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Basically the stealing and mishandling of government documents, that three crimes, and then the obstruction and false information and contempt is another three crimes. and the report is just so clear and damning, lawrence, that i think even donald trumps attorneys no enough to recognize that their client is in real trouble here. one of the thing it does so effectively is that it compares trump what trump did in last pass cases when people mishandled and stole information. it shows that in those ...

Have received significant public attention. the first, as described in court filings in the district of columbia, is the investigation into whether any person or entity unlawfulfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or the certification of the electoral college vote held on or about january 6, 2021. the second is the ongoing investigation involving classified documents and other presidential records as well as the possible obstruction of that investi...

Merrick garland today dropping a legal and political bombshell, appointing a special counsel to investigate donald trump, citing donald trumps status as a presidential candidate, garland today did something that doj is typically loathe to do. he acknowledged the existence of a criminal investigation into efforts to stop the peaceful transfer of power in america, following the 2020 presidential election, and one who is focused on people who are not accused to have trespassing or being at the u.s....

Decisions indisputably guided only by the facts and the law. the special counsel will conduct parts of the first investigation i just mentioned. the investigation into whether any person or entity unlawfully interfered with the transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election or with the certification of electoral college vote held on or about january 6. this does not include prosecutions that are currently pending in the district of columbia or future investigations and prosecutions o...

Trespassing at the capitol. >> yeah, its interesting, because i actually think that is the investigation that really caused merrick garland to decide that he needed to appoint a special counsel. he noted it as the first investigation and the mar-a-lago investigation as the second investigation. it is inherently more political. were talking about an investigation into the efforts to obstruct the certification of the vote after the 2020 election, an election where donald trump was, you know, invol...

Though is that its clear that the issue of obstruction is front and center here. perhaps in both of these investigations, and i remember back covering mueller -- bob mueller and the russia investigation that obstruction was also front and center. in the end, mueller did not make any disposition clearly on obstruction because this was a sitting president and the question was, could you charge a sitting president? and then that attorney general barr came in and said, you know what? you cant. you c...

A basis for the trump investigation and not hunter biden. but, still, its a tough call. >> let me get kaitlan collins back into this conversation. you covered trump for four years when you were our white house correspondent. whats your reaction to all this? >> i think the big question here is what it means for this investigation, and what it means for possible indictments that could happen, whether it comes to that january 6th investigation, its not just the mar-a-lago documents investigation. i...

The states republican-led house voted to impeach him. members cite his misbehavior in office and obstruction of an investigation, all with the back drop of record high crime, violent crime in philadelphia. krasner says its all political, just a stunt. part of his statement. in the hundred of years the commonwealth has ex ashened this is the only time the house has used impeachment of an elected official because they dont like the ideas. they didnt present a single shred of evidence connecting ou...

As democrats claim continued control of the senate, its a boost of president bidens ability to continue to shape the judiciary. now, former chief adviser to president obama, david axelrod tweeted, president biden has had 84 judiciary appointments confirmed so far. and two more years gives him the opportunity to expand that imprint. our political panel is back to discuss this. laura, senate democrats have two more years to confirm more liberal, more diverse judges, without the threat of republica...

Better reflects the diversity of america. hes talking not just about personal ethnic diversity, although he does mean more women, more black, asian, latino americans on the bench. but hes also talking about professional diversity. which has been a paradigm shift of the biden white house. more civil rights, where is more public defenders on the courts. this means two more years of a clear runway for democrats to confirm biden picked judges without any threat of republican obstruction. >> lets mov...