because trump is guilty of crimes against democracy. it is not just about screwing his enemies, it s about getting everything he wants for himself. for his own, political ends. for his own, financial gain. for his family. he would undermine the very basic premise of democracy, as would, now, a republican party. that is enthrall to donald trump and these kinds of activities. there s a conspiracy, an ongoing conspiracy, by trump and those around him. and the hierarchy of the republican party that is enthrall to undermine democracy. that s what this all fits together as. to your point, there is another, key difference between nixon and trump here, which is that, in the nixon era, there were republicans. that s exactly right. who stood up to richard nixon. not only stood up. i richard nixon was about to be impeached and convicted in the senate and forced to leave office. that s why he resigned. what do we have today? we have mitch mcconnell and
over, again. you are asking for either a select or special committee or a special prosecutor? well, you know, we ve spent the last two months talking about a commission around january 6th. i was there on january 6th. i was, very much, at risk on january 6th. but if you asked me to choose, between a commission to figure out exactly what happened on january 6th and january 5th and january 7th. or a commission that would look at the abuse of the state department, which, of course, got donald trump impeached the first time. the abuse of the doj. and what else happened out there? i would choose the second. i would like to know, from soup to nuts, because we know that this president had every opportunity. used the tools of the american public, the the federal government for his own, personal gain. i want to know where that stopped and that that that may go beyond a select committee. so, as we played at the top
we had segregationist democrats who controlled and tried to keep black people from voting but most of the party did not go along with that. what can, or should, the current-justice department, under merrick garland, do? what can, or should, the current president joe biden do about this? because you don t think it s it s over. i mean, donald trump is the former president but you don t think this effort is over. no, i don t. it s obviously not over. all we have to do is listen to your show and anderson every night and what we put on the air and what we read in the new york times and the washington post. look. what we ought to be doing, as journalists, particularly, we need to find out everything that happened in the trump presidency. in terms of its crimes against democracy, including the pandemic. homicidal negligence by a president of the united states. that figures in this, too. what was that homicidal negligence about and resulted in tens, hundreds of thousands of deaths? i
former president was hiding anything. you have already seen the personal animus, the name calling. in addition, the ex-president was, loudly, calling for action. quoting from a now-deleted tweet from february of 2018. quote, adam leaves close-committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. must be stopped. again, this was as the investigation was under way. and again, according to the times, it came up empty. let me repeat that. it came up empty. all of the allegations you heard the former president make, amounted to nothing. it was all bluster, from the king of it. now, as for former-attorney general william barr, three sources tell the times, that when he became attorney general, he revived the probe and put a trusted prosecutor on it. barr spoke with politico, today. here is their lead. quote, former attorney general william barr, on friday, distanced himself from reports that the trump-justice department seized communication records belonging to two prominent d
and the the sweeping nature of this. this is quite different. and i you know, shocking, stunning, but not surprising. we often find ourselves revelations of abuse of power by the trump administration. and i fear i m sure, there is a lot more to this. and there will be other examples that are going to come out, over time. andy, i want to read another portion of the new york times reporting, which they say is part and parcel of the newly-revealed investigation into congressman schiff. and leaks in press reports that made donald trump look bad. quote, the white house was adamant that the sources be found and prosecuted. and the justice department began a broad look at national-security officials from the obama administration. that s according to five people, briefed on the inquiry. while most officials were ruled out, investigators opened cases that focused on mr. comey and his deputy, andrew g. mccabe, the people said, end quote. did you know you were under investigation, at th