What i m asking you to do is say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman zmch that was former acting deputy attorney general richard donohue testifying before the house select committee last year about a conversation he had with then-president donald trump just days before the capitol insurrection. now donohue is telling nbc news he has been interviewed by special counsel jack smith s office. he added that he has not been called to testify before the grand jury investigating the 2020 election on january 6th. the former doj official told house lawmakers last year that he repeatedly pushed back against baseless claims of a stolen election which are being pedalled by trump and his l.a.s. he also said he threatened to resign during an oval office meeting in 2021 when trump came close to installing election denying environmental lawyer jeffrey clark as attorney
Congress the ability to have the oversight. i believe we will follow this all the way to the end, and this is going to rise to an impeachment inquiry the way the constitution tells us to do this, and we have to get the answer to these questions. an extraordinary amount of projection there. let s remember mccarthy talking to donald trump recently about getting trump s own impeachment stripped from the official record. white house spokesman for oversight and investigations ian sams later responded on social media writing this. instead of focusing on the real issues americans want us to address like inflation or creating jobs, this is what the house gop wants us to prioritize. their eagerness to go after the truth is seemingly bottomless. meanwhile a group of senators from the armed services committee is urging senate minority leader mitch mcconnell
Jonathan, the bottom line of this, as scheduled now, you could have five trials, three civil, two criminal, before the republican convention. yeah, and right there on your screen, you can see how they match up. a very complicated campaign for donald trump, one that his republican opponents, certainly the white house, looks at and says, that ll be a problem for him. let s get out of the way. mike allen, thank you for joining us. thank you for your coverage. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this tuesday morning. morning joe starts right now. when i was a federal prosecutor, i would occasionally send out target letters. i would never send out a target letter to somebody that i did not intend to indict. they re not bluffs. they re not games. they re not make believe. here s what you ought to expect. if mr. trump really did receive a target letter, then he will be charged with federal crimes. if he really received a target letter, that will happen r
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Putin s actions in russia in the way that they don t with the chinese isn t just trump s attitude toward each leader? well, let s be clear, first of all, it s perfectly legitimate to criticize th u.s. decision to help ukrain in the fight against russia. we should be open to having debate about foreign policy, just like it was legitimate fo me to criticize our involvemen in the war in iraq it s legitimate for republican to criticize our involvement with respect to the ukrain war. but this doesn t feel on the level. that statement that you re putting from donald trump, i which you suggest that the biggest threat to america s no china or russia, but americans who don t agree with him you know, it sort of speaks to how dysfunctional this dialogu is inside the republican party here s the big problem i think there is a big slice o the republican party, no everybody, not all m colleagues in the senate, bu it excites of the republican party that has given up on democracy. it is so enamored b