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Commitment to do whatever it takes to ensure that every american has their vote counted no matter how they look or where they live. we end quote. powerful letter. joining us now is one of the authors of that letter, the congressman mondaire jones, hes a member of the house judiciary committee. thank you for congress joining us out tonight. i appreciate your time. this is heavy, this is big stuff. you are writing to the attorney general of the united states to basically say, we are running out of...

>> the president went on to say that republicans dont stand for anything other than obstruction right now. do you agree with him? >> i dont appreciate the president using my words out of context. >> why was it out of context? >> because ive been critical of both sides of the aisle. >> it doesnt mean you werent critical of republicans. >> im critical of everyone. democrats were a roadblock for four years with president trump. republicans are trying to stop a lot of things -- i think its good they...

He tloour a lot of things at the wall there to see if they would stick. errol, i want to ask you, here you have a former president who may well run for president again saying if hes president, he would pardon the january 6th rioters. is that obstruction of justice? >> it was actually one of the elements in the articles of impeachment against richard nixon. you can get in trouble for doing this. its not just regular political speech. this is the essence of trumpism, jim. its not enough that you p...

Here is what president biden said. >> here is what he said. theyre all -- quote, they are all for the most part content with the speed with which they werent doing anything. so im just going to be a roadblock for the next two years? thats not what i do, sununu said. >> the president went on to say that republicans dont stand for anything other than obstruction right now. do you agree with him? >> i dont appreciate the president using my words out of context. >> why was it out of context? >> beca...

Lawyer who was representing a number of defendants from the january 6th accused, and he said, flat out, oh, yeah, that offer from the president will absolutely change the course of these prosecutions. it will reduce the chance that these defendants will give helpful information to the government. -- in compensation for their help with other prosecutions. it will increase the chance that they will insist on going to trial because they will be expecting a get out of jail free card at the end of th...

Base that will let him obstruct justice, and they will riot if he doesnt get away with it or if anyone tries to do anything that is proper and hold him accountable. so that is why i say hes playing with fire. he is right at the edge of obstruction already, even before he has gotten in that office. and hopefully the authorities are not going to be intimidated. i think what the georgia prosecutor, the fulton county prosecutor did was very intelligent, to get the fbi involved, to alert them, to cal...

Was striking was that he was urging his supporters to protest in various cities, new york, d.c., georgia. if prosecutors think he did something that was wrong. or if the january 6th arrestees are treated wrongly. dangling that pardon is something that hasnt been done before. >> yes, wolf, if the intent is to try to dissuade people from cooperation, thats textbook witness tampering. i think we could be looking at obstruction here. >> elie honig, maggie haberman,

Little bit. ive heard that from other people, and other people who have nothing to do with the supreme court. why do you feel that could happen. in theory, theres no reason why it should happen. theres no reason why mitch mcconnell and republicans should be able to block a nominee by joe biden right now, and yet, i have heard people say they fear that somehow, republicans will pull something out of a hat that will stop this from happening. tell me a little bit more about your thinking on this. >...

Shredding, taking a away documents because they incriminated him. that gets us into stuff that is investigate and prosecuted all the time, obstruction. >> also on that point, though. youre right, norm, i want to give you the last word, tim. on that point of destruction, i cant help draw the analogy from 18:30 and gaps gone from nixon tapes and what were seeing here. obviously it comes down to if its willful or not. how there may have been gapped? >> the big difference here whereas in the case of...

Businesses have been able to stay afloat or this historic investment in our nations infrastructure thats going to create millions of good-paying jobs annually. this president has to use his own executive action as he faces obstruction from members of his own party, specifically kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. he needs to be cancelling student debt. when i look at the polling and see young people are a substantial group of folks that dont approve of this presidents job performance, i think weve g...