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Usual, and that's true in a variety of ways. sadly because of the increased violent threats and menacing that have been documented. now the feds are expanding lye monitoring of polling places with that rising set of threats, including specific threats identified against election officials. doj is going to roll out this plan in 24 state testimonies idea is to ensure compliance with voting rights law. missouri is one of the states we're seeing republicans spar with the feds. they're trying to block them. they say this would bully local election workers. the move by the doj comes amid the safety ...

Good afternoon to you. what about this executive privilege claim? how would you prove it? pr where does that -- where does that go? >> chris: this is not new. they set up teams when this is a question whether information is privileged in some way, executive privilege, not as common, but usually attorney/client privilege, so the tank team, supposedly an independent group at the department of justice that will go through each document and segregate out those that are privileged. the problem is it's all one doj. experience with this before. second problem is it takes forever, and we are not going...

Culmination of the stunning episode where trump purportedly tries to oust rosen since he won't do his bidding and install jeffrey clark. this was the lone doj official who had demonstrated a willingness to pursue trump's conspiracy theories. trump does stand down. why? because a group of doj officials threatened to resign if he goes through with it. think nixon, if you will. it prompts a sigh of relief from one doj official who tells his colleagues, the cause of justice won. after all these efforts behind the scenes basically to topple our democracy failed, brings us to january 6. president go...

>> well, congressman, as just alluded to in your prior question, i can tell you what the actions of the department were -- >> no, sir. no, sir. >> i cannot tell you -- >> mr. rosen. >> -- consistent with my obligations today about private conversations with the president one way or the other. >> now, at the time this seemed like a tell. obviously if the answer to that question is no, you just say no. well, now we have a new trove of documents unearthed by the house oversight committee that proved the president did of course repeatedly attempt to pressure the department of justice to overturn t...

That's the whole point. this is supposed to be the gate keeper. this is supposed to be the person that makes sure things are running properly. if this person is doing this, if he's receiving these payments, there are two possibilities. a rogue actor. i really doubt that. much more likely this is just the way the company does business in which case it's not just him, there has to be lots of people and in which case it's the organization itself and probably goes up to the top. >> this is a jurisdictional question, but i think of tax cases often being brought through the federal government, right...