insurrection? what about donald trump, the man who lit the match and then threw it on top of it the man who sat in the private dining room off the oval office get a pass? while senior level proud boys, oath keepers, do they all go to jail but donald trump the man who incited this insurrection gets a pass? in a sense the criminal justice system is very much the credibility of the system is at stake here. anthony, i m going to follow up on that, we can tap your expertise as a former doj spokesman, now you re on the outside, you can really tell us what s happening, why has it been so slow when it comes to any action being taken with donald trump? so, nbc s lester holt asked the attorney general this exact question last july, i was the
his orders. jonathan lemire, elise jordan and michael steele is still with us. and we have jeh johnson joins us. anthony cooley, the top spokesman at the department of justice under attorney general merrick garland. so, jonathan lemire, we re hearing talk about things, you wrote a book about the leadup to january 6th. all the people around donald trump before january the 6th and on january the 6th telling him to stop the riots, to call his people away, to call them off, and as we heard from cassidy hutchinson even in the middle of the riots calling for the hanging of mike pence, mark meadows said he couldn t do anything because donald trump
around the fact that you ve got the leading candidate for president on the republican side, who s defended in three or four cases, how is that going work? if you got somebody who s trying to campaign and at the same time is going to pretrial conferences in four different cases. if i m the average voter, how can i hire this guy? four criminal cases potentially and a defamation suit, i mean, it s endless. former secretary of homeland security jeh johnson and legal affairs analyst anthony cooley, thank you very much. a fifth. they could add new jersey. new jersey. wow. the over/under the