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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 wide...

Charlie's reporting and garret's he does not come out and refute the facts that predicated the opening of uninvestigation. it's simply this rather technical dispute about whether it should have been a preliminary instead of the full. but the wreckage, the blast radius, four years of donald trump and sean hannity and everyone on the right building up the durham report is coming. the durham -- i remember being in washington with trump-era justice department officials on the eve of the mueller report coming out, and they said this is nothing, wait until you see what durham's got, and i said, oh, ...

A hearing today about mr. durham's probe into the russia investigation. it's where we begin with some of our favorite reporters and friends. "the new york times" washington correspondent charlie savidge is here. he did the definitive piece of reporting on the durham report earlier this year. also joining us senior capitol hill correspondent garret haake, and former cia director now msnbc senior national security analyst john brennen. i want to start with you. that question from zoe lofgren seems to come from a revelation that the public learned about from your reporting. mr. durham doesn't dir...

Just any investigators, not just investigators who happen to investigate while trump was president, not investigators who may have had one of the pieces of paper that cross their desk into russia, durham's mandate was to investigate the investigators who investigated interference by russia in the 2016 election. and what a lot of people talk about when they revisit the mueller report is the trump figures that were charged that pleaded, mueller also indicted a whole lot of russians. >> yeah, that's true. >> durham was the man in charge of the investigation and he doesn't know basic facts? he eit...

Thought watching today. >> well, when i read the report when it came out, i think my reaction was much like others. i was very -- it was underwhelming. the department of justice inspector general michael harowitz did a good job pointing out some of the misteps, the tactical missteps made. i do think from the standpoint of the rightness of the investigation of 2016 to find out what the russians were doing and what the trump campaign was doing in support of some of those russian efforts i think was critically important. but john durham did not reveal anything new. in fact, my reading of the repo...