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Therefore, this case has to die. i remember the shock in the justice department doing that. is there similar shock today in the legal world that the justice department under merrick garland is continuing with that line of argument to the courts? >> yeah. i think it's the wrong decision. now, i think if you were to ask them their views, they would say, we are defending the office of the presidency and not donald trump per se, and it's important that we protect this right of the president to say whatever it is he needs to say in the scope of his duties. but the reason this fails, i think, is the...

Fantasy froot loops about italy and the satellites. it literally made no sense, but the white house chief of staff told the attorney general you need to have the fbi meet with the youtubers about this and investigate it formally as the u.s. justice department. now, that kind of communication from the white house to the justice department, that is a very stark, very obvious violation of longstanding justice department policy. for justice department officials to be even having that kind of a conversation with the white house chief of staff at all, let alone entertaining multiple requests for him...

Department would represent him in that case. in fact, would insert the u.s. government as the defendant in that case to replace trump. the woman's lawyer, roberta kaplan, rebutted that effectively by saying this, saying, quote, calling a woman you sexually assaulted a liar, a slut or not my type, as donald trump did here, is not the official act of an american president. a federal judge last fall agreed, but late last night the justice department, under the biden administration, the justice department led by merrick garland said they would appeal that judge's ruling and try to continue with th...

Late last night, the justice department under merrick garland told the court the justice department is now going to continue the position of the trump era justice department in the stomach-churning case of e. jean carroll. miss carroll, you'll recall, it's a very high profile case. she accused president trump of rape. he responded by insulting her and calling her a liar. in response to that, she sued him for defamation in his personal capacity as a private citizen. the allegation was about an alleged rape which she said happened many years before he was president. the defamation case was him d...

Oh but wait, there is more. we've also learned this week about bill barr and the trump justice department going after reporters trying to get their sources. first it was reporters of the washington post, then it was the pentagon correspondent at cnn then most recently it was reported in the new york times. all of these reporters of written stories back in 2017 that in their own ways were critical of trump and the trump administration. years later in the last days of the trump administration during 2020, william barr approved subpoenas to try to find out those reporters sources for those storie...