to vice president pence, mark short, greg jacob, they were both asked during their grand jury testimony about the fake elector scheme and the roles of trump lawyers rudy giuliani and john eastman. this morning in additions, the new york times and washington post are reporting justice department investigators back in april received phone records from key officials and aides in the trump administration including chief of staff mark meadows. all of this as the attorney general himself, merrick garland, is speaking out in a new interview responding to criticism that the justice department isn t moving fast enough. let s begin with cnn s evan perez. he s been standing by. what more are you learning about the justice department s investigation here? how broad and far they re looking? reporter: well, in this interview with nbc yesterday, the attorney general, merrick garland, made clear that this is a very broad investigation. this is what he described it as, an investigatio
on the green agenda. can the congress rein in energy costs. in a moment, we will speak about all of this. sandra: big show coming up. first, america reports with the safety of the supreme court in focus at this hour following a threat on the life of justice brett kavanaugh. hello, welcome everyone. sandra smith on this thursday afternoon in new york. hi, john. john: good to see you, glad you got the pink memo today. john roberts in washington. activists assembling outside of kavanaugh s home to protest demonstrations that are prohibited under federal law. the protest and in your face exercise just hours after police arrested a man accused of planning to assassinate the justice. police have charged nicholas roske with attempted murder. he could be indicted as early as today according to a criminal complaint. roske was planning to kidnap and kill kavanaugh when he was arrested early wednesday morning. sandra: republicans point the fingers at democrats rhetoric on abort
exactly the worst attack on the u.s. capitol in more than 200 years came to be. who was behind it and how the threat still looms over every aspect of american democracy? the washington post is reporting this about what to expect this. bennie thompson and liz cheney will lead the evening s presentation which will lead testimony from caroline edwards, she is a u.s. capitol police officer who was seriously nnged as pro-trump rioters and members of far-right extremist groups forced their way into the building. here s what january 6th committee member congressman jamie raskin told nbc s garrett haake to have officer edwards testify tonight. 150 officers ended up wounded, injured, hospitalized. the united states capitol has never seen anything like that. we ve had officers who ended up with broken ribs, broken vertebrae, broken arms, legs, feet, missing fingers, contusions, concussions and traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress syndrome that dozens and dozens of the
decade doing trumps dirty work. credibility issues are why the prosecution used the 20 witnesses who proceeded cohen to basically corroborate his story before they even put him on the stand. it is also why trump s defense team has single-mindedly sought to state their case on discrediting him. even in cases that might not be read crucial to rebutting the prosecution. for that reason the defense may think they racked up a victory for themselves today because during the cross-examination this morning, cohen admitted that he stole from the trump organization. in addition to the reimbursement for the hush money for stormie daniels, cohen was also given $50,000. that money was supposed to be a repayment for what cohen spent to hire a tech from to rig an online poll on trump s behalf. we don t have time to get into that detail. but as cohen said on the stand, he only paid trump $20,000 and kept the rest for himself. asked point blank today whether he stole from the trump organizati
but burisma, oh, my, that goes to the white house, can t have that. does the rhetoric involving the biting case have any basis in reality? i don t recollect the answer to that, but the fbi works for the justice department, i m sorry, you don t recollect whether you talked with anybody at fbi headquarters but investigation the president s son? i welcome you to the law firm of insurrection llp, where they work every single day on the half of one donald trump. political weaponization of the doj is on you. that went well, attorney general merrick garland getting growth on capitol hill, facing all those questions over all of the handling of the investigations into donald trump and hunter biden and everyone in between. charges that the justice department has been weaponized as well. coming up, going to be speaking to one of the lawmakers during the questioning, california congressman darrell isom. welcome, everybody, i m neil cavuto. want to go first to capitol hi