about the beauty of the north i predict over the course of the year 2023. thank tuesday you at home for joining us tonight it was february 23rd of last year russia was on the brink of invading ukraine, the mid-terms were just beginning to kick into high gear, and this story broke in the new york times, two prosecutors leading new york trump inquiry resign clouding case s future. two prosecutors in manhattan s d.a. s office quit out of frustration the newly elected district attorney alvin bragg was reportedly not prosecuting donald trump and being aggressive enough. yes, that story feels like it now came from an alternate universe this picture of alvin bragg as a timid prosecutor afraid to take on donald trump doesn t fit anymore. those republicans have used failed anti-semitism and abusederaciest dog whistles and they ve used congress. three weeks ago the chairman of the house judiciary committee jim jordan launched an unprecedented house investigation into the d.a. s crimi
saying, quote, bragg should come and explain to us exactly what he s investigating do those tweets, those explicit statements we re going to come get you alvin bragg, does that matter in the context of the judge going to be handling this complaint from the d.a.? i think they will matter to the judge. first of all it s going to have to be more than this for jordan to go forward with this, but he will be allowing jordan to come up with completely new rationals that are nowhere cited in his prior statements, and the bay courts look at this they let legislators essentially have a do over. to be sure if all they can come up with is what you ve just read, that isn t enough, but it won t be essentially up to the subjective statements by jordan. the lawyers can now come in and offer some completely new super financial pretextual explanation for what they re doing, and that will be the clash in court i mean i have to say when you look at this from the long lens
documents referring or relating donald trump again, that s probably a whole lot of important and really relevant stuff especially if you re donald trump. bragg s lawsuit also notes jordan is also seeking testimony fruf lawyers currently inside the manhattan d.a. s office, lawyers who presumably have up-to-date information on the case against donald trump, lawyers who stepped in when dunn and pomeranz stepped out so, yes, this is a house investigation, but who is really calling the shots here who is actually at the heart of all this the d.a. would seem to have some ideas on that front. the lawsuit cites reporting from cnn which shows trump is in constant contact with certain members of congress. congressman jordan himself speaks regularly with the former president. and then it quotes alvin bragg saying this about jim jordan and two of his fellow republican house chairman based on the chairman s reportedly close collaboration with mr. trump in attacking this
knows pomeranz will show up for his deposition or interview, and therefore he s trying to get the court to prevent that from happening. it s clear alvin bragg is not happy about the publication of that book, but if you re trump and you re looking to amass you re looking to gather your defense for a possible second criminal indictment maybe or the one that s already on the table, how much can he get from mark pomeranz that i mean how much can he get from pomeranz that s not in the book? if pomeranz is going to be forced to testify or willing to testify the answer is going to be lot because he was the person with kerry dunn who was running the investigation for at least a year, although it was much broader than the charges brought, it encompassed those charges as well. he no doubt knows a tremendous amount of information about the district attorney s concerns, the assessment, the strengths and weaknesses, the deliberative process to bring the case or
timid prosecutor afraid to take on donald trump doesn t fit anymore. those republicans have used failed anti-semitism and abusederaciest dog whistles and they ve used congress. three weeks ago the chairman of the house judiciary committee jim jordan launched an unprecedented house investigation into the d.a. s criminal probe of donald trump throughout all of this alvin bragg has cently fired back at his republican critics, but today alvin bragg took things up a notch. in a lawsuit filed in federal court today d.a. bragg sued congressman jordan for interfering with bragg s criminal case against trump. bragg s lawyers write in the filing congressman jordan s investigation constitutes, quote, an unpres precedented brazen and unconstitutional