accountable. new york times with this, quote within hours of a jury finding mr. trump guilty last week, the anger conyield into demands for action. since then, the prominent gop leaders have demanded they use every instrument of power again democrats, included targeted investigations and prosecutors. here step miller puts it is every house committee controlled by republicans? in every way, it needs to right now with every republican d.a. to start is every donor off the sidelines and in the game, the rich guys, the wealthy guys? everything facet of republican party politics and power has to be used right-to-now to go toe to toe with marxism and beat these why do you have to talk to jesse waters that way? maybe he knows. i don t know. echoes miller s tirade, trump s comrades in arms in the january 6th bannon said in a text message to the times on tuesday that now is the moment for obscure republican prosecutors around the country to make a name for themselves by pro
Category of things that he sort of has figured out. he figured out in the last weeks of the presidency, he could do more without the guardrails around, and he would plow directly into if he came back. he s really wanted this to be done there s an adeck dote in the mueller report, where he essentially held sessions job over his head, saying i m going to get rid of you unless you prosecutor hillary clinton, but there were these guardrails. don mcgahn writing a lengthy memo, this is why you cannot do this. this is why it s a terrible idea. they were able to contain trump. obviously, among many other things, if he were to come back, in the same way he talks about his used pardons to free the january 6th rioters, these are things that he would use the
Andrew weissmann is back. john heilemann is here, and misincreases national security contributor mike schmidt is back with us at the table. mike schmidt, i remember one of the first time i read about how much trump was trying to do this as president, you wrote a story about efforts of don mcgahn to prosecutor i think hillary clinton, jim comey and maybe others. he was restrained in those years from doing that somewhat. durham unnecessarily investigated a number of people, but this is based on today s times reporting. this has been turbocharged business his conviction. i think if falls into a
That. he could plow up to a certain point, but to get beyond beyond don mcgahn or john kelly, he couldn t figure that out, but he s gotten better. we ve seen some of that at the end of his presidency. i think you have to take him at his word. you know, interesting that you were on the millar investigation, i think people have to think of it as radically as it s being reported. there wouldn t be a jeff sessions i mean, no one would last five minutes if they displeased him. jim comey is fired to not letting flynn go. frontline would never be charged. it s such a departure from trump 1.0, and i think there would be areas that would be a lot worse. i think this is one that demands our focus in this moment.
Company, all of the enables, who don t see themselves as a jeff sessions or a don mcgahn, and are will to be completely implicate with the demise of this country s democracy. larry hogan might have had another effect, focusing the mind of republicans who are not enthusiastic about the country turning into an autocracy. i used to be able to name them. i m not sure who they are. i might have thrown names out like cornyn. he must, right? andrew named two, one of them is of menendez, the other hunter biden, and alvin bragg s prosecution of donald trump on facts that are barely in dispute by anybody.