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republicans again today have accused joe biden and merritt garland, the attorney general of weapon i think the justice department to attorney general of weapon i think thejustice department to bring this case with him is that accurate to your view? case with him is that accurate to yourview? it's case with him is that accurate to your view? it's taken three and half years to get to this position and it took them until november last year took them until november last year to appoint a special counsel. i don't think it's accurate. in fact, i followed this closely, i reported on a profile for marit garland this year and i don't think they really wanted to do this. what a beam by thatis wanted to do this. what a beam by that is when marit garland entered office, whenjoe biden entered office, whenjoe biden entered office, we are reporting around this at the time that they wanted to move past trump. they were trying to avoid a confrontation with child in terms of his legal culpability for variety of things including january six. thatjust proved to be unavoidable thanks in large part to the january six committee and the hearings last year and the public controversy or attention that those drew. i think the notion that the doj weapon arises is talking points,
The campfire is becoming a bon fire and the next week or so will be quite telling. Nixon fell on his sword proclaiming his purity to the end. Joe Biden has no connection with reality and you can be sure, the puppet masters are busy plotting right now how to remove him that will cause the least hur
from him and whistle-blower number 2 who is the case agent shapely was his supervisor. not only did we hear from them, but they provided key documentation. corroborating their view of what happened in this all important meeting october 7th, 2022 where they learned for the first time wise told them gosh i don't have ultimate authority. so we have statements that are inconsistent between wise and garland and the thing is, congress can get to the bottom of this. the house can get to the bottom of this. without interfering with the current investigation -- they need to ask questions of merritt garland did you or did you not give wise special counsel authority and did he ever ask for it and did he have to follow -- normal doj procedure which means you have to go through a lot of hoops. what did it mean when youd to him to follow the process? they can talk about all of
was one in september, and one in december. i understand why the one in march might have fell apart because that's when we learned about covid-19 but in september 3rd ausa in delaware shut it down because didn't like the optics even though they were still -- september 3rd of 2020 so about 97 days away from -- from the presidential election so that 90-day window doj policy still in effect. december 3rd after biden has been elected shuts down another search warrant in hunter biden storage facility, in fact, acued by shaply of calling hunter lawyers letting know they were targeting a storage facility and they might search it in about 30 day. 30 days later, obviously, no reason to search anywhere if you've given the target of the search a 30-day head start. so nothing happened in 2021 so this really was slow walked. i don't know that merritt garland but david wise saying there was no improper
attorney general of the united states, merritt garland. he called the counsel a lunatic about five times and eluded to the legal threats people around him have been getting which is pretty common. almost nobody talks about it, but just did. he spoke for about 25 minutes. will caine was watching carefully and joins us with what he believes is the situation. what did you take from that? >> i appreciate you asking me what the big take away was. i think donald trump came out loose, clear eyed. he quickly brought the scope beyond the prosecution there in new york. he said, the system has responded to donald trump like a foreign body. he is, to the system. it's flooded with antibodies to destroy trump. he quickly pivoted to talking about that broader effort, the
they're afraid of alienating the mega base, especially former vice president mike pence. given the subject matter here, money paid to a porn star. this was an easy political call for them to make. but if it hadn't been brag , drawing first blood instead jack smith for an obstruction charge based on the mar-a-lago documents, i think far fewer gop leaders would have said much as all remember, as i explained here last week in ordering trump lawyer evan corcoran to testify in that case. federal district court judge borough how determined that the government had made a prima facie is showing that trump had committed criminal violations and the court of appeals for the district of columbia. they agreed. i want to know what you think. go to smerconish dot com this hour and vote on today's poll question. would donald trump have been indicted by alvin bragg if trump were not running for president? joining me now to discuss is former senior adviser to attorney