Consider evidence in a Criminal Investigation into former President Donald Trumps business dealings. Seven minutes after that, it was abc news. That also independently matched the key point in this new reporting. Manhattan District Attorney convenes special Grand Jury in trump probe. A special Grand Jury has been convened to consider the possibility of criminal charges against President Trump and people related to his business. Now, does this mean former President Donald Trump is going to be indicted . Does this mean hes going to be criminally charged . I dont know. And neither do you, and anybody who tells you they know the answer to that for sure, umm, Thats Somebody you might enjoy Hearing Stories from, but dont necessarily assume theyre true. We dont know. You cant have an indictment unless you have a Grand Jury. But having a Grand Jury does not guarantee that youre going to get an indictment. A jury, as you know, thats the group of citizens that gets called on for jury duty. Sits
Something. But it did not work out that way. The problem he had with wanting to be bribed in cash is that the companies that were bribing him. Honestly, the the companies from which he was extorting these bribes because it was as much extortion as it was bribery. These werent the kinds of companies that would normally tend to have a lot of cash laying around. I mean, it would be one thing, if this this guy, this government official, was taking bribes from retail stores. Or even gambling operations, right . Something, where lots of Paper Cash was changing hands all the time. And so, there was a legit explanation for why thered be a lot of cash on the books. And a lot of cash in the in the at the site of these of these businesses. For this corrupt official, who was demanding and collecting bribes from these companies. He wanted them in cash, and the problem was that these firms that he was getting the bribes from were, like, Engineering Firms. And Architecture Firms. And in companies lik
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jamie harrison will join us tonight for the interview. jamie harrison has been a friend of the show. has been incredibly kind to me in my coverage of south carolina politics, helping me to cover south carolina politics in the past. i will tell you my personal opinion. i think he is incredibly smart and incredibly talented and now running the democratic party nationwide and i am really looking forward to hearing from him in terms of how he views that job. that interview is coming up tonight. just in the last hour on all in with chris hayes we had remarkable news. hakeem jeffries of new york telling chris tonight here on msnbc that he is the person described as congressman 1 in a quite scary court document unsealed today in the southern district of new york. a federal criminal complaint charging a 35-year-old man from california with threatening, not just threatening congressman hakeem jeffries but threatening him by threatening him to physically harm his family. trying to in
were pressured and intimidated after the last presidential election that they should, effectively, falsified the results of that states election. it was a year ago, january 3rd, last year, when the washington post published this shocking audio reporting of an extraordinary hour-long phone call that then president trump made personally to georgia s top elections officials telling him that he needed to find exactly the number of votes in the state that would allow trump to falsely be declared the winner there. now, in georgia as in every state in the country, pressuring election officials to interfere with the lawful administration of an election, pressuring election officials to change election results, that of course, is a crime. the state prosecutors office in fulton county georgia opened that investigation under georgia state law. pressuring or intimidating election officials is a georgia state crime. it s a crime in every state in the country and of course it s also a fede