district attorney bragg claims the former president misrepresented the payments as legal services. a fact, his attorney did pay daniels. top house republicans are again demanding that bragg hand over documents related to the investigation and testify in person on friday of this week. house oversight chair james comer calls the case a political stunt and says alvin bragg cannot defy congress. unfortunately for mr. bragg he doesn t have the luxury to determine whether or not he can comply with congressional requests. if there was a reason for prosecution, it should be done by the department of justice on the federal level. we believe it s a political stunt by mr. bragg. when you look at what we believe the role of the manhattan d.a. should be is to fight crime. harris: with this will they or won t they indict tumble phase dragging on some watching this unfold say it is all helping trump. i think this is a colossal mistake if they bring these charges. it is not going
has dropped the case. over the weekend former president trump held his first campaign rally in waco, texas. he railed against bragg s investigation and the three other investigations he is facing. listen. i will be the president of the united states [cheers and applause] you will be vindicated and proud and the thugs and criminals who are corrupting our justice system will be defeated, discredited and totally disgraced. republicans and bragg continue to be at war with each other. house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan sent another letter saturday demanding bragg testify and provide documents and testimony over the possible indictment. jordan reiterated he believes congress has the jurisdiction to investigate what he believes is an investigation started by bragg because trump decided to run for president again. in a tweet bragg responded in part quote, we evaluate cases in our jurisdiction based on the
what is interesting he has 135,000 followers on tiktok. i m not sure what other platforms he has. maybe something to do with the fact he feels like he will be losing some influence if he were to no longer have access to it. harris: just the thought of that. an elected individual. that s really sad and disgusting. another progressive dead set against a tiktok ban congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez and yes, she posted her argument on tiktok. i can t believe it. to me the solution here is not to ban an individual company but to actually protect americans from this kind of egregious data harvesting and usually when the united states is proposing a very major move that has something to do with significant risk to national security, one of the first things that happens is that congress receives a classified briefing. congress has not received a
district attorney bragg claims the former president misrepresented the payments as legal services. a fact, his attorney did pay daniels. top house republicans are again demanding that bragg hand over documents related to the investigation and testify in person on friday of this week. house oversight chair james comer calls the case a political stunt and says alvin bragg cannot defy congress. unfortunately for mr. bragg he doesn t have the luxury to determine whether or not he can comply with congressional requests. if there was a reason for prosecution, it should be done by the department of justice on the federal level. we believe it s a political stunt by mr. bragg. when you look at what we believe the role of the manhattan d.a. should be is to fight crime. harris: with this will they or won t they indict tumble
everything. investigate and bring forth governors, attorneys general, treasurers, and there is no reason to think that because you are a prosecutor you get some special treatment and hands off. congress has never recognized the idea that just because there is an ongoing investigation you can t be touched. they are still investigating 9/11. do you think congress would sit around and not do anything until the feds got done with their investigation? there are a lot of circumstances. jim jordan, the chairman of judiciary and the chairman of oversight make a case. if there is a duly issued subpoena served by united states marshals you better darn well appear before the united states congress. it is not optional. harris: i wouldn t antagonize people with power by cusseding at them. let s get back to the possibility of where we are with