taken away. and what do they know about this supposed claim, the claim that former president trump has made, that he had somehow magically declassified everything that he ever touched, basically that you wanted to take with him. remember, john bolton and others have already said that when they were in the white house, there was no such blanket order. of course, it would be known presumably by pat cipollone and pat philbin. melissa, day in, day out, the trump misinformation machine is at work. does the department of justice need to address this? we hear every day how cool, unlawful, unprecedented it was to raid trump s home. what s america garland could do is lay out for the american people what led to this? months of requests for the american archives national archives, 100 subpoena, all of which was apparently ignored before the doj but, with no other option but to lawfully follow an executed search warrant. should merrick garland be reminding the american people of that? stephani
so, for america garland to actually approve a prosecution against joe biden s prime rival, in itself creates a conflict. so, what does he do about it? he has two options. he could appoint a special prosecutor, not under that regulation that is in the department of justice which trump and barr manipulated with moeller and now with durham, what they ought to do is they could appoint a special prosecutor under the same mold as archibald cox, who has total independence from the department of justice. the second thing he can do under department of justice standards, is to actually give it to the state of georgia, and say i am not going to prosecute this, there is a standard set forth in the department of justice regulations, that looks first whether or not the state has an interest which georgia clearly does because trump was trying to interfere with that election. and there is an investigation going on now. and the question becomes whether they have the capability to do it and they
good afternoon. you re watching chris jansing reports live from new york. today, another new chapter in the expanding and complicated story behind the january 6th insurrection. former trump adviser peter navarro was back in federal court today, pleading not guilty to the charges by the justice department. all that comes against a back drop of an apparent rift between the doj and the 1/6 committee. in fact, we know some lawmakers have grown frustrated with america garland s justice department as many of the bigger place in the scheme, people already heavily featured like john eastman or rudy giuliani, are yet to face charges. the committee has disagreed internally whether to recommend criminal charges against
visited by two fbi agents who served a subpoena on him, seeking documents or related to his interactions with the house select committee. he was supposed to cooperate and provide the documents yesterday. now, i ve been in touch with navarro. he refused to answer whether he turned over the documents and is cooperating with the grand jury subpoena. today a grand jury has indicted him on two con demt charges for his refusal to cooperate. the house select committee has expressed some frustration with the justice department, arguing they have not moved quickly enough on other contempt referrals. for example, for former trump white house chief of staff, mark mea meadows. they referred to other white house advisers. here you can see the justice department moved on this. mr. navarro is expected to appear in federal court this afternoon. let me bring in evan perez for more on this. evan, what do you think of this? kate, this is much easier one for the justice department, for america garland
received a justice department subpoena for records to help donald trump stay in power. he s refused to cooperate with the congressional subpoena. they re reviewing the conduct of the members of the former president s inner circle. our panel of reporters is back with me. it s significant. there s been a lot of blowback from democrats in congress saying they don t think the justice department is taking this as seriously as it should. this would be going into the west wing and donald trump s inner circle to try to figure out what was happening between election day and january 6th. they ve been extremely quiet at the justy department, and you re right. there have been so many democrats, many more in private than in public, but some in public saying what are you doing, america garland? get on with it and get this investigation going. this is a big deal. not necessarily that peter navarro will, i don t know, presumably he would comply, and if he did