gop s response. i ve seen time and time again far-right republicans undying support for trump, it s beyond a cult at this. point and even as some of them are actually vying for the same office in 2024, they want to knock him out of the race, you would think that they take this opportunity islam, him try to get ahead in the polls to discredit tab, but they continue to come to his defense in a freakish way. it s unbelievable, every time we ve seen them do it again and again. i have a moment of maybe. a high know that they want, but maybe just this time, and in fact they just won t. even mike pence, even the quote unquote brave republicans, i m using that ironically. they were saying that it was terrible to prosecute these crimes, what is the justice department doing. and just unbelievable, even like senators, mike mike rounds from south dakota is out there saying, the justice department
can survive in a democracy that says, that people can be armed, and express their hate against anyone with violence. because that simply the opposite of democracy and it s some of what we re seeing happening. and if someone the things we need to see that we re encouraging. maya, let me get your thoughts on the politics of the gop s response. i ve seen time and time again far-right republicans undying support for trump, it s beyond a cult at this. point and even as some of them are actually vying for the same office in 2024, they want to knock him out of the race, you would think that they take this opportunity islam, him try to get ahead in the polls to discredit tab, but they continue to come to his defense in a freakish way. it s unbelievable, every time we ve seen them do it again and again. i have a moment of maybe. a high know that they want, but maybe just this time, and in fact they just won t. even mike pence, even the quote unquote brave republicans, i m using that ironica
you would think they would take the opportunity to slam him, get ahead in the polls, discredit him, but they continue to come to his defense in a freakish way. yeah. it s unbelievable. i you know, every time, right, and we ve seen them do this again and again and again. i know they won t, but maybe just this time. in fact, they just won t. i mean even mike pence, even the quote, unquote brave republicans and i m using that ironically, of course, say it s terrible to prosecute these crimes, you know, what is the justice department doing. i mean it s just unbelievable. even like senators like mike rounds from south dakota is out there saying the justice department is weaponized against donald trump. you know, there s a real opportunity here to not do this kind of thing, and republicans just cannot they just love the anchor of trump so much they cannot stop themselves. i don t know that they re scared
dirty laundry can then be aired in the courtroom, for all of the world to see and hear. i like that mistrust you mentioned in the opening answer. so, now there s another piece of this. so, the justice department has now taken over the investigation. what exactly is the justice department doing and why is that significant? so, those a whistleblowers, by all accounts, did, in fact, initiate, successfully initiate, a federal investigation into these allegations. the fbi, as it s pretty typical, they have never confirmed nor denied. they ve never fully confirmed it, but what we have been able to learn over the past several days is that the investigation, which was being done by the western district of texas, so federal agents, federal prosecutors in texas, has now been shifted here to washington, d.c., for them to
of the whistle-blowers, since then should agents had security clearance revoked. you know thance t is the first stem step in trying tohave terminate them, we had one suspended. we believe ient is retaliation. and so god bless the brave guys coming forward who are outraged by what they see the department doing,ure right, this has a history to 2016 and 17, they spied tospie trump s campaign, and then c comey leaked his memos to get mu mueller who spent two years., and came up with nothing there was nothing. on and on.d so if we win the majority, this is something we re determined, in an aggressivea way. contai consistent