weaponization of prosecution is working less and less. this is the bread and butter of local da s office. this is a straightforward fraud case. so it becomes harder and harder to claim that this is politically motivated, what you are accused of doing this just theft. also, we should note, the victims here are hard and die hard trump supporters who gave money to an organization called we build the wall. another legal problem today i want to get you guys your thoughts on, this is involving some federal investigations, of course, federal criminal investigations. we know there s a grand jury of being investigating january 6th. we know some of the people that have come before to testify including mark, your chief staff mike pence, we know pence baloney, he came today we got this interesting kind of incremental development here in the new york times. the fbi agents in florida tried to interview william as russell, who served in the special insistent to and deputy director of the vans a
describe the permanent governments in states like pakistan and egypt, right, this kind of layer of military bureaucracy that underlies a civilian government and has its own financial interest and is deeply corrupt has been imported to describe, you know, men and women who are career civil servants in the united states government and who do counterterrorism and major federal criminal investigations and counterintelligence investigations, it really is a very insulting set of terms. and, you know, we should keep that in mind even when, as i sometimes do, you know, i use the term ironically. but it is it s a choice on the part of an entire political movement to characterize the
address some of your questions in answering that question. from his service as assistant united states attorney in atlanta in 1997, where chris worked with the fbi in the trenches of federal criminal investigations and prosecutions, to 2001 when he served as then deputy attorney general larry thompson s principal deputy, chris has been a leader in helping guide the department of justice including the fbi. after the september 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, chris worked tirelessly with the justice department leadership, newly appointed fbi director mueller, as well as other senior fbi officials to respond to the attacks and to help restructure the department to enable it to more effectively prevent future acts of terrorism. chris also helped oversee other department of justice priorities including the project safe neighborhoods initiative.
to washington. what he s been able to do in new jersey can t be done in swa washington. i m sorry to use this, it s a bridge from trenton to washington if he wants to run for president. it s a great general election message that he has. the obvious problem for him, kendall is what we ve been calling this, drip, drip, drip of new stories and investigations and the announcement this morning for example that the assembly and senate will form this super committee. this is going to have to be very brief because they are going to introduce the governor. you know how these kinds of investigations work, could this go on for months, if not even beyond? you ve got state jurisdiction for criminal investigations now apparently based on the mayor of hoboken, federal criminal investigations. the stuff doesn t get resolved quickly i m sorry, i m going to have to interrupt you because we are going to do the swearing in right now and then we will have his inaugural address.
well. and he s going to talk about, you know, moving forward as a state. but again, just a few moments ago, lawmakers convening, creating that so-called super committee, chris. craig melvin in trenton, new jersey. thank you very much. i d like to bring in a former u.s. attorney and former new jersey attorney general. thank you so much for coming in. explain to folks who see all these parallel investigations going on what s the difference between what this legislative super committee is going to do as opposed to some of the legal investigations that are going on. well, the legislative committees are trying to dig in and find out what the facts are and review documents and the like, but they are going to have to defer at some point to law enforcement authorities. you can t have witnesses testifying before the committee if there is an investigation ongoing by the u.s. attorney,