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>> and we start the fourth hour of "morning joe" with the january 6 select committee holding the final public hearing before the july 4th recess and there were plenty of fireworks and a lot of drama. top officials from the justice department described then president donald trumps relentless obsessive efforts to persuade doj officials to join him in a plat to overturn the 2020 election results by just saying the election was corrupt and essentially act as an extension of his campaign. r...

Slates of electors to congress. both michael and kelli ward were among the pro-trump activists who signed certificates claiming to be the qualified electors for trump from arizona. and an attorney for the wards said this is an investigation based on allegations that our clients engaged in core first amendment activity, petitioning for congress for address of grievances and ward was subpoenaed by the house select committee back in february. so, barbara, kelli ward was a key player here in the sta...

Today attorney general william barr is telling a story that literally the reverse happened. >> i think probably from a civil liberties standpoint the greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state, principly the law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies, both to spy on political opponents but also to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election. as far as im aware this is the first time in history this has been t...

There has to be some basis before we use these very potent powers in our core first amendment activity. and here i felt this was very flimsy. >> there is a kernel of a point here. in the abstract barr is correct. if president obama had ordered the fbi to open an investigation and then use the existence of that investigation to tip the scales to hillary clinton, that would be wildly wrong and dangerous and a threat to democracy. but we know that is not what happened thanks to the newly released i...

I think that this is important and what we are seeing, you know, i would anyway disagree with mollie, i do not think attorney general barr is the adult in the room, i think attorney general barr is predetermining because of whatever bias he is showing where durham, the next report may go, and its also showing the american public that they dont wait for evidence. this report is damning in many ways of what the fbi did and how it handled it. but it gave them cover and said that the beginning of th...

Greatest danger to our free system is that the incumbent government use the apparatus of the state, principally, the law enforcement agencies and the intelligence agencies, both to spy on political opponents. but as to use them in a way that could affect the outcome of the election. as far as im aware, this is the first time in history that this has been done to a presidential campaign. the use of these counterintelligence techniques against a presidential campaign. and we have to remember, in t...