campaign, and sofia nelson is a former house republican majority staff committee counsel, and a contributing editor to welcome to you all. sophia, as a resident republican, i will start with you. look, republicans, you just saw the clip. they have been promising these wide ranging investigations into the biden administration. you saw marjorie taylor greene even promising impeachment. there is no evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors, by the way. but i think that not every republican is on board. members like nancy mace, and new members elect have said that they actually want to focus on their constituents rather than retributions. so, do you think that the rush, to what do the people, they own the libs will fracture the republican caucus? here would be my advice to someone who is a former republican who walked away from the party during the trump years. here is what i would say. i worked in the house when the
that we could do an autopsy on merrick garland s decision, and i actually think that there are good arguments on both sides for the special counsel. but we now have a decision. so i am going to look for the silver lining behind the big dark cloud that is hanging over all things trump, and frankly department of justice. look at who he appointed. he appointed a gentleman named jack smith. now, for openers, everybody that is a war crimes prosecutor at this has shown a special kind of determination to write some of our world s most egregious wrongs. but this is what i love about jack smith s resume. so, he was a longtime federal prosecutor, and he was out of the public integrity section under the department of justice. under his tenure there, you know who his office prosecuted? these are prosecutions that he authorized. representative rick rienzi, a republican from arizona, senator john edwards, a democrat from north carolina, governor bob mcdonald, a republican from virginia, senator bob
democrat from new york. we see a pattern emerge in. republicans and democrats alike. and you know what? his unit, they won some of those cases, and lost some of those cases. but what can we tease out of the way that he operates? he is willing to go after people left, right, and center. he is willing to take challenging cases, cases that are not short winners, and cases that are short to be sort of politically fought. he is going to get criticize. do you know what, simone? give me a prosecutor who s brave enough to do that, and loses some cases, that is who i want on my team. yeah. jack smith seems overly qualified. like, he is the right person for this job. i guess, i was talking to people, and also want to get into what general, former attorney general william barr said two on pbs news hour. we will weigh in on that in just a second. but i guess that there are people out there who, i was talking to myself, they see