investigations. the government has been looking for many months at the january 6th allegations that trump broke the law when he and his different associates were trying to come up with schemes to essentially try to get the vice president to pick who won the election despite what the actual results were. the other investigation, the mar-a-lago one is well along. it has, there has been a search warrant that was executed at trump s home in florida. the government has interviewed many different witnesses. those investigations have been done by these lying prosecutors who will be absorbed by the special counsel s office. a special counsel himself, mr. smith, who is coming back from being where he was trying these were crimes, he was a war crimes prosecutor. he will have to get up to speed, he will be the one who asked to make major decisions about
the hague where he is trying these war, he is a war crimes prosecutor, he will have to get up to speed, and he will be the one who has to make major decisions about whether to grant immunity or whether to execute search warrants, or whether to offer plea deals, major investigative decisions like that. but the work of these investigators will continue and can continue while he is getting up to speed. will it slow it down? my guess is not in a noticeable way that us standing on the outside looking in will be able to tell. the attorney general went to great lengths last week, when he announced the appointment of the special counsel, that this would not slow the inquiry. so that s sort of where it stands. mike, it strikes me, i m sure it strikes you, that so much of what pence experienced has already been made public from his january 4th oval office meeting with trump lawyer john eastman, to the conversation between pence s chief of staff
think, is his timeline. could you talk about that? there are a lot of very decorative prosecutors that will move in and out of government. that aspect of his work is quite distinct, jumps out in his bio, clearly something he loves. he s done multiple times. how do you think that plays a role in where he is coming from? so, what you re referring to, he served two stints as a war crimes prosecutor before international courts in the hague, right before he took that job. i talked about it in 2010, he sponge several years at the international criminal court, and more recently, from 2018 to now, he has been at a different court in the hague, a special court working on workers from the coast of the war. so, this is not someone who wants to go to a fancy corporate law firm, where he can command thousand dollars an hour fees, and get wealthy. he s someone who clearly wants the big cases, and were crimes cases are some of the most
and part of the what makes smith interesting, i think, is his timeline. could you talk about that? there are a lot of very decorative prosecutors that will move in and out of government. that aspect of his work is quite distinct, jumps out in his bio, clearly something he loves. he s done multiple times. how do you think that plays a role in where he is coming from? so, what you re referring to, he served two stints as a war crimes prosecutor before international courts in the hague, right before he took that job. i talked about it in 2010, he sponge several years at the international criminal court, and more recently, from
of documents, tax returns and everything else, and they have found nothing, which means i ve proven to be one of the most honest and innocent people ever in our country. again, the two investigations the special prosecutor will be looking into despite what the president said there are his leading of an attempted coup against the government around the 2020 election and the taking of classified documents from the white house to mar-a-lago. let s bring in former u.s. attorney joyce vance, an msnbc legal analyst and founder of the conservative web site, the bulwark, charlie sykes. let me start with you and what we know about jack smith, a prosecutor at the federal level and a war crimes prosecutor at the hag. what do you make of the move here and the choice of mr. smith? well, merrick garland clearly wasn t trying to appeal to the former president because there s nothing that could convince him that any investigation into his conduct has integrity.