of his life. not just for the white house, but for his freedom now, too. biden is trying to jail his leading political opponent. plus trump s top 2024 rival lets him off the hook and attacks the justice department instead. can t have one faction of society weaponizing the power of the state against factions that it doesn t like. while earth owe challengers hope the details might force supporters to question their allegiance. is this the type of conduct that we want from someone who wants to be president of the united states? and making history. has the united states of america ever faced a moment like this? welcome to inside politics sunday , i m abby phillip. it is another week in the history of our nation. a former president and leading presidential candidate indicted now for hoarding calassified documents and sharing them with others ab conspiring to hide them from the government. and it includes reams of evident including tape recordings and text messages
capital take the unprecedented step of subpoenaing fellow members of and, did the select committee even have the authority to do it. do you think you are going to have to subpoena a sitting member of congress? i think that there is some questions of whether we have authority to do it. we are looking at it. if the charges are there, there will be no reluctance on our part. with the authorities there, there will be no reelecting from our part. at the time, benny thompson was reluctant to issue subpoenas. i doubt it, he told the associated press, there is no precedent to force that compliance. with the months since, revelations have come to light, which would force the committee to grapple with a different question. how could the committee not subpoenaed these members? because after conducting nearly 1000 witness interviews on obtaining over 100,000 documents, one thing has become clear: efforts to contest joe biden s legitimate election victory were not limited to the t
2016 campaign. Those words were in a text message sent from Keith Davidson, hes the attorney for both of the women at the heart of the story. Playboy playmate Karen Mcdougal and porn star Stormy Daniels. It was a text sent to the National Enquirer, dylan howard. And davidson is on the stand right now on day nine of the donald trump Election Interference hush money trial. With Explosive Testimony being given right now about his dealings with ami and Donald Trumps inner most circle. Earlier today, he told the court and the jury that dylan howard texted him back a response, quote, talk first thing. I will get you por than anyone for it. You know why. Davidson said that he understood even back then that the owner of the National Enquirer, that david pecker and donald trump were good friends. Two weeks after the texts were exchanged, Karen Mcdougal met with howard, where she alleged that she had an affair with donald trump that went on for several weeks to months. And ami declined to pick u
january 6 happens. violence did result from rhetoric like this. and there was a at the fbi headquarters in cincinnati. when the search was conducted last year. and here is the problem with a lot of these things. most of the people say these clownish stuff and partisan nonsense and they listen to it metaphorically or figuratively, all you need is one in 10,000 people to hear it differently to take it literally and not figuratively. and you only need one person. it could be a tiny percentage, or a single individual that could lead to some bad stuff. and the vibe at the rally yesterday, how was that? they were all trump die hards. first was at the state party convention and it was maga hat after maga hat. and in north carolina it was much the same thing. one very notable thing that you saw yesterday is trump actually racked up a bunch of
biden is poised to have the best midterms of any president in 20 years. but even as we wait for the numbers to tell the full story, trump die-hards are facing the unnerving political reality that maga has crumbled. including his ever faithful side kick, lindsey graham, who remember this, he tweeted in 2016, if we nominate trump, we will get destroyed. and we will deserve it. no truer words. republicans are reaping the consequences of taking the knee to the man who couldn t make casinos work in new jersey. as trump rages over the red tinkle, trump, it turns out, was their undoing. his big lie and his boosting of election denying candidates who sought to eradicate voting rights was their problem, but it wasn t just trump. the midterm election results are a striking rebuke of the supreme court for ending the constitutional right to an abortion. the flurry of post-roe victories