it s 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-president s ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report the washington post described this way as, quote, landing with a thud resulting in no new charges and none of the widespread abuses trump and his allies have alleged for years now. special counsel john durham testified today before the house judiciary committee. now, despite all those facts durham described his findings sobering and it was left to it democrats on the committee to point out the truth of his own investigation, an investigation that trump and his hand picked attorney general bill barr setup to inves
and dialing of the urgency, making no bones about the fact that if donald trump is back in office he will bring to bear some of this political violence and incite some of it, which we know some are afraid of the trend, the weight is moving in the country, and to touch on actually, the all-out war, and the all-out word he can to in the campaign, and amount of campaigning every day and not allowing trumps lies to go unchallenged and that sort of thing. what biden was saying was people don t actually want the state of politics to be a constant factor attachment battle, they don t want to feel like it s my team against your team and we can never find common ground, and been talking about it on cable, motivated on twitter or x or whatever we call it now, the average voter does want to see elected officials work together. i thought it was interesting to that into a speech and and it was an important piece, an important piece of how you will hear him talk as the campaign moves for
selling and then the rapidly developing clash in washington as we re getting new details about what the true republican agenda may be in the congress or in the people running for president. there are prominent conservatives that are reviving an idea long left for dead and interesting one that barack obama himself warned about on the midterm campaign trail. the idea, bringing back what was once a bush era plan to change or gut social security. the president tonight we re told will say much more about how he plans to reshape social security. the system is headed toward bankruptcy. i earned capital in the campaign, political capital. strengthen it, improve it, do not privatize it. even though some consider it, some the third rail of american politics. some are afraid to touch it. some don t want to touch it. some provide excuses not to touch it. [ laughter ] do you want to touch it? even in friendly territory it s fair to say he s finding that his plan is going t
florida lawmakers can w disney on the docket, the one that ended the tax district after the magic kingdom came out against the don t say gay law. i m hallie jackson in washington, but let s start with nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter, and nbc news meteorologist bill karins. let s take a look about what we know about the story that has developed quite a bit over the last 18 hours or so. very strong earthquakes, two of them, in a region that includes part of turkey and syria. the first was early in the morning. 7.8 magnitude. the second later in the afternoon, 7.5. we know at least 3,000 people are dead. it s very likely that number, horrifically will go up. rescuers on the ground, countries around the world promising to send help as well. the quakes took place near the turkish city, pretty large, population, more than 2 million people, people as far away as egypt and israel felt this thing. that s the difference between new york and chicago. i want to get to molly
to locate the murder weapon but his dna was reportedly found at the crime scene. here now with the very latest, dan springer is with us. jayson, this is a big day here, obviously. this case had apparently stumped investigators for a long time and it appeared to be almost going cold a week ago but then we just got word today that after more than a month and a half and 19,000 tips and dozens of cops from the local state and federal levels working on this case they finally make an arrest in the killings of those four university of idaho students. 28-year-old brian kohberger is being held without bond on first-degree murder. he was denied bail. a swat team from the penn state police made the arrest at his parent s house at 3:00 in the morning. it was in eastern pennsylvania, 2,500 miles away from moscow, idaho. kohberger faces four counts of felony degree murder and burglary. more information on the case is sealed until he s physically back in idaho and scharffed with an arre