this picture up. like what does he think? does he think jack smith is going to be intimidated by mob-like threats, gene? yeah. and that s not going to happen. looks like a, jack smith, looks like a pretty intense guy and like he s not going to take any of this from donald trump. i think trump just doesn t know what else to do. he obviously sees the walls closing in on him. the indictment s coming. someone must have told him, let him know what the conviction rate is in federal court, which is well over 90% of defendants who were charged either get guilty or convicted, and it is this is a, a tough situation for him, and rather than, than make a deal, and rather than try to, you know, somehow keep his freedom, he does this.
they re not, they re going to pay the consequences. yeah. i m so glad you brought that up. i mean, so many people lied for the fbi, and related to donald trump. always ends badly for them. and you re also right about executive privilege. the roberts court is not buying it. it it s related to january the 6th, the roberts court has already said, no executive privilege for things that may have been said in commission of a crime. so you re so right there. and one other thing, gene, you re so right on. i mean, it s been horrible for america, but you talk about glory days for the washington, d.c. criminal bar since donald trump came to town. i mean, he has been a full employment act for all of them. still ahead, vice president kamala harris going to florida to deliver approval of new
to 28%. a lot of people, john heilemann being one of them, distracted by the third party option here. we don t know what the third party option is going to be. let s talk about some trim lines. i don t know. i guess it s post maybe it s with news of inflation going down in a big way. maybe it s news of america s economy being better than the economy of just about anybody else s in the world. maybe it s a great nato summit. yesterday we had a poll that showed joe biden up 49 to 44%. yesterday we had a poll showing him up by seven points. that was yesterday, a quinnipiac poll yesterday an emerson poll today showing him up by seven points. many saying this is a brutal poll for donald trump. let s circle back and say what you and i have been saying from the very beginning. any indictment i can t believe we have to even say
president to ensure that administrative tasks like that were fulfilled, and he is depicted in photographs. he was apparently with the president back and forth to the ellipse and to the oval office on january 6th. that was a lead investigators for the january 6th committee describes the latest witness to appear before the federal grand jury hearing evidence about the january 6th insurrection, and donald trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. william russell testified yesterday. he is a long-time aide to the former president who was reportedly by trump s side for most of the day on january 6th, 2021, although he has previously testified before the grand jury, russell s level of cooperation is unclear, since he still works for the trump campaign. we did, though, get a possible hint as to why prosecutors are
company. the claims have never been verified and even top republicans have the knowledge they cannot confirm whether the information is true. congressman jamie raskin of maryland, the top democrat on the house oversight panel yesterday picked apart the claims in a lengthy statement arguing in part, quote, this fbi document repours the unfair vied, secondhand, years-old allegations relayed by a confidential source who said he could not provide veracity of the allegations. he highlights how the source of the information was at the center of a pressure campaign by rudy giuliani in 2019 and 2020 on behalf of then president trump. when interviewed the source directly denied these allegations. this is still dossier squared for republicans.