andrew weissmann is back. john heilemann is here, and misincreases national security contributor mike schmidt is back with us at the table. mike schmidt, i remember one of the first time i read about how much trump was trying to do this as president, you wrote a story about efforts of don mcgahn to prosecutor i think hillary clinton, jim comey and maybe others. he was restrained in those years from doing that somewhat. durham unnecessarily investigated a number of people, but this is based on today s times reporting. this has been turbocharged business his conviction. i think if falls into a
would have allowed a trial before judge chutkan, so the american people could see the facts adjudicated ahead of the election. they rejected that. at donald trump s request, they agreed to hear their a. what are you girding for in that issue? i think the worst circumstances would be that the two conflicted justice actually tip the decisions if there s just a dissent of two, it s probably less significant, but if for any reason they are the balance point and they tip the decision a particular direction, given the very obvious conflicts of interests that they have, then i think it becomes really, really dark. the court missed a huge
reasons are still targeting i m not saying he shouldn t be indicted, but the federal process is still working. i think it s worth saying, one more think about the example that mike gave and we talked about here. it s a very acute version of trump amnesia. if you went around to a lot of well-educated people, particularly a lot of the republicans who involved their calms with trump and now are drifting back, if you asked them, hey, donald trump said lock her up, put hillary clinton would say, they would say, yeah, he said that during the campaign. as soon as he became president, it doesn t happen. trump says a lot of stuff, and then it doesn t happen. as a political challenge for the biden campaign, and for anybody who cares about the future of democracy, people don t know the story that s contained in the mueller report, even people that follow politics, that trump did
forward. he may modify it some some ways, but the argument that it shouldn t be in existence at all seemsic, now palpably wrong given this particular defendant s history and megaphone. it s the same big theme, liers and delusions. it feels today in today s news cycle like the good guys are outmatched. certainly the bad guys are, giving us a pretty vivid demonstration of what they re capable. when he said this, i laughed. imagine being a juror, nose the history of maga people, doxing people, we know the first thing
late this afternoon, the manhattan district attorney s filed its response, reading in part defendant s letter asserts that the stated basis for the court s orders no longer exist because the trial has concluded. the court et cetera orders however railroad not based on the need to avoid threats, but the broader bobble base to prevent actual harm to the integrity of the proceedings, to protect the orderly administration of this court and avoid risks to the administration of justice. andrew, it would appear abundantly clear that they re talking about alvin bragg about go to jail, that the gag order is more necessary now than ever before. let s just remember the gad order doesn t prevent donald trump from making any and all political attacks against joe biden and his administration. it doesn t protect and there s a carveout for the judge himself,