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If that speech he gave in philadelphia is what he truly believes what hes doing doesnt match and this white house essential to its brand of anything is competence. look at images out of afghanistan. look at the complete lack of any plan on federal voting rights legislation. i think there is a moral failings but a political risk to doing nothing. >> yeah. nicolle, fascinating. theres a lot at play here. in fact, beto orourke tees it up well, because joe biden could be confronting this as the grea...

Damning new information from a former top u.s. prosecutor who says he quit because trump was going to fire him p. "the new york times" reporting the former president wanted him out because he wouldnt back the big lie. plus the fda expected to authorize a vaccine booster shot for some people with compromised immune systems within the next 48 hours. it comes as a pandemic of the unvaccinated is pushing hospitals to their limit. florida reporting a new all-time high for covid hospitalizations, pu...

Today we got a few more answers to a mystery that has been bothering me since the beginning of this year. january 4th, the u.s. attorney for the northern district of georgia, b.j. pak, suddenly resigned. citing unforseen circumstances as his reason for leaving. the timing of that resignation has bugged me ever since. i need to know. heres the u.s. attorney in georgia, one of the pivotal states in the 2020 election, resigns january 4th. right after "the washington post" published audio of the cal...

Secretary of states office, what im hopeful for is if there is some way, we can find some kind of an agreement to look at this a little bit more fully, and the president mentioned areas where there [inaudible] mister secretary im hopeful that in the spirit of cooperation and compromise, there is something that we can at least have the discussion to look at some of these allegations, to find a path forward that is less litigious? >> the day after the washington post released that extraordinary ph...

Despite, you know, democracy. pak resigned as u.s. attorney in georgia in early january under very mysterious circumstances while trump was trying to make georgia the first state to nullify its election results after biden won there. the b.j. pak resignation is under investigation by congressional committees and the office of inspector general at the justice department. the senate judiciary committee investigation has led some senators to suggest that the prospect of criminal charges is real her...

Throw a wrench in the works of the georgia plot. if anything, it seems to have facilitated it. >> it did and it didnt. youre right, pak was replaced by bobby christine, who was thought to be a close ally of president trumps. but several days after he gets to the office, audio of a meeting that he has with the staff is leaked to the atlanta journal-constitution. and christine says, ive looked at these cases myself, im not seeing fraud. i expected to come in and see a lot of fraud based on things ...

Committee gets its hands on those tax documents. leading off discussion tonight, tim obrien, senior columnist for bloomberg opinion, author of "trump nation." michael j. moore, former u.s. attorney for the middle district of georgia, partner at u.s. law firm in atlanta. michael, did you work with b.j. pack? do you know him? >> i know b.j. i was in the group that preceded him under the obama administration. he and i have known each other for a number of years. hes a good guy. i think hes an honor...

House. the texas house democrats are facing arrest warrants sworn out for them last night. well be checking in with one of them tonight. to find out there plan and how they are planning to cope with the arrests. but this filibuster is under way in austin. it looks like it may go at least overnight. tonight, as the department of homeland security is warning about the renewed threat of political violence from trump supporters, who believe his claims that there was fraud in the election, and that...

Attack on the u.s. capitol by trump supporters. a day before the u.s. senate runoffs that would decide control of the u.s. senate. he resigns in the middle of all of that, and its for unforeseen circumstances and thats it? within a week of b.j. pak resigning, "the wall street journal" reported that he was forced to resign by the white house. but the nature of the circumstances, what it was supposed to accomplish, has always remained murky. katie benner reporting that paks resignation was precede...

Serious crimes, and the justice department has to self police its own officials in a way to fix that faster than any criminal court proceeding could. >> as you said, he walks into a crime scene every day. >> thats right. >> thank you, my friend. we will see you tomorrow, rachel. breaking news tonight, we have new details on the abrupt resignation of the united states attorney just weeks before donald trump left office, today during three hours of testimony before the senate judiciary committee, ...