as imperious as always, he emerged today if he s going to take any questions to defend his departments actions lea via president trump yuri to speak on my role is to be completely consistent during the special counsel regulations. following the regulations. laura: let s be very clear here. the issue is are you acting in good faith or part of a political operation to get a conviction of trump by any means necessary? 81% of republicans believe this about this is all about politics and protecting one of the more destructive presidents the united states has ever had joe biden. and they are right. consider the situation this way. no one believes that merrick garland would still be ag if he didn t, hadn t green light a special prosecutor in this case. everyone at msnbc and cnn believed that merrick garland s trying to put trump in jail. no matter where the facts leave. otherwise, they would be calling tonight for his removal. it s really not that complicated. any of the lawyers
jack smith and his merry band of prosecutors. if we are going to learn all of it by the way. if trump is able to keep some good lawyers around, it will all be carefully dissected by his legal team. one issue being raised regarding the raid of mar-a-lago and the fact the fbi did not seek consent on the president s attorneys and even dismissed concerns to raised by the florida team. we will dig into those issues and whether they doj tried to subvert the attorney client that protects communication between lawyers in those moments. i used to do white-collar litigation and my lawyer days. at the defense usually doesn t tip their hand. they go to the united states attorney office or they doj and they present their case in the attempt to get the government to change their mind and not indict. but we know that jack smith s office in this case had already made up its mind.
from the legal team so he becomes a witness instead of a lawyer. laura: they wanted to turn them against president trump. how poisonous is this to the legal process if you can t especially someone like a president who s been such a target for so many years. you can t actually hire attorneys and expect the government s not going to try to flip them against you using whatever means necessary. the president jack smith is trying to cite is when clients ask us questions, they didn t go to law school. our what are we allowed to do and what we have to do? in this case, president trump says i read about hillary clinton and her lawyer david kendall the leader 33,000 emails. can we do the same thing? under jack smith s rule, any question the client asks, we say no, you cannot do that. that s a problem. laura: that upends all the attorney-client privilege ethics rules i learned in law school.
this is my commitment. if i m the next u.s. president to pardon donald j. trump for these offenses in this federal case. i have demanded that every other candidate in this race either sign this commitment to pardon on january 20th 2025 or else to explain why they are not. laura: to make sure all the candidates heard his demand loud and clear the, vivek ramaswamy followed up with a written letter to each one republican and democrat. the first to respond publicly, eisha hud hutchinson. it s wrong to be discussing a pardon when they have not gotten the facts out.
as imperious as always, he emerged today if he s going to take any questions to defend his departments actions lea via president trump yuri to speak on my role is to be completely consistent during the special counsel regulations. following the regulations. laura: let s be very clear here. the issue is are you acting in good faith or part of a political operation to get a conviction of trump by any means necessary? 81% of republicans believe this about this is all about politics and protecting one of the more destructive presidents the united states has ever had joe biden. and they are right. consider the situation this way. no one believes that merrick garland would still be ag if he didn t, hadn t green light a special prosecutor in this case. everyone at msnbc and cnn