and defended the words he used to explain that decision in the report he sent to merrick garland, the attorney general. i said president biden was old and he had a poor memory because that s what i saw when i interviewed him, hur keeps on saying. anticipating that testimony, the white house released a transcript of that interview between president biden and special counsel hur hoping to refute those findings. so let s get into it. find out exactly what that transcript says. also what democrats and republicans got out of today s testimony. joining us now, nbc news white house correspondent, mike memoli and lisa rubin. first off to you, mike. you read the whole transcript. i tried to get you on the show yesterday, you couldn t come on. you said you were doing something special in secret. now we know what it was. you were reading the transcript. does it line up with the way hur described the interview? certainly in the mind of democrats, no. that s part of what the reaction wa
special counsel jack smith against donald trump. in an interview with cnn, mar-a-lago employee brian butler painting a painting a very specific picture of trump s inner circle, and how it operated more like a mafia family than anything else. with loyalty prized above everything. a world where fealty to the boss led to criminal exposure. now, nbc news has not independently confirmed butler s identity as trump employee number 5 and he declined nbc s request for comment. in his interview last night, butler says he helped trump s co-defendants, walt nowta and carlos move those boxes containing some of our nation s most sensitive national security secrets. watch. he followed me. he pulled out, got behind me, got to the airport, i ended up loading all the luggage i had and he had a bunch of boxes. you noticed that he had boxes. oh, yeah, they were the boxes that were in the indictment, the white bankers boxes. that s what i remember. did you have any idea at the time that
little attention, new allegation s involving hunter and his father, some corroborated, some debunked, some disputed have surfaced and now the house speaker is actually embracing the idea of an impeachment probe and since there s no way the democratic senate would do that how should the press handle this? is it payback for the two trump impeachments? revenge for the trump indictment s? does it reflect a growing confidence that whistleblowers are correcting it to the white house miss deeds. it may just be an effort to damage joe biden before next year s election, in which case that will depend on just how much can be proven. i m howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. president biden joked that with inflation declining, the republicans are going to have to find a new issue against him. maybe it ll impeach me because it s coming down, i don t know. i love that one. but mccarthy shift on impeachment has totally reset the media conversation. i believe that we will follow th
The mid-terms pretty much changed the calculation. biden overperformed or the democrats overperformed in a way that i don t think was necessarily expected by many on the right, just because of history and tradition when it comes to the flipping of the house, but i do think that going into this next election cycle things are going to be different and a lot harder and i think the biden administration recognizes those who are on the campaign recognize this , some republicans are giving them assist, we see desantis, you know, culture warring as much as he possibly can but for the most part, the democrats have a much steeper hill to climb. this go-around than they did before unless we see republicans not taking lessons from the mid-terms running again on things like abortion rights. that was unfortunate for them and pretty much an achilles heel. the other problem democrats have the president has very low numbers and their question about his age, so thanks so much. up next twitter is out,
The Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act just moved through the U.S. House of Representatives, supported by a weird bipartisan coalition. This is very, very good news.