joining us now, eric swalwell, who served on the house intelligence committee, the 117th congress. democratic congressman from california, thank you for joining us tonight, congressman. do you agree with the appointment of a special counsel in this biden classified documents investigation? you heard harry litman say it was a political position from someone who claims not to be political, merrick garland. sure, 90. i agree, and also, to harry s point, i think you re going to find that there is nothing there. it looks inadvertent, they are cooperating, treated about the same. i think that s what we all want. i do agree with your point that too often democrats want to stand so virtuous on mount olympus, i tell folks we fight with one hand tied behind our, back and it s usually the upper hand. so, sometimes, we think that, by doing, you know, these exercises, it s going to please republicans. it s not. republican colleagues are
len yes. so harry, litman thank you so. much always good to talk. to you and having these hearings been absolutely on tv, and to all of you tomorrow at this time we are going to re-air three days hearing and its entirety. they ll begin at 1 pm eastern, right here on msnbc. they re now to tell whether alert. 20 million americans are under heat alerts this weekend, as dangerous temperatures are starting in from the northern plains, to the southeast. let s go to nbc squad been agus who is joining us from los angeles. so lots of heat to talk about. do you see where they re actually intensifying. alex, we saw the effects of the heat wave that took place during the week, as you said it is intensifying. so we now have that number you just gave out. about 28 million people this morning under this extreme heat alert. that goes if you look at the map from the north plains all the way across the midwest, as far south as florida. this is the area where people are going to be experiencing t
time for night court. hunters in maine our hoping recently passed constitutional amendment that guarantees the right to harvest and grow food for personal consumption kit an one of the states most high-profile regulations on hunting, maine is one of only two states that fans ending on sundays, but tonight main company is arguing that right t food also includes their right to hunt for it, but some of the pinetree states landowners in farmers say they would like to fully enjoy their sundays on their property. leads take this case to tonight s legal eagles. civil rights attorney robert katella and former u.s. attorney . litman. guys, thank you for joining us tonight. i grew up in a part partner, ne jersey where the bosworth flu laws like on sunday you can t have the malls open in nobody could put together a referendum to strike these things down
they have their skulls cracked. his own secretary of state was concerned that he might lean into a foreign conflict to hold on to power. this is where we find ourselves with one of two major political parties orbiting around a twice-impeached one-term president, whose loyal follows are standing on sidewalks and shouting as coronavirus surge thanks to the delta variant. as the unvaccinated account for nearly all hospitalizations and deaths. kicking us off, hayes brown, writer and editor, the former hud secretary, julian castro. he s an msnbc political contributor. and hear litman. he s a legal affairs columnist for the legal times. we re going to talk about trump s response in the insurrection. what sticks out to you? and does the new reporting expose the former president to more criminal liability?
removing him from his fiduciary duties in the trump organization i think is obligatory in some instances. let s say a property has a liquor license, an alcohol license. they re regulated by the state in which they operate. somebody who is under indictment really cannot be the fiduciary for that company in that jurisdiction. and so it makes sense to me if you re a bank dealing with a trump organization or a state liquor board dealing with a trump organization or some other company dealing with the trump organization, you probably would prefer not to be dealing with a fiduciary of that company who s under indictment. so it strikes me as a wise get your house in order move by the trump organization to take to take weisselberg sort of out of that position. it s logical, it s sensible. i m not the least bit surprised by it. so harry litman on a quick related point. let me just ask you, what would signal something more meaningful in this case? what are you watching for? the numbe