It is absolutely stunning. We just got thumped. I mean, i know that everybody got a lot of snow and this was a big storm, but i feel like somebody played a joke on me. Yeah. This is an insane amount of snow. I will pack some of it into cooler and send it to you. Rachel, you had Jim Rutenberg on talking about that New York Times article which is just amazing, and by the way, must be said, beautifully written. I think it may be the best written yeah. Of the trump investigative pieces. Andrew weissmann is going to join us on the same subject to pick up where you left off which to me is are there new crimes in this reporting that were looking at . Yeah. The times uses the very gentle word, extralegal. Does that mean illegal . Andrew weissmann is going to take us through it and tell us what he sees in that reporting. Excellent. Its really well timed. Tomorrow were going to see the response from the president s defense team, such as it is, to the Impeachment Charges and the Impeachment Charg
Rachel, you had Jim Rutenberg on talking about that New York Times article which is just amazing, and by the way, must be said, beautifully written. I think it may be the best written yeah. Of the trump investigative pieces. Andrew weissmann is going to join us on the same subject to pick up where you left off, which for me is, are there new crimes in this reporting that were looking at . Yeah. The times uses the very gentle word, extralegal. Does that mean illegal . Andrew weissmann is going to take us through it and tell us what he sees in that reporting. Excellent. And its really well timed. Tomorrow were going to see the response from the president s defense team, such as it is, to the Impeachment Charges and the Impeachment Charges are about him inciting an insurrection against the u. S. Government. And what rutenberg and his colleagues just filled in is a lot of the details about how they knew exactly what they were setting up. How they organized it and how it was a coordinated t
people, till midterm elections, really two weeks from today we ll know a lot more. anyway i ll move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days and you ve got mayors and law enforcement officials who are getting a new warning sadly about election intimidation. you ve got extremists looking to disrupt midterms at the local level targeting voters, candidates, election workers according to axios. let s bring in our panel. cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller, new york democratic congressman jones and senior political analyst ron brownstein. when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th , the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally there are all sorts of examples of people being intimidated and just awful things happening. here are a few examples coming from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment and intimidation. in idaho protesters hung an effigy at a republ
error. a 2021 cnn fact check has found bail reform is not clearly linked to a recent spike in crime. we re back now to discuss this with john miller, congressman mondare jones and ron brownstein. gentlemen, there is that saying there is the specific horror and tragedy of what happened at that parade. there s the larger issue as well regarding the way in this this notion of who is soft on crime plays around elections and has a very political, pointed perspective. i wonder for the voters, do they know who s right and how do you approach to try to bridge the gap between the talking point which feels very visceral and the facts? crickets? exactly. criminologists i think more than almost any branch of social science will say that it
people, till midterm elections, really two weeks from today we ll know a lot more. anyway i ll move on. the midterms are coming in 13 days and you ve got mayors and law enforcement officials who are getting a new warning sadly about election intimidation. you ve got extremists looking to disrupt midterms at the local level targeting voters, candidates, election workers according to axios. let s bring in our panel. cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller, new york democratic congressman jones and senior political analyst ron brownstein. when we think of extremism, i think we think in terms of january 6th , the insurrection, something on a national scale. locally there are all sorts of examples of people being intimidated and just awful things happening. here are a few examples coming from axios. in 50 out of 67 pennsylvania counties election chiefs have left because of threats, harassment and intimidation. in idaho protesters hung an