it s 4:00 in the east. big day of news today. on capitol hill today a brutal collision between reality and delusion, a republican effort to whitewash the ex-president s ties for russia culminating in a veteran prosecutor under oath seemingly unwilling to acknowledge basic facts in service of republican conspiracy theories. just a few weeks after releasing a 300-page report after an investigation that went on for four years, cost the taxpayers $6.5 million, a report the washington post described this way as, quote, landing with a thud resulting in no new charges and none of the widespread abuses trump and his allies have alleged for years now. special counsel john durham testified today before the house judiciary committee. now, despite all those facts durham described his findings sobering and it was left to it democrats on the committee to point out the truth of his own investigation, an investigation that trump and his hand picked attorney general bill barr setup to inves
saying negative things about members of the fbi sirka 2016 or allowing others to say it unrebutted. that s john durham at this point. i was actually more surprised by a counter theme to what you were just saying. there was a number of occasions in which he was refusing to be the guy the republicans wanted him to be. you know, he came there and he said, you know, this investigation was open because of this tip from this australian diplomat that suggested a trump campaign aide had advanced knowledge russia was going to dump out e-mails they had hacked, and that the fbi had a duty or obligation to investigate that. totally against the republican narrative it started because of the steele dossier or it should never have been opened. his report only accuses the fbi of confirmation bias. at one point one of the republican congressman was pushing him, kind of goading him to say that was really political
the skills to succeed and most important of all, championing small business and creating jobs they have more meat. they need to put them in wors that the ordinary american gets and go to the battleground states and talk about them. he has a plan, reforming our tax code, restrain spending. cutting the deficit, having a plan to put the budget into balance. they matter, but he needs to lay them out. sean: does the president s narrative this was far worse than i thought, even though he ran on the worst economy since the great depression, so maybe he was telling us we had a depression, but we didn t measure t. does the narrative work i stopped this thing. this was going to be worse than i thought. then he explained the $6 trillion in new debt in one term and fewer americans working. can that work? yeah. if you leave it unrebutted, but