american governments. recently unsealed court documents also revealed that the department of justice is looking into donald trump s potential violations of the presidential records act. the espionage act. and of obstruction of justice. but what happens now? will donald trump be prosecuted? should he be prosecuted? and if it, is one of the consequences of that? even though but half of the 38-page affidavit that was unsealed on friday was redacted, there was even redacted information in there to generate serious discussion about a prosecution. that brings up some hard questions and scenarios, with which the justice department and all of us have to grapple. for one thing, there is no doubt that if he is indicted, the trump loyalist faction of the republican party will seek some sort of retribution. a number of them have already been quick to echo the former presidents baseless accusations that he is being politically persecuted. the potential for violence has to be taken serious
or harm you as a result of the prosecution. you are trump s prosecution is to satisfy those considerations. we do not have a system where a strongman can threaten violence against prosecutors or against the country. and avoid prosecution. the doj s job is to decide whether they have sufficient evidence to obtain and sustain a conviction. and if it is a national interest and no other form can provide justice, then it is the doj s job to go ahead. so, eddie let s say it is even bigger than that. joyce is making a good point. prosecutors cannot make decisions based on personal threats or threats against their environments. police don t make those decisions about that. but now we are talking about the. country we saw a guy who is going to traditional been fbi office, and ended up dead after an hours long standoff with police. we have seen threats against archivists, of all things. we have seen threats against democracy itself. and there are people who still
american governments. recently unsealed court documents also revealed that the department of justice is looking into donald trump s potential violations of the presidential records act. the espionage act. and of obstruction of justice. but what happens now? will donald trump be prosecuted? should he be prosecuted? and if it, is one of the consequences of that? even though but half of the 38-page affidavit that was unsealed on friday was redacted, there was even redacted information in there to generate serious discussion about a prosecution. that brings up some hard questions and scenarios, with which the justice department and all of us have to grapple. for one thing, there is no doubt that if he is indicted, the trump loyalist faction of the republican party will seek some sort of retribution. a number of them have already been quick to echo the former presidents baseless accusations that he is being politically persecuted. the potential for violence has
good, morning it is sunday august 20. eight 9 am in the, east 6 am in the. wes i m ali velshi. ever since the fbi conducted a search of mar-a-lago in august, eight new and damning details have emerged about the twice impeached insurrectionist ex presidents reckless handling of highly sensitive documents, which contain some of this country s most closely guarded secrets. we have learned about the national archives, and the justice department to repeated requests for trump to return material that properly it belonged to the u.s. government. we have subsequently learned of trump s yearlong attempt to style stonewall those agencies from retrieving those materials. we know that 184 unique and classified documents were among the first batch of documents recovered by the national archives in january of this year. some of them included information that could compromise the identities of clandestine human sources. including, possibly, those who work as informants for the
coalition of voters elected him. and mitigating the hurts that people are experience saying in the midst of a pandemic induced recession, and still feeling the effects of inflation. black americans have historically been locked out of federal relief programs from the homestead act to the gi bill, to the new deal. today is the 59th anniversary of the march on washington for jobs and freedom, a march for economic justice. this is an important step in the right direction. black borrowers, disproportionately our pal grant recipients. one in four black borrowers will have their debt zero out, also just want to say this, i am not using the term forgiveness because debtors have done nothing wrong. we ve been told we live in a meritocracy, education is the equalizer, in that meritocracy this was supposed, higher education was supposed to close the racial wealth gap.