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Outright defy, two of them, ban, and navarro, are awaiting criminal trial. two, this was, as far as ive seen, a very public notice of, we have evidence of further witness tampering. three, the doj can act, on its own. congress can, also, refer. this is the type of crime, with a lot of discussion about whether you refer the specific situation, for what i would call, substantive crimes. coups, election fraud, elector fraud, that kind of thing. this is what they call a process crime. but, the proce...

Testimony that you see at criminal trials, about tampering with witnesses, which is a crime, right? this is what this looks like. >> there is nothing a congressional committee can do about witness intimidation, but there is something the justice department can do. this is another thing, where the committee is saying to merrick garland, publicly, look what he is doing. do you want to allow this? is this what you want to allow? you need to get into this investigation. it looks like merrick garland...

>> yeah, i mean, look, at this point we believe based on our source, durham is wrapping up his report. his investigation is pretty much completed. if he has some other big shoe to drop, we expect it would happen by now. and just for context, muellers investigation, right, the trump-russia investigation, 34 people were indicted, three companies. again, this investigation, this investigation of the investigators, has gone on longer than mueller and this is only the second person charged. and if yo...

Attack mueller, saying that a lot of the stuff brought by mueller were so-called process crimes. well, thats what this is. i mean this is exactly fitting into the criticism that they made so often. and all of the things that they were expecting, right, this falls into a pattern. not only the unmasking investigation that you were talking about, there was also expectations that they were going to bring charges against people in the clinton foundation. obviously they wanted -- >> lets see. there wa...

Application. again, that was false statements charge. one to have criticisms that republicans and the gop and the presidents supporters made of neweler, they said a lot of these cases that they brought were process crimes. thats kind of what were talking about. were talking about what seems to be process crimes about whether suss man lied to the fbi when he had this conversation. again, at the time, jim, it was well known that sussman represented the clinton campaign. this was not a surprise to ...

Is saying to prosecutors, they face a potential-obstruction charge. and thats, in many respects, easier to prove than a financial crime from years ago. >> if he was prosecuted for, you know, the things that kara scannell mentioned as possibilities. is that something that would lead to jail time? or is that a financial penalty? >> i mean, it could be both. it just depends on, number one, the severity of the crime. number two, the dollar amount. number three, you know, who are victims and his hist...

Counsel just like what president nixon did in watergate, and he declined to do that, and that the president wanted him to lie about it, as you noted, lawrence. the other is remember all of the talk about how the special counsel is using process crimes instead of things like 1001 false statement charges? well, this shows why that was so important, because you have don mcgahn under oath saying he actually focused on that, and one of the reasons that he refused the presidents order to lie was that ...

Life was turned the bully upside down, destroyed for a while seea guy like brennan commit perjury in public and nobody cares, how does that make you feel? >> that seems to be what we are seeing now. if "the new york times" is to be believed, john brennan was saying one thing on capitol hill and msnbc where he is a paid talking head and another thing internally to his own people and jim comey, who was fbi director at the time. we know that john durham, the u.s. attorney for the state of connectic...

Guy like brennan commit perjury in public and nobody cares, how does that make you feel? >> that seems to be what we are seeing now. if "the new york times" is to be believed, john brennan was saying one thing on capitol hill and msnbc where he is a paid talking head and another thing internally to his own people and jim comey, who was fbi director at the time. we know that john durham, the u.s. attorney for the state of connecticut who is doing this investigation has now asked for and will rece...

Ceos that our dying cities desperately need. they behave more like smarmy televangelists and aloof 17th century monarchs. and look what is happening. our cities have fallen into chaos because they dont know how to manage these places, and criminal justice is only one area. you were right to big up police, law enforcement, being castrated, effectively. mayors who dont support them, free income criminals on the the street to pick a look at seattle, 48% of reports not even being investigated. thats...