Hey, it's Will Salatin from The Bullwork.

So on Thursday, Jack Smith, the special counsel who investigated Donald Trump and his election

interference, testified before Congress.

And you might think that in a congressional hearing, the job is that they're going to find out

the truth.

They're going to tell you the truth about what happened.

But there's a small problem, which is that this investigation focused a lot

on Republicans and members of Congress. And guess who was running the hearing? That's right,

House Republicans. So the problem is these guys then used the hearing to, instead of find out the

truth, to try to smear Jack Smith and protect Trump and especially

themselves. Let me show you some of the BS that they were slinging at this hearing, okay?

The first line of BS that we got from them was, how dare you, Jack Smith, investigate us,

Congress. Here's a quote from Congressman Daryl Issa, who spoke at the hearing.

You didn't see any selective nature or any separation of powers under the Constitution to spying

on the activities and the conversations of the Speaker of the House. To what end would conversations between the Speaker of the U.S. House,

third or second in line to be the President,

and the President, in what basis would it be any of your business

other than you believe that there was a conspiracy

without conspiracy as a basic premise.

Okay, so first of all, when ISIS says that Smith was spying on Congress, like spying on

the phone calls, let me explain what happened. Smith and the prosecutors, the investigators,

they subpoenaed toll records. They're, They don't tell you, they're not tapping somebody's

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