interior shows that as you point out the point out the biden administration actually moved forward increasing royalty fees on fossil fuel drilling of the alaskan coach that is despite their own assessment that lower fees would increase energy security for the state. the decision made by former bureau of energy management director amanda lefton and back by assistant secretary laura daniel davis. now, for her part, she said it would attract more bids and be more likely to facilitate expeditious and orderly development of offshore resources adding that the higher rate quote constitutes the most reasonable balancing of environmental and economic factors for the american public. it was switched on capitol hill but democrats senator joe manchin saying he is appalled and that the leaked memo makes it crystal clear that this administration is literally putting their radical climate agenda ahead of the need for people of alaska and the united states. and well, over at the white house,
complete, that s in addition to the ones joe said were secure in his garage, right here with the prized corvettes, adam schiff having a hard time defending, because it looks like the white house tried to cover this up. i m glad that there is a special prosecutor that has been appointed. you are glad there is a special prosecutor. to speak the classified documents are to be taken seriously, no one is above the law, so i am glad to see the justice department doing its work. it certainly embarrassing, right? i would like to see congress to its own assessments and receive an assessment from the intelligence community of whether there was an exposure to others of these documents, whether there was harm to national security. greg: you know things are bad when you lose adam schiff, even the media thinks that this torpedoes the notion that he is mr. confidence. this is very, very big deal politically. i don t think sitting down and hunkering down and just acting like it
that s our show for tonight. a special edition of prosecuting donald trump: witness to history starts right now. after 22 witnesses and 16 days of testimony, donald trump has become the first ever american president to be convicted of a crime. this trial will go down in history. but without cameras in the courtroom, americans never got to see the evidence for themselves. they didn t get to see trump s eyes close and his mouth go slack while he sat slumped at the defense table. they didn t get to hear stormy daniels salacious testimony first harnd. they didn t get to watch the judge clear the courtroom, seemingly in anger, as he butted heads with one particularly truculent ewitness. instead, americans had to rely on word from the few reporters who were actually in the room making note, writing down, committing to memory the things we saw and experienced. things that a transcript cannot capture. take a look. that was something to behold. i could hear gasps all around me. i
Were made between the court, the nypd, and the secret service. for example, trump enters through a separate entrance to the courthouse. there is a street that is blocked off for his motorcade to approach that entrance. they use separate elevators. he has his own holding rooms, and when he appears for those press conferences that myrna noted, he comes through a set of darkened glass doors, beyond which are those holding rooms. however, there are some things that are going on here that definitely have been abused. at the first of which is the reserve seats. those are supposed to be for extra members of his defense team, and that is the way that the d.a.s office has used their side, the bright side, as you put it earlier. on trump s case, his is never rotating surrogate operation. those surrogates not only have their phones, but they are tweeting from the courtroom. we can prove that they are tweeting from the courtroom given the timestamps on their tweets. and they are often doing it to
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