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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...

and dialing of the urgency, making no bones about the fact that if donald trump is back in office he will bring to bear some of this political violence and incite some of it, which we know some are afraid of the trend, the weight is moving in the country, and to touch on actually, the all-out war, and the all-out word he can to -- in the campaign, and amount of campaigning every day and not allowing trumps lies to go unchallenged and that sort of thing. what biden was saying was people don't actually want the state of politics to be a constant factor attachment battle, they don't wan...

selling and then the rapidly developing clash in washington as we're getting new details about what the true republican agenda may be in the congress or in the people running for president. there are prominent conservatives that are reviving an idea long left for dead and interesting one that barack obama himself warned about on the midterm campaign trail. the idea, bringing back what was once a bush era plan to change or gut social security. >> the president tonight we're told will say much more about how he plans to reshape social security. >> the system is headed toward bankruptcy...

>> florida lawmakers can w disney on the docket, the one that ended the tax district after the magic kingdom came out against the don't say gay law. i'm hallie jackson in washington, but let's start with nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter, and nbc news meteorologist bill karins. let's take a look about what we know about the story that has developed quite a bit over the last 18 hours or so. very strong earthquakes, two of them, in a region that includes part of turkey and syria. the first was early in the morning. 7.8 magnitude. the second later in the afternoon, 7.5. we kno...

to locate the murder weapon but his dna was reportedly found at the crime scene. here now with the very latest, dan springer is with us. >> jayson, this is a big day here, obviously. this case had apparently stumped investigators for a long time and it appeared to be almost going cold a week ago but then we just got word today that after more than a month and a half and 19,000 tips and dozens of cops from the local state and federal levels working on this case they finally make an arrest in the killings of those four university of idaho students. >> 28-year-old brian kohberger is bei...