might be wondering about the intersection, possible intersection of this case on the state charges with jack smith. do you sense in overlap in the investigation? certainly. thanks again for having me back. this is an important issue, maybe one of the most important issues as we enter the twenties running for election cycle to focus on and we have to recognize that the charges filed today in michigan, michigan was not the only state where we know of a whole slate of electors that was attempted in a fraudulent way to be presented to the federal government, whether it s congress, senate, national archives. it is no surprise, and should not be the federal government and justice department, through the special prosecutor s office would be looking into this as well. i think that their investigation goes much broader into the connection between the election lies and the threats, and violence that has followed. in addition to, that we want to seek justice for those who intentionally trie
who is subject, who is a witness, whether a letter should had to be given, it is something that you may apprise main justice of. in other words, as a special counsel s team, you may tell them that this is what is going on, but you would not be seeking their approval one way or another. nor do the special counsel rules require it or even suggest that that would be appropriate. remember, this is a case where merrick garland made the decision that the political appointees, including himself, within the department should not be playing that role, but it should be left to the special counsel and the team of career people. so he has a very limited role to extend the appeal, and i cannot imagine that it wouldn t be, but for their not to be. his role in that appeal would be solely to decide, essentially to jack smith, in a way that was an abuse of
career people. so he is a very limited role to extend the appeal, and i cannot imagine that it wouldn t be, but for their not to be. his role in that appeal would be solely to decide, essentially to jack smith, in a way that was an abuse of discretion under the special counsel role. so it is a very narrow role and, as barb said, it is not that he decides to approve the indictment, but he can decide, if he thought it was so unbalanced, he could say that i am not going to let it go forward. he has that power because he is interim general of the special counsel, ultimately as a subordinate officer to the attorney general. barbara mcquade, we appear to be in the final inning of the pre indictment stage on the january six grand jury. when we got to this inning on the espionage case, suddenly there was a surprise.
saying that that can be a factor, that they should be considering. adam, were there any atmospherics in the room that you could only experience there, a sense of confluence, for example in attorneys and other just kind of aspects that you pick up on when you are in the room? well, one thing that i can say is that when judge cannon did say that the political backdrop of the case is known to really to her consideration, that it was not the right framework under the speedy trial act, there is a sense of surprise coming from trump s attorney christopher kise. it seems he really wanted to convince her otherwise, he really picked up on that point, claiming that this is going to be a matter of pretrial publicity, really leaning into the argument that it is an unprecedented prosecution of a former president. that was a beaumont where there
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