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Things about the superseding indictment is the way that jack smith uses donald trumps trumps own words from 2016 about the severity of the kinds of security violations, using him, using that in his own indictment. and so once again were seeing how an absolute reversal. and those montages i think really do demonstrate how far the republican party has come and how deeply engrained the sort of hypocritical mindset has become. but if you defend donald trump, you basically decide that you have no sta...

Are old and quite vague almost any mishandling case could potentially be shoehorned into a criminal investigation but going back to my prior point because of this mishandling happening all the time and now its become such a political football with all three last presidential candidates being investigated, i do worry about while we need to take this all seriously and needs to be investigated, i do worry about overcriminalizing it, things that should be security violations sometimes, those should ...

So far, nothing he has done has changed the arithmetic for him tomorrow. one of the things he tried to give them yesterday, lowering threshold of number of republicans it would take to go to the floor and request a vote to oust the speaker. the number now, majority of the conference, but hes saying he would be willing to take it as low as five, john. still wasnt enough. including for one republican matt gaetz on the call saying he was still a no. john? >> from capitol hill. dramatic 24 hours-plu...

Basically foreign investors that our part of this deal and they may be scrutinizing this twitter deal. i personally dont have great confidence in the biden administration. >> i think these are important things to look into. they have had security violations they had people able to get access two personal data and personal accounts. this is going to be a headache for elon musk and its going to be a headache for all of us. twitter is already like an un- guided missile. its so hateful at times, i j...

A meeting in june that the former president stopped in. so something happened between june and august where the fbi saw a reason -- we dont know the specifics -- to believe something was at risk, some document was at threat. and just very quickly on this point that trump has the power to declassify records, thats true, a, but theres a process. and, b, even if he declassified everything, they dont belong to him. the records act is very clear. the documents belong to the american people and they g...

Point investigation, the justice department says it cannot talk to us just yet. the fact that they took the extraordinary nature suggest this was a 15-month process. many communications with trump and his lawyers, including a meeting in june, that the former president stopped in. something happened between june and august, where the fbi saw a reason, we dont know the specifics, to believe something with it at risk, some document was at threat. just quickly on this point, trump has the power to d...

About a top aide like this, a cafe in ukraine makes sense to you? >> its a huge operational security risk. normally when a u.s. ambassador is in a country and going to be communicating with any official in washington, of course including the president, they would do so from a secure facility, probably the embassy, or certainly on a secure phone. and in this case, obviously all of that operational security went out the window. the president was speaking so loudly it was on a cell phone, there wer...

>> sondland never mentioned this other call. i believe in his testimony, he said he couldnt remember there were one or two calls with him and the president. but correct me if im wrong, he never mentioned this other call at the dinner that now -- that ambassador taylor referenced one of his aides heard. >> thats right. whats so interesting is you have the president saying well, i really dont know much about the gentleman, except that he gave this gentleman his personal cell phone number and evide...

We hear this now, third, fourth, fifth-hand. >> first of all, hearsay is like circumstantial evidence. and in most crimes, its circumstantial evidence that actually solves the crime. and we also have this summary of the presidents phone conversation, and then we have his actions afterwards. and now we evidently have mr. sondland talking to the president in which the president says how about the investigation. so its pretty straight forward. >> sondland never mentioned this other call. i believe ...

>> laura: they should all be prosecuted. >> 600 security violations on the clinton email server criminal prosecutions. >> laura: the kavanaugh leak. >> no prosecutions. there were 27 active investigation into leaks just related to trump. i think theres only been one prosecution. >> laura: this is where the justice department and bill barr have to step up and start making sense of this. this is u.s. tax dollars at work, and our civil liberties, our entire representative democracy is on the line. ...