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Politics? >> i think it is and the way to look at this is he's taking what might be a bookkeeping error from almost ten years ago a misdemeanor in new york law and claiming it's a felony because he now says it was a violation of federal campaign finance law. well, the problem with that is he's a local da. he's got no authority over they recall campaign finance law. the two agencies that do, the u.s. justice department and federal election commission where i served as a commissioner, both of them looked at this and decided there was no violation of the law. so this -- this is such a weak, almos...

Suggest that he's gonna use th full weight of the legislative branch of government and certainly the committee or the committees under his control, to go after alvin bragg. and that sends chills i thin for most americans down thei spine. that you would weaponize the legislative branch to go after fda doing its job? >> well thank goodness we have the united states constitution which has the separation o powers and the legislative branch cannot interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation in the judicial branch especially of a local da and again, kevin mccarth doesn't know what the charge ar...

Of, course the former president has not been arrested yet. that didn't seem to stop many republicans from going on the attack. >> your thoughts on the possible indictment from president trump? >> it's a political exercise. voter wouldn't thing is what i call the criminalization of politics. i think it's disgusting. i think it's terrible for our country. it's bad for america generally. >> this i believe supplementation of the weaponization of the federal government and the departments against political opponents. >> the tough part is with a local da. playing a presidential politics. if that sta...

Congress woman gallego of arizona -- i was struck by the unprecedented line in jamie raskin's -- what do you think about this letter that was sent to the da's office? >> look, it's just a letter that shows the hypocrisy of the republican party right now. first off, they talk about local control. and now they're trying to take control away from a local da and the grand jury. by the rule of law -- they are trying to basically overturn the rule of law because they want to really -- to a former president who has legal -- and it really shows that in the long run, the basics of the republican party'...

Applying the law. we spoke with oversight chair james comer and asked him about calling alvin bragg to testifying, here is what he told us. >> this is a local da trying to prosecute presidential candidate based on federal election law. he is two levels of government below the appropriate level that would have potential to look at this case. it is not constitutional what the da, mr. alvin bragg is trying to do. i believe this is a political stunt and disappointing. his job is to prosecute bad guys, he is spending all this time and self-promotion to further his political career at expense of cit...