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appeared to run interference on behalf of the former president. shortly after, a manhattan d. a. alvin bragg indicted former president trump, house republicans issued a subpoena. something a prosecutor who worked in bragg s office to appear before a judiciary committee for a deposition. it s a move that the manhattan d. a. was says was designed to undermine his office s criminal case against trump threatened unprecedented campaign of harassment and intimidation. and it s not just the judiciary committee! the chairman s oversight committee is also prepared to hold fbi director, chris wray, in contempt of congress for not turning over a document regarding unsubstantiated allegations about president biden and his family. mind you, the fbi has offered to make extraordinary accommodations to the committee in terms of this request. but even that is apparently not enough. still to come this evening, a story that is sure to raise
speaker mccarthy on where we proceed from here. in fact, are there people that were highlighted in the durham investigation, and the durham report that we need to talk to on the judiciary committee? we re gonna get that a good, hard luck. but none of that is on the table. for the record, it has been seven years, seven, since hillary even ran for president. right now to election cycles removed from hillary clinton s candidacy. and yet, it is still groundhog day. at the same time that we are seeing that play out, congressman jim jordan also appears to be using the durham report to prove that the fbi has had it out for trump all along. this week, jordan sent a letter to attorney general merrick garland asking the department of justice to turn over details on the fbi s role in the special counsel s trump investigation. and that letter, congressman jordan complains about the institutional rot that pervades the fbi. he asks the department of justice to disclose information about the use of
information, not only about georgia, but about other states as well. i know that for a lot of people around the country, the moment trump s get me 11,780 votes call became public the case against him in georgia seem basically open and shut. there was trump on tape using fake election claims to pressure georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger to swing the state in his favor. but in the court of law, the burden of proof is high. you have to be able to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that trump knew he was lying when he made those assertions that the election was stolen. and so in that regard, these reports, and the firms that wrote them they are key. remember this claim that trump made on that same call while trying to pressure raffensperger to find him those 11,000 votes. the other thing, dead people.
and talks about you in the book. and how you dealt with different situations. and what should be and shouldn t be done. the president hears about what she said about him. and she can t forgive him for birtherism and he said i can t believe the president for what he did to the military. right fight to pick? there s a trump fight to pick. he never finesses anything. he never steps back. a normal person would say look, i understand that she loves her husband and believes in him. there were legitimate issues i raised. i understand the way she reacted to that. that would have been the normal way to react to that. that s not the trump way. to react. his thing is if he s attacked he ll hit back. and he thinks he thought this was clever to hit back in that way. absurd. but i will say this, i lived through all of that.