people in the world. we don t use them. we re going to use our smartest and our best. we re not using political hacks anymore. that s the people that do these deals. they re political hacks. we want experts our finest people. we don t want people that are b-level, c-level, d-level. we have to get our absolute best trump hired all the best people, now many of those same people, his former attorney general, defense secretary, national security adviser, and others say he endangered national security. also tonight, new reporting seems to answer the question as to why it took so long for the justice department to begin an investigation into trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election. plus, republicans loyalty pledge they re basically asking all of the presidential candidates to support trump if he s nominated again, and probably pardon him, too. i m jason johnson in for joy reid, and we begin tonight with justice delayed. today, of course, is juneteenth. marking the day i
enslaved black people in galveston, texas, learned they were free, two month after the end of the civil war and more than two years after president lincoln s emancipation proclamation took 150 years, constrt work from activists ato recognize tha juneteenth had to happen this is typical for a country that takes too much time to address its problems we ll have more on that coming up speaking of justice delayed, ironic but fitting on this day, according to a damning new report from the washington post, we re learning that in the face of a once in a lifetime danger to our democracy posed by donald trump, the attorney general and the director of the fbi also delayed, allowing trump s role in instigating the january 6th attack to go unscrutinized for more than a year according to the post, quote, a weariness about appearing partisan, institutional caution, and clashes over how much