have more information to go on right now they are just making stuff up they don t even know what this case is about. making stuff up in the form of lindsey graham, do you have the more measured response fro someone like former governor asa hutchinson which seemed to strike the appropriate tone for where w are as a country and then you had the respons from somebody like kevin mccarthy, which seemed t suggest that he s gonna use th full weight of the legislative branch of government and certainly the committee or the committees under his control, to go after alvin bragg. and that sends chills i thin for most americans down thei spine. that you would weaponize the legislative branch to go after fda doing its job? well thank goodness we have the united states constitution which has the separation o powers and the legislative branch cannot interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation in the judicial branch especially of a local da and again, kevin mccarth doesn t know what the charg
politics? i think it is and the way to look at this is he s taking what might be a bookkeeping error from almost ten years ago a misdemeanor in new york law and claiming it s a felony because he now says it was a violation of federal campaign finance law. well, the problem with that is he s a local da. he s got no authority over they recall campaign finance law. the two agencies that do, the u.s. justice department and federal election commission where i served as a commissioner, both of them looked at this and decided there was no violation of the law. so this this is such a weak, almost non-existent case. mike: would it pass legal muster? i don t think it would pass a legal muster. manhattan i think in the last presidential election, 87% of individuals voted against trump and i think he believes they would convict him no matter what the facts and the law are in the case. any chance of a change in
suggest that he s gonna use th full weight of the legislative branch of government and certainly the committee or the committees under his control, to go after alvin bragg. and that sends chills i thin for most americans down thei spine. that you would weaponize the legislative branch to go after fda doing its job? well thank goodness we have the united states constitution which has the separation o powers and the legislative branch cannot interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation in the judicial branch especially of a local da and again, kevin mccarth doesn t know what the charge are, he hasn t seen th evidence what do you say, it wa actually quite outrageous? he is essentially saying tha you could not prosecute donald trump just because he is donal trump. there is really no other reaso for his remarks. he hasn t even seen th evidence or the charges. and finally there has bee
trace: is interesting because it talks about the left the nation with the following chemical commits that 2020 or 2021 and this is not in federal court to rear in the year 2023 and a local da is trying gather up some bits of the jurisdictional authority federa prosecutors left lying on the ground. is not a clean shot. bragg is trying to bank and a half-court heave off the backboard after the shot clock buzzer has already sounded. it is a longshot but the left loves that. we certainly all expected republicans to rally to the former president s defense at this point it is muscle memory. we have just identified here some of the inclinations of the left. it might have an unintended consequence, which is really is essentially ensuring that donal trump is the leader of that party once again. you have everyone from house speaker kevin mccarthy to the most rank-and-file members of congress on the right saying
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.