The select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the u. S. Capitol will be in order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare the committee in resource recess at any point pursuant to house deposition regulation 10. The chair announces the committees approval to release deposition material presented during todays hearing. Good afternoon, may god bless the United States of america. Four months ago, this committee started to present our findings to you, the American People. From the beginning, we understand it understood that some people watching the proceedings would wrongly assume the committees investigation was partisan. That is why i asked those that were skeptical of our work to simply listen. To listen to the evidence, to hear the testimony with an open mind. To lead to the facts speak for themselves before reaching any for any judgment. Over the course of the hearings, evidence has proven that there was a multipart plan led by former President Donald Trump
Didnt surface. They dropped a dime on his son. There was a secondary list of people to go into there. If you got to detroit, he would have been gone to the secondary for additional screening. That was an example where the apparatus didnt work or maybe that is an unfair critique of the apparatus. It is down to what you think the mission of intelligence is. Are you going to prevent every little event . The answer is no, you will not be able to always operate perfectly. But i think the Intelligence Community is doing a better job on Counter Terrorism and we are safer from a largescale attack. The question that peter raises is that because of the constitutional reform, or because we were spending double what we did before 911. So increased money, focused and lessens learned from 911, or rather overtime whether the commission is leading to increased National Security down the road. The Institutional Reforms are open questions and being debated but the Intelligence Community has improved per
In the next hour you will see a journalist edward lucas, author of the new cold war, politics professor, columnist and government and Foreign Service professor. And it is certainly true that russia is not at every stage. We talk seriously with the russians about north korea and we sometimes talk about a run and the middle east. It is true. Russia is engaged. But there are two reasons. I dont need to remind him how disgusting some of this stuff is. You can find it on the russian media. If you have not done it, i implore you, look at some of those propaganda videos. The images, the idea of the siege fortress. It is poisonous. It is poisoning russian public opinion. Every opinion poll shows the same veteran towards anti westernism to be where i am feeling optimistic, the whole thing, all this stuff is just played up in order to fool the russian people. In fact, all that want to do is to steal billions and billions and billions of dollars. I am not that optimistic. That is what is really s
Into an election. Thats the theme of the election. Whats driving a lot of the political situations were seeing now so well have a lot to talk about that. Congratulations on the new show. Thank you. Thank you very much my friend. Thank yall for joining us. Good morning and welcome to a. M. Joy and happy post valentines day. Hope you had a lovely one, if you woke up this morning wondering what happened to your country, when exactly the president of the United States became a king or a mob boss, when did purges of the federal government become a thing . Or the president directly intervening in federal court cases and attacking judges and directing his attorney general who to investigate and who to let off the hook, when did these things become a feature of our government and not just places in governments like russia and turkey. If you woke up wondering when we became that kind of country, thank a republican. Republican congressman and women sent donald trump a very clear message first by
Elbow each other out. There is a new nbc poll showing a tight race between joe biden and Bernie Sanders in South Carolina. Much more on that in a moment. Before we get into tonights news, i want to Say Something quite personal. As i watched one sided results of the caucus in nevada, irreached for a historical analogy and used a bad one. I was bad to refer to an event from the last days or the first days of world war ii. Senator sanders, im sorry for comparing anything from that tragic era in which so many suffered, especially the jewish people to ee elected result in which you were a well deserved winner. This is going to be a hard fought Heated Campaign of ideas. In the weeks and months ahead i will strive to do a better job myself of elevating the political discussion. Congratulations, by the way to you, senator sanders, and your supporters on a tremendous win down in nevada. As i mention, there is a new nbc news marist poll of likely democratic voters in South Carolina tonight that