and then the story breaks. it s a big day in the doj press office i think. we all saw with the attorney general said to lester holt today, that he will absolutely investigate everybody, that was his term. leicester went back and forth at once, and the attorney general said more than once in more than one way, in an hours later there s the washington post that donald trump is under investigation by the justice department. andrew weizmann former prosecutor says based on what the washington post is reporting, says donald trump is a subject of the investigation at this point, not no doubt about that. forwards about for you lawrence, better late than never. yes it s happening right now. thank you mehdi. i. thanks thank. you well it is happening, donald trump is being investigated by the justice department. the washington post reports tonight that the justice department is investigating president donald trump s actions it s part of its criminal probe in two efforts to o
the attorney general said in the interview with lester holt today quite important. where he did not talk about the investigation being limited to what s happened on january six. he deliberately described the investigation as the illegal transfer of power. and all of the offense relating to january six. so i thought that was a really good sign that he was not looking at this as some isolated events. and understands that obviously, he s a very smart serious man, all of the different facets of the investigation that i like neil and terrible say, there is definitely a long way to go. but i think between the new york times, washington post, and the attorney general, interview today, these were all very good signs for the rule of law. andrew, i thought that i heard something difference in merrick garland s voice today. that he has been at these kinds
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and then the story breaks. it s a big day in the doj press office i think. we all saw with the attorney general said to lester holt today, that he will absolutely investigate everybody, that was his term. leicester went back and forth at once, and the attorney general said more than once in more than one way, in an hours later there s the washington post that donald trump is under investigation by the justice department. andrew weizmann former prosecutor says based on what the washington post is reporting, says donald trump is a subject of the investigation at this point, not no doubt about that. forwards about for you lawrence, better late than never. yes it s happening right now. thank you mehdi. i. thanks thank. you well it is happening, donald trump is being investigated by the justice department. the washington post reports tonight that the justice department is investigating
new york times reported, the emails show that participants in the discussions reported details up their activities to rudolph w giuliani, mr. trump s personal lawyer, and in at least one case to mark meadows, the white house chief of staff. around the same time, according to the house committee investigating january six, attack, mr. meadows emailed another campaign adviser saying, we just need to have someone coordinating the electors for states. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former tip of the criminal division in the eastern district of new york. he is a professor of practice at and why you law school. and andrew, there is so much for a former prosecutor to deal with in today s avalanche of news about this but let s begin with what we have learned from the washington post just in the last couple of hours. this reads to me, as if donald