the government, by the way, you ll recall, spent months trying to retrieve records from trump before the fbi conducted search mar-a-lago to discover dozens of documents in its search warrant, the espionage warrant, obstruction, and concealing a destroying government documents as the basic fourth of instigations. these, all of, these are the main investigations that we are going to continue to keep our eyes on. joining me now is andrew weissmann, the former chief of the criminal fraud section of the department of justice, and a former fbi general counsel. he was one of the senior prosecutors on the mueller investigation. he is currently a professor at nyu law school and an msnbc legal analyst. he is the author of the book, where law ends. inside the mall investigation. good morning to you, thank you for being with us. nice to be here. let s start with the january 6th, the things we are expecting in the next 18 hours. 24 hours. whatever the case may be. 18 hourswhat happens there?
with an essentially unlimited budget, the special counsel will oversee the probes into mr. trump s role in the january 6th attack on the capital and into classified documents he kept at mar-a-lago. the attorney general must still sign off before mr. trump could be indicted. in an exclusive interview from meet the press, the former president mike pence arguing americans want to move past the trump investigations. no one is above the law. but i would hope the justice department would give careful consideration before they take any additional steps. you just heard from josh let herman reporting. joining me now is andrew weizmann. a former fbi general counsel who previously served as a lead prosecutor in robert murrell there s a special counsel investigation. he s at the english senior fellow and where you lost school and the author of where law ends, inside the mueller investigation. thank you so much for joining me today. glad to be here. so, i want to ask you, on november 14th,
something that is positive. one of the things i thought was a to us was that she comes right out and says, at the end of her decision, that she is giving extra weight to trump because he was the president. she just comes right out and says it. if anyone wants to see the end of the rule of law, it is, read the decision. if john locke famously said, where law ends, tyranny begins, you read this decision and what she said and she is admitting that the position that the person s person held is going to carry extra weight in terms of how he is treated in court. that is a
it is remarkable because you never thought that something worse than her last decision, and this actually topped it. but let me focus on something that i thought was particularly important, and then also go to something that is positive. one of the things i thought was a to us was that she comes right out and says, at the end of her decision, that she is giving extra weight to trump because he was the president. she just comes right out and says it. if anyone wants to see the end of the rule of law, it is, read the decision. if john locke famously said, where law ends, tyranny begins, you read this decision and what she said and she is admitting that the position that the person s person held is going to carry extra weight in terms of how he is treated in court. that is a violation of her oath