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letitia james, has spent the better part of three years looking into whether trump o his organization committed financial crimes kimberly, that is a lot. what do you make of thes unprecedented investigations yeah, it is a lot and i m with you unprecedented is a word you do not want to under-use, but i this case, it s absolutely fitting when you have a former president facing all kinds o legal peril. it just shows the way he operated from before he was in office through, during, an after in a way that he seeme to be operating as if he wer above the law. a lot of presidents in his path, including nixon, has said that they believe that they were. but what we see from these levers is that he s not. now of course, we don t know how all of these investigation save that one verdict in the trump organization case is going to come out. they re still ongoing. but certainly, just from the january 6th referrals alone, these are serious matters that require serious looks and thes prosecutors are
its work meanwhile, the threat to our democracy, it doesn t and with whatever comes out of this january 6th investigation. kimberly, 2023 s coming up right around the corner. what are some of the biggest legal issues that you ar watching for next year i mean, we can start at the top and we know that the electoral count act is something that we ve spoken lot about. the effort to reform laws, t make sure january 6th does not happen again there s also this idea t whether someone like trump should be able to hold offic again. there s a provision in the 14t amendment that was watered dow after reconstruction, that makes that an open legal question that s something that this committee should propose closely, i think that should b at the top of the list and then on top of that, i think all of these things, whether it s tax returns classified documents, each o them come with criminality for a reason there is a reason why it i unlawful to engage in that way and i think it s important for each