thousand times. you can stick a gun in someone s face, ask them to empty the cash register. as long as nobody got hurt, only a misdemeanor. since taking office, downgraded 52% of felony cases to misdemeanors. years old hush money payment to a porn star we all forgot about, that the feds dismiss? that demands a full force of the law and upgraded felony charge. all of this should come as no shock. the fix was in from the start. here s brad campaigning on getting trump. lot of people are wondering whoever has this job, are they going to convict donald trump. that is the number one issue. i was the chief deputy in the attorney general s office. we sued the trump administration over 100 times. you believe it should happen? i believe we have the hold him accountable. house republicans right through bragg s political charade. he brags about lowering felonies to misdemeanors and not prosecuting. this wasn t something they would pursue. even this district attorney saying
looming large over this summit is the role of cartels pushing migrants and drugs into the u.s. and the question of whether mexico truly controls its own border. biden s dhs secretary admits the vast majority of migrants who crossed into the u.s. illegally go through smuggling rings. and mexico tried to show strength with that high profile arrest. it s been described as a gift to biden and a message that mexico s approach to cartels called hugs, not bullets, prevents blood shed. tonight, president biden receives a dignified reception in mexico city for the summit with his north american counterpart to talk immigration and drug trafficking. but just days before. [gunfire] it took three it thousand 586 mexican soldiers descending on sinaloa to capture drug king pin son of chapo. cartels forced down two air force planes and shot up a commercial airliner. and authorities confiscated 26 barrett rifles, six machine guns, 26 long arms. nearly 600 magazines. bullet proof vests and
i m in an untenable position. the constitution is on my side on this. we ll see about that. next week the january 6th committee begins a month of hearings with the promise of revealing new witnesses and unseen documents. we re getting a new report from the new york times that chief of staff to vice president warned the secret service one day before the insurrection that trump could publically turn on pence and create a security risk for the vice president. the secret service disputes the account and said concerns about violence directed at pence by the president s actions were never communicated. still, the next day after pence moved to certify the 2020 votes and trump attacked him on twitter came this infamous moment. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. hang mike pence. cnn s ryan nobles has more on the moves by the justice department and what s ahead in the investigation. ryan? reporter: jim this news has to come as a disappointment to the january 6th select committ
to act on criminal contempt referrals for the former white house chief of staff and deputy chief of staff, a decision the january 6th committee calls puzzling. the committee will hold its first ever public hearing on thursday night. they plan to show previously unseen material documenting january 6th, call witnesses, and provide a summary of its findings so far. cnn has learned that two people directly tied to former vice president mike pence have received invitations to appear. this as a stunning report in the new york times says one day before pence certified the election, a top pence aide warned the secret service that trump was going to turn publicly against the vice president putting him in danger. the secret service disputes that account. of course we now know how january 6th unfolded. we want pence! we want pence! and joining me now is veteran democratic strategist james carville. great to see you. thanks for doing this. after the justice department made that ann
girls back to a hotel in colombia as well where they were doing safety prep for a visit by president barack obama. secret service spokesman said it happened on wednesday. the agents were relieved of their duty and sent packing on thursday before the president arrived on friday. he s in colombia this weekend for the summit of the americas. within the last hour, they have learned that the five military service members who were backing up these agents in colombia are in trouble, too, and the united states southern command said they violated curfew and nay have been involved in inappropriate conduct in the same hotel. white house is trying to keep the scandal from overshadowing the president s trip. this is a matter that is being looked into in an appropriate manner by the secret service itself. it would not be appropriate for the president to characterize something that is being looked into by the secret service at this time. all i can tell you is that it was he was made awa