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understatement, redacted, we are learning some new details about the fbi justification for the search of the former presidents home. >> sandra: one part reading "after initial review of the nra referral, the fbi opened a criminal investigation to, among other things, determine how the documents with one classification marking and records were removed from the white house or any other authorized locations for the storage of classified materials, and came to be stored at the premises." >...

Shes sick in bed right now with covid and we wishe her well apparently shes got a bad case. on twitter, she posted this update. covid is tab salute pits. at its worst it was like a bad flu and it dragged on and lingered. im vaxedened boostered, and got a breakthrough case. corona can definitely hurt. anyone who has had it can attest to that but if youre simply describing what happened, that isnt enough. you cant admit that the vaccines you took to prevent you from getting sick didnt work. somebo...

To house speaker nancy pelosi objecting to impeachment proceedings in the most bombastic terms imaginable. i am not going to read it here. youre welcome to in your own time. its basically six pages of performative explanation points from the president. the white house counsels office apparently taking care to put out word tonight they didnt have anything to do with this letter, this is all him. our president is to explanation points what a porcupine is to quills and he feels threatened and brist...

With in the course of history. weve seen some unusual things. i dont know if you heard about this presidents six page letter which he sent up to capitol hill, but we received this today. i guarantee thats going to be exhibit a in a lot of political science classes for generations to come. it is a rant by the president on this whole impeachment proceeding. it is a concise compenium of his greatest hits, his 15,000 tweets this president -- ive received letters like this. you did once when you work...

>> really good. so speaker pelosi said she prays for the president on the first page the president said he doesnt believe her, shes offending people of faith. and its a terrible thing youre doing but you have to live with it, not i. mary catherine your take? >> not i. no. >> there are eight explanation points. >> very typical trump letter. quite long. there are some things true in it and ill point those out for sake of argument. people who want impeachment should be nonpartisan and this is not. ...

Couple of journalists there and then to see the boss doing this at home, its just a complete 180 from what happened to the american values. >> how -- tell me how this -- so i was told by a former intelligence official that this kind of statement is a policy statement. it would not have gone out for interagency review how does a statement like this with eight exclamation points go out? >> well, ive never known john bolton to be a fan of explanation points. >> me, either. >> that statement was dic...

I know john bolton the explanation points are the childlike prose of donald j. trump. your thoughts? >> were in a world thats much more dangerous for journalists because the message -- were the country that used to stand up for the right of journalists to report and against this kind of behavior he just sent a green light to any dictator around the world who wants to literally chop up a journalist in a third country because they dont like what they wrote the world is much less safe for those chi...

To know what he would say in writing, its sort of meaningless to them, or more likely they want to ask him that face to face to see how he responds to follow-up questions, to see body language and tone. all of that stuff matters. and so thats why i dont think you see those questions. the obstruction of justice piece here. >> chuck, i also wonder, you know, we see donald trumps -- we hear his voice through his tweets all day, every day, unfortunately, for us as a country. im guessing his legal an...

Entered the church, reverend james harlan. he asked people in the church to put their phones away and said we are here to worship on this christmas morning -- or christmas eve. very late in the night. griff: put out this tweet. this is president trump has changed twitter forever. story of the year twitter. so this was his christmas eve message. people are proud to be saying merry christmas again. i am proud to have led the charge against the assault of our cherished and beautiful phrase merry ch...

Distract from the fact that he is now backing an accused child molester for senate in alabama? >> exactly. 12 hours he got the question that he knew he was going to get for a couple weeks now about roy moore. he made the decision to go kind of all in on a steve bannon-like answer. you know, sort of stick by roy moore. sort of say, well, theres a bigg bigger. theres something bigger going on here playing into that insinuation game that he goes to often to mudthy wady the waterst away from the fac...