the new york times said, a new york times review and interviews with election law experts strongly suggest new york state prosecutors have never before filed an election law case involving a federal campaign. totally unprecedented. you re right, declined to prosecute this on several other occasions on the democrat response is something to behold. republicans remain unified. desantis put out a tweet defending the former president. maybe the only moment of republican unity over the next year. democrats have also been unified in their response and it has been celebratory. that s how i will characterize it. nancy pelosi. no one is above the law. everyone has a right to a trial to prove innocent. a trial to prove innocence in american justice system that is innocent until proven guilty. jared moscowitz, barbara lee, all of them celebratory with only one measured democrat, mark levin, saying donald trump deserves every protection provided by the constitution.
major dissension over the, quote, weakness of this case. emily? essentially the house judiciary committee is arguing one of prosecutorial abuse, abuse of power, and the prosecution responds with a jurisdictional point. alvin bragg, your letter is off base. he says this at what jim jordan and others are doing, is an unprecedented inquiry into a pend local prosecution. hate to tell you, alvin bragg, but the liberal new york times, your buddy there, talk to election law experts and said never in the history has new york state brought a case about a federal election. you re the unpress denied one first. there are at least seven basises on which they look into this. first if federal funds are received by alvin bragg. he said, that s not one basis. he put a rebuttal. i didn t see the other six basis addressed in his letter. for instance, it s a federal election that you re looking into. congress has clear jurisdiction
i will lie, cheat, steal, shoot one i will never spent a day in jail. what happened? he did spend more than a day in jail. who does he blame? he blames crump. if i m the prosecutor and i have time, why would i want to take someone like cohen and throw him on the stand without preparation right after costello gets off and risk that he is not prepared well enough? seems to me that that is probably what s going on here. bret: well, the grand jury in new york did not meet today. there was all this talk of possible indictment of the former president this week. hasn t happened as of yet. the new york times writes this the legal intricacies that could make or break the case against trump. the interviews with election law experts strongly suggest that new york state prosecutors have never before filed an election law case involving a federal campaign bringing an untested
defenders of democracy everywhere finchem was defeated by democratic candidate adrian fontes. and it was not just finchem s extremism that voters rejected. all of the election-denying secretary of state candidates lost their races in presidential battleground states. that is good news. in addition to finchem there was kristen karamo in michigan. she lost to democratic incumbent secretary of state jocelyn benson who will join our program in just one moment. kim crockett in minnesota was beaten by democratic incumbent secretary of state steven simon. and in a race called just this saturday jim marchant was defeated by democratic candidate cisco aguilar in nevada. all four of those republican candidates for secretary of state were endorsed by the twice-impeached ex-plnt. and they ran their entire campaigns on his big lie. washington post reports this. some pledged to decertify the 2020 result, although election law experts said that is not possible. others promised to decommission elec
january 6th reminded us that nothing is more essential to the survival of a democracy than the orderly transfer of power, and there is nothing more essential to the orderly transfer of power than clear rules for effecting it. republican senator susan collins just one week ago announcing bipartisan legislation to reform the electoral count act, that vague law that trump and his allies, people like john eastman tried to exploit in their plan to subvert democracy and carry out a coup. members of the house as well as leading election law experts are not convinced it will be enough to stop the next coup.