lifelong republican. in the context of what we now know was going on inside the justice department and in the context of what we now know from rosen was a sustained campaign to get doj to overturn the result in georgia, talk about how this is being used to build a case or to sort of guide an investigation by the congressional committees investigating january 6th. yeah, and all of this information as it comes out is exactly who is looking for it, who is excited to get more of this information, folks investigating january 6th and folks just looking into things all of the time, right? so shout-out to betsy and nicholas, my colleagues for this amazing reporting, and the other reporters who continued to let us know exactly how far trump and his allies were willing to go and the positions they put the fbi and the doj in, right, because what it tells us is that they were willing to do just about anything. you know, we all listened to
lindell can proceed. dominion is seeking $1.3 billion in damages from the trio who repeatedly issued false claims about the company. accusing dominion of rigging the 2020 presidential election. while this was happening, the guy on the right, the my pillow guy, went on the road hosting something he called a cyber symposium to try to allege once again that the election was hacked and joe biden isn t really the president. no surprise. he had nothing. no offense, nada. and joining us robert gibbs former white house press secretary as well as msnbc political analyst and form are congresswoman and contributing calm lift for the washington post donna edwards. we talked about this before. the wheels of justice grind slowly and opaque manner. in this case, $1.3 billion lawsuits from the voting machine company. other lawsuits from smartmatek the other voting machine company
here at home. there s a new ruling in a case overseas that may represent a threat to one of the ex-president s most-prized businesses, a scottish judge ruled in favor of an online campaign group which is looking to investigate how donald trump was able to purchase two scottish golf courses while at the time he was reporting substantial losses on his tax returns. from the new york times , quote, the scottish government had resisted pressure to demand financial details from trump through an unexplained wealth order, a powerful legal instrument usually deployed against leading figures in organized crime or drug trafficking. but on wednesday a judge ruled that avaaz, an online campaign group, should be given the right to challenge the government s rejection of calls for such a move. joining our conversation is tim o brien, senior columnist at bloomberg opinion. joining us, host of the podcast on brand with donny deutsch, our friend donny deutsch is here. you are two perfect people to
one of the wackiest episodes in recent american political memory, which was this viral video that came out of atlanta, being almost immediately debunked by the top election official in that state. but despite that, getting the attention of the outgoing president and getting the attention of state legislators in georgia. so the doj officials had to decide, do we continue investigating this video and perhaps in add vert ently give credence to this very bizarre situation or do we say, this is debunked and it doesn t rise to the level of something that deserves the fbi s attention. what these e-mails show is that bill barr himself specifically handed down orders that the fbi look into this particular video. barr explicitly said that he warranted fbi agents doing interviews related to the contents of this video, and that came several days after he said publicly that there was no meaningful election interference. if it were the case that trump s
remember the consult under jim jones, appeasement and worship of a cult leader will not end well. in this case i m extremely worried, too. used to be republicans and conservatives used to carry around the banter of freedom is not free. you re right. freedom means you have a set of responsibilities to your, you know, yourself and well as your community and in this case, they ve thrown that out the window in defense of a circus. sure have. thank you both. when i read all of 9 headlines today i said if i can only talk to these two and thank you for making that a reality. wonderful to see you both. thank you. when we come back, a win, a little one, but it s a win, for three of trump s most public stooges out there pushing his most dangerous lies lost their bid to have dismissed million dollar lawsuits saying they defame add voting equipment