Successive developments, because so many of them have happened in such quick succession. In the past week or so, we have seen at least one News Development per day that alone would be the biggest scandal to hit any other president in at least a year if not an entire term in office. Weve been having them daily for more than a week now, and they just keep coming. I mean, as yesterday, the president s longtime personal lawyer was just sentenced to three years in federal prison. Then immediately following his sentencing, prosecutors almost simultaneously unsealed what amounts to basically a Cooperation Agreement that they entered into with a company that made illegal payments to benefit the president s campaign in an arrangement that was worked out overtly between that company and the president s campaign. The president s own Company Appears to have been used to cover up another Illegal Campaign payment with falsified records and accounts. There are a handful of executives within the presi
I mean, yesterday the president as longtime personal lawyer was sentenced to three years in federal prison. Then immediately following his sentencing, prosecutors almost simultaneously unsealed what is basically a Cooperation Agreement with a company that made illegal payments to benefit the president s campaign in an arrangement that was worked out overtly between that company and the president s campaign. The president s own Company Appears to have been used to cover up another Illegal Campaign payment with falsified records and accounts. There are a handful of executives within the president s company who would seem to have had the authority within the company to commit that kind of, what looks like accounting fraud or potentially tax fraud in terms of writing checks, directing disbursements, misleading accounting entries. One of those handful of kbektives who had that authority is granted immunity by prosecutors in can exchange for cooperation with ongoing inquiries. All of the oth
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in charge and who makes the calls. it is a bigger strategic issue and not the capitol police of who to get the answers, but it is of how to defend the homeland and that was not answered in the report. and leigh ann, you have democrats saying that they will try to get testimony from the people who were around donald trump that day, and steny hoyer was in the rose garden for that event, and he told pbs that anybody who had relevant knowledge of that day, and anybody around donald trump should be called as witnesses, and then adam schiff told hallie jackson that the committee cannot wrap up the work by this year, and it is going to stretch into 2022 which is an election year, and this is the thing that gave the republicans a lot of concern, and this is the thing that the republicans gave up when they blocked a bipartisan commission.
phone call when he heard that she was going to nix two of his picks, and help us unpack this. it is not a traditional committee, and you have two republicans on the committee of course, representative adam ken zinger and liz cheney who are like-minded on the claim that the false claims that the election was stolen or that he did not lose the election, and so this is one that is not commonly seen up here on capitol hill. that group of nine members just broke up from a preparation meeting ahead of tomorrow s first committee hearing regarding the capitol police officers and the rank and file d.c. metropolitan police officers. and our colleague haley talbot