of insurrection, impeachment and illegitimate investigation. it s sad and shameful. the extreme maga republicans have turned the house of representatives into a spectacle and a national embarrassment. joining us now is democratic congressman eric swalwell of california. he s a member of the house judiciary committee and homeland security committee. he also served as an impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of former president donald trump. congressman, it s always so good to see you. look, we all saw what was going on in the house chamber this week. you know, the comparison between what the democrats are trying to do, which was, number one, get hunter biden to be able to testify publicly, so that everybody could hear it. why cherry pick stuff but number two, showing that the hypocrisy of the gop is alive
you know what, congressman, at the beginning of your segment, we were talking about how you ve got the judicial system, right? and you got judges that are going to get keep, and you ve got juries that will sit there and make determinations, because that s how our judicial system works. but then donald trump decides that it s not going to work for him in court, so he wants to go out, wants to play the media, or he wants to dispatch his house republicans to be able to do his dirty deeds for him. we ve seen him loose in court. he got tagged with $400,000 or so of attorneys fees. we see him get tagged with damages. e. jean carroll s got her second definition trial coming up next week. but why can t those things move in parallel, right? why can t justice happen in a courtroom, justice happen in congress, and justice happen in the court of public opinion? i d say justice is happening in the courtroom. by the way, kate, you practiced law in a courtroom. you know that donald trump is not b
and tonight, donald trump s criminal defense team is renewing its requests for judge tanya chutkan to hold special counsel jack smith in contempt of court. with the election interference case currently on hold while trump s immunity claims get worked out in a federal appeals court, trump s lawyers lot of activity in the case halted, even the routine filing of documents which jacks mitt s team has said is permissible because it does not require the trump team to do anything. the motion to punish a jack smith for something that he is not prohibitive from even doing is yet another example of how donald trump has always referred to live in the world of alternative facts. with that strategy, it s on a collision course with the courtroom reality. that s what we saw this week as the disgraced former presidents that up for just a few minutes, in his own defense and the new york attorney generals civil fraud trial, when trump rambled, dissembled and presented
that he has defamed her after that verdict came in earlier. i wanted to talk about a statistic that i found, because i know you also traffic in evidence and facts as i do, as a trial lawyer. nbc news analyzed more than 40 doesn t trumpison repulsion to social and found that he often uses his platform as a megaphone to attack people and agencies involved in his numerous legal cases. you and i have practiced law for a long time, would you agree that there has been a total, complete elimination of norms when it comes to legal norms when it s come to not only how a party like donald trump can conduct himself, either in a criminal or civil case, and his lawyers ability to conduct themselves in those types of cases? well, there has been an anti-democratic tendency, and i don t mean that in terms of democrats and republicans, who are just anti-democratic. in terms of the media being used to try to subvert their trials, to try to support democracy. yes, i think things are tumbling down that
accusation. he also cannot make reference to a wide range of other presidential, irrelevant or otherwise inadmissible matters that have featured prominently in his recent public statements about the case. joining us now is faith guy, former federal prosecutor for the eastern district of new york. faith, it s good to see you. i know that you have been following these cases very closely, as we all are. i am interested in knowing what you think about what just happened. 11th hour on the eve of a holiday weekend, literally right before trial is supposed to start on tuesday morning, trump tries to use the mother-in-law funeral tactic, which he tried and the new york attorney general civil fraud case the delay as well. do you think that that is a sign that trump knows that his goose is cooked when it comes to this other defamation suit? thanks katie for having me. when that happened with the civil suit, of course, guilt is established. and the last trial, with