Answer academy, recited a garbled version of the claim made by his ally. Its a shame whats happened with the fbi. But were going to rebuild the fbi. It will be bigger and better than ever. But it is very sad when you look at those documents and how theyve done that is really, really disgraceful. And you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it. Theyve found tremendous things on the other side. When you look at the Hillary Clinton investigation, it was you know, ive been saying it for a long time. That was a rigged system, folks. All right. In isolation, its actually hard to figure out what hes even saying. But its not hard to figure out where the president picked up those Talking Points that he was fumbling around with. Those Talking Points have been airing around the clock on trump tv. Its also hearing them directly from people like congressman matt gaetz, a republican on the House Judiciary Committee who
took a Ride On Air Force One with the president last week. He personal
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. The senator from maryland. Senator, good to see you. Thank you for joining us. What do you make of that quite unexpected News Conference today . It did seem Like Full Court press, agreeing with the fact there was interference, there is interference, and i wasnt as confident that we know exactly what were supposed to do about it, but it seemed like everybody in that room seemed to agree this is something we have to deal with. First, its good to be with you. Youre exactly right, it was very clear that russia interfered in our 2016 elections and it was acknowledged that it was mr. Putin, the russian government, that was behind that. They acknowledged that this campaign is continuing both in trying to influence how voters vote as well as we are concerned that they may even go into our election apparatus. No evidence that theyre doing that yet, but they are certainly exploring that. That was very clear. And they laid o
Essentially an unindicted coconspirator. Yesterday we saw how the judicial system is supposed to work. Now, in a Functioning Congress, All Of The Lights would be blinking red today. In a Functioning Congress, the outgoing House Speaker would be directing the outgoing House Judiciary Chair to be beginning the very similar process of investigating cohens investigations. I wouldnt say you start an impeachment hearing, but you start the process. The president was accused of committing a crime in a federal courtroom. And if enough evidence is found in a Functioning Congress the committee would begin to draw up articles of impeachment. Of course this isnt a Functioning Congress. Right now it is sort of not around, controlled by republicans w. H. Ho have been unwilling to hold its party leader accountable. Is there a Point Riepublicans will decide enough is enough and abandon ship . The house isnt in washington
but heres what some Senate Republicans said today. These are serious charges. They
to make sure they know they have love but as far away as where i live in atlanta. did you ever have doubt? it took over two months before there was even an arrest in this case. initially i was sought out pby the uncle looking for some advice on the kill of his n nephew. we gave some advice but when it came out, it was horrific, it was awful, it was terrible. and right here where we re at now, now my community can heal again. miss jones and mr. arbery can probably rest a little better we re having some trouble there with martin s microphone. let s go back to sara sidner and ryan young. guys, if you re still with me and listening, i just want to
0 served as well as a country. in fact going into this holiday weekend i think it would have torn this country apart. that s how fragile our democracy is. that s how tired and exhausting it is for people of color. i ve been talking to ben crump and lee merrick all day long. today we ve had that accountability. but i will tell you this is just one day and finally we got it. tomorrow will come and hopefully more black people won t be killed because of the color of their skin. bakari sellers, thank you. thank you to all of our guests, our analysts, our reporters this past hour. i m going to hand it off to alisyn camerota who picks up the breaking news now. hello, everyone. welcome to newsroom, i m alisyn camerota. after 11 1/2 hours of deliberations, jurors find all three defendants in the ahmaud arbery murder trial guilty of murder. ahmaud arbery s mother, wanda, was visibly emotional as the verdict was read. you can see that crowds outside of the courthouse are chanting ahmaud arber