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This concept is not new. in fact, if you were paying close attention you might think that this segment was from 2018, or 2020. but its not. this is actually life. its june 11th, 2021, and the threat posed by donald trump continues to grow. just look at the bombshell reporting from the new york times which details trumps efforts in 2017, to investigate media leaks about contacts between trump associates and of the russian government. trump ordered his own justice department to secretly sees phone...

Donald trump is a threat to democracy. now, this concept is not new. in fact, if you werent paying close attention you might think this segment is from 2018 or 2020, but its not. this is actually live. its june 11, 2021, and the threat posed by donald trump continues to grow. just look at the bombshell reporting from "the new york times" which details trumps efforts in 2017 to investigate media leaks about contacts between trump associates and the russian government. trump ordered his own justic...

The -- account of a child. thats the problem is that because of the perception of the presidents comments we cannot accept what the justice department did in good faith because there was a lot of things -- im sorry. there was a lot of things going on at that time in which the president was -- he was openly saying that the justice department was there to serve him. an arm of his own political ends. >> you guys name names and it is an incredibly detailed piece of reporting about the internal proce...

Not defend fd, in the reporting last night there was great by "the new york times" i think what you are seeing are the gag orders lifted as information now is going up to the dag and attorney general. i suspect whats going on is theyre shocked about whats going on. i dont think the response of going to the inspector general is sufficient. thats going to take years. the inspector general was notably absent in the trump administration and has to be a systemic answer to this. there can be hearings ...

Which is how you get to autocracy. >> neil, exactly what -- actually what donald trump was saying out loud he wanted to do. theres reporting in 2017 or 18 that he wanted the justice department to prosecute hillary clinton, to prosecute james comey. accused mccabe of treason. i believe called james comey a traitor. now we know that his trumpiest of all of the whatever he had three or four attorneys general generate. what do you make of the denial of bill barr? >> ill believe the denial and the re...

At the justice department. their continued presence would seem to ensure that the biden appointees would have a full understanding of the investigations. do you have any reporting that suggest that the current leadership knew what their role was in seeking subpoenas and whether theres recourse against the individuals you name? >> im sure that the folks now running the justice department for biden knew something about this because schiff and his staff were told about this back i believe in may. a...

Make your reunion happen with vrbo. your together awaits. vrbo. new revelations today on the harassment facing those working to protect our democracy, threats based on the former presidents baseless claims of fictional widespread election fraud. reuters is reporting of messages being sent to election workers all across the country, and officials like georgias secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and his family, so harrowing weve decided not to amplify them here. well tell you about raffensp...

Congressman eric swalwell confirmed that the records were seized. heres where the reporting is more disturbing. prosecutors were hunting for the sources of media news reports of contacts with russia. the da the and other evidence did not tie the committee to the leaks. investigators debated whether they had hit a dead end. some discussed closing the inquiry. they took this unprecedented investigative the ep when donald trump took the unprecedented step of asking the fbi director james comey to l...

As donald trump railed geshs the critics in congress and lobbed unfounded attacks against them for leaking damaging information about him the doj hunted democratic members of the intelligence committees phone and email records and those of staff and family. in an unprecedented leak investigation. "the new york times" citing two officials and others briefed reporting as the justice department investigated who was behind leaks of classified information the r it took a highly unusual step, subpoena...

Word since you spent years of your life investigating the trump teams ties to russia. >> to me the biggest issue right now that we are facing is that it is really important for the department of justice to be independent of the white house. it is fine for president biden to make that loud and clear his policy. but that is just a norm and a policy. it is not written in law. what we are seeing now is the need for actual guardrails. not policies. laws that are going to prevent this kind of thing an...