we need to wait and get more information, and we also need to start sticking up for alvin bragg. um you know, there is a group of people out there that say they re patriots. they have no respect for law enforcement. they beat up 100 cops in january six. they have no respect for the fbi. they call them the deep state and they have no respect for this prosecutor who is a law enforcement officer of his district trying to enforce the loss. um and the idea he s going to be smeared. he s going to be attacked this whole idea that he s george soros sponsored. most people don t know that goes into some very tricky territory in some parts of the right wing that focus on the fact that george soros is jewish. there s a lot of nasty stuff began to swirl here against this d a against its prosecutor, and he needs to be defended and protected. want to thank my job. find out what s actually going on. he needs to be defended in particular. want to think of my panel? our coverage continues right now. it
it. he s not going to like it at all. but he will come out and lean into it. as maggie said, agree. i completely agree with it. but you know, it is a completely sobering thing, and i think it s going to uh, it s gonna affect him deeply. van jones. what would i mean, we there s still so many so much about these charges. we do not know. exactly and i think that we need to wait and get more information, and we also need to start sticking up for alvin bragg. um you know, there is a group of people out there that say they re patriots. they have no respect for law enforcement. they beat up 100 cops and january six. they have no respect for the fbi. they call them the deep state and they have no respect for this prosecutor who is a law enforcement officer of his district trying to enforce the loss. um and the idea he s going to be smeared. he s going to be attacked this whole idea that he s george soros sponsored. most people don t know that goes into some very tricky territory in some parts
investigations at once? well, we ve got a good team. we ve got a lot of different people with a lot of different backgrounds and experience. um you know, i will say the one commonbody who was associated with doj for 17 years and watching is prosecutorial overreach. you know, there s an ends justify the means mentality that is unlike anything i ve ever seen and prosecutorial circles you ve got people like leticia james. now alvin bragg announcing we will get him you ve got an attorney general, the united states doing press conferences after a search warrant, which is completely unprecedented, unprecedented and unethical. and so what we do is you know, we kind of shadow the investigations, figure out the actual facts and find ways to litigate often under seal some of the issues that are just rolling through these over these heavy handed investigations into the president got plenty of resources to bear to fight back . you noted. all the attorneys were on the team. how many? how
happened. you know it occurred to me as i was watching that, uh, conversation that literally on 9 11 3000 americans died afterwards we invaded two countries spent $2 trillion over 20 years because 3000 americans died. 45,000 americans die every year of gun violence. now that includes, um you know that includes shootings that includes accidents include suicides, but let s add it up, right? and to think that we can t come up with a solution for this. this is not an external enemy can internal enemy there is a solution. it s coming in november. 2024 vote there asks out. the people who are saying that they can t do anything. fine thank you for your service. get someone in who can americans have a choice? we really do. you don t have to go with republicans who are going to support the n r a. you can go in the republican primary and pick someone who is going to be for universal background check. who s going to want to do something so that our kids don t
only when it comes to ukraine but also the detention of other americans like paul whelan. arlette signs from the north lawn at the white house. thank you so much. let s get some perspective now from cnn national security analyst steve hall. he s the former cia chief of russia operations and also with us is jason rezaian. he is an opinion writer for the washington post, who was wrongfully imprisoned in iran is actually the author of the book prisoner my 544 days. in an iranian prison. jason and steve . thank you so much for being with us, jason. i want to start with you. you were arrested and convicted for espionage. here. we have. another reporter detained under somewhat similar circumstances. what was your reaction to this news? yeah boris. thanks for having me on my reaction was well, i know this storyline. very well. i ve lived this storyline. um you know, i appreciate our let s reporting from from the white house. i would say that the