Cases. trump also went to james comey and pushed him to pledge absolute loyalty to trump and to find a way to let flynn go. ultimately he use the power of the presidency to pardon all these convicted criminals. unlike his blatant abuse of the rule of law and the relationship between the president and doj, there is no evidence that president biden has involved himself in the investigation into his own son, an investigation that s been overseen by trump s appointed attorney. and i appreciate the testimony of our witnesses. there is no evidence that he has received any kind of official favoritism in this prosecution for being joe biden son. on the contrary, they are more than 10 million americans who have filed taxes but failed to pay them, the exact crime he is pleading guilty to. the vast majority of these cases are they obtain convictions
Be playing by a set of rules that no one else is playing by anymore, i think that creates a very dangerous and volatile situation, and you may find yourself in a position where you re going so far out of your way to avoid the appearance of targeting a politician like donald trump, that you re actually not administering equal administration of justice, because that would require that if somebody named donald trump commits a crime, he s going to fascinating the same wheels of justice that someone named john doe would face if they committed a crime. and frank, make no mistake, the reason donald trump called a support staffer who still works at the white house is because no one has ever held him accountable for anything. the day after mueller testifies, he calls zelenskyy and says, i need you to get some dirt. you know, the after he s elected and inaugurated, he calls in comey and says, see to it to let flynn go. i mean, the reason that he continues to tamper with witnesses, lie, threa
Manner about unauthorized contacts between the ex-president and mr. clark. i mean there was clearly a process, and, you know, you heard this from jim comey, he wrote about it and talked about it. he tried to have a process so the president wasn t always calling the fbi director to tell him to let flynn go. the failure of any process to protect institutions from being politicized seems to be a pattern that keeps repeating itself. i wonder what you make of sort of the now detailed, anecdotal evidence of trump having his man at the highest levels at the justice department and, you know, do you wonder what would have happened if he had succeeded in getting rid of rosen and leaving clark inside? remember what had happened under attorney general barr. barr was complicit and helped the president move the big lie before the election and after the election until he couldn t take it anymore in the final days. so, again, i m really delighted that we have such public servants who saved us from t
From katie s reporting but i want your first reaction to just seeing the other echo to the call was the meetings to let flynn go. there was never a moment where the president of the united states operated as though his justice department and fbi were there to protect the country. they were always there to protect him. and so that s an unvarying thru line. i like katie s point of the analogy to ukraine here. it is trump s m.o., first the people are talking and any port in a storm. the acting attorney general here, but that is not a high level official. the one through a period that trump now turns to to make this happen and, by the way, it couldn t have been more
Political motivation. he broke some procedures by disclosing to his attorneys a memo, but i think the more fundamental question we need to ask is why was the fbi director, who had a stellar reputation, man of extraordinary integrity, why did he feel compelled to share that memo, that memo that recorded that the president of the united states asked him for loyalty, to swear loyalty to him and then asked him to kind of let this thing with flynn go? that s the underlying thing that ought to concern everyone. and i think again, this is one of those investigate the investigators. we will see more of it with the other two investigations, but we shouldn t lose sight of the conduct of the president at issue here, in which he told the fbi director to lay off michael flynn, can he let this thing go? he s a good guy. we don t want the president of the united states, any president doing that. mike: the folks on your side of the aisle didn t love james comey when he was stepping in to the 2016 camp