the thugsjfi] and criminals areçócorrupting our justice system, xdhe s rallying his supporters as another legal probe, the special counsel criminal investigation intensifies.e1xdxdr i ll talk to trump s attorney joe tacopina and preet bharara. your platform should be banned. tiktok ceo faces bipartisan ( skepticism that the app may be used for spying by the chinese government. has indeed spied on americaná citizens? i don t think that spying is the right way to describ wit. can the biden adóilistration ban the most downloaded app on the planet?5a■xdw3lpe1lpe1ñri] fá and parental w3permission. as was, utah decidest( to target all of 5$%1■ media and becomes the first state in the nation to restrict how children use it.i] we have a responsibility to protect our young people. i ll talk to republi#pf governor spencer cox who signed this new law regardi consent for minors usq media apps. joining me for insight and e9 correspondent yamiche alcindor.1 jak
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office basically begging him to bring that case, he didn t do it. this is the mark of someone who3 is carefult( and deliberative, 1 we can have the argument about the merits and case, but you can t say about alvin bragg that he s rushing to the court to indict the president on flimsy charges. xd i m not asking yo@l=i political look, but as a former law enforcement official, look,k what the former president did, ho/■2ujvzu look at it if you re alvin bragg, if he brings the indictment, qjj$(ár g it down, he looks like he s been bullied.r in that sense, we re really e1t( seeing the law enforcement community get challenged here by the former president.çó how would you be handling this? i don t know. i m retired from that now by virtue are you sure?fá i m retired fo look, the only way you can handle these cases and you will get criticism whether you bring a case or don t bg a casee] you have to look the at the law and the facts. the evidence is as i said a q
court? i don t know. my former office chose not to bring the case, what was interesting in your exchange with tacopina and we ve had a melange of republicans saying no crime here.u nobody would ever charge this case. it s unseemly, it s irrationally, it s never happened before and it did, it happened with respect to michael cohen who was not only charged with this type of crime, thisñ@( particular crime.v it. his lawyer thought it was a crime and he thought it was a crime, pled guilty to it. his lawyer thought it was a crime and allowed him to pl>q% guilty to it. the judge accepted the guilty plea and thought it was a crime not it s appropriate to bring such a case and argue about the optics of it, but the idea that this is unprecedented is just false and wrong.ñiñri]jf you heard his case.u he feels as ifçó there s not and, look, thew3 campaign finan cases have not been easily prosecuted, and we know that. he brought the john edwards case.+■e1e1 i these arexd very diff
investigations against the former president where we ve seen major developments in the case. former trump officialsi] includb former chief of staffe1 mark meadows will beçói]fá compelled testify regarding january 6th. mi january 6th, is still in question. arguments heard this week. trump lost his attorney-client privilege, and his mar-a-lago documents case had to talk to ar grand jury on friday. and then there sq the case of ■ference in the state ofxd georgia where the das likely to decide soon whether to bring charges there.ok joining me now is the former u.sy/uj district of new york preet bharara.t+h#rom the southern i]d preet, welcome back. thanks for having me. let me start with what@ve just heard, mr. tacopina. at the end of the day would this be an easier case in federal