i m mehdi hasan. september was supposed to be the month in which congress passed hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending and guess what? the house did. by a vote of 316-113. now you might be scratching your head and saying didn t the bipartisan infrastructure bill fail to come to a vote on thursday night? isn t the budget reconciliation bill nowhere near ready for a vote? you re right on both counts. i m not talking about those bills. i m talking about a bill that flew quietly under the radar in the house like a stealth bomber on the occasions in which it actually works. a bill which authorized $740 billion for the defense department. $768 billion total for defense. ka ching ka ching. see president biden submitted a $715 billion budget to congress for the defense department to which members of both parties said, as if. and just threw in $25 billion extra they found under the couch cushions presumably. yeah. in a supposedly divided congress they gave bipartisan support
is leading the charge to remove domestic extremism from within the governments rags. he joins us live. and investigating ufos. i m gonna speak with congressman robert garcia about the explosive whistleblower testimony from his hearing on ufos earlier this week. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. what a week. no, not this past one. i m talking about the week we are actually about to begin. one so jam-packed, so overflowing with legal developments for donald trump that special counsel jack smith superseding indictment might actually look quaint in retrospect. first up, smic d.c. jury set to meet again on tuesday, we might finally see donald trump charge for his efforts to interfere and overturn the 2020 election. but before that, the a fani willis is working from home period visually gains in fulton county, georgia. and it s just it s the most likely timeframe in which willis will announce charging decisions in our election interference investigational. tomorrow, mar-a-l
have you heard of the rosemary woods stretch? it is named after this woman, rosemary woods. the longtime secretary of richard nixon. woods became her career with nixon in 1950, went long before his time with the white house. she was so close to the family the nixon s daughters referred to her as aunt rose. in 1974, route woods was thrust into the national spotlight during the watergate scandal when investigators discovered a mysterious 18 and a half gap on one of the tapes handed over from the nixon white house. the tape was believed to contain a conversation between president nixon and his chief of staff three days after the watergate break-in. woods took responsibility for that gap. she tried to explain it away as an accident. as she tells, it she was simply transcribing the tape at her desk when the phone rang. as she reached for the phone, she mistakenly struck the wrong key on the recorder while her foot was on the machines pedal. the motion ended up somehow destroying t
good evening. i am mehdi hasan. have you heard of the rosemary woods stretch? it is named after this woman, rosemary woods. the longtime secretary of richard nixon. woods became her career with nixon in 1950, went long before his time with the white house. she was so close to the family the nixon s daughters referred to her as aunt rose. in 1974, route woods was thrust into the national spotlight during the watergate scandal when investigators discovered a mysterious 18 and a half gap on one of the tapes handed over from the nixon white house. the tape was believed to contain a conversation between president nixon and his chief of staff three days after the watergate break-in. woods took responsibility for that gap. she tried to explain it away as an accident. as she tells, it she was simply transcribing the tape at her desk when the phone rang. as she reached for the phone, she mistakenly struck the wrong key on the recorder while her foot was on the machines pedal. the moti
testimony from his hearing on ufos earlier this week. i m ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. what a week. no, not this past one. i m talking about the week we are actually about to begin. one so jam-packed, so overflowing with legal developments for donald trump that special counsel jack smith superseding indictment might actually look quaint in retrospect. first up, smith s d. c. jury set to meet again on tuesday, we might finally see donald trump charge for his efforts to interfere and overturn the 2020 election. but before that, da fani willis is working from home period visually gains in fulton county, georgia. and it s just it s the most likely timeframe in which willis will announce charging decisions in our election interference investigation. tomorrow, mar-a-lago property manager and new trump codefendant carles de olivera is set to be a rain in a classified documents case in miami. that is if he can find a lawyer. according to the superseding indictment, all of th