she dove head first into that one. in the last six months, 18 times she has cited the hatch act, all right? that s the setup for my colleague dana to go ahead and ask you the appropriate question. dana: i just feel that the hatch act is not supposed to be an escape hatch for this particular issue. one of the things she could have done if she was looking for a safe port in a storm is to say the justice department is has just released an indictment. we ll let this criminal case go through. i ll refer you to the dnc for more. to say that she can t personally comment on it because of the hatch act, i don t think the counsel s office would probably agree with that. they might prove me wrong. you are exactly right. dana: good. the hatch act the 1939 act the u.s. office of special counsel has this handy dandy website where they say the purpose of the act is to maintain a federal workforce
about the gas, in the end it is about the gas, in the end it is a world prize that decides this, it isn t as though some country is cut off altogether. everyone will be paying a world price, and the world price dictates huge leaps, astronomical sums have been paid on gas, but it isn t really a cut off point, it is just a matter of how much you re willing to pay for gas supply. and delivery in the winter i think is currently running at seven times the long term trend, which is pretty frightening. let s move on to final thing. frightening. let s move on to finalthing. donald frightening. let s move on to final thing. donald trump back in washington this week, and i wonder what is the dilemma for the us government about how it handles donald trump? is it contemplating the possibility of charging him in some way for his alleged involvement in the january 6th ride last year? the newspapers are well informed the newspapers are well informed and the newspapers are well informed and say -
here, do you have to think about things like that? look, we pursue justice without fear or favor. we intend to hold everyone, anyone who is criminally responsible for the events surrounding january 6th, for any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another accountable. that s what we do. we don t pay any attention to other issues with respect to that. so if donald trump were to become a candidate for president again, that would not change your schedule or how you move forward or don t move forward? i ll say again that we will hold accountable anyone who is criminally responsible for attempting to interfere with the transfer, legitimate, lawful transfer of power from one administration to the next. so maya, it sounds so different now that as jake sherman just articulated, the country has seen that donald trump was not a bystander to a
commit a corrupt and knowingly illegal act, and now we have new information that the justice department is it would appear more aggressively pursuing at higher levels of the trump inner command, at least the fake electors plot. yeah, nicolle, each of these developments that you just outlined today i think sort of put all of the are starting to put all the pieces to the puzzle together. there s new reporting by the new york times which shows that there was some attempt to defraud the american public with those emails showing that trump campaign officials knowingly were pushing this plan, even though they themselves were calling this plan fake. that s something that s going to be extremely important with any criminal prosecution to, again, prove that there was corrupt intent and deliberate effort to defraud the american public. and then on the other side of the spectrum, actual movement from the department of justice
we ll air on nbc nightly news tonight of him basically suggesting that no one s above the law and the justice department is going to take any act that was illegal quite seriously. i mean, he has said that before, but i could tell are you up here the patience is running thin with the justice department among democrats because this committee has just built up such a massive wealth of information that really cannot be ignored and, frankly, has not been ignored. yeah, i mean, jake beat me to the punch. there s a fantastic new interview by my colleague, lester holt. let me show you the clip that jake just previewed for our viewers. you said in no uncertainty terms the other day that no one is above the law. yeah. that said, the indictment of a former president of perhaps candidate for president would arguably tear the country apart. is that your concern as you make your decision down the road