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Theyve gone to for indicting a totally innocent man that act of obstruction and blatant election interference. the new york indictment is one of multiple legal battles mr. trump and his associates to overturn his narrow loss in the 2020 presidential election. there are two federal investigations one involving an alleged to undo the election results leading up to generate six capitol riot. the other, looking into mr. trumps handling of government records. last august seized around 10,000 document...

The manhattan indictment is historic is this one of more that could be coming? >> yeah, good morning. i think willis will be next, and i think jack smith has trump in his sights and his move ahead with charges relating to the mar-a-lago documents and possibly january 6th although alvin bragg is the first prosecutor in the history of our country to indict a former president, hes not going to be the last >> former vice president pence has been ordered to comply with the subpoena in the special cou...

Prosecutors could charge donald trump with obstruction in a criminal investigation while he is not a sitting president. that was something that really stuck bob mueller. he found copious evidence of donald trump obstructing a criminal investigation but concluded that he could not charge him or accuse him of those crimes because he was then the current president. thats no longer the case for donald trump >> paul, have you ever been on a legal team where somebody had so much going on with potentia...

Being in the dining room alone with the president, and he is looking at the tv. and president-elect biden comes on and he says "can you believe i lost to this fing guy"? there are moments when the president acknowledged to others who i presume have provided this information to the special counsel, being mindful of his loss again, all of that bears upon his subsequent conduct and his evidence that he was misleading america by continuing to repeat those falsehoods >> and those are incriminating in...

Agenda thats a strange statement do you want to comment on that that is an odd statement from a governor, no thats an odd statement. >> i think i would make two comments about it. one, its hard to call it a dog whistle. its anti-semitism in that statement, and a governor should be respecting the rule of law. one of the things, and i dont mean to be preachy, but i think on a night like tonight where its so historic, it does warrant stepping back and noting that many people in this country during ...

>> and you had his text messages you had half the conversation. you have both sides of the text messages let me ask you this about meadows. he has a real lawyer not everybody in trump world can say that do you think george terwiliger is working out some limited immunity for meadows before he sits down? it seems if youre looking at conspiracy, he could have legal exposure on the obstruction of a official proceeding, on insurrection, on false statements >> i dont know. that would not be unpreceden...

Of appeals will be interested in the overall issue enough to sort of take it up. and then the most important witness and the second and third and fourth in january 6th is all mark meadows, hes been able to stay on the sidelines with some happenstance and now hes really pushed under the executive privilege claim which is a loser. on appeal it will be made quick work. however meadows may at that point invoke the fifth amendment and if he does the doj will have a very hard decision to provide him i...

Culmination of the select committees work. i think it was received as one of the surprise conclusions they referred the crime of inciting insurrection. people were expecting the obstruction of an official proceeding. the fraud statutes. but i think we all, sort of as a collective country lowered the bar, largely because hes been held accountable for nothing and commits his crimes in costco size buckets and does it with impunity. at the end of every scandal he is emboldened and it becomes more br...

Obstruction of an official proceeding, one was insurrection, one was fraud, and one that slips my mind. with trump its hard to keep track of the alleged criminality on his part. what questions would you ask mike pence in front of a grand jury if you were trying to prove the crimes? >> sure. i would have a lot of questions for mike pence. call me old fashioned but i like my witnesses best under oath, especially witnesses who have avoided testifying for as long as mike pence has. so prosecutors wi...

Evidence. it is not appropriate for congress to interfere with pending local investigations. the unprecedented inquiry by federal elected officials into an ongoing matter serves only to hinder, disrupt, and undermine the legitimate work of our dedicated prosecutors, but hey, that might just be the point. joining me is maya wiley. myy, great to see you. let me ask you this question. at what point does this obstruction and interference by these federal officials become actual like legal obstructio...