investigations into the current president s family. ted lieu, democrat of california, set to orient facts as they exist on earth one. watch. let me ask you a series of basic questions to get facts out to the american people about our system of justice. trump adviser roger stone was convicted in a federal court, correct? that s my recollection. trump donor elliott brady was convicted in a federal court. correct? also my recollection. the attorney general at the time for those two convictions was bill barr, which president nominated bill barr for attorney general? president trump. you were the fbi director for all of those cases at the time. which president nominated you? president trump. okay. what these facts show is we don t have a two-tiered system of justice. we have one department of justice that goes after criminals regardless of party idealogy. all of these folks were convicted under the administrations of three separate republican attorneys general. i
thank you so much for letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. the beat with ari melber starts now. happy monday. thank you very much. i m ari melber and of all of the important items that begin this week, we have one our office is buzzing about that we are lighting up about, if you will, if you ll take the visual entendre. the man you see there rainn wilson from nbc s hit the office will join us live by the end of this hour and that is some office news. believe me, we think it s worth sticking around for that. the top story of the news, though, is a loss for a trump-era prosecutor who has been trying and failing to find any deep state conspiracy against donald trump after getting his special political assignment from trump attorney general bill barr. i m talking about a special counsel, you may remember, was tapped originally in that trump-barr doj before the biden administration and the project was to investigate the investigators to hash and re-li
releasing the search warrant itself. the doj arguing the road map was too sensitive to be released. citing witness protection and ongoing investigation. the doj lost that argument today. the judge finding that those prosecutors failed to meet the burden to prove the entire of adate should remain sealed, ordering the garland doj to file their secret proposed redactions within a week. so that s a loss for them on process and a win for getting more information about this operation, as a general citizen, if you are interested in learning even more about what s going on there, well, that s a win. most news outlets wanted the outcom outcome. trump also wanted that outcome. he went from hiding the original warrant, which he had the whole time, then saying he wanted it released, then the judge releasing some new materials as well today like more of the warrant application with sites he illegally possessed contrabrand at mar-a-lago. it is in early stages as they review the evidence th
supposed to protect how can you if you know a vote is fraudulent, right, how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to congress? donald trump justifying the chants of his supporters calling for the death of mike pence. the january 6th committee holds its third public hearing today, focused on the pressure trump put on his vice president to overturn the election. we will tell you what to expect. plus, new reporting that ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, was in communication with trump lawyer john eastman as he tried to overturn the election. and new reporting that pro-trump lawyers hoped the wild scene that trump teased to his supporters ahead of the capitol attack would pressure the supreme court to get involved in their election efforts. and dow futures fall more than 500 points after markets first rallied around the fed decision to hike interest rates. steve rattner helps us break down the latest moves on the economy. we re also follo
investigators aren t hearing from him either. chief pete arredondo essentially gone radio silent, not responding to a request for followup interview with investigators there for days. that according to the texas department ofof public safety. chief arredondo made the decision of course not to send officers into that classroom while the carnage was still taking place. every key piece of testimony and evidence will help those families get answers. the last thing we need is silence in the face of a need for those answers. the chief has not responded to multiple requests from cnn for comment on this. we are also learning more this morning about the gunman and how he got into that school. texas investigators now forced to walk back a claim they made that teacher propped over a door prior to the shooting that day. the teacher s lawyer pushed back on that account noting that the teacher shut the door when she realized there was a shooter on campus. authorities are looking into