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by sidney powell on behalf of donald trump. you are looking at the rico case. it's strong, it's long running and there are a lot of defendants more nervous today than they were when they woke up yesterday. i want to bring in our experts tonight. a man who has tried rico cases in georgia, jay tom morgan, former district attorney for dekalb county, neighboring fulton county, and back with us, professor melissa murray from nyu law. welcome to both of you. rico is broad and in some ways if you do the federal and state history, it's complicated. i went through both all the way back to the mafia hearings in the '50s and '60s and what they wanted to do. congress said okay, you guys are ducking and weaving. and you have this guy money laundering and this guy over here and this guy had a restaurant, and we're going to sweep it all in. it worked, it busted about the five families. what do you think of the way the d.a. is now using this as a strong case against so many trump defendants who according to the d.a. were racketeering to

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The Beat With Ari Melber

time that you're dismantling affirmative action, which seems like a one-two punch that will undermine the efforts of minority students to be admitted to these highly elite colleges where, you know, the chances for success and later paving the way in the world are really high. so there's a lot going on here. this is part of the broader picture that goes all the way from college to secondary school to kindergarten, all the way involved. >> and you're directly involved. what are you trying to achieve here? >> thank you for having me. great to be with you, professor. i went to nyu law so keeping it in the family so to speak. i love the numbers you were putting up, ari, because those are the facts and the facts that speak for themselves. at lawyers for civil rights we're extremely concerned that we're talking about six, seven times more likely to get into harvard if you are a affiliated

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Velshi

justice at nyu law. and author of the super majority, the year the supreme court divided america. so, joshua, let's begin with you. it's just an incredible, incredible work here. the mind-blowing decisions that came down this term that, you know, really a separate issue in one sense, but there are still these ethics concerns and there are some connections being made. paul singer, the billionaire, who funded justice alito's fishing trip, for example, lobbied to cancel student loan forgiveness. yesterday, alito voted against biden's student loan forgiveness plan and, of course, you would've thought that that would've been some disclosure there that, hey, you know, i hang out with this guy and he's telling us to do what we are about to do. what do you make of that and what should we make of that? the citizens watching this court, sort of sink into this ethics hole? >> yeah, so, i mean, to be

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The Beat With Ari Melber

potential challengers to new york democrat hakeem jeffries, nobody jumped in the ring. a congressman who ascended to replace pelosi with her support has done so smoothly. jeffries getting actual, literal unity among the sometimes-fractured democratic caucus and a vote that sets him up now to formally take over as party leader and then as his party's potential speaker if they win another election, tomorrow. now, jeffries is known for his mix of top expert credentials, nyu law, georgetown, and a relatable approach to retail politics. the brooklyn native rose quickly in state and national politics. he memorably cited his hometown artist notorious b.i.g. in trump's first impeachment trial but this may echo a different king, rick ross, who recounted, i once got allowance, now i got

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Alex Wagner Tonight

special master, and potentially throw out roadblocks, to the doj's criminal investigation. the multiple moving parts, political notes, has, quote complicated the status of trump's legal plight. which of course is a point here, complicate a matter that's at its core is not that complicated. trump took thousands of white house documents including hundreds of classified ones to his florida home. and for months, he refused to return them. and even lied about their existence. in response, to a federal subpoena that triggered an fbi search of mar-a-lago. joining us now is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and current professor at nyu law. andrew, thank you for being here. >> nice to be here. >> i mean for different courtrooms. who has the stronger hand at this moment? it's really hard to be here. because the doj, fighting all these legal battles, but those battles have the effect of slowing down a complicated doj's urgent work. >> well i think the first thing

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Alex Wagner Tonight

who asked to review evidence taken. and judge cannon, the 11th court of appeals in atlanta where trump asked for a delay of the justice department's request to speed things along and yesterday the supreme court in washington, d.c., where trump is asking for an intervention to get classified documents back before the special master and potentially throw up roadblocks to the doj's criminal investigation. the multiple moving parts they note has complicated the status of trump's legal play which, of course, is the point here, complicate a matter but at its core is not that complicated. he took thousands of white house documents and hundreds of classified ones to his florida home. and for months he refused to return them and lied about their existence in response to a federal subpoena that triggered an fbi search of mar-a-lago. joining us now is former fbi general council and current pro fetor at nyu law.

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Alex Wagner Tonight

today? >> i have some concerns about documents and comparing some testimony we have received. we want to deal with the discrepancies as you perceive in an orderly way. >> discrepancies in testimony, what could that be? who doesn't implicate a notice to task. joining us now is a former fbi counsel former senior member at nyu law. thanks as always for being here tonight. >> it's nice to be here. >> this sounds like a lot of information in this committee has. it's not just texas messages, it's radio traffic, teams meetings. given a supposition about where this material may have originated from her house being

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Alex Wagner Tonight

and we hope to resolve any discrepancies in a way that would make sense. and we'll have to do that as we proceed in an orderly way. >> discrepancies in testimony? what could that be? and who does it implicate? i know just who to ask. joining us now is andrew wiseman, former fbi general counsel, senior member of the mueller probe and current professor at nyu law. thank you for being here tonight. >> nice to be here. >> so this sounds like a lot of new information. it's radio traffic, i think she said teams meetings. do you have any supposition about where this material may have originated from or how it's being procured at this stage in time? >> yeah. i do. you know, used to be when i started out as a prosecutor, if you obstructed justice and you

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Alex Wagner Tonight

recount what happened. if the secret service was representing that something didn't happen but they are on contemporaneous documentation and that is a lot of people's suspicion when they hear that person people's records disappears and, of course, your eyebrows go up and your antenna goes up. it's going to depend on the facts. >> andrew wiseman, former senior member of the mueller probe and professor at nyu law, thank you for your expertise. >> thank you. we have one more story to get to tonight. one that could have major reprecushions all across this country. stay with us. precushions all ac country. stay with us fit together with away things. ♪ ♪ that's our thing. ♪ ♪

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Morning Joe

law enforcement community wolves that want to devour americans. it is absolute chaos for the republican party right now and for people like mitch mcconnell, it is all bad news. because he's trying to win elections in the senate. and that is not going to happen as long as this chaos continues. let's bring in right now nyu law prefer and former special council for the department of defense, ryan is a coeditior of the national security online forum just security. would you love to ask you first of all, what do you think about the timing, the belated request for a special master by the trump legal team? >> so i do this it is part of what you said, that it is a level of incompetence. it is two weeks after the search that they finally got around to filing a motion and it was so bad that federal district judge had to ask them to redo it. so that demonstrated

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