on the history under attack this juneteenth, how the bible got removed from schools in utah, and why conservatives are now wooing muslims after decades of hate. as catholics and other christians, other people of faith have been waiting for the muslims to step up on this issue and so many others. when all in starts, right now. good evening from washington d. c. i m mehdi hassan in for chris hayes. today, a federal judge ordered donald j trump to not to speak publicly about evidence in the classified documents case special counsel jack smith earlier this month. the order prohibits the exokxdif you violate these rules trump could face contempt of court or other civil or criminal sanctions. now, please forgive me, while i left my head off at the idea of donald trump promising not to post anything on social media. what a promise that will be. as we all know he has a, shall we say, difficult time keeping his mouth shut. as well as a long history of abusing and threatening jud
expectation that he d be arrested this past tuesday. manhattan, d a. alvin bragg said that was never the plan. maybe it was all a head fake, designed by trump to rally his gop supporters in the house. or paved the way for last monday s grand jury testimony by former prosecutor and michael cohen, critic robert costello. perhaps it was just to make brag. think twice before indicting a former president. trump even posted this on a social media site, making it look like he s raising a baseball bat against bragg. he also called him an animal. that post was later deleted. on friday, a law enforcement source told cnn that bragg had been threatened with assassination in a letter containing nonhazardous white powder it s a lot to process let me try and sort it out. remember signs initially pointed to the first trump indictment, possibly coming out of georgia, where fulton county d a funny willis is investigating his attempts to overturn the 2020 election there. and then it seemed t
Well, if i might to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as Attorney General you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on text or the interrogation context and to defend enhanced interrogation practices. Are you clear now that our statutes prohibit torture and if the president were to rover yid that clear Legal Authority what actions would you take . On your previous question i would note the federal prison population has already dropped 10 or more percent and will drop
another 10,000 this year. What is happening now is reducing the federal population. This law only dealt with the federal prison population. And th
with whether merrick garland was the right man for this moment. and what could ve been had he and his doj not slow walk to the investigation into donald trump. aaron davis is one of the investigative reporters who broke the story for the washington post and he joins me now. thanks for coming on the show. you described a new recording, new reporting how a group of prosecutors planned to focus on people in trump s orbit including roger stone and the organizer that plan apparently was batted down amid concerns that quote, investigating public figures demanded a high degree of confidence because even a probe that finds no crime can unfairly impugned them. i read that and i m trying to imagine a justice department under donald trump making that high-minded decision. did your sources feel that they were bending over backwards to just look impartial and that s what cost them? it s been a fascinating four years since i was here we really did start with the premise of that we have to be her