this, a liberal democrat, partisan prosecutor who had initially passed on bringing these charges, federal prosecutors who reviewed the same facts who did pass on bringing charges. and, again, i just think this just smacks of the kind of criminalization of politics that the american people have had enough of. reporter: neil, bragg and house republican leadership including jim jordan, the chairman of the house judiciary committee, have traded multiple scathing letters about this. house republicans want bragg to hand over documents related to this investigation, but friday bragg s office accused republicans of partisan politics writing in part, quote: based on your reportedly close collaboration with mr. trump in attacking this office and the grand jury process, it appears you are acting more like criminal defense counsel trying to gather evidence for a client that a legislative body seeking to i achieve a legitimate
on friday bragg s office accused republicans of playing politics writing up our quote based on your reportedly close collaboration with mr. trump in attacking this office in the grand jury process, it appears you are acting more like criminal defense counsel try to gather evidence for a client that a legislative body seeking to achieve a legitimate objective. how this all plays out, jon both politically and legally for the present of course remains to be seen. but the early indication politically are it is a positive for him. the campaign put out a statement last night just one day after the indictment was handed up sink in the 24 hours after the indictment they raise 4000000.25% of those donors had never previously given to president trump. % back to you, jon. jon: it s worth pointing out alvin bragg was running for the das office he essentially promised he would go after donald trump, correct? that is correct. that is something president trump s son, eric made sure to
serious cases for which of the strongest evidence first, but we re in a federal system. the states operate on their own timetable, as do local prosecutors and the justice department only has itself to blame for its slow pace when these events took place more than two years ago, and it should have brought i believe more urgency to the task. your republican colleagues in the houseman as i said, critical of the d s investigation, speaker, mccarthy said tonight quote the house of representatives will hold alvin bragg and his unprecedented abuse of power to account what do you interpret that to me? well i think we re seeing the same thing we saw out frankly, during the ukraine investigation when your last guest liza. donald trump s criminal defense counsel. that s what kevin mccarthy is now doing . that s what jim jordan is doing. they re threatening to interfere with the manhattan d a to subpoena the d a or other prosecutors past and present to try to subpoena documents from
seeing the same thing we saw out frankly, during the ukraine investigation when your last guest liza donald trump s criminal defense counsel. that s what kevin mccarthy is now doing . that s what jim jordan is doing. they re threatening to interfere with the manhattan d a to subpoena the d a or other prosecutors past and present to try to subpoena documents from the district attorney s office basically to try to get discovery that you know donald trump s criminal defense lawyers. that s what they re hired to do not members of congress. but that s i think what he has in mind, it s what the you know. in a different form. the governor in florida has in mind that is to try to turn this to their political benefit. were you surprised that that this happened today that this happened at all? you know, i was surprised that happened today only because i ve been following the press as you have
are essentially using big government in defense of their cult leader. earlier today, we learned trump is actively colluding with allies on the hill and consulting with them about the next steps in their public defense of him in his impending indictment you would think republicans would have more important legislative things to do the general counsel for alvin bragg did not mince words when she responded. she wrote, and i quote, your examination of the facts of a single criminal investigation is an improper and dangerous ayew surpation of the executive use, and based on your close collaboration with mr. trump in attacking this office and the grand jury process, it appears you are acting more like criminal defense counsel trying to gather evidence for a client than a legislative body. and then i m just going to guess, she dropped the mic joining me now is congressman bennie thompson of mississippi he served as the chairman of the