so take care of that heart with lipton. because sippin on unsweetened lipton can help support a healthy heart. lipton. stop chuggin . start sippin . with criminal referrals on the way, the focus now turns to the department of justice tasked with the decisions on prosecuting those responsible for the violence on january 6th, along with efforts to overturn the 2020 election. nbc news justice reporter ryan reilly has the latest on those fronts. so ryan, talk to me about what the d.o.j. is doing right now. we ve already seen some high profile prosecutions. proud boys trial has just gone to jury selection, the beginning of that. what should we expect? i guess with a football metaphor, you just passed the fourth quarter for the january 6th investigation, but on the committee side, but really, we re not even at the halfway point in terms of the justice department investigation. if you think about this sort of the five-year time line, which
americans into that very easily but this. it jesse: and because it is so small geraldo and we can bring it over it s very hard to detect. geraldo: i think while i generally agree with drag on the treatment of a lucid drugs i think there s some and called the prohibition mentality. as you restricted so the demand grows. he also greg said something that was different that was important that the distinction between fenton all and drugs is that drug overdose and then there was a poison. if there is a poisoning that is a crime. that is a manslaughter. i believe that what you have to do here is to treat this rose 170,000 overdoses got the poison from somebody. not talk about somebody who poisoned three people on the block. at the retail level let s have some high profile prosecutions it s a federal task force young
as a prosecutor could make in terms of what they are doing. i recall in the early days of the investigation i believe one of the u.s. attorneys at the time described this as being the largest single investigation ever undertaken by the doj. and to the comments that you were making about the current attorney general, he actually hit back at some of the critics and defended the doj s response to the insurrection. watch this. the justice department remains committed to holding all january 6th perpetrators at any level accountable under law whether they were present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy. we will follow the facts wherever they lead. so, senator, i want to talk to but the law for a moment. you know the law better than anyone, certainly better than i do. i have v had my profile
anyone, certainly better than i do. i have v had my profile prosecutions including on domestic terrorism charges. i believe this was a domestic terrorist attack. it had a clear political objective. it used the use of violence and the threat of violence to achieve that objective. is there a legal case for domestic terrorism to be applied here? of course there is a legal case to be applied. that doesn t mean it s a practical case. i think prosecutors often have to look and they have to assume that a case is going to go to a jury. and when you start doing certain things and bringing certain charges, it can really get a jury confused. and it also brings out more biases, more prejudices when you start doing that. the fact that is they are using very serious charges on assault, things that juries can understand. so, yes, do i think it was a domestic terrorism? absolutely. when i prosecuted the church bombing, the 1963 church bombing, that s exactly what i called it.
cosby had served more than two years in prison after he was convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent assault in 2018. he will never serve another day of the 3 to 10 year sentence he had initially been given at the court overturned that conviction today. they overturned it on the grounds that a previous pennsylvania prosecutor, who happens to be the bizarre, trump impeachment lawyer, bruce caster, bruce caster, when he was serving as a prosecutor in pennsylvania had apparently given bill crosby an unwritten, unofficial, though apparently binding assurance that he wouldn t be prosecuted. and on the basis of that, the supreme court today overturned his ultimate prosecution and deemed that he cannot be tried on those charges again. a bizarre turn in one of the highest profile prosecutions of the me too era today and bill cosby is tonight out of prison and at his home in suburban philadelphia. that arriving just in this