Nothing to do with his qualifications. They are opposed to donald trump pointing anyone to the Supreme Court. Kneneil gorsuch a good man. Its the democrats who are breaking the rules, what theyre doing is changing the 200 year status quo. The ironny is that you could have said the exact same things, regarding judge garland. That, of course, was president s garlands dom knee to fill the same vacancy who republicans refused to hold a single confirmation hearing, much less a vote. It was an unprecedented feet of obstruction. Which Mitch Mcconnell on the Campaign Trail later, one of my proudest moments. The Garland Affairs seem to have taught democrats a lesson about the up sides of obstructionism and now with engaged based marching the streets and turning up the town hall showing to posed any kind of cooperation whatsoever with this president ,
theres new in washington. Just four Democratic Senators came out against a gorsuch fill buster, facing tough reelection battles. Theyve vowed to c
of congress usually used for tampering with witnesses and evidence in congressional investigations, a ku klux klan act from the reconstruction era that s never been used in situations like this. his case based on unprecedent, first of their kind stretches of the law. neil: yeah. the other thing that s interesting are the facts. we don t have the facts linking trump to the rioters, so we don t see charges for sedition, we don t see charges for insurrection. i would want all of this to be a lot stronger if the government was going to take in this first step ever in history in such a major criminal trial as charging a former president. neil: you know, i was thinking no charge of sedition or anything like that, nothing to upend the country, that s where a lot of them democrats with whom i ve talked had hoped to bring in the 14th amendment, that the president violated that and, as such, can t serve asth president of the united states if that s the case. that doesn t seem to have
election. and undermine the peaceful transfer of power. an indictment was unsealed charging donald j. trump for conspiring to defraud the united states, disenfrom shiez voters. reporter: federal prosecutors write, the defendant spread lies that there had been outcome determine native fraud and that he won. these claims were false. this morning, we re getting our first sense of trump s defense. focusing on the fact that what we have now is an administration that has criminalized the free speech of a prior administration during the time the that there s a political election going on, that s unprecedent. we have never seen that in the history of the united states. reporter: he can see the trial lasting nine months to a year.
ump fixer turned critic, michael cohen, in 2016. all to s silence of an affair with mr. trump by adult film star stormy daniels. mr. trump has long denied the affair and aot ilgal. the question is how e payment was accounted for. what could be a misdemeanor, or if he pursues a low-level felony, bragg may try an unprecedent move, a state prosecutor charging an alleged federal election law violation. this was a personal resolution for a personal matter that would have been made irrespective of the campaign, so with those facts together, there is no crime. reporter: both federal prosecutors and bragg s predecessor in the d.a. s office declined to pursue a case against mr. trump, which would ha relied on testimony from cohen who pleaded guilty to a federal campaign law violation related to
that brings us to developments in washington where many in the republican party are as michael cohen puts it playing to a party of one, that one, of course, being the ex-president, a letter from top house republicans incluing jim jordan, the chair of the house judiciary committee and jim comer chair of the house oversight committee accuses alvin bragg, the manhattan d.a. of an unprecedent abuse of authority politically motivated prosecutorial decision echoing donald trump s words, all of this before any charges have been filed or before any evidence has even been revealed by the d.a. s office. before we even know the peer rites of the case, in a statement last night bragg fired back saying, quote, we will not be intimidated by attempts to undermine the justice process, nor will we let baseless accusations deter us from fairly applying the law. while this office follows the facts, not everyone does but as