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People that will be deliberating is his wife. in real, life this doesn't happen, in addition to that, we heard charlie giron talk about the fact that the attorney general was making threats. and, in real life, in real life, you catch another case for that, right? so i just don't really feel like you are going to get what they need to get in the texas senate. but i'm very excited to see what the texas house did. >> are you surprised that his fellow republicans turned on him? >> adam, no. >> it's that bad? >> he is that, that for one. and number two, i love that he was alleged voter subversion w...

Capitol hill, the text of the bill to raise the debt ceiling has been released. it is 99 pages. our producers and our reporters are combing through it right now. we will get details to you as seen as we have them. now to texas, and a historic decision of a republican-led house impeaching republican attorney general ken paxton. the state to hold a trial and decide whether paxson shall be reverently before. office reminder, paxton -- try to overturn the 2020 election. a lot of those over the supreme court. on january six 2021. the 20 articles of impeachment against the a.g. did not have to do wi...

Pleasure of president biden, the chief rival of the gop primary lead, and of course what's happening in this investigation. but if jack smith who has had the delegated authority to make the decision, makes that determination, it really binds merrick garland as the a.g. to make a decision based on what the evidence shows under the special counsel whose job it is to look at this. and so it is very likely in a case where there's not a whole lot of ambiguity unlike some other cases that might be brewing, if there's zero ambiguity and the evidence is there, merrick garland will likely have to follo...

Cases that were mentioned by the way. the january six case and mar-a-lago. now, it then goes to step two, to the attorney general, who can overrule the special counsel. however, two important things. first, the regulations say the attorney general has to give great weight to the special counsel's recommendation. so, the a. g. can only overrule him if he feels there is a real error there. and second, if that happens, the regulations say that has to get reported to congress, so we will know. yes >> and what about the timeline on this? if they do decide to -- idict this é >> it so interesting, s...

Special counsel regulations put jack smith in charge. he's not subject to the day-to-day supervision of the a.g., and the a.g. can overrule him only if he's recommending things that are unprecedented that garland has to intervene. by asking for that meeting with garland, sort of asking for it with the wrong person and they know that. >> lisa rubin, as always, we thank you. billionaire harlan crow refusing to cooperate with democrats investigating his relationship with supreme court justice clarence thomas. the senate judiciary committee asked crow for a list of gifts that he's given to thoma...