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Letting any of you leave just yet. as i said at the top of the show, there is a ton of legal and political news. and im gonna need all of your help on the other side of the break. because when we come back -- a big step towards bringing jack smiths other case against trump to try. what we heard in court today? and later -- republicans on the hill are ramping up their own investigation into the, quote, weaponization of government. the big question about that is, is there anything behind it, or is...

2020 election. and mr. trump has until thursday to report to the grand jury. if jack smith has evidence of criminality, should donald trump be held accountable? >> so, here is the problem. this country is going down the road of criminalizing political differences. and i think thats wrong. alvin bragg stretched a statute, in manhattan, to be able to try to target donald trump. most people, even people on the left, acknowledge that if that wasnt trump, that case would not have likely been brought ...

We saw prosecutors, they didnt even request detention for him. and they didnt, they didnt seek to take his passport, then put any restrictions, really on his release. and thats different. and, thats because jack smith and attorney general garland are very cognizant of, that no matter what they do, its going to be subject to attacked attack by the right. and thats exactly what we are. saying we saw the fbi director on the hill, last week, its been a -- long time. >> its all one day, really. >> ye...

Think that this is going to result in trump showing up for before the grand jury and testifying? absolutely not, i cant envision him doing it, i cant envision any of his attorneys doing it. but i do think it is, again, for this sort of case, for a high-profile white collar, public corruption type of defendant. it is something consistent with practice, and all it does, it takes away one potential tool for trump, his attorneys, and his defenders, to try to use against the doj. saying, hey, look, y...

Cases. when you have investigations where the person knows that the investigation is ongoing. you give them some sort of notice, theyre not gonna run and destroy evidence, presumably, thats already all been gathered. at this point, again, do i think this is going to result in trump showing up before the grand jury testifying? absolutely not. i can envision him doing. it i cant envision any of his attorneys doing it. i do think it is, again, for the sort of case, for a high profile sort of white ...

Merrick garland. you served with many of them. are they for real? >> i would suggest a hustle. but whats fascinating is, you look at this entire theory of the weaponization of government. it does beg a very simple question. if government were this malleable, if these institutions could be weaponized by any political leader to advance their own interests, why did donald trump not do that himself when he was president? was he to incompetent? or was this in fact a blatant lie? anyone who has spent ...

Specifically demonstrates his effort to try to walk a line. take a listen. >> if jack smith has evidence of criminality, should donald trump be held accountable? >> so here is the problem, this country is going down the road of criminalizing political differences. and i think thats wrong. alvin bragg stretched the statute in manhattan to be able to try to target donald trump. most people, even people on the left, acknowledge if that wasnt trump, that case would not likely been brought against a ...

And trump makes everything about himself. his own personal grievances and his own, you know, personal challenges. hes trying to make those issues their issues. but thats not a winning issue with most of the country. so i think everybody understands that who has been involved with politics. its going to take another political train wreck for republicans, i think, to recognize why following this man is terrible. hes cost them in 2018, 2020 and 2022. >> those republicans that are running for presid...

States is supposed to represent every american. not to target one. >> republicans like to talk a lot about the weaponization of government and here you see what donald trump and his allies managed to do to two americans. it is dangerous. clearly, the harm that has been done to these women. also harm tour election system. all across the country, they are having trouble getting people to volunteer for elections because who would want to do it predicated on what they watched in the last election? >...

Were pressuring to change the results and the other group of witnesses will be trumps own lawyers and advisers who were with him as these schemes were developed and executed and some of them may be charged them sfz and others even if they arent charged, they are critical to any prosecution. i want to get nur reaction to an excerpt of a larger context of what ron desantis told me yesterday when i asked him about this case specifically. here is part of what he had to say. >> as president, my job...