this. doj often inherits messes from the prior doj, that happens no matter what takes over and doj is famously or infamously secretive with its internal memos. why should merrick garland have anything to do with defending, supporting or apologizing for or going into court arguing in favor of bill barr s obstructionism and dishonesty? it would have been a much better opportunity for merrick garland to say, no, we re drawing a line here, we re not doing things the old-fashioned way and we re not okay with this disingenuousness by the prior administration. we have new details about what federal prosecutors seized when they raised rudy giuliani s home. and it includes documents from a wider array of people than we previously knew. what are you learning? yeah, so it s fascinating, ana, if you look at the court filing, there s a lawyer from lev parens who claims in a court filing that the documents relate
to a whole bunch of different people, bill barr, doj, his communications with according to par ness s lawyer, donald trump, members of congress and others, to try to time out the arrest and indictment of lev parness so it hadn t hurt donald trump around the time of his first scandal. that s a massive scandal, a massive abuse of power. this is new breaking news cnn has uncovered from the looking at the docket and, again, remember, this is an allegation made by lev parness s lawyer, not something that doj or a court has said but if it s true it s a very big deal. and we have this just in during our last commercial break, an issue related to the insurrection. donald trump s attorney is now defending former president trump s speech on january 6th saying he s protected under the first amendment, and he had absolute immunity as president. your reaction? that s utter nonsense. they tried this absolute immunity argument several times
in the courts, thoroughly rejected. donald trump, no question, had a right to contest the election, to go into courts as frivolous as his lawsuits were. there s no problem, sort of criminally. with contesting the election results. however, you do not have the right to incite a riot. you do not have a right to incite insurrection or sedition. it s a nonsense defense. elie honig, you put things in a way we all understand much better, thank you, good to see you. thanks, ana. we are watching the white house this hour where president biden will meet privately with the family of george floyd on the one-year anniversary of his murder. when you let nature just do its thing, is it any wonder our beer tastes so pure? michelob ultra pure gold organic by nature. the world s first fully autonomous vehicle is almost at the finish line what a ride! i invested in invesco qqq