in and give his side of th story to the grand jury are as clear as indications o anything that this is coming t add. lisa, it is my understandin that this is a legally complex case what are the challenges of pursuing this investigation as a possible felony case yeah, the problem here is, would say the conundrum here is, in order to conver falsification of busines records into a felony under ne york law, you have to show tha it was done in furtherance of, or to conceal another crime. and with that other crime is has lots of people including me, scratching their heads and the reason is as follows it is not clear under new york law whether that second or underlying crime would be federal crime. everybody knows that michael cohen pled guilty to campaig finance violations and the southern district of new york, into michael cohen is very clear to identify trum as the individual. he violated federal campaign finance. it is not clear whethe manhattan da can use tha
saying we don t like this, this i gross an extremist, and then like, nick fuentes is a whit nationalist, and kanye, who in this insane antisemitic bender, show up to have dinner with the guy who s the leade of the party yes the word here is, and i hate t add another cooking analogy to this, but the way is donal trump realizes - baked into the case cake of his base now and it s years and years too late to just soften off th top. especially when they re making it all the talking points in the means for him that he just spells down into regular human he can t condemn them because they re his base right for him, that s an issue that s part of the problem to. i think republicans are trying to figure out, is his base our base like, can we just get rid of these people and is somebody just going t run on exactly trump s positions with a healthier looking but it the thanked me tha so bizarre, again, from tactical standpoint those people all voted for
i ve covered politics, you generally want to be the moderate versus the extreme. and sometimes, that works to the benefit of conservatives against people on the left whose ideas i like, right? who might be viewed as extreme but generally, what you want t do - their these laps you can take. for instance, you could just condemn, like, outright nazis. like, guys like nick fuentes who do joking things about where all these people actuall killed in the holocaust? but then you can t meet wit them that s my point the easiest way up in the world, it s amazing to me that this unbelievable judgment come down from the american peopl on precisely what you re saying we don t like this, this i gross an extremist, and then like, nick fuentes is a whit nationalist, and kanye, who in this insane antisemitic bender, show up to have dinner with the guy who s the leade of the party yes the word here is, and i hate t add another cooking analogy to this, but the way is donal trump realizes - baked in
levels in the 2022 midterms ahead of a potential 2024 trump run are just two of the big headwinds facing the bipartisan january 6 investigation by congress which is now entering a crucial stage. in less than one month the select committee will begin its public hearings which in the words of january 6 committee member jamie raskin will, quote, blow the roof off the house. the goal of those hearings, make it clear to the american people the full extent of the trump coup plot and explain just how close we came to the end of our democracy as we know t add to that the fallout from the committee s decision to issue subpoenas to five house republicans, an unprecedented move that brings congress into uncharted territory. politico reporting today on why the panel ultimately decided to issue those subpoenas to their own republican colleagues, politico writes this, quote, the january 6 select panel s subpoenas of five house republicans are a huge risk by any measure, but committee members say
confirmation process. yeah. i think it s a little bit of inside baseball for how you run the nomination process. you re right. this was flawless. and they re not always flawless. we certainly can remember the last or two ago, mr. kavanagh, that was not flawless, and that was the fault of some of the staff who were involved. i couldn t agree more with my colleague, and i can t add to it because i can t say it more eloquently. but what i have been struck with in the last few days and months is not what s being said. it s what s not being said. hmm. no one in the republican party stands up to someone who calls her a pedophile or implies it. no one in the republican party stand up and says she s not a political terrorist. no one in the republican party gets up and says she s not a nazi sympathizer.