because he has different teams of people handling different cases and that gets expensive. doug, thanks for that reporting. let s bring in chris swekker. conspiracy to fraud the united states, obstruct proceedings, obstruction of official proceedings and conspiracy against rights. to most americans that sounds likelily human bow jumbo, what exactly do those four charges mean? first of all, let me say this, this is an extraordinary indictment, when i read it, i thought i was reading a new york times op ed or a political manifesto. there is nothing in there that goes beyond opinion, talking, expressing things, i am not defending president trump because i think he did a lot of things that were ill advised and unwise, probably against his
2020 election was false, do you see anyway based upon the facts of this case that jack smith can do that? well, what jack smith will do is he will introduce what he suggested in the indictment, whether his former administration officials who told trump that the election was not stolen from him, whether it was a statehouse representatives, whether it was his own intimate white house officials working with the trump at the time, whether it was mike pence who said he would not go ahead and believe he had the power to decertify the results. they ll use all those witnesses, and even the court rulings, the sort of over 60 court rulings that found there was no evidence of systemic fraud, against trump that would show he knew what was going on. they would restewart
basically they expect the economy to deteriorate, the fed rate hikes we ve been seeing and covering, predicting a mild recession, there is an erosion of governance. but look, they are basically citing the political standoffs. you know, we ve seen over the debt debates in washington. janet yellen, yellow, yellen, announced today is arbitrary based on outdated data, jean-pierre says it is down grading in the moment when the president delivered. carley: black rock is under investigation. this is the house china committee, a bipartisan committee. basically they are saying, and this is in alert to black rock ceo larry fink on monday, they say is unconscionable for you or any business to fuel the military advancement, and facilitate human rights abuses. they are
legal permanent residents and recipients in illinois to serve in communities as police officers after desantis spoke out against the law saying to the left citizenship is meaningless. in florida we took action to we value our citizen officers who serve and protect our communities. several other republicans and prominent police groups also backing desantis claiming no illegal alien should have authority over an american citizen to vd pritzker s point, undergraduated undergrad from yale university law school, from harvard university, you can say what you want about his politics but a statement that he is not smart is dumb. todd: turning back to breaking news, the latest indictment against former president trump has legal experts and 2024 republican opponents ripping into the doj. a general rule of thumb is if you are going to try to data political opponent and former
indictment. there is no way around it. i mean what they are attempting to do is criminalize what they consider to be disinformation. and i have to tell you, this indictment is a really sad moment for me. i had hoped that if smith was going to indict on january 6th, that he would find unsalable evidence and unquestionable league authority he doesn t neither in this indictment. what he does have is criminalization of speech. todd: nathan, building off of what jonathan turley said right there, how is this indictment anything other than a blatant and partisan attack on the first amendment? so, actually it s both. it s an attack on the first amendment, in fact the indictment acknowledges that president trump has the ability to say whatever he wants about an election. even if it s not accurate or not true. but the indictment goes further, what it basically says is that president