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Against the vice president, against congress, and the insurrection which stormed the capitol. a lot of those people are involved which is why were calling the new committee the select committee -- because a lot of these people are in it to try to make sure that they dont get investigated and they dont get prosecuted. but it is that larger principle its not just about january 6th, its in, general about make sure theres no neutral and objective law enforcement. for any crimes they may have committ...

Position that the law enforcement function is independent and the politicians will not try to micromanage or interfere or obstruct whats taking place within law enforcement. and the whole purpose of this committee is to obstruct the fbi or what donald trump today called the fake bureau of investigation. its an attack on law enforcement. lots of my republican colleagues are calling for defunding the fbi. defunding the federal prosecutors and investigators. >> maryland congressman jamie raskin, th...

And when they do that, theyre fighting against people like john eastman who are saying youre trying to usurp the law enforcement function of the department of justice, to which the house is quite recently saying no, we have a legislative purpose here, it is fact finding to inform further legislation. if they cooperate with the department of justice, theyre undermining their own fact finding efforts. last night they told a judge in california they want all 600 new emails from john eastman to comp...

Implications for the rule of law in america. and youve got to look at deterrence. do we want to move into a system of government where losers in presidential elections can try to overturn the election by nonviolent or violent means. >> given everything you know, if you were in his shoes, do you think this is a close call or not? >> ill leave that judgment to them. one of the many things that donald trump destroyed during his time in office was the idea that the political branches have to respect...

Conventions that was crushed during the trump administration was respect by politicians for the independence of the law enforcement function, and so im going to try to observe that. attorney general garland is my constituent. i think he knows, his staff knows, the u.s. attorneys know whats at stake here. they know the importance of it. but i think they are rightfully paying close attention to precedent and history as well as the facts of this case, so what weve laid out in different legal pleadi...

Assault on our -- the machinery of american democracy when you have a sitting president who tries to overthrow the majority in the electoral college of his opponent, who beat him by more than 7 million votes. >> i guess the question is, knowing what you know and knowing what the american people will see in their hearings, do you believe that the justice department should indict the former president? >> one of the conventions that was crushed during the trump administration was respect by politic...

Administration was legally, you know, forced to accept where we adjudicate these cases on the mexican side of the border -- the u.s. side of the border, that were not honoring that in your state and the other states as well? >> that is accurate. theyre instituting it piecemeal. so its happening right now in el paso to my understanding. we do not have title 42 authority here in the state of arizona. so the cartels take advantage of this. they use the humanitarian crisis that is so heart breaking ...

This situation to apply, which is the criminal provision of the hatch act. what that statute provides is that it shall be unlawful for anybody, that would include the president of the united states, to coerce or attempt to coerce a federal employee into engaging in political activity. and what that would mean is that if donald trump had directed or tried to coerce acting attorney general rosen to walking down pennsylvania avenue with a trump 2020 flag, that would have been criminal. here this wa...

>> bill: in the legal sense you are the lawyer, im not. what lawyers the end to do is parse the language. they could parse it the following way. it is one thing to be looking at the election of 2016. another thing to be forecasting toward 2020. you understand the distinction? >> i do. the first one looking backward is really more of a legitimate law enforcement function because you are trying to protect the sanctity of our elections. learn who happened to prevent it from happening again. looking...

Matters do get litigated in court i could very easily see a court saying, you know what, is this an impeachment inquiry or five different committees who all of a sudden say we are calling it an impeachment? i think she would be in a much stronger position if she did call for a vote but i dont think shes got the vote. >> laura: bob, do you agree that the posture of this is very curious? its almost like you are half man, half out. what is this here? >> the problem for the democrats is that there i...