it s ultimate speed for ultimate business. don t miss out on our fastest speed plans yet! switch to comcast business and get started for $49.99 a month. plus, ask how to get up to an $800 prepaid card. call today! welcome back everyone to the weekend. election interference was at the heart of the new york criminal case against donald trump. in closing arguments, the prosecutor put it like this. quote, this scheme cooked up by these men at this time could very well be what got president trump elected. this was overt election fraud, act and furtherance of the conspiracy to promote mr. trump s election by unlawful means. more simply, those crimes contributed to trump being electedment. wekaty fang is with us and also partner of the alliance law group. i love the fact that you are an attorney. you don t just play one on tv. people would refer to this as hush money case. i would argue that s to differentiate it from all the other election interference. there is so many. we h
work. you didn t see him making the statements directly to stormy daniels lawyer. he used michael cohen, used david pecker. he uses people. here he uses surrogates. you see that from the weaponization in the house judiciary. you see what happens during the trial when he brings red tie brigade. he is saying what he is saying. it will hurt him. part of me is like go ahead, say it, you are digging a hole. on one hand you have this rhetorical framework that donald trump and allies are working with as you said to shift the prism of this up coming election. at the same time you have techno crats doing the work, what we saw from the supreme court allowing for racial gerrymandering, the fact that if they can t win with the current rules then they will, in tandem with this rhetoric, work on changing the rules. a couple things.
weaponization frankly of congressional resources. it s not just them running their mouth. you have jim jordan trying to marshall alvin bragg down to the weaponization committee. exactly. i have think people would like to know what are democrats in the united states senate and united states house of representatives going to do about that? congress doesn t have jurisdiction to do anything to alvin bragg. that s number one. they can talk all they want. they re not going to be holding alvin bragg accountable for anything. we as democrats have to get alvin braggs back. we need to speak out, surround our brother, especially the caucus and black democratic leaders. we need to surround him. since the beginning they were mischaracterizing him, being racist as hell to alvin bragg. i know i deal with it directly. the last thing i will say is this is why elections matter. i don t want to hear this crap about your vote doesn t matter.
pence, you have the answer to your question. who is mike pence leading? maybe his immediate family. that s a good point. even his brother, greg pence, in the house voted against recognizing the electors on january 6th. it s you know, i think that by itself answers the question. no, you re absolutely right. it s a very good point and a good way to look at it and not to mention the gop spoke out yesterday, we know how that went. it was as trumpian as you can possibly get. philip bump, great to see you. thanks for coming back on the show. joining me now is congresswoman sheila jackson-lee, democrat from texas who sits in the house judiciary and homeland security committee. congresswoman, thank you for joining us as well. i want to start off by asking you about a pair of tweets from republican senator lisa murkowski in response to the censure of representatives cheney and kinzinger. she wrote that we must not legitimize those actions which resulted in loss of life, and we must le
preparation taking place over the weekend, two days essentially of behind closed doors opportunities for members to basically get a sense of what questions they want to be asking. tomorrow could be their last opportunity in a public forum to actually have this debate about impeachment. essentially they were giving the white house an opportunity to respond, but the fact that the white house on friday told lawmakers that they were not going to participate in the house judiciary s impeachment proceedings closed the door on that opportunity. so this week we could see articles of impeachment presented. of course a big debate within the democratic caucus about whether or not to include an article that would include anything about the mueller investigation. here is what the chairman jerry nadler had to say about that earlier. he sought foreign interference in our elections several times, both for 2016 and 2020, that he sought to cover it up all the time, and that he continually violated his