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Tonight, claire mccaskill, former democratic senator from missouri and msnbc political analysts, and also with us daniel goldman, who served as the house impeachment for the first impeachment trial of donald trump. he's also former assistant u. s. attorney with the southern district of new york and msnbc legal contributor. senator mccaskill, let me begin with you because i want you to put us in the position of the united states senator, like the two that we have heard of here and there's another, who received this memo in december. your in your senate office, staff comes in, they hand you this...

And they are throwing about this kind of stuff? this guy says that he has no idea how his name came on here? i think that's dangerous. >> daniel goldman, what should the justice department be doing with this memo tonight? they should be including it with all the other evidence that is now streaming out in the media and in public about donald trump's evidence -- donald trump's conspiracy with a number of different people who try to overturn the election. and we know that he was trying to do that because he had admitted it himself. last summer, lawrence, when you when i spoke, i suggested that t...

The only investigative body that appeared to find out everything that the three people mentioned in this memo we're trying to do is the justice department. only the justice department can investigate and evaluate the question of one did that idea become a crime. when it was put in writing, is that a crime? when it was distributed in washington, when it was supported by the department of defense, or is there nothing to see here? could it just be dismissed on his face because biden was inaugurated, so whatever they try to didn't happen or if it happened it didn't work. is this justice department...

Justice has to be investigating all of this. and i've expressed my frustration a many times at the patient pace at which they're going in the fact that america doesn't really know to what extent they are investigating. let's us look at this issue. there were people in this memo, there were people in that meeting, with united states senators in a hotel room two days before the mob attacked capitol police officers with flagpoles and said to hang mike pence. and they had classified clearance. this guy, this colon, is a civil lawyer for the department of defense right now. for an intelligence brig...

Superior to the legal methods. that memo refers to a still classified presidential directive. it is against the law for the nsa to analyze unprocessed raw signals data like intercepted phone calls captured within the united states without a court order. republican senator kevin cramer from north dakota conform to the washington post that he received it. and johnson's office received the meadow. both of those republican senators did not vote to overturn the electorate college count on january 6th. senator cramer said he received the memo from one of the people mentioned in the memo as being in ...