Accountable. In their motion for a protective order, the Justice Department says, quote, such a protective order is needed in this case the because the defendant has released statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys and other associates in legal matters pending against him. In recent days the defendant has issued multiple posts, either specifically or by implication including the following which the defendant posted just hours ago. If you go after me, im coming after you. The filing including a screen shot of that ominous threat. Prosecutors went on to say, quote, if the defendant were to begin issuing public posts using details or, for example, grand jury transcripts obtained in discovery, it could have a harmful, Chilling Effect on witnesses or adversely affect the Fair Administration of justice in this case. That request by the Special Counsel triggered a battle between team trump and the doj. Here is how the New York Times wrote this. John lauro, one of tru
The first one is Conspiracy To Defraud the United States. Second is the conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. And then the conspiracy against rights. Thats, of course, the Voting Rights of u. S. Citizens around the country. Now, ill read you just a part where the Special Counsel describes what theormer president is accused of dog here. It says that the defendant spread lies, that there had been outcome determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were false. And the defendant knew that they were false. But the defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate. According to the prosecutors, wolf, the former president disregarded the advice of all of his appointed officials, people inside his own government, his experts, people from the Justice Department, people from the intelligence community, people from the Homeland Security department, all of whom were telling him that there was no s
to mention our allies around the globe. for days and up until now, months. so the way that the president s demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts. and clearly politically motivated, gratuitous. and, so, i will say that when it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect that there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw. thank you. thank you for the question. vice president harris pushing back strongly against special counsel robert hur s report. more on that coming up. good day. i am chris jansing live in new york city. you just heard from vice president kamala harris, passionately defending the president. many others lashing out at the special counsel for portraying him as elderly and confused. one official arguing that could sway the entire campaign. some democrats are having flash backs to 2016, warning it is like jim comey and hillary clinton all over again. we r
into the official record what so many democratic voters have been complaining about publicly, and so many movers and shakers have been worried about privately. the president is not as sharp as he used to be. but the question for them is how is that worse than the alternative. another senior citizen who has serious memory and confusion problems and also facing 91 criminal counts for trying to overturn an election, hiding and endangering extremely sensitive national secrets, including information about our nuclear arsenal. a man found liable for fraud, defamation, and sexual assault, let me repeat that. a man who a jury found sexually assaulted a woman. listen, i get it if you want to tune out and talk about super bowl snacks. nachos sound great, especially if you add crab on top. as americans, we don t have the luxury of tuning out. there s too much at stake. join me as we try to understand the playing field. monica alba, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dil
policies. bragg s investigation of alleged financial crimes. we will talk live with chairman jordan shortly on this program. first, correspondent david spunt has our top story tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, quite a rare moment to see such a public fight between a local district attorney and the chairman of the house judiciary committee. this all spilled out just hours ago in a federal lawsuit filed in the southern district of new york in federal court. now, alvin bragg, of course, the district attorney in manhattan, he made history last week by indicting the former president, donald trump, on 34 felony counts. he says republican house judiciary chairman jim jordan needs to stay in his own lane and stay out of the donald trump prosecution. bret, the lawsuit is aimed at strong former assistant district attorney mark pomerantz from complying with the house judiciary committee subpoena to spill the beans on the inner workings of the office and