former attorney general eric holder is here on set for sunday exclusive to talk about all of that and more. plus, trump s allies in the house but their sights on discern attorney alvin bragg. i m not freaking about what they re up to. i m gonna explain to you why. meanwhile, at least 26 people are dead after a tornadoes tore through mississippi and alabama. we got a live update on the recovery efforts. and later a conversation with gun safety activists turned congressman, maxwell frost. i asked him about vital records, finding a place to live in washington d.c. in his weekend routine. as his legal problems continue to mount, donald trump held the first major rally of his 2024 campaign last night. in many ways, it was a typical trump speech. maybe a little less energy. with a lots of self promotion, flat out lies in the usual votes of what s that to me was trump s embrace of the insurrection. the rally opened with a somber song recorded by a group of january six defendan
for freshman congressman maxwell frost of florida. he s best known as the first gen z member of congress but don t let is relatively youthful you. he s already had a decade long career as a kind of reform advocate. it s no surprise that his very first bill, which introduced wednesday. it s intended to streamline the justice department s response to gun violence. the next day during a joint hearing on gun violence, the congressman watch a tense exchange between his republican colleagues and many well and british oliver. who lost their son in the park when a massive shooting. they were forcibly removed from the hearing room because of the verbal altercation. prompting congressman frost reprimand his republican colleagues and walk out of the room himself. enough is enough. not one more. 12 organizers advocate survivors and families here today. i am so sorry that had to sit through this hearing. i m so sorry that you had to see what happen outside too many and producer who are just fight
he sent a letter to manhattan da of a break to mending that he provided documents, testimony and communications firm is about the geisha of the former president. when brett refused, jordan went further and a letter yesterday he said congress might take steps to quote protect former or current presidents from politically motivated prosecutions by state and local officials. by somehow removing certain criminal cases from a state court. that sounds like a pretty serious threat and some written letters out there. after, all house republicans could assert authority over an ongoing criminal investigation, at the state level anytime he wanted, if they could protect former presidents from local prosecutions anytime they wanted. that would be pretty extraordinary. that s a pretty extraordinary power there. i m not freaking out about what kevin mccarthy or jim jordan are up to because i m not sure they really thought all of this through. for one, these republicans have gone out on a limb. way ou
of, course the former president has not been arrested yet. that didn t seem to stop many republicans from going on the attack. your thoughts on the possible indictment from president trump? it s a political exercise. voter wouldn t thing is what i call the criminalization of politics. i think it s disgusting. i think it s terrible for our country. it s bad for america generally. this i believe supplementation of the weaponization of the federal government and the departments against political opponents. the tough part is with a local da. playing a presidential politics. if that starts right there, don t think it ll happen across the country? they seem very worked up there. house speaker kevin mccarthy also announced that he was quote directing relevant committees to immediately investigate. congressman jim jordan chairman, at the house to defeat committee. was not done about that opportunity pass him by. by monday, he was on the case.
The Manhattan district attorney investigating Donald Trump blasted the former president for raising a false expectation of his arrest, triggering outrage.