the federal funds and brags office has said they spent about $5000 worth of federal money on the investigations into trump and his company between october 2019 august 2021. most of it, they said, was on litigation related to his court battle over his tax returns. well i think the question is this feels very unprecedented. so you ask, do they have authority over it? i mean this lawsuit. it itself is unprecedented. we ve never had anything like this. and i think the outcome of what gets decided here will determine that question. i was talking to karen before we walked up here and i said, you know, karen, i focus on the media. this feels like a huge deal. am i wrong? is it because i ve never heard or seen anything like this before? where you have a sitting member of congress trying to sort of maneuver his way out of this, you know, investigation into the former president and karen to your point. you said i ve never seen anything like this ever seen anything like this? before and d a brag
into the former president and karen to your point. you said i ve never seen anything like this. never seen anything like this. before and d a brag in this 50 page, uh, legal filing that was filed today he sets out a campaign of interference and intimidation. because as as you said representative jim jordan is trying to say yes, it s because of these $5000 in federal funds and that you claim that you have oversight over that, but really what alvin bragg sets out with, including the all the tweets by the former president, as well as jim jordan and others. he also included the photo of the baseball bat near his near album, bragg s head. he talks about the racial, the racial slurs that dog whistles and also that as a result of this campaign of intimidation. by jim jordan and others and trump that has been coordinated that alvin bragg has gotten over 1000 threats since then, including white powder in his
and also they re looking for grant. excuse me. grand jury information that s covered by secrecy laws because that whole process is secret. so they re trying to block this subpoena as well as any potential future subpoena to brag or any other current or former prosecutors. so in their lawsuit, they write in some um, excuse me. congress lacks any valid legislative purpose to engage in a free rein ranging campaign of harassment in retaliation for the district attorney s investigation and prosecution of mr trump. under the laws of new york. this court should enjoy the subpoena and put an end to this constitutionally destructive fishing expedition. you know, they also note in this. they re tying jim jordan to some of the verbal attacks at the former president has made against d a brag, saying that they ve received over 1000 calls and emails that are either either racially charged or threatening to bragg s office, including as we discussed the envelope with the white powder that turned out
that there are other states like that in the databases and all that. when you look it up state by state, one of the rules here, they call that a free state. so many questions for it, and you re hearing it from city officials themselves. john miller, thanks for breaking down that and also the body cam footage with us. thank you, john. coming at nine p.m. on cnn tonight. john is going to trap katelyn polantz, traveling to kentucky to speak with the governor andy bashir about this. just one week after former president trump was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to 34 felony criminal charges in the hush money probe. the manhattan district attorney who brought those charges, is now suing the chairman of the house judiciary committee, jim jordans. he s accusing the trump ally of trying to interfere with his offices. criminal case the committee is investigating brags handling of the case, demanding more documents. and testimony. so let s bring in senior legal analyst and assistant former assis
assault and defamation. do you think that the judge will actually grant donald trump s request to delay it because of his prosecution. in this other case that d a brag brought, he s saying because of all the bad publicity and the emotions and the hysteria that the jury would be swayed by that, as opposed to normally when the jury in manhattan would like him, so i think this is another tactic that trump has always used, which is delay delay delay. he s trying to push it out. i don t think it s going to work and i think the case is going to go on as planned. thank you so much for joining us from my home state. i appreciate it, john. all right. sara, a rare fungal infection has made almost 100 people sick in michigan. details on where and how this is spreading. and the justice department facing a one p.m. deadline today in the fight over abortion access, we have new reporting on the strategy. they seem to be taken. what s it like