like as the special counsel s probe, the walls of the special counsel investigation grow closer and closer to donald trump, the efforts by his republican allies and congress seem more clearly designed to offer a lifeline to president trump by undermining the investigations themselves. i have to call everybody s attention to the fact that jim jordan who is the chair of the judiciary committee, today, wrote a letter to a. g. garland demanding an unredacted memorandum outlining the scope of mr. smith s probes, regarding president trump. and any supporting documentation relating to disappointment as special counsel. that seems like this page from the playbook where if you can t be the investigation, investigate the investigators. is that what is happening right now? i think that you ve got the whole thing. i mean, mark meadows testimony
asked meadows about both of the special counsel probes. mar-a-lago in january 6th. in terms of timing we do not yet know when mr. meadows testified, but the bottom line is that we do not know the man who was there for a pivotal meetings leading up to january 6th, a man who was one of trump s representatives at the national archives, as it tried to maintain trump s presidential records, that guy has spoken under oath to a federal grand jury. joining me now is congressman jamie raskin, democrat from maryland, former member of the january 6th committee and the ranking member of the house oversight committee. congressman, thank you so much for being here tonight. as someone who knows the january 6th congressional investigation so well, i wonder
think that everything falls apart for trump even more than it already has, because there is nothing more important than trump completing an unwavering loyalty. and of his own former chief of staff is no longer loyal to him, why would anyone else be? so we ve already seen this with some of trump s past chiefs of staff, so the same thing maybe going on here, then with respect to what you started with, the pool, it seems very suspicious like so much else in trump world when it comes to trump, everything is worse than it looks. but i talked to some architects today and they say that no one would ever build an i. t. room that just doesn t happen. to be fair to donald trump, maybe he built a house the way that he builds his government, his country, i don t know.
reasons, and it certainly doesn t mean that trump is going to be charged in florida, or anything like that. what it means is that they do think that there is evidence of criminal wrongdoing going on in florida, as well as in washington d. c. . up until a few weeks ago, it looked like this case was headed towards jack smith indicting in florida. but donald trump himself made it more likely when he appeared on the cnn town hall and said i made all these classification decisions in washington d. c. , and that was music to jack smith s ears. you could have the prosecution going in both places, one for trump in d. c. , and others like walt new to, the valet in florida, they could both be brought in one
is how lethal peril to trump s legal defense, if meadows tells the truth. and the truth here is really the enemy of the trump defense, which is what is happening in congress, a sustained attack on anyone who dares investigate or prosecute donald trump. we saw it with district attorney bragg in new york, where they subpoenaed him, they attacked him, they began to rail against him, now they are attacking the department of justice because of the progress of jack smith s special counsel investigation into the multiple crimes that almost certainly were committed by donald trump. so they are going after the prosecutors and now, of course, they are trying to detract everybody by recycling the most anti-claims that had been circulated by rudy giuliani about burisma and ukraine. they say that there is one little factoid they claim that was in this form that the fbi