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Because the sitting d.a. doesn t do a lot of interviews about cases we did discuss whether there could ever be in the future given this history of possible trump indictment, this was in december after they won the trial and conviction of the trump organization. why does it not lead to charging donald trump himself? so, you know, as i said back in april in a statement investigation is ongoing. this is one chapter. i caution people against reading ahead. we needed to focus on this and do what i thought the public servants in my office, the superb job they did in the courtroom, that was the focus, but as i said, the investigation is ongoing. so that s how the d.a. here puts it and he has the power and it s an ongoing investigation. we also know that they are still taking a deeper look at a very old trump story about $130,000 ....
Thinking that this stuff is so important and so serious that if i don t disclose it then the public interest could be harmed in which case he s basically supplanting the judgment of the elected district attorney. right and that s clearly where he sees himself as you said you d be pissed in a note of candor if you were overseeing this person. david, thank you. as everyone can see mr. pomerantz is a man in the news and has his very first live news interview tonight, 9:00 p.m. eastern, mark pomerantz with rachel maddow tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern. a teacher speaking out about ron desantis censorship and revealing responses to the chinese spy balloon from top republicans. the federal government obviously doesn t know what is in that balloon. is that weapons? did that balloon take off from wuhan? ....
Chicago which just this past weekend there were nine people killed and i think there was something like i don t know, 40 shot in chicago. guns are illegal in chicago. so you really have to look at when is the last time we analyzed this stuff? the last time we had a ban on assault weapons i remember i was the sitting d.a. i was in favor of it, and then we found out that there was no discernible change in crime when we ban assault weapons. now let s look at california, crime is going up, shootings going up, compton, los angeles, any of these places and it s where you have the toughest gun laws in the country. so the vast majority, and people need to understand this, the crimes that are being committed are being committed by people that have illegal weapons. in less than 2% of all prisoners had a firearm obtained from a retail source at the time they committed their crime. so stop with this background check and all of that, but if you want to, let s come together on that. want to come tog ....