people in the world. we don t use them. we re going to use our smartest and our best. we re not using political hacks anymore. that s the people that do these deals. they re political hacks. we want experts our finest people. we don t want people that are b-level, c-level, d-level. we have to get our absolute best trump hired all the best people, now many of those same people, his former attorney general, defense secretary, national security adviser, and others say he endangered national security. also tonight, new reporting seems to answer the question as to why it took so long for the justice department to begin an investigation into trump s plot to overturn the 2020 election. plus, republicans loyalty pledge they re basically asking all of the presidential candidates to support trump if he s nominated again, and probably pardon him, too. i m jason johnson in for joy reid, and we begin tonight with justice delayed. today, of course, is juneteenth. marking the day i
now, joyce, i ll start with this obviously, trump s legal justifications are a bunch of nonsense, but what does it say for further prosecution and further investigation now that he s been indicted that many of the men and women who worked with him are now turning around and saying, yeah, man, this guy was nuts, he was wild. this had nothing to do with the constitution does this have an impact do these interviews become evidence brought against him in prosecution? i think these comments we re hearing speak more to the court of public opinion than to the case that prosecutors are building and it s difficult, and jason, you point this out, to listen to these comments and to wish that bill barr had had a modicum of that common sense wisdom that he now seems to have suddenly come into possession of when he resigned from the justice department and wrote a glowing letter about the accomplishments of the trump administration and his pride in serving under president trump.
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deliver the election for trump news reports that the committee was looking into the matter as well as exhaustive reporting by rachel maddow inspired new urnl aenls at main justice. one person directly familiar with the doj s interest in the case told the post, if felt as though the department was reacting to the committee s work as well as heightened media coverage and commentary. only after they were embarrassed did they start looking, the person said. joining me now to discuss is paul butler, former federal prosecutor, msnbc legal analyst, and professor at georgetown school of law. and alley mistal, correspondent for the nation, and author of allow me to retort, a black guy s guide to the constitution, available now in paperbook paul butler, i m going to start with you you were a justice tell me after you read this article what the impact on an investigation could be when the
a strategy embraced by garland, monaco, and wray according to the post, the leaders at both agencies held on to the ladder up proosz to avoiding trump, even as evidence emerged that trump and husband allied had schemed to overturn the election weeks before their henchmen laid siege to the capitol. the approach could be to avoid allegations of partisanship. the report added, inside justice however, some have complained the attorney general s determination to steer clear of any claims of political motive has chilled efforts to investigate the former president. quote, you couldn t use the t word, said one former justice official briefed on prosecutors discussions. the post also sheds new light on the ways the house january 6th committee may have forced doj s hand by investigating the scheme to install fake electors to