sure democrats in ohio celebrating. we ll see how that turns. out alex, it s good to see my. friend thank you so. much we re gonna talk about democracy tonight because the r of history is long, but it bends towards justice, and it s good to remember that quote tonight because there have been many days in recent memory that it has not felt like we are bending towards justice. joe biden wins an election, donald trump and republicans just can t claim he didn t. trump incites an insurrection at the capitol, five weeks later, he s acquitted by republican senators. in may, it is reported that the wife of the longest serving supreme court justice is encouraging republicans to overthrow the election. and nothing happens. next month, clarence thomas votes to take away constitutional right, the right-wi ....
look into your situation. it s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. because he would be in jail. should hillary clinton be in jail? yes or no, mayor giuliani? you know her. you are a prosecutor. if i did what she did, i would be in jail. if i did a tent a tenth of what she did, i would be in jail today. remember the crowds at the republican national convention just thundering over and over again, lock her up? what they were actually saying was lock her up for mishandling classified information. once donald trump did become president, he set about trying to actually do it, to put hillary clinton in jail because of her supposed mishandling of classified documents. on multiple occasions, he told top justice department officials to prosecute clinton. he ordered his white house counsel, don mcgahn, to get the justice department to prosecute her. according to the new book from journalis ....
china s threats of retaliatory measures. soon after nancy pelosi s arrival they announced a series of military options and drills were defying their warnings. details tonight from the pentagon. speak of the pentagon edge watching china s defense ministry, 21 chinese warplanes entered its air defense identification zone as tensions between the two global powers under a new phase. supporters and critics it gathered as house speaker nancy pelosi arrived in taiwan with five other members of congress, just before midnight. she is the highest ranking u.s. official to visit the island democracy and first house speaker to do so since newt gingrich 25 years ago. taiwan s tallest building welcome to speaker pelosi with a simple message, thank you. china s foreign ministry warning that the u.s. is playing with fire and might get burned. we will continue to operate in the seas and these guys of the western pacific as we have done for decades. we will continue to support taiwan. ....
yesterday, the ap got ahold of majeski s military records, which indicated that, majeski, quote, never deployed to afghanistan. it s actual military service appears to just be a six month stint helping to load planes at an airbase in qatar, a longtime u.s. ally, very far from what most people would call a tough combat tour. both the cook political report and politico rated this race as a toss-up. republicans thought they could win it and we re putting their full weight behind majewski until today. axios reports that the national republican congressional committee has canceled all of its ad buys for jerry majeski. i m not sure if lying about your military service is a red line for the republican party or they just decided it was a hurdle that majewski would be overcome. but this is very good news for democrats marcy captor and democrats in house overall. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. ....