To possible witness intimidation, to questionable defense arguments. 100 questions for and Andrew Weissmann. And later, served as an Impeachment Manager and on the january Six Committee. Congressman jamie raskin joins me live to discuss his reactions to the charges and what she is watching for next. For the third time informants, the former president of the United States has been indicted, arrested, and arraigned. Lets face, that we have become oddly familiar with how this all goes. There is the release of the indictment itself, helicopters falling blackest movies, and of course, the court sketches, all followed by a barrage of deranged posts on so there is a rinse and repeat feeling that starting to sudden. This one did feel different because it is different. Felt bigger because it is bigger. The indictment filed by Special Counsel jack smith this week detailed the ways in which an american president engaged in a criminal conspiracy from the oval office to subvert the will of the peop
process of the transition of power. the question, is who is involved in that conspiracy? white house chief of staff, your job is to learn the conspiracies going on and stop, it keep it away from the president. instead, it appears the president himself, with the help of his closest aides, had this conspiracy, executed this conspiracy, as i said, nearly succeeded in that. one of the things that was also striking, even more so if he worked in the white house, trump basically went around the typical legal advisers, the acting attorney general, white house counsel, mike pence described the team of lawyers he went to as a crack pot lawyer, to mike pence. however normal is that for a president to go outside of the attorney general, the white house counsel, and others? it gives crack pozzebon name. i think what happened here was ridiculous. obviously, an effort to break the law. bill barr was donald trump s handpicked attorney general. put him as attorney general when he forced out attorne