he will hire the best attorneys his money could buy, for whatever that s worth. but, you know, at the end of the day, this is going to a court of law with very strict procedures and rules of evidence. and these kinds of, you know, bogus attacks, i don t think they re gonna get him to an acquittal. nbc news is reporting tonight that richard donahue, who was the final acting attorney general in the trump administration, has spoken with jack smith, has told him everything that he told you, tim heaphy, at the january 6th committee, but he has not met with the grand jury. it was attorney general donie who gave the testimony to your committee that donald trump said to him, what i m asking you to do is just say the election was corrupt, and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. what do you make of the reporting that he has not spoken to the grand jury but he has spoken with jack smith s investigators? it makes no difference, lawrence, whatsoever, whether rich donahue was in
cooperative, who have told the same story in multiple forms. donahue, even before we interviewed him, had already talked to the senate judiciary committee, we sat with him in the conference room for eight hours, took a very detailed transcribed interview with him and, he has never wavered from the core point that you just indicated. he told the president to his face on multiple occasions, sir, you are getting that information. there is no substance to these allegations that you are publicly repeating, including those about georgia. so, it doesn t matter if you put him in front of a grand jury or not, he s unavailable witness for the special counsel if this case ever proceeds to trial. don t read anything into who goes in versus who doesn t. jack smith has richard donahue as a potential witness on his list we got this of his appearance before the grand jury.
important is that a ghost as his state of. mind that very precise fact pattern was investigated thoroughly by the justice department. by the fbi, by bill barr, and he was told, we had testimony directly that bill barr told the president that rich donahue, the deputy general told the president that state farm arena claimed fraud is false. we looked at it and it just does not hold up. nonetheless, they continue to spout that theory. and that goes directly to his state of mind and that is why it is of interest to jack smith. there does feel like there s an indictment pileup for those who are trying to keep track of all these things. you are in florida yesterday and you are there to cover the hearings that related to the classified documents. judge aileen cannon is the one overseeing that one. those who are watching, us they know that name because she is someone who saw a trump appointed judge who seem to have a pretty cozy sense of the presidential powers as it related to some cases in
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