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Coming up with the times and post and season and how did this get out. how do you feel about the government pursuing leakers including in the case of the secret irs files? >> it is hard to argue that they dont have the right to ask themselves what went wrong here but the attorney general justice department is very clear in recent days that they dont intend to use official processes to bring whole reporters in to reveal sources. so we take a good deal of comfort from that. i think it is really im...

Difficult it is to do that. nevertheless, there are some things that cant be avoided. and to your point about the trump administration defying subpoenas, we just last week got the testimony of done mcgahn who had been -- which has been sought for a couple of years and don mcgahn testified to the way in which donald trump had corrupted the processes of government. that donald trump asked him to fire bob mueller, donald trump also asked him later to lie about that and say that he had not done it. ...

We are. yet its just so unprecedented, even with all of those tells, is it not? >> laura, the remarkable thing about president trump and his administration was how openly he corrupted the processes of government. remember when he was a candidate. russia, are you listening? go get those emails. as president, suggesting china open investigations of hunter biden, attacking jeff sessions, his attorney general for recusing himself in the russia probe, firing jim comey, the fbi director, saying it was...

Enemies, but a more corrupt or donald trump in the white house again may just skim the department of justice and its processes and just order his lieutenants to lock up his political opponents. >> yeah. thats the crux of it. when you hear this news, it went through proper channels, thats both at some level, i guess, like there is some check there but also disturbing that there were people inside the justice department that went along with this operation. >> thats why i support adam schiffs call ...

My fear is that he may not have been successful this time in looking up his perceived enemies. but the more corrupt donald trump in the white house, again may not be as patient, and just get the department of justice. and its processes and just order his lieutenants to lock up his political opponents. >> thats the crux of it. right? we hear this news and this idea that he went through the proper channels. thats both at some level, i guess, theres some check there. but also, disturbing that there...

Processes of counting the electoral votes after the 2020 election. donald trump didnt hide it. you know, richard nixon didnt publish his enemies list but donald trump put it right out there. suggested that the legal process should be deployed against his enemies. so its no surprise, as we learn, and were certainly going to learn more, as the months go on. that his justice department not only targeted reporters, who cast critical scrutiny on him. but also, on members of the opposing party. who we...

Rallies, exactly, who he thought his enemies were. so -- and now, it appears that the doj was weaponized to go after those enemies. i am talking about democratic lawmakers, and their aides, their -- their families, and media organizations. i mean, he was very public about his enemies list. and now, here we are. and yet, its just so unprecedented, even with all of those tells, is it not? >> laura, the remarkable thing about president trump and his administration was how openly he corrupted the pr...

Even five years ago or a decade ago. when you look at some of the laws that are being passed at the state legislative level where legislators are basically saying were going to take away the certification of election processes from civil servants, secretaries of state, people counting ballots and put it in the hands of partisan legislators who may or may not decide that a state electoral vote should go to one person or another and when thats all done against the backdrop of large numbers of repu...

One of those targeted, spoke with chris hays. >> my fear is he may not have been successful this time, but a more corrupt or donald trump in the white house again may not be as patient and may just skip the department of justice and its processes and just order his lieutenants to lock up his political opponents. >> so is that valid? i mean, this is america, right? so when you think about that and something that could be, in effect, from the department of justice, what does that do to interpretat...

Laws that are being passed at the state legislative level, where legislators are basically saying, were going to take away the certification of election processes from civil servants, you know, secretaries of state, people who are just counting ballots, and were going to put it in the hands of partisan legislatures, who may or may not decide that a states electoral votes should go to one person or another. and when thats all done against the backdrop of large numbers of republicans having been c...