very scary charges. sadly, for usual come of the is not interested in justice. they re using the case has another effort to bludgeon the president. on the left, politics comes before all else. the sad thing is, they never brought it up in 2016 because the guy that really was closed epstein was bill clinton. they wanted hillary to end. joining us now, author of the upcoming book power grab: the liberal scheme to undermine trump, the g.o.p., and our republic: , former congressman jason chaffetz. the number one best seller, the russia hawks, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. i want to start with sara s report and katherine s reporter in particular, gregg come i want to get to this issue. we both know sidney powell. sidney powell is extremely smart, well-respected, and with a defensive case on mueller s pit bull andrew weissmann. here s the point. if she, and a smiling, is claiming that they were asking general flynn till i come
political investigation with only democratic donors. why would he ever hire hillary clinton supporters and a former clinton lawyer and no republicans. you ve got to wonder if mueller has paid attention to all of the abuse of power and corruption we have exposed right here on the show for two years. i wonder if he has this fidelity to truth and the law. you know, soon we will all know the answer to that. but it s not a good sign that mueller, you know, points a guy like andrew weissmann. remember enron the accounting case, tens of thousands of people lost her job. this guy license to lie in sidney powell s book. withheld exculpatory evidence. that s mueller s pit bull andrew weissmann. then he put four merrill executives in jail for a full year. that was overturned by the fifth circuit. why would he ever be hired by
114 people he named as unindicted co-conspirators. but then again, critics point to the supreme court s rebuke of weissma weissmann. if this hardball were to point against you or your family members, you might think it was pretty unfair. on the other hand, weissmann s defenders say this is what they have to do. they re not dealing with normal people who are complying. they re only using these tactics with people who systematically commit alleged crimes and then commit new alleged crimes to hide their old crimes, a kind of rabbit hole blizzard of crimes and cover-up designed to defeat the one lawful force that would catch them. and faced with that, weissmann, who at the time was working under mueller service, his argument is look, we re going to come hard at the cover-up just as we ve come hard at the original crime. weissmann was arguing he was basically up against a criminal enterprise. whether he faces one today of
well, you can think about it. it s like the company goes out of business and innocent people lose their jobs. but weissmann s team decided that the evidence of a criminal evidence in the case of enron was so strong, forget about it. they would indict the entire accounting firm, that served enron, and they won. the author of the enron accounting firm was found guilty of obstructing justice in the enron investigation. this case was really about a simple principle, which is when you expect the police don t destroy evidence. now that actual indictment was controversial for the very reasons critics warned about. thousands of employees did lose their jobs when the company shuttered, and after that conviction, ultimately the supreme court unanimously overturned it. a legal ruling that part of the strategy just went too far, indicting entire corporations is one thing. indicting defendants families
plowing all kinds of time into watching television. new schedule leaks showing even more executive time. i ll be joined by sally kohn, making her debut on the beat live next. plus, the man called mueller s pit bull andrew weissmann terrifying some defendant, and others saying he goes to far. and trump and beto o rourke holding duelling rallies near t the border. we will of course talk about the moment at the grammys, michelle obama s big, big surprise appearance. that s later tonight. i m ari melber. you re watching the beat on msnbc. vibration therapy. ( ) (glass breaking) (gasp) not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that s cool! coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fat cells with little or no downtime and no surgery. results and patient experience may vary. some common side effects include