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
know, in congress historically, but also where does it lead? it leads to chaos, and it leads to a breakdown of the rule of law, breakdown of our institutions, and then, you know, then we lost our democratic system. so you know, be careful they need to really be careful about what they re pushing for their own political purposes. mary, i want to just follow up with you. i mean, we talked you ve talked about the language of extremists. what are the extremists here when republican lawmakers are using the lexicon and conspiracy theories peddled by extremists with the optics of something official? they hear permission. they hear, look, these guys it s not unlike what we heard after the unite the right rally when the former president said there were fine people on both sides. that was permission for white supremacists, neo-nazis, accelerationists, conspiracy theorists, to continue to go out
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there are some limitations. if they get the documents and they re identifiable to a specific individual which these certainly will be, they can be used only when the committee is sitting in closed executive session unless the person c consents to having them disclosed. the house ways and means committee said we don t want the returns to embarrass the president and put them out and make donald trump look bad. we want them because we re thinking about new laws. so if they do put them out, that s going to show some hypocrisy in the position they ve taken in front of the courts. bottom line, will the public get to see them? it depends on how tight a ship congress runs. right? people, if you look at congress historically, they tend to leak, and it will be up to congress whether they follow the regulations or whether somebody puts them out in the public. and since he is out of office, i mean, where could it go from there ven after they get
testify? it s not a surprise they are calling allen weisselberg. but allen weisselberg is also someone that we ve all long known may have even more information about the trump organization than michael cohen simply by virtue of having been at the trump organization so much longer than michael cohen. what we know at this point is that allen weisselberg has immunity, but we don t really know if it s partial immunity or complete immunity and the government isn t really volunteering that information. that may affect a lot of what allen weisselberg says or doesn t say if he comes to testify before congress. could they make him show up, could they subpoena him? congressional subpoenas must be obeyed. congress historically has honored in a sense privilege, attorney/client privilege, common law privileges. congress is not required to honor those. on the other hand, a witness can