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Working on federal elections as a federal official. youre not supposed to be campaigning at all. well see what the judge does. the judge hasnt signaled one way or another how he comes down on the merits of it. hell probably make a decision quite quickly. >> luke, heres the thing, meadows claims he was acting in his official duties just trying to please the boss, but this is a guy who was a former congressman before becoming a white house chief of staff. he wasnt powerless, right? >> no, i mean, ...

Eisen. hes a former white house ethics czar and served as counsel to the house democrats during the first impeachment of donald trump. great to have you here, especially when were getting news like this. zach walked us through how it fits into the timeline, the narrative. walk us through the legal implications here now that we know they have these text messages and emails. >> well, fani willis is looking at three different areas of possible illegality. the first is the famous fake electoral cert...

Evidence that did not mean anything? newsgroup newspapers are now fighting to bring an end to the waves of civil litigation against them. at the end of 2022, they asked the courts to strike out two high—profile claims arguing that the alleged unlawful activity happened too long ago. one is the case of prince harry, the other is of hugh grant. the press should have massive power. they are such an important pillar of democracy. they need to be there to hold power to account. where there is a gen...

An illegal plan -- >> controversial, it says. >> its beyond controversial. its blatantly unconstitutional. thats the word he should have used. why? because the constitution does not provide for when electors are not actually representing a winner in a state. the constitutional does not provide for the vice president to do the things hes called to do on january 6th, presiding over the meeting of congress. this is the memo where he jump into the illegality that the prosecution charges constitutes ...

Power to account.— they need to be there to hold power to account. weather is a renuine power to account. weather is a genuine public— power to account. weather is a genuine public interest - power to account. weather is a genuine public interest i - power to account. weather is a genuine public interest i thinkl genuine public interest i think the press should given enormous license, — the press should given enormous license, almost to the point of illegality _ license, almost to the poin...

Almost to the point of illegality. but it does not matter really what a celebrity is doing. its interesting to the public, but its definitely not in the public interest. at that point it becomes invasion of privacy, or privacy theft, i would argue, and really what they were doing was looking for profit at whatever cost, and by whatever means, criminal or not. in september 2022, several victims of crime and their relatives were among 200 new claims brought against the sun and the news of the worl...

That point, and that was a huge takeaway. furthermore, as you mentioned, devon archer said that he had no knowledge or evidence that joe biden had changed policy, that he was impacted at all or changed u.s. policy based on things that his son had done. so that really has undercut this argument from republicans like james comer, like jim jordan, that there was some inappropriatety, wrongdoing or illegality on the part of then vice president biden. hunter was clearly trying to trade on the biden n...

Political arena. thats where all of trumps defenses seemed to be designed to really plan to really nail, because the legal analysis of what theyre contending seems -- marys word, pretty meh. im not going to play it. he said on fox. accusing president two things. number one some kind of effort to obstruct the january 6th count. just a mob descending on the capitol and the only thin pause in counting so seven contestant states could reaudit or recertify. never heard of anyone getting indicted for ...

And trumps inclination towards illegality will be entirely and constricted. >> its not just a threat from trump at home to you talk about in your new book, its a broad as well. disaffection on the left that is brought into this maggot myth trumps anti-war, that hes an old-fashioned isolationist. yet you report in a book how close we came to nuclear war with north korea on trumps watch? >> well i have wanted to talk about this for a few years, but i needed to make sure that i got the department o...

Government information. in fact, back then, he was quite concerned about a different kind of information getting out to the public, leaks from his own team. >> i think adam schiff is the biggest leaker in washington. he is a corrupt politician. >> he will lead all sorts of information. you know, hes a bad guy. comey is a leaker and a liar. not only on this stuff. hes been leaking for years. we will find the leakers and they will pay a big price for the leaking. im actually called the justice dep...