working, news 4 s, of just a former trump fixer michael cohen telling msnbc exclusivel just minutes ago that he is no done with the grand jury in th manhattan da s case. he ll be back as a rebutta witness indicating that trum team may have called their own witnesses. we ll have the latest on tha just coming up it comes in the wake of donald trump s prediction he ll b arrested tuesday which is now sparked a defined message on the manhattan d pursuing the case. and an ugly response from th former president as well this, as kevin mccarth threatens to use the force o the republican house majorit against da alvin bragg, th reaction from both sides has been coming fast and furious it s not clear to me what committee speaker may be referring to perhaps the so-calle weaponization committee whic is really more appropriately named the committee to protect insurrectionists just feels like a politically-charged prosecutio here and, for my part, just fee like it s just not what th ame
very dangerous, and i hope that as the nation watches that we to say we should sound the alarm across the nation we re entering dangerous territory. that was one of two democrats in tennessee that was just expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse. we ll have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead meanwhile on capitol hill one of donald trump s most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena to a former prosecutor in the manhattan district attorney s office we ll explain why this move may backfire on jim jordan, and we ll dig into a bombshell report exclosing years of lavish vacations taken by supreme court justice clarence thomas, all paid for by a gop mega donor all right, good morning. and welcome to way too early on this friday, april 7th. i m sam stein in for the irreplaceable jonathan lemire. republican legislators in tennessee voted yesterday to expel two black democrats from the statehouse over their protest o
him. putting mark pomeranz who used to lead the case in front of the american people we know what he s going to say because he wrote a book the book was unauthorized. it s just his version and there s been some controversy, but this is what he said in his book donald trump is guilty, and he should have been prosecuted long ago. he should have been prosecuted for more than what he s been prosecuted for that s going to be a very odd thing for a republican to elicit to the american people so there was a part of me like bring it on. all right joining us now to discuss this all is msnbc legal analyst danny duvalos. always appreciate your willingness to get up at these horrific hours let s start with the new subpoena for jim jordan first. i kind of want to know do you actually think this is enforceable since there is an ongoing investigation that s taking place that he s being called to discuss?
the book is an indictment of trump. not only is this athis book, hey into them. and look, he knows the law he knows when he can t talk about grand jury things that are secret but he knows what he can talk about, and i don t know what surprises there would be, if there was anything really juicy and something he could talk about, it s a fair bet it s in the book. i doubt there are any secrets he left out as long as he was able to publish them, and of course the entire book was unauthorized, but it s not a lot of detail in them. and maybe he left out some juicy details from the book. probably not danny, just switching to the case itself, you have a new opinion piece for msnbc.com. in it you lay out why it is that donald trump is unlikely to be granted a change of venue as he s seeking explain what the case is here and why you think it s unlikely he ll get it number one these motions are
york law except that a rough rule that you try to send it to an adjoining county, but let s say you do grant that motion, what county do you send it to? do you send it to the bronx? it s as bad for trump if not worse in the bronx, queens, brooklyn the one county trump wanted to send it to surprise, surprise is staten island, which in the last election went overwhelmingly for trump. now you get into this weird decision process what county could you send it to, would you have to send it 200 miles away to a county split evenly for trump and biden. it gets so ridiculously if i m a judge, i take the path of least resistance, deny the motion and let an appeals court deal with it and then i never have to deal with what county it makes a fun exercise and msnbc legal analyst danny