shame. you know, i mean, these are people who like you mentioned expressed regret and felt guilty about helping trump win but they won t try to actually redeem themselves in public. but this is a reality and a pattern that has existed since trump first announced his candidacy in 2016. could not have been more crystalized than when a senator from his own party who voted to convict him for inciting an insurrection went ahead and said that she s open to supporting him should he run for president in 2024. i mean, this is really scary stuff. this is a guy who they now know tried to overthrow the u.s. government. let s be clear about what that means. that means he literally tried to end american democracy. literally. and they re sitting there thinking, you know, i m not sure whether or not i m going to support him in 2024. are you really not sure? you know, but this all shows, like you said, just how unwilling the republican party
going to go i ve got to get home, i ve got to get to target, i still have shopping to do. i m not being glib. i think these are rell real considerations for a jury that doesn t want to be held essentially hostage in their minds over the holidays. let s get this done, work through the night, and come back tomorrow with even more crystalized opinions on the subject. i get that. it s christmas. assist very serious trial, but these people want to get home. danny cevallos, shaquille brewster, thank you so much. shaq, my 2022 wish for you that you get warmer assignments. every day you re out in the cold. we ve got to change that next year. coming up, this is no surprise, but it is knew. michael flynn suing the january 6th committee to try to block a subpoena, running the clock as a sitting congressman refuses to cooperate with his own colleagues. we ve got the brewing legal battle and what, if any, if any is important part here, consequences could be in store. e
really sort of crystalized and that indictment spelled it out if tremendous detail. the general thrust we had known for months, we had known this was pretty clearly a donation being made in someone else s name under campaign finance law, that is simply not legal. you had the campaign legal center which is a nonpartisan ethics watchdog that filed a complaint on this this year. i wonder given what they turned up with that complaint, what you turned up with your reporting, once you saw the indictment today, was there anything in there that really popped for you as new, was it simply just vindication of what you d found? did the justice department make any allegation today that surprised you? you know, a lot of the stuff involving america first action, this pro-trump superpac was stuff that was pretty evident from the public records we d been looking at for months. what was very new was this sort of separate business deal that parnas, fruman, and their crew was involved in having to
records involving these guys, they were involved in very shady legal dealings in florida and as more kept coming out the picture really sort of crystalized and that indictment spelled it out if tremendous detail. the general thrust we had known for months, we had known this was pretty clearly a donation being made in someone else s name under campaign finance law, that is simply not legal. you had the campaign legal center which is a nonpartisan ethics watchdog that filed a complaint on this this year. i wonder given what dthey turne up with that complaint, what you turned up with your reporting, once you saw the indictment today, was there anything in there that really popped for you as new, was it simply just vindication of what you d found? did the justice department make any allegation today that surprised you? you know, a lot of the stuff involving america first action, this pro-trump superpac was stuff that was pretty evident from the public records we d been looking at for
maybe they will watch the movie. i think you re hearing a lot from the democrats who were fairly or not disappointed with what they heard from the special counsel. where does this move the ball on impeachment? it doesn t go anywhere. if you re a democrat looking for that crystalized, democrats are probably disappointed. let s also remember one more thing as we re hearing from our reporters on constituents and town halls, people in the field, candidates who crisscross across the country for 2020, this subject does not come up much. yes, the russian interference should that, protect the ballot box but in terms of this russia probe, that s not what people are focusing on or what the next election will be fought upon. i guess pushing back as someone who used to work on campaigns, his focus on what you did as a candidate, might be the candidates are focused on other issues. i think that s also true. and frank figliuzzi pointed