thousand times. you can stick a gun in someone s face, ask them to empty the cash register. as long as nobody got hurt, only a misdemeanor. since taking office, downgraded 52% of felony cases to misdemeanors. years old hush money payment to a porn star we all forgot about, that the feds dismiss? that demands a full force of the law and upgraded felony charge. all of this should come as no shock. the fix was in from the start. here s brad campaigning on getting trump. lot of people are wondering whoever has this job, are they going to convict donald trump. that is the number one issue. i was the chief deputy in the attorney general s office. we sued the trump administration over 100 times. you believe it should happen? i believe we have the hold him accountable. house republicans right through bragg s political charade. he brags about lowering felonies to misdemeanors and not prosecuting. this wasn t something they would pursue. even this district attorney saying
Thank you so much for letting us into your home during these extraordinary times. We are grateful. Beth beet with ari melber start rights now. We start with Breaking News a legal first for President Biden. Attorney general Merrick Garland Upending Washington today with an announcement, he is appointing a special counsel to hand it will probe of classified do you means found in joe bidens office at home. This is a significant legal development. No matter what happens from here. Its also the kind of twist that would have seemed like a movie plot even just a few months ago when former President Trump was clashing with the doj over his handling and alleged mishanding of classified material. Would have felt like a twist in the last couple weeks when bidens team was optimistic after the midterms and then the gops chaotic start to the congress. Garland did not preview plans at all. He announced he would deliver remarks today. Didnt deliver the topic and then said the words that tend to rattle
Welcome to a Special Thanksgiving Edition Of Th Show to what i am coming the Mehdi Hassan Book Club via oprah. Bucks and all have been mainstay of the show giving me a chance to dive deep into a subject. Book segments helping me understand the male strip of this relentless news cycle so we will revisit some of our famous conversations wit authors this year. How the media needs to cover elections when one party i campaigning against democrac how Marjorie Taylor greene has gone from the fringe to th center of the Republican Party and how outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi consequentially one o the most consequential speaker of our lifetimes may have bought the Opportunit To Convict president donal trump. We start the day about books particularly the endless strea of tellall books about donald trump. What was to all of them was no the what or the when if that i with so many crucial whereas relations wait for a Boo Publishing date . I want to show you an old news we cover from almost 40 year ag
And we have laid out very clearly what occurred and, again, dont want to get ahead of this. The Department Of Justice, you all can will get your questions answered from them during this time and so i would just refer you to the Department Of Justice and now as you all know there is a Special Counsel. Thank you, korine. Another one on garagegate. What is the white house trying to hide . Nothing. Someone gave the President A Statement to read on tuesday that was incomplete at best, misleading at worst. Who . So i have read out the president s statement. I have read it out yesterday and what he said. He said that he respects or he takes Classified Information and documents very seriously. Thats what he said. He said he did not know that the records were there. He does not know whats in them. He said that. You heard from him directly on this and his team has been cooperating fully, fully and not only that, again, ill say this, the Attorney General said this himself, that he heard from the
austin johnson with a spot-on impersonation of donald trump, and interrupting the last supper nearly a week after trump s historic arraign marraignment, s showing more americans agree with the charges. up 5% this week. his former attorney general is predicting another indictment for the former president we ll get into that straight ahead. we re also going to dig into the competing rulings from federal judges on a commonly used drug for medical abortions. the impact on women s health care and the political impact on the republican party by the way, mika, you know let s just say, it s not good. based on conversations we ve had with friends and others that have voted for donald trump, this is really it s more bad political news, obviously, for women s rights, but especially for republicans i ve got to say, i was really taken, and i ve been taken over the last week especially, of people who have been trump supporters for a long time. yeah. who you start talk