university of pennsylvania, and documents strewn all over his garage floor where he parks his corvette and which is secured by only a garage door that s paper thin and open most of the time. trump also said he s been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse in miami, florida, next tuesday. another quote, i never thought it was possible that such a thing could happen to a former president of the united states. i am an innocent man, he added. this is indeed a dark day for the united states of america. matthew whitaker is the former acting attorney general under former president trump. he joins me now with reaction. first of all, just your initial reaction to what the former president just said. this is a dark day for this nation. harris, good to be with you. it s a really sad day for our country. if you believe in the rule of law, if you believe in equal justice under the law, this should concern you, because, you know, we have what appears to be a completely political pr
a.m. pacific, i m josé diaz-balart. right now on msnbc, a michigan newspaper revealing details of never before heard audio of donald trump appearing to pressure officials in one county not to certify the 2020 election results. plus, who else the paper says was on that call. we re also following extreme weather, the storm drenching the west coast and how it could impact holiday travel across the country. also ahead, terror in prague, what more we know about a rare deadly mass shooting at a university in europe. and later, the new calls for a cease fire in the israel-hamas war, including the tense negotiations at the united nations to reach a resolution demanding a new pause in fighting. we begin this morning with new reporting about another instance of former president donald trump pressuring local officials to overturn the 2020 election results. the detroit news revealing there is an audio recording of then president donald trump and rnc chair ronna mcdaniel talking to
1980s and that case, the Supreme Court instructed federal courts to defer an agencys interpretation of the law if the law is quote ambiguous, unquote. Some of your academic writings express skepticism about the Chevron Doctrine and concern that it allows an ad men straegs to impose its policy preference by avoiding the political process. I can understand why this is appealing to an administration. I also think its a threat to the separation of powers because it transfers power fro the congress and just dish area to the Executive Branch. Thats why ive reversed the Chevron Doctrine. Many members of this committee have cosponsored this ledges london attacks. As someone who has written extensively about the separation of powers, can you tell us why the separation of powers are so important and how it how it
helps to protect individual freedom. Spiration of powers protects individual lebt because it responds to the concern the framers had that Senator Klobuchar yesterday that the accumulati
Robbery thats burglary, ill get it right. And in this situation youve got somebody really caught in the middle of it, and that doesnt excuse the person from the consequences. Professors, weve talked about abuse of power and bribery. When we started we said we would also discuss obstruction of congress. So i would like to ask you some questions about obstruction of congress. Professor gerhardt, in your view, is there enough evidence here to charge President Trump with the high crime and misdemeanor of obstruction of congress . I think theres more than enough. As i mentioned in my statement, just to really underscore this, the third article of impeachment approved by the House Judiciary Committee against president nixon charged him with misconduct because he had failed to comply with four legislative subpoenas. Here it is far more than four
that this president has failed to comply with. And he has ordered the Executive Branch as well not to cooperate with congress. Those together with a
Somebody caught in the middle of it, and that does not excuse the person from the consequences. Professors, we have talked about abuse of power and bribery when we started, we said we would also discuss obstruction of congress. So i would like to ask you some questions about obstruction of congress. Professor gerhardt, in your view, is there enough evidence here to charge President Trump with a high crime and misdemeanor of obstruction of congress . I think that there is more than enough. As i mentioned in my statement, i just really underscore this. The third article of impeachment, approved by the House Judiciary Committee against president nixon charged him with misconduct that he failed to comply with four legislative subpoenas. This is far more than four that this president has failed to comply with. And he has ordered the executive
branch, as well, not to cooperate with congress. Those together with a lot of other evidence suggests obstruction of congress. Professor karlan, do yo