a to be suing account sitting congressman for this. i mean, it s really amazing what we re seeing happen. it is. it s very uncommon. and of course, i mean, donald trump is the first former president to ever be indicted. and so that s also unprecedented, so we re seeing measures. between local courts, and prosecutors and congress play out on a field that we ve never really seen before, and this is a huge escalation in this back and forth. i mean for weeks now we ve seen the tensions between jim jordans and the judiciary committee and the republicans and the manhattan district attorney s off office reached a fever pitch, and this lawsuit is finally alvin bragg hitting backs for a while. he s just been letting some of these requests come out, and he s been in engaging with them, but saying that he does not want to sit down. i mean, they asked for his the weeks ago even before donald trump was indicted, and so this is now finally, alvin bragg is issuing you know a lawsuit of his
presidents, former presidents if they are facing issues like this, that they can move that case to federal court and not have it being a local court, and that s one of the key things that republicans and jim jordans are arguing against alvin bragg is that you re a state and local prosecutor. this is a federal case, and this shouldn t be your territory that this should be a federal prosecution that we re seeing, and so that s one of the things that the committee is going to be proposing. you know , as early as this week. definitely i think by the time they get back into session next week, that s the other thing. i mean, this lawsuit came congress is out there out this week. we haven t we didn t see them last week, either. when all of the trump indictment stuff was playing out. i mean, i think a lot of republicans were relieved by that that they weren t facing questions from me and other reporters on this, but i do think it s gonna be right back into the center of everything. once they r
often see. i think it is not without risk, though, right? i mean, alvin bragg, and certainly his lawyers would argue they re doing this to maintain the integrity of the case. the other side of this, however, is that inserting yourself in this way, runs the risk of further inflaming political tensions. if that is even possible for a story like this for cases like this, so certainly not without its risks of its own. one thing i m curious about elena. maybe you re reporting has an answer to this is that jim jordans? clearly alvin bragg thinks that he did this because he s trying to intimidate the a g. but jim jordans has to have a follow up plan, right? like there s gotta be a way where he can pivot and say no, no, no. i m doing this for legislative reasons there isn t this isn t an intimidation campaign. does he plan to do that at all? funny he actually went on fox news tonight after he received this lawsuit, and they stated, what s the legislative purpose of this back and forth? and he
jordan and said we want you to investigate alvin bragg. we think that you need to investigate alvin bragg and i think that just shows the extent of some of these communications and the extent of really how involved donald trump and his team still are in a lot of what congress is doing an investigating and basically you re saying it was premeditated before it was even underway. they knew they were going to do that. um so even i know that you ve spent so much time on the campaign trail and you have been talking to voters. and so does this. come up. is this why they voted republicans in so, alison, i am just i m curious to see the strength of this political argument that republicans are making here. no doubt there are some voters that elevated republicans to the house majority for this very reason, right to be the former president s chief defender to raise hell in this regard. but not before long. you know, republicans also made an economic argument for reelection and to be as an argument
a to be suing account sitting congressman for this. i mean, it s really amazing what we re seeing happen. it is. it s very uncommon. and of course, i mean, donald trump is the first former president to ever be indicted. and so that s also unprecedented, so we re seeing measures. between local courts, and prosecutors and congress play out on a field that we ve never really seen before, and this is a huge escalation in this back and forth. i mean for weeks now we ve seen the tensions between jim jordans and the judiciary committee and the republicans and the manhattan district attorney s off office reached a fever pitch, and this lawsuit is finally alvin bragg hitting backs for a while. he s just been letting some of these requests come out, and he s been in engaging with them, but saying that he does not want to sit down. i mean, they asked for his the weeks ago even before donald trump was indicted, and so this is now finally, alvin bragg is issuing you know a lawsuit of his own and st