have been on it may have affected a presidential election. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. it was weeks before the 2020 presidential election. 51 intelligence officials signed that letter. the letter called the laptop by hunter biden russian disinformation. in an exclusive interview, the then campaign advisor says he had nothing to do with it. with regard to that letter, i didn t wasn t my idea, didn t ask for it or solicit it and i think the testimony that the former deputy director of the c.i.a. mike morrell put forward confirms that? do you except it is not russian disinformation? i am not engaging in politics. i have a lot of my agenda. things we just talked about. harris: mike morrell testified blinken was the impetus for the statement. house republicans demanding information on the original letter. who crafted it in total? the deadline for blinken and others thursday for that information. blinken s denial says more ties between him and
candidacy. and co-host of the good lies trying to make sense of the continued allegiance to the nra, at the nra meeting. stay tuned for that chat. good evening, i m mehdi hasan, if you support the democratic party, you probably don t want to hear this forecast from election expert and political analyst dave wasserman of the cook political report because he posted this tweet last week projecting that republicans would gain a hefty 20 to 35 seats in the house in november s midterm elections. ouch. exactly the kind of defeat president barack obama once called a shellacting, and republicans are planning for that victory for control of congress for what they re going to do and i tell you this won t be health care policy or tackling prices at the pump, top gops have conservative think tankers on the tony eastern shore of maryland ways to investigate the biden administration as soon as they get congress, and looking for flimsy excuses to launch congressional probes according to
shortly before entering that facility. as the investigation proceeds the politics of gun control rise again to the surface. emotional cries for new legislation and those who encyst more laws will not prevent these kind of tragedies from happening. we will cover it all tonight from all angles. we begin with correspondent jeff paul in uvalde. good evening, jeff. yeah, bret. tonight we are learning from authorities that 30 minutes before the shooting the suspect apparently sent some messages on social media. we don t nowhere they went and who they went to and when they opened them up. but two of those messages, according to officials, talked about shooting his grandmother. talked about wanting to go to an elementary school to shoot it up. authorities did confirm that after shooting his grandmother, the suspect then drove away from that scene crashing his pickup truck near robb elementary school. we are told there was an armed school police officer on campus but didn t stop the