investigations into the current president s family. ted lieu, democrat of california, set to orient facts as they exist on earth one. watch. let me ask you a series of basic questions to get facts out to the american people about our system of justice. trump adviser roger stone was convicted in a federal court, correct? that s my recollection. trump donor elliott brady was convicted in a federal court. correct? also my recollection. the attorney general at the time for those two convictions was bill barr, which president nominated bill barr for attorney general? president trump. you were the fbi director for all of those cases at the time. which president nominated you? president trump. okay. what these facts show is we don t have a two-tiered system of justice. we have one department of justice that goes after criminals regardless of party idealogy. all of these folks were convicted under the administrations of three separate republican attorneys general. i
killed by law enforcement in six hours or so. but he was motivated, it appears, based on a lot of the falsehoods and the rhetoric that we still see too prevalent today. mary, i ll give you the last word on this. it feels unsustainable. it feels like we re in this position again of plying whack-a-mole. the climate doesn t change. you know, but for i think largely viewed as long shots to prevail in defamation lawsuits still. it seems that there are still more tools available to the purveyors of this information than those fighting it. it does definitely seems like for all that we try to use the law to restore some accountability that there are certainly gaps. and some of those gaps are actually because of our constitution and the way it protects first amendment rights, freedom of speech and expression. and someday i d like to have a