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April 09, 2021 3:11 PM ET Font Size: Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has retained attorneys Marc Mukasey and Isabelle Kirshner to lead his legal team, the Associated Press (AP) reported Friday. Gaetz is currently the subject of a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation looking into accusations that Gaetz was sex trafficking underage girls. Mukasey, a former federal prosecutor in New York, has several connections to former President Donald Trump’s circle. Mukasey formerly worked at the sa...

(Source: Panasonic) In mid-October, a new post, written in Russian, appeared on a cybercriminal forum. It advertised network access to a large electronics manufacturer, including backups of corporate email and gigabytes of data. The post warned that, if the unnamed company did not pay a $500,000 ransom within seven days, the data would be publicly released. It also said that a ransom note had been sent to the company’s corporate email addresses. The post also offered the data and access to t...

In order to protect the fact they engaged in a cover up of the cut off of aide to ukraine. minute after the phone and wasnt satisfied his extortion plot worked. mulvaney did so. cut off the aide. the evidence is abundant. if hes innocent why is every witness being stone walled. all the evidence and paper work is held back. >> the question is why are the democrats not going to court or not forcing it for those witnesses who are so important. >> congress has constitutionally designated powers to t...

Question. >> go ahead, rick. >> several things obtained here. you have to give rob props for the engages in the version of performative the defenses of donald trump. this is a we didnt do anything wrong. if we did, it wasnt wrong. we did something its not wrong. we did something wrong so what. thats the argument. we havent seen more evidence is because the white house is engaged in pattern of obstruction of justice, stone walling. with holding documents and obstruction of justice. they engaged i...

And two people who have been closely following the impeachment process. msnbc contributor and elizabeth who sat on the house judiciary committee during the watergate impeaches, and author of "the case for impeaching trump." you know theres two stories that have been going forward with over the last month or two. theres the story of the whistleblower complaint that became the impeachment inquiry which will likely be the impeachment over the extortion of ukraine and the two intersect. their activi...

Losing to russia, losing in the battlefield, being injured or killed. so thats the stakes of why the extortion plot was so strong. and donald trump is someone who is often underestimated. i think by now, americans have learned not to underestimate his sense of how to find peoples weakness and exploit it. now, in strategy and politics and business, that can be legal up to a line. in other ways, it has been alleged as potentially over the line. but thats what this is about. donald trumps not an ex...

Exclusively in heroic terms. he has now left the public eye, having left americans with an image of something perhaps less than that. the mueller report was withering, indeed damning in its findings, but it was written for another era, another time, and american attention span and civic mindedness that we havent seen around here in generations. because mueller was so by the book, the book that resulted was actually read by very few. the presidents bombast and the boost he received from his attor...

>> first of all, its a distraction from the impeachment proceedings although im not sure that he timed it so carefully as to do that. the main thing hes doing is showing that hes going to have good relations with erdogan, with turkey even though he almost blew it in september and october. you know, all this started and nbc did a great report on this. all this in many ways started at the u.n. general assembly when trump snubbed erdogan completely. he saw a dozen other leaders, couldnt find the ti...

We mentioned it a time or two on this broadcast. robert swan mueller iii was revered by those who served under him, spoken of almost exclusively in heroic terms. he has now left the public eye, having left americans with an image of something perhaps less than that. the mueller report was withering, indeed damning in its findings, but it was written for another era, another time, and american attention span and civic mindedness that we havent seen around here in generations. because mueller was ...

Understand, a phone call, an extortion plot, they say. an american president holding back military aid for dirt on his opponent. tomorrow they get to start telling that story. tomorrows witnesses, state department veterans bill taylor and george kent. then on friday, we hear from former ambassador yovanovich. then next week, it truly becomes relentless. tuesday, jennifer williams, who works for pence, and then lieutenant colonel vindman. then former ambassador volker and former white house aide ...