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biggest maybe truisms hes eve spoken >> thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committees sixth hearing last summer when vice chair, liz cheney, dropped a bombshell. the prospect of witnes tampering in the investigation >> first, here is how on witness described phone call from people interested in that witnesses testimony. quote, what they said to me is as long as i continue to be team player that they know ...

of tomorrow. >> chris, the question o accountability in our american democracy seems increasingly vaporous >> it certainly. doesnt it has for a long time its partly why trump exists but why would, is anyone gonna get him question >> the fifth avenue school o accountability, its one of th biggest maybe truisms hes eve spoken >> thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home fo being here it came as a shock, near the end of the january six committees sixth hearing last summer when vice ...

Amendment covers all insurrections, not just a civil war. it covers all officeholders, including the president and vice president. it would be crazy if it did not. look, the reason we are talking so much about the 14th amendment these days is because last month, the colorado supreme court relied on the 14th amendment to rule that donald trump should be excluded from that states republican primary ballot because he engaged in insurrection. as the majority of justices on that court wrote, quote, p...

Interest of the republic? >> there was investigation into if there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russians to interfere to the advantage of trump. >> the special counsel did not find that the trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with the russian government in these efforts. >> the second part of the investigation was if there had been obstruction of justice. whether trump had tried to interfere with the mueller investigation. >> special counsel s...

If you give a witness use immunity, not only are you in future prosecutions, not using any information you get. any other witness who hears the testimony given under use immunity could not be used. the fbi agents and the doj lawyers could not ever hear the testimony, or they are tainted. and any evidence that is derived from the testimony with use immunity also could not be used. effectively, it barr as a prosecution. and i do not think that the j six committee should make that decision, i dont ...

Speeches, interviews and tweets. it all comes agency "the washington post" reports that attorney general william barr has booked the presidents washington hotel for a 200-person holiday party. the post obtained what it says it barrs signatures on the contract. the party will reportedly earn the presidents business $30,000 in revenue. a justice official tells the post that barr is paying for the event himself. and chose the venue only after other hotels including the willard and the mayflower wer...

Law, but it was a critical piece and caught the presidents attention. here are the two factors that i weigh into it that leads me to a conclusion that barr is trying to do the right thing, not the wrong thing. he gets invited in. this comes right out of barrs congressional testimony at his confirmation hearing. he is asked by the president, will you be my member of my legal defense team? what does barr tell him, no, mr. president, i dont have time for that professionally. couple weeks later he i...

From reading the tea leaves in some of these indictments, but there are so many threads that have come up in various indictments including the trump tower deal that was in michael cohens plea agreements that we sort of havent seen the resolution of, but i dont understand why they would put them out there if they werent sort of material to a bigger case. >> all right. also kind of like on the topic, you had an interesting take this week when it came barr, the new attorney general. in saying that,...