Violent mob against the u. S. Capitol and his own Vice President on january 6th. The Justice Department won the battle and politico reports Special Counsel jack smith obtained an extraordinary array from twitter about trumps account. While it remained unclear what sorts of information the messages contained and who exactly may have written them, it was a revelation that there were private messages associated with the twitter count of mr. Trump, who has famously been cautious about using written forms of consideration with his aides and allies. Hes reportedly sent over direct messages that were sent, received and stored in draft. Politico reports this, quote, u. S. District judge Barrel Howard held twitter, now known as x, in Contempt Of Court in february be fining that company 350,000 for missing a deadline. And he lit into twitter for taking extraordinary and apparently unprecedented steps to give trump an advantage. At one point the judge asking being quote, is it because the new ceo
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engaging in impeachment process has to be about it gather facts. it s important for the american people to have the process unfold based on facts. if congress has no power to gather facts, then the impeachment process can t function. we saw the week judge barrel howard, a federal district court in washington basically said the trump administration does have to turn over rule 60 grand jury material underlying the mueller report. and in that decision, the judge said impeachment is a legitimate inquiry by congress. of course as we all know, this is plain in the constitution. this is not an area of ambiguity. it s not a grey area. it s black and white. you don t have to read the tea leaves. it s plain english in the constitution. you can read that ruling from the judge on friday. cynthia, i m curious about this. we learned that the diplomat there on capitol hill for seven or eight hours yesterday that he detailed efforts to push out the
howard shot back the scope of the special counsel s power falls well within the boundaries of the constitution as the special counsel is supervised by an official who is himself accountable to the elected president. and that ruling meant that andrew miller had no more wiggle room. did he have to testify before the special counsel s grand jury. today. and again, he didn t show up. so today judge barrel howard held him in contempt of court for refusing to show up, for refusing to testify before the robert mueller grand jury. i m no lawyer but to me this seems like a kamikaze mission. why do this? what is the strategy and where does this end? did it just end? does this guy potentially end up going to jail now? joining us again is chuck rosenburg, forrer u.s. attorney in the eastern district of virginia, chuck, thank you for sticking around to help me with this. my pleasure. i understand contempt of court in a control questional
documents. when may 18th rolled around, andrew miller did not show up. so then the special counsel made it mandatory. they subpoenaed andrew miller to appear on june 8th. june 8th rolled around, andrew miller did not show up. then a federal judge ordered andrew miller to comply ruled that in fact, he really did have to appear before the grand jury on june 29th. june 29th rolled around and this time andrew miller did not show up but he did file a formal motion to quash the subpoena to get rid of the subpoena on grounds the mueller investigation, the whole special counsel rig ma roll is unconstitutional. on august 2nd, that argument was shot down by a federal judge. she didn t just say no to his argument against the special counsel. she dismantled it in a 93-page ruling to andrew miller s allegation that the special counsel robert miller wields too much power with too little accountability, judge barrel