to emphasize, mika, was not the presidents and their new attorneys general do not have and deputies and u.s. attorneys do not have prosecutorial discretion and that can change with every new president. they can bring cases and choose not to bring other cases, but just to point out that when and it was curious to me because of all the concern that republican voters have about how trump is being treated by the department of justice, when you hear these candidates talk about sweeping everybody out, cleaning house, bringing in a whole new group that s going to do things differently, this whole new group may do things differently. number one they re going to be constrained by the law, number two, this goes on every time we have a changing of the guard, at least from a partisan perspective. a republican president comes in, they appoint a whole new fleet of u.s. attorneys, a whole new fleet of senior and middle management leaders at the department of justice, the attorney general, all of th
now on tax charges and lying on a gun application. consider what the allegations have been over the past five years. you just heard them from comer. business dealings with oligarchs. all of the dirty money that has changed hands and ultimately bribery allegations against the president himself, in five years, republicans haven t been able to prove it. and two trump appointed u.s. attorneys, a trump appointed a.g., and a trump appointed judge are about to sign off on a deal that says none of that actually is true and provides no liability for hunter biden or joe biden. republicans are being fools not to just take the loss and go home and move on and address the priorities of the american people. i have a sort of theory, that you know, obama really did break the brains of many republicans. and they can t accept that their obama, donald trump, was a failure. and that his administration was a failure, and he didn t actually do anything for them and didn t do anything other than crime. and
kevin mccarthy is maligning a trump-appointed prosecutor in his smears today. but what has happened is something that was available to donald trump probably b until early last week. that s right. and the reason it was available to hunter biden is because of hunter biden s cooperation in the investigation, something else we don t see in donald trump. i think picking up on mike s comments, the developments in the hunter biden case today have a ring of exoneration for the president s son, and in some small way for the president himself because of the untoward attacks that house republicans have made. but as mike pointed out, this is an investigation that s been going on for five years, started under donald trump s attorney general, two trump-appointed u.s. attorneys, and now before a u.s. judge appointed by donald trump. and i think it s critical to recognize everything that has been alleged largely amplified by republicans, from foreign business dealings, to failure to register, to the
his commitment to integrity and the rule of law. backdrop there to our conversation tonight with the republican and former maryland governor larry hogan. governor, nice to see you tonight. you just heard what josh deossie said tonight. let s get to the justice department. let s turn down the temperature. let s try to negotiate a settlement, and the trump legal team talked the former president out of it. surprise you at all? it doesn t surprise me. it s the first time i heard it, but, no, it s not a surprise. it seems to be par for the course. but i think we heard from the former attorney general, bill barr. we heard from really two of my former colleagues that governors both chris christie and asa hutchinson, federal prosecutors, u.s. attorneys, who are taking this case seriously, some of the few people speaking out at this point. legally quite seriously. but on the politic side, the trump campaign raked in
controlled by democrats, this needs to be an area where the fbi, department of justice, u.s. attorneys, cannot go. the attorney general should be subjected to removal by a no confident vote of congress, it is too difficult to fundament a attorney general. he is not in the constitution. this is a position created by congress. 1789, george washington had first attorney general, department of justice itself was not created until 1870 under pro proposal of grant. we need to make modifications to it attorney general is powerful. he is unelected. you can see what this attorney general, merrick garland has done with that power, there ought to be ability for congress to has final say on how this government is set up. and first say, to have a no