I'm Virginia Allen. I'm Samantha Sharis. And this is the date with the top news for Wednesday, June 21st.

Here are today's headlines.

Former Special Counsel, John Durham testified before Congress today.

The hearing was focused on a report Durham recently released looking into the Trump Russia investigation.

Durham's report concluded that the Justice Department and FBI never should have launched the Trump Russia investigation in the first place.

It's worth noting that John Durham is an apolitical career prosecutor.

His full report is 306 pages long and concludes that there was no basis to immediately launch a full-fledged investigation.

Against Donald Trump. Durham testified before the House Judiciary Committee today and said the FBI failed to follow up on leads, which indicated that the Trump Russia collusion investigation was politically motivated.

As our report details, the FBI was too willing to accept and use politically funded and uncorroverted opposition research such as the steel dossier.

The FBI relied on the dossier and Pfizer applications, knowing there was a likely material originating from a political campaign, a political opponent.

It did so even after the President of the United States, the FBI and CIA directors and others received briefings about intelligence suggesting that there was a Clinton campaign plan underway to stir up a scandal time from to Russia.

The accuracy of the intelligence was uncertain at the time, but the FBI failed to analyze or even assess the implications of the intelligence in any meaningful way.

According to the Daily Signals, Fred Lucas, at least two House Democrats, yielded their time during the hearing to representative Adam Schiff.

Schiff asked questions of John Durham and gave the impression that Democrats are still holding to the Russia collusion theory.

Chairman Jim Jordan issued this warning during the hearing.

Seven years of attacking Trump is scary enough, but what's more frightening, any one of us could be next.

In fact, it's already started. Parents at school board meetings are terrorist. Pro-life Catholics are extremist, even journalist aren't safe.

According to Durham, some FBI agents have been apologetic and even emotional about the conduct of their leaders in the probe.

Justice Samuel Alito is firing back at the news site Pro-Publica after a published an article raising concerns over issues relating to recusal and gift disclosures.

On Tuesday, Pro-Publica published a piece saying Alito did not disclose Giff's he was given on his 2008 Financial Disclosure Report.

The gift was a fishing trip allegedly paid for by a man named Paul Singer. Singer is a hedge fund manager and had had business-related cases before the Supreme Court.

Because of Alito's connection to Singer, the Pro-Publica article included comments from those who argue that Alito should have recused himself of any cases Singer was involved in.

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