let s hand it over to kasie hunt and cnn tonight. you re right. we don t talk about grief enough. i m very much looking forward to listening to that podcast. thank you very much. i am casey hunt, and this is knight. we re in the midst of another general election season that will test donald trump s impact across the board. independents turned away from him in 2020. and as criminal investigations widen by the day, those independents are being reminded why they still don t like him. two third of independents say in a new poll that they don t want the ex-president to run for office again. and though he is not on the ballot this november, democrats, led by president biden, have tried to frame the midterms as a choice between democracy and trumpism, which the president defines as a threat to democracy. democracy voters, meanwhile are energized over abortion rights, trump, and more 62 days before the final votes are cast. where does that leave republicans who are on the ballot?
witnesses who said they were pressured by people close to the ex-president to, quote, do the right thing, be loyal to donald trump, reminding them trump would be paying close to attention to their words. the committee suggests it has many other examples of witness tampering, which is of course a very serious crime. is that what is happening here? and will the doj be looking into this? they believe they could affect testimony of witnesses before the committee. oits a very serious issue, and i imagine the department of justice would be very interested in and take that seriously as well. the two investigations going on, congressional and criminal, are showing signs of clashing again. there s friction over access to transcripts of interviews the committee conducted that the justice department wants. the new york times reporting federal prosecutors were just as surprised by hutchinson s testimony this week as anyone else watching and left feeling blindsided. but at the same
crime? according to three cnn sources t former aide to then white house chief of staff mark meadows told the panel she was contacted by someone in the trump camp attempting to influence her testimony. remember those messages vice chair liz cheney read aloud at tuesday s hearing alluding to possible witness intimidation. the gop congresswoman didn t name names but she relayed accounts of two unidentified witnesses who said they were pressured by people close to the ex-president to, quote, do the right thing, be loyal to donald trump, reminding them trump would be paying close to attention to their words. the committee suggests it has many other examples of witness tampering, which is of course a very serious crime. is that what is happening here? and will the doj be looking into this? they believe they could affect testimony of witnesses before the committee. oits a very serious issue, and i imagine the department of justice would be very interested in and take that seriousl
he has appeared on fox news three times in the past five days to criticize trump s legal defense in the mar-a-lago search. and today he said this about the justice department s case against the former president. i think, you know, as i ve said all along, there are two questions, will the government be able to make out a technical case? will they have evidence by which they could indict somebody on, including him? and i that s the first question. and i can they re getting very close to that point, frankly. but i think at the end of the day, there s another question is, do you indict a former president? what will that do to the country? what kind of precedent will that set? will the people really understand that this is not failing to return a library book, that this was serious? so, you have to worry about those things. and i would hope those kinds of factors would incline the administration not to indict him because i don t want to see him indicted. joining me now, former special
that s in part because his family made the choice to show another face to the world, that of his open casket. as hard as this is to see even decades later, you still should not look away because the tears and cries from his funeral echoed even today, especially with the windings of this unserved warrant shedding new light on a system that the family says clearly didn t work for them. here to help us make sense of all the, bakar ri sellers and shan wu. thank you for staying here. historically, what is the significance of this warrant? this is a warrant specifically to three different people, one of whom is still alive, two of whom were acquitted in the murder. this is part of the kidnapping part of this case. i think the significance is the fact that emmett till s legacy still lives on. people need to understand first and foremost, this isn t some relic of ancient history.