avlon in for john berman this morning. it is the clearest sign yet that the criminal investigation into january 6th zeroing in on former president donald trump himself. our exclusive new cnn reporting reveals that trump s lawyers are talking directly with the justice department about the events of january 6th. the talks are said to be focused on whether conversations the former president had while in office can be kept from investigators due to executive privilege. now, in an interview with cnn s kasie hunt, liz cheney, the vice chair of the january 6th committee, weighed in on a potential trump prosecution saying the justice department must rise to the challenge. they have to make decisions about prosecution, understanding what it means if the facts and the evidence are there and they decide not to prosecute, how do we then call ourselves a nation of laws? joining us now is cnn anchor and chief national affairs analyst kasie hunt, and daniel goldman, a former federal p
the general public, and i ll be honest with you, i really don t understand why the republicans aren t jumping on this bill, because it really is it is paid for, it reduces the deficit, it will help make a real dent in inflation, it is good for seniors. these are things we should have done years ago. in fact, the first bill i introduced when i came to the senate was to have medicare negotiate for drug prices. that was ten years ago. so i m really glad that that s in the bill. i think it is a big deal. so, senator king, but, that republican opposition, whether it is by reflex or simply tradition is very pronounced and your colleague senator lindsey gram sent out a tweet storm last night, essentially threatening democrats saying a word of advice to those who support this reconciliation deal, do you expect to see a political payoff with 60 votes, you may want to rethink, if there is something that can t be done in reconciliation, if i were you, i would get it up front, stay tuned. that
and perper trading. truth is going to come out. if they want to continue to deceive we will continue to tell the truth. steve: as long as if they are going to have an investigation, they should look all across because rudy giuliani was on a bit of a tweet storm last night, congressman, after midnight. he tweeted this out. democratic party is covering up a pattern of corruption involving high-level members of the obama cabinet. the multimillion and billion-dollar pay-for-play is mind bog bling. biden family sale of office to ukraine was not the only one or the most egregious. slimy joe is not alone. what do you think he is saying there? i think he is saying that there are a lot of things that need to be investigated. a lot of things from the previous administration. look, i want to go back real quickly. we have always talked about investigating the investigators. last week we released and find the foia requests on memos. we talk about mccabe being the start of the collusion
he deported back in 2012. i don t know if president trump is feeling inadequate like he hasn t been able to hit that mark or whatever it is but donald trump s tweet storm last night is not based on reality at these agencies. number two, we should be skeptical and on guard about it because these are real lives at stake. let s talk about the organizational capacity. there are a couple things going on. one is the capacity to detain all of these people, to process them, do something with them. there is a remarkable backlog for those legally entitled to hearings and i assume we re not doing away with all law in the united states. there are still people in line for hearings and a shortage of judges that have not been made up for. so can this happen if it were something more than just a political statement? not on the scale donald trump says, millions. it is just factually impossible to make this happen. two things we should think about. one is the humanitarian crisis going on along the s
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