lawyers with prosecutorial experience you know the kind of prosecution memos that our region and the justice department before the espionage case, and that is, of course, the investigation of what doldrums up to leading up to january 6th. we now have, today, a possible theoretical prosecution memo written by a team of lawyers who did a similar prosecution memo for the case don t trump is now a defendant in. the prosecution memo they wrote about that turned out to be largely in the direction jack smith went. they released their prosecution memo, and to be clear, this is not an official document, just lawyers with prosecutorial experience you know the kind of prosecution memos that our region and the justice department before the decision to prosecute. and they indicate that they expect charges to be filed. they believe evidence exists that could get to a conviction of donald trump on the, on what he was doing leading up to january six.
suspending something that s gone on for a year or two and starting over with a new attorney. the other thing is is that s just going to create delay. maybe on the side of hunter biden as opposed people that want to see more about this laptop from hell or any kind of foreign arrangements. lastly, all roads still lead to the attorney general. special council still has to submit their indictments, prosecution memos or nonprosecution memos to the a.g. we re still looking at a real integrity test for the current attorney general as to whether he ll let a case against hunter or others proceed. shannon: wall street journal op ed piece on tuesday says this, after joe bide ask joe biden if the e-mails are elephant? then he didn t maintain a district separation from his son s business affairs. given the probability the large sums that hunter biden collected overseas, the next question is are there other favors joe biden did for his son s business associates. robert, does he have to answer
proceeding, depending on the facts that emerge, other statutes may also have been violated. such as, the federal road fraud statute and seditious conspiracy. joining us now, barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney and a law professor at the university of michigan law school. she s an msnbc legal analyst. barbara, as soon as this came out, i said, can we get barbara at 10 pm? this is exciting for me, because i ve never seen one of these prosecution memos, because i ve never worked in the justice department. this is what you used to do on a regular basis, make the case whether to prosecute or not. here, you conclude, you can just publicly available information, that there is enough to prosecute. what s more evidence would you expect to be able to get, if you initiated a grand jury proceeding, with subpoena power, to obtain evidence that isn t even public? at lawrence, what a
26-page memo to bring federal criminal charges against donald trump for trying to force vice president mike pence to change the outcome of the presidential election. the memo says, at least two federal criminal statutes may have been violated in this episode alone: conspiracy to defraud the united states and obstruction of an official proceeding. depending on the facts that emerge, other statutes may also have been violated, such as the federal voter fraud statute and seditious conspiracy. joining us now is barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney and a law professor at the university of michigan law school. she is an msnbc legal analyst. barbara, as soon as this came out today i said can we get barbara at 10 pm? this is exciting for me to read because i have never seen one of these prosecution memos, because i never worked in the justice department. so this is what you used to do
prevent that from happening again. so i think before the democrats can actually get mueller to sit before them and testify, if that actually even happens, they have yet to issue a subpoena for him, they re waiting to figure out, to accommodate him, they re going to interview john dean, for example, they re going to interview former federal prosecutors who have experience in this that can explain it to the american people in a way that can make them understand the real key issues of the mueller report. let me pick up on that with katy. as you mentioned, so john dean is expected before the judiciary committee tomorrow. here s a list of some of the other folks who will be there, as well. today one of those witnesses that you see there, msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquaid gave us a sneak peek at what to expect from her tomorrow. i ve seen prosecution memos like robert mueller s, and so i can share that experience and try to put for them in context the significance of those acts that ar