big difference, because it s all very nice for people to say, in theory, we are going to riot. we are going to do violent things if you follow the law! let s just see what happens i think merrick garland is not going to be put off by that. professor laurence tribe, thank you very much for joining us again tonight! thank you lawrence. and coming up, democratic candidate for senate in pennsylvania, john fetterman, suffered a stroke in may. has that experience actually made him a better candidate in the same way that franklin delanor roosevelt s being confined to a wheelchair, made him not just a better candidate but the best candidate in presidential history? the only one who won the presidency four times! john fetterman joins us next!
has portrayed things in a very clear sort of way. but they are not making a case that can stand up in a court of law. and so i think that is a very difficult case for the justice department to bring. but the mar-a-lago case, i think is much more black and white. and it relates to a very core principle that merrick garland is just a central to merrick garland. it s the rule of law. that there is nobody in this country who stands above the law. who s immune from the law. and so i think that this case, which is so, so much clearer, at least it seems from the outside and the principle at stake, it s so central to the way that garland thinks about the fabric of our democratic institutions i think it is inevitable that he brings an indictment here. all right, franklin foer we will be catching up with you in the coming weeks, months, and we know this all have the come to pass before a new president is installed, and there. we franklin foer stuff at the atlantic, writer it s great to
the case in the supreme court will make it almost impossible to prevail in the 11th circuit. so all the smoke will clear, and then the state will be set for the attorney general, who in the meantime, has allowed, by virtue of the relief he already got by the 11th circuit, which is not being appealed to the supreme court in that respect. he s already able to pursue an investigation using the materials are marked classified. at that point, there won t be very much work left for the justice department to do before the ultimate decision comes to merrick garland that s on his desk before we get to that garland decision, the is one of the options on the supreme court case, at this point, for the supreme court just in one sentence, to just say that the trump request is denied? absolutely! and that would be a perfectly normal thing to do. with an ordinary litigant that
justice department had walked her through had he had conducted a search of a storage facility at mar-a-lago, for the documents. she said she had believed at the time she signed the attestation in june that it was accurate according to a person of knowledge with the situation. each of these legal twists and turns in the investigation of donald trump, it s bringing us ever closer to the day, when the attorney general of the united states merrick garland, will have to make a decision that no attorney general will be for him, has ever faced. will he approve an indictment of a former president of the united states? and today, as alex and i were just discussing, in a new piece, for the atlantic monthly, franklin foer, who had interviewed merrick garland, and has studied merrick garland s career and legal work, makes a prediction in the headline of his article. the inevitable indictment of donald trump, it is clear to me that merrick garland will bring charges against donald trump. it s jus
don t belong to him, having stored them illegally, in and safe places, having apparently attempted to use them as bargaining chips telling the government at various points, if you want some of these things back, you want me to turn them over to the national archives? why don t you give me some of the fbi records that are involved in my supposed dealings with russia. transactional down to the bone, it seems to me that s in these circumstances, it s clear that all three of the crimes that led to the search and seizures, three alleged crimes, are strongly provable, including obstruction of justice and that is not even to mention the grave crimes involving seditious conspiracy and insurrection. so the real questions before merrick garland, are not whether to indict, but when? and where? and for which crimes?