this crime, and the justice department is focusing its attention on the interaction, but certainly yes, there was a federal crime justice. department under donald trump declared that trump directed cohen to pay the hush money. lanny novel, risky, untested all words that have been used not by some conservative outlet but by the new york times and the washington post to discuss the alvin bragg case. if in fact it s so novel, risky and untested because they re trying to twin two different charges. why not just charged trump with the misdemeanor for the falsification of the business records? first of all, it is definitely untested because to raise the misdemeanor to a felony, you have to show another crime. that doesn t make it difficult. it just makes it untested. the second crime i just told you i can t keep repeating myself. michael, the justice department under donald trump. declared that he had
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daily on any individual day. i was talking to susan about how, some days we have a lot of news, and some days you know what s going to happen over the course of the days, but some days it kind of feels like the news just evaporates when you get close to it. the stories just evaporating go on to the next day. and she was like, don t tempt the news gods. that was this morning, and now today, the news is just. even with all of that we ve just been discussing we have made a dent in terms of the major news the huffman breaking today. here s another cleanup on aisle 45 it was literally one day before trump left office. january 19th 2021. the day before biden was sworn in as president. the last day trump was president. january 19th of this year, one republican richard burr announced that the justice department had just told him he was not going to be criminally charged. back in may of last year, may 2020, the fbi had gone in the search warrant and had seized senator richards birds
survivors will split that 88 million dollar payment, i don t know why it took six years. i have a feeling i has to do with there being new leadership in doj. which is having to spend time, not only confronting all of the new problems of the day, about writing past wrongs as well. and i say that because, we keep seeing things like this crop up. nothing is exactly like that. but this idea of trying to remedy past, wrongs trying to make up for lost time, with things the u.s. government did wrong. that the justice department in the administration can otherwise fix. it s starting to become a theme and current news. in a very different kind of case, you may recall a few weeks ago, the justice department also decided to settle a lawsuit, to pay a lot of money to settle a lawsuit, in this case it was a lawsuit brought by the former acting director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. the number two official to direct under james comey. former president donald trump
dude one minute later, and he sold all his things one minute later to. why would you think those things are related? but here s the big question, honestly, why exactly did the justice department under donald trump conclude on trump s last day in office that senator richard burr should definitely not be criminally charged for this? we now know that barr is under sec investigation, but is the criminal charges possibility live again, given what the sec is reporting its public facing filings? about what they found, about what he did? stay tuned. like i said this is kind of a nuts news day. in new york state, former democratic new york governor, andrew cuomo is now facing a criminal charge in addition to being forced to resigned the governorship following a state investigation that concluded that he sexually harassed nearly a dozen women while he was governor. now, this is a misdemeanor complaint, he is accused of forcible touching.