are, and show a little faces i the criminal justice system an our system of government let s talk about th judicial branch here and the criticisms that are recovering from these lawmakers specifically to brag and the judge themselves how do yo respond to their criticism that say they are al politically motivated? they have no evidence for that, nor do i i don t know either one of them, that they are judicial officers all of the lawyers are officer of the court and i don t think we can assume, it just because the defendan is the ex president that there is something improper here he is not the only world leade who is facing charges. mr. button yahoo in israel i facing criminal charge relating to corruption one of the home arcs of ou democracy is that every person is equal before the law.
courts so this is an effort t intimidate him i don t think it is going to work, and certainly i would be very surprised at mr. brag eve shows up before a congressiona committee. all right, representative zoe lofgren from california. thank you so much well donald trum trump s up is the, taxed present biden saying virtually nothing about his predecessors indictment coming up, some details behind the white house a strategy o silence. but, first, trump s 2024 republican rivals. their run to they are runnin to his defense ahead of th expected - how legal troubles could impac the gop primary. the gop primary.
that the president had committed crimes and referre that to the doj. so we will see their job is different than th committee s job. they have to find probable cause, and with this case, the high profile i have every confidence that they will proceed only if they think they can prove thi without beyond a reasonabl doubt. representative, as a member of the january six committee you had issued and looked into various subpoenas. and as you know, the republica leadership i think you have th same for the manhattan da alvi bragg. what do you think he should do and what do you think th response might be as they look to investigate the investigato here well, what they are doing i obviously trying to interfer in a criminal prosecution, which is entirely improper they have no jurisdiction to d this this is undersea law so, i don t believe that mr. brag will appear, and i don think he would ever be compelled to hear by the
for much more on this, i wanna bring in the new york time investigative reporter and nbc contributor suzanne craig, along with legal analyst and criminal defense attorney dian you just heard the reporting from vaughn. what are you looking for o tuesday? what will be some of thi versus that? reportedly it is going to b based mostly on hush money payments there is no hard concret evidence of that but that seems to be the vibe, at least from sources. and at least based on what has been reported. those 30 counts could be reall to two separate incidents or actual conduct but, you could see a number of different counts that aris from a single act. that wouldn t be too uncommon. i expect to see felonies you don t, and a panel of gran jury from his two meters only. these will probably be felonies, and if they are related to the hush money payments, then in order to take falsification of business records out of mr meter land, you need a additional crime that wa either in furtherance of o co
on this one. there is also a handful of other republicans, namely thos who voted to convict the forme president during the secon impeachment trial after januar 6th, who are also not saying much they want this case to pla out. but then on the flip side, the majority of republicans, especially in the house, are just lining up behind th former president mr. trump has been able to coalesce all of the republicans around him for the most part. even those who aren t hi biggest fans, per se but are uniting around the fac that they see this investigation, this indictment in new york, as political. if you see a series of tweet on your screen for some of his most hearted supporters, including speaker mccarthy who instructed three house chair to look into an invest and investigate and centrally th investigators in new york. chairman jim jordan, oversight chairman john corman, chairman brian steele traded letter back and forth with alvin bragg, saying that the investigation, the indictment is solel