for the most outstanding journalism of the year, and they delivered this warning. on the political fronts, i think, it is clear that the nation is facing the most serious internal attacks on the fundamental values and institutional structures that define a democracy. since the pulitzer s were introduced a century ago. then precisely, to counteract problematic authoritarian tendencies, throughout the society. now that warning was followed by the announcement of that year s pulitzer prize for national reporting, which went to the new york times and the washington post for quote, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest on russian interference in the 2016 election and its connection to the trump campaign, the presidents elects transition team, and his eventual administration. that choice naturally drew the ire of then president donald trump, who did not stop complaining about the decision, even after he left the white house. it actually lead the pulitzer board t
Groups the oath keepers and proud boys. both used the fifth amendment. the committee expected to release more transcripts throughout the end through the end of the year. joining us now, executive editor of new york.com, david rhodes. thank you for joining us. you ve been speaking with legal experts about this information that was again supposeded to supposed to come out yesterday. there was a glitch. no one has come up to the agreement with why there was the delay. but what is the referral look like as far as the doj is concerned? the most important thing for prosecutors is they need facts. they need evidence. they need people cooperating more than this group that took the fifth and giving them the kind of things they can use in a courtroom to prosecute people. so the prosecutors don t need legal theories. they don t need you know can you crew this crime or that crime, it s to get this inner circle to
Joining us now are sadie gurman, reporter for the wall street journal, covering the justice department, and david rohde, executive editor of news for the new york.com. it s great to have both of you with us. sadie, all start with you, you covered the justice department every day. he spent a lot of time, there is not a lot that the attorney general takes questions as he did today, especially for the american people to see it in realtime. he was clearly prepared to respond to the recent criticism that a lot of people have been leveling at the doj. what did you make of the attorney general s remarks today? when i saw there in the attorney general s conference room was a very forceful response. it did not offer a lot of new information about the status of the investigation, but was intended to offer assurances to the american public that this investigation remains a top priority for the justice department, even as it the much more public january 6th committee hearings continue to cap
Wrote a memo about how to beat hillary clinton, joining us on the phone is our correspondent ryan lizzo. what have you learned? what i posted at the new york.com is a strategy memo from the 2007 campaign. and what is interesting about it, it s basically the obama brain trust david axelrod, the polster who thousanow works for hillary clinton, laying out how you beat hillary clinton. clinton was the dominant frontrunner, but she had vulnerabilities and they had to figure out how to exploit them. so what is really interesting for most viewers will be the unvarnished language they used about her and they argue that they had to take down hillary clinton not on policy grounds, but on character grounds. one of the interesting quotes is that the reason clinton
joining us now from new york is the founder and editor-in-chief of swagger new york.com sean pea kbrar regis, also a contributory our sister network, hln. thanks for joining us. do you think this song and this gesture by prince will have an impact? oh absolutely. you know i this eight a lot of people have actually been waiting for an artist like prince an iconic artist like prince to really come out and say something. throughout the last six months we haven t seen very many artists really say much. you know, p. diddy and rick ross put out a song shortly after the death of michael brown don t shoot, didn t get any radio play didn t go anywhere. for prince to really stand out, put out a song and then fill an entire stadium of 11,000 people this is a big, big statement. i think people are listening. prince usually stays out of the political fray though. he is not one of those who usually likes to get in the middle of hot topics. are you surprised to see him do this? you know