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Defense could go too far by revealing what it knows, it could intimidate witnesses, it could release embarrassing information about them a which is not relevant for trial but theyve said to the grand jury secretly. heres the interesting thing, usually if they did do that, if the defendant did do that, they could get sanctioned by the judge. you could easily see donald trump saying, what are you going to do, fine me? i dont care. what are you going to do, put me in jail? thats exactly what i want...

In violation of federal statutes to aid somebody, like donald trump? >> that is the fed for you. what these people have done is tried to use the law to overthrow democracy. the said sock has been doing that subtly for a generation. these guys were the intellectual weekend of doing. it brazen and foolish about it. but the fundamental premise here that you can use legal tricks and lies and misinformation to overturn democracy and control how the country operates, that is not new. that comes from b...

Defendant pursued the methods of testing the election results. the efforts to change the outcome in a stage or recounts were uniformly unsuccessful. theyre sitting right here, the third point, hes not in trouble for a lot. thats right, and lets be clear about this, the federal criminal code as many statutes that criminalize speech that is not protected, every fraud requires a statement as part of the crime. if i call you up, jamie and i tell you on the phone for the purpose of stealing money fro...

Specifically the same two criminal statutes, two of the three that jack smith has used to charge. the case has only got stronger since then special counsel have some tools that we didnt have. he can immediately push through privilege assertions and get a judge to rule on them, he has used that to get vice president pence, some additional testimony from him and others, so the case has got stronger since we concluded our work, and we had already concluded there was evidence of criminal conduct. t ...

Avail himself of every possible defense. we have a new analysis about what some of the defenses are that include, of course, that donald trump was relying on the advice of his lawyers, that he legitimately believed that he won the election, and theres some issues with some of the statutes involved. all of these defenses have flaws, but they all could end up taking time, and it remains to be seen how quickly this case can get to trial. >> devlin, the court exchange yesterday is really instructive...

Because one of the political rules of thumb is that if youre opponent is in trouble, you kind of step back and let them continue to be in that state. it sounds like house democrats are getting involved, or at least trying to. >> theres a number of house democrats who sent a letter recently to the judicial conference asking for a change to the statutes, as it relates to having cameras in federal court argue ing that the latest is a moment when we should start to see cameras in the courtr for this...

Conduct but the problem, i think, jack smith has is that congress has not enacted statutes that directly criminalize the behavior that smith is talking about. >> when i take a red pen through material thats protected by the first amendment, it reduces much of this to a haiku. >> greg: republicans are blasting how trumps new legal troubles are once again perfect timing for the bidens. notice the difference on how the media covers joes growing scandals. >> you cant equate these two things. i mean,...

Henchmen arent defenders of democracy, they are offenders of democracy. the dojs goal here r is very clear, you get in our way, you threaten to root out dc corruption and well do whatever it takes to destroy you by using the full force of the federal law enforcement against you. and if that requires twistingg precedent or dispensing with real evidence of intent or applying rarely used interpretations of statutes, soe be it. and well bring that case before a liberal judge in amo democrat district...

>> he has extravagantly d the statutes in order to try to capture this behavior. >> for me the word farcical,al ridiculous, abusive, those wordd came to mind, after going over the document for the second time earlier today i realize its fas worse than any of that. what jack smith and his boss merrick garland are doing not justar to trump, but to the nation going forward is devastating. now the doj, the whiteho house, everyre member of congressss knows the truth. the rag tag group of maga support...

Sent over seas. this march has been reversed by three separate injuries, he was reversed by an 8-0 supreme court, as i explained on sunday, he takes statute that is dont apply, takes statutes and rewrites them. he knows he is in washington d.c., grand jury in washington d.c., he has the worse radical left wing obama judge in america, somehow gets the case. she is in charge of the case. he is going to indict trump for drinking too much orange juice and everybody would say great, he is not above t...