President lyndon b. Johnson signed the Voting Rights act into law. Removing legal barriers for black voters, johnson not only made a quality at the ballot box of reality for everyone but he also ensured this nations laws matched its revered ideals. And yeah, its over the ensuing indicates protections under the act have been chipped away. Most notably after the 2013 Supreme Court decision in shelby v. Holder which made it easier for states to pass restrictive voting laws. Still, the outcome of our elections and our democracy held firm. Until january six 2020 line. An angry red violent mob stormed the capitol driven by one terrified goal. Overturn a free and Fair Election. They were motivated by the lives of one. Dan donald j trump. The new twice impeached thrice indicted for now former president of the United States. That dark day expose just how fragile american democracy, our democracy, really is. But, trump is now finally facing accountability for trying to illegally stated. Power th
hear arguments over whether or not to it and steal the fbi affidavit behind the fbi. cnn is learning that some trump allies are pushing him to publicly released surveillance video of the search. let s discuss now, with the senior law enforcement analyst and deputy director who is the author of the threat to how the fbi protects america in the age of terror. also, kim whaley is. her she is a busy professor of law at america university and the author of how to think like a lawyer. i m so glad both of you are on. good evening, thank you very much. so andrew we are talking about the former president here threatening to released surveillance video. wouldn t that put this investigation in danger somehow and in the agents who are sk executing the search warrant? there s a couple of things that they re gonna be concerned about. first and foremost, they re focused on the work. they go into that space to recover materials highly classified sensitive materials that shouldn t be in the
you covering. you don t with shootings. you never get better at. it it s just the repetition and the same stuff that you feel all the time. that is why people are fed up with. yes, we go through our ritual, our television ritual for this. it has become the single most predictable form of american television in this american way of death. there is nothing else that we can do, if we could think up a better way of doing, it we would. but we have no better idea of how to handle this. well, enjoy your show tonight, i ll be watching. thank you. fani willis speaks, and lindsey graham goes silent. that s a news day that we did not see coming. the normally silent full-time county district attorney fani willis gave an exclusive interview to nbc s, blake alexander. she discussed her grandeur investigation of republican interference in the republican election in georgia. she said that it was possible that donald trump could get hit with a subpoena to testify to that grand jury, jus
long time with a lot, and lots of interviews. a lot, send lots of investigations, lots and lots of people who have been brought by a grand jury. tell, me from your experience as a former prosecutor are most prosecutors ready to go once they bring up an indictment? yes, but there is also a lot of evidence that can be gathered post didn t diamond in watergate the smoking gun tape was part of a trial. there wasn t part of the grandeur investigation, we indicted in march, and in april made a request for 64 additional claims that handed off including about smoking guns. so you can get more evidence. we probably would ve had convictions, based on the evidence we had as of the date of the indictment and i don t doubt that. but, certainly, in a stronger case with that additional evidence. so, you are ready, you know the evidence, you put it together and you have thought about how
as you say star-studded games. iverson in the jumped at it, me not for the giuliani but senator lindsey graham, is that he or hinting at? that s exactly one painting. asked when i say this is not that no anything more than anyone else. but the foreperson for the grandeur investigation testified, or rather talking went on her media tour shortly after the grand during vestal geisha. including, she did mention there were a number of very recognizable things. even if some of their graham was not a part of that. i think there will be other recognizable names electrocuting number one who we know to be ready giuliani. but there are also others who were interviewed and put on the stand in front of the grand jury investigation. i don t necessarily know that it will be limited in that way. let me be clear, again, i think it is more likely than not that donald trump s name is on that indictments even if it isn t, that i am firmly convinced that there is going to be some very very recognizable n