maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. backwards to an america where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. not every republican, not even the majority of republicans are maga republicans, but there s no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans, and that is a threat to this country. history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy. i will not the will of the american people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence claims of fraud. i will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost. democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election, either they win or they were cheated. and that s where the maga republicans
beginning. it is really like a dam has broken, and people are coming in to speak to the committee. there is a very much an active investigation. one major point of have, the 25th amendment, the committee now seekingsome from cabinet members who discussed the possibility of removing trump from office. key witnesses include former treasury secretary steven mnuchin, daniel radcliffe and mick mulvaney who just spoke to cnn moments ago. all of this comes as we re learning a former doj staffer, someone who worked with jeffrey clark, the man trump wanted to install as attorney general in the days leading up to january 6th, is cooperating with the criminal probe. let s begin this morning with cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, a lot of movement within the doj as they re attempting to skirt executive privilege. it was something the select committee was successful at getting accomplished. break down for us how the department plans to handle this. they re plannin
influence peddling? because what else is hehe off offering ukraineer? what else does he have to offer? there s no expertise there. no, it s obvious to all.s and it s a crime to confer a benefit to a foreign government in exchange for something of value. that s money, your son. and if you know, if biden tries to use executive privilegee pril to hide these documents, that in itself would be an abuse of privilege, relates to confidential advice that, if disclosed, would impair government functions. well, that that has nothing t whatsoever to do with briskman and hunter biden. al there s no confidential information there. and rememberon , the u.s. supreme court in the seminole case, u.s. versus nixon, in a unanimou s decision said you may not use executive privilege if it relates to evidence corresponding to a crime or a criminal investigation. here, of course, you ve go invel
or former president s interests must be balanced against the needs of the criminal investigation. in the seminole case, the nixon tapes, executive privilege fell for that reason. the same will happen here. trump s claim is even weaker because he s an ex-president and we had a series of courts hold correctly that for an ex-president, the current president is the ultimate decider. and that can go as quickly as three months, as it did with the 1-6 committee s battle for records where trump asserted privilege. so, i expect him to lose and reasonably quickly. you re right to point out there is precedent here. evan perez, norm eisen, thank you. thank you. there is new cnn reporting this morning that some republicans such as kevin mccarthy are fuming that senate minority leader mitch mcconnell has in their view helped democrats push through a series
complainance, a walter 9-millimeter, like a pps pistol. whether that s the same gun he had in alaska or not they haven t released. right. now, as far as getting the gun in the airport. you can put a gun in checked baggage as long as you declare it to the airline and as long as it is in a locked container that you only have the key to. and it was. this was locked. yeah. and see, all the security around airlines and airports as far as firearms has always been in the cabin, to secure the cabin from hijacking back in the 70s or from terrorism in the current venue. that s what it s all about. the fear wasn t for, you know, guns in the checked baggage. the seminole case that comes to mind is the case in us central 1972 at the airport. that s the first thing i thought of when this guy got the gun out of checked baggage when terrorists working for the palestinians flew from rome to load airport in israel and they pulled out checked assault weapons out of their violin cases and killed