and with me now, cnn legal analyst, elliott williams, a former deputy assistant attorney general, and elliott, this is a friday night news dump, no question about it. no question. we know them well this this town. the justice department will not charge scavino, not charge mark meadows. they are charging peter navarro. how do you sort this out? you got to look at every case differently, jim, and set aside navarro and steve bannon who s also been charged. number one, the jobs each of these individuals held was different. steve bannon wasn t even a white house aide at the time of the conduct in question. right? number two, the nature of their behavior. there s at least the factual question as to whether meadows and scavino complied at least in part with the committee to a point that it just would have been hard to charge them with a crime. as a justice department, you want to be able to make the decision of do we think we could win this in front of a jury. it s just a cl
and steve bannon. i think it makes sense where they landed on this. and on january 5th of this year, attorney general merrick garland had a message for the january 6th perpetrators. let s watch. the justice department remains committed to holding all january 6th perpetrators at any level accountable under law, whether they were present this day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy. otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy. it sounds like he s talking about people who did not storm the capitol that day and is declining to prosecute meadows and scavino a signal to former trump administration officials or future administration officials. i mean, look what mark meadows did, intimately involved in, he s planning meetings at the white house, on the phone, you know, strong arming brad raffensperger, the georgia secretary of state along with donald trump and he s not he
committing crimes that day. but they don t know where those people are, a year later. 350 manhunts, at least, still ongoing. and that jarringly large number may be just the tip of the iceberg. the justice department remains committed to holding all january 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy. it s pretty sig thinnificant right? present that day or not. the unsaid crucial extra words and garland says he is going to hold everyone accountable. so does that mean elected officials who fanned the flames by lying about the election? we know that this this has really been a stolen election. in an election that was stolen as a consequence of illegal last-minute changes to the rules. i don t know how you can ever
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