Special counsel jack smith was ever a serious lawyer, he lost that distinction tonight. He now has the sole dysfunction of being a political hack. The attack on this nations capitol on january 6th, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of democracy, the department of justice has remained committed to ensuring accountability for those criminally responsible for what happened that day. This case is brought consistent with that commitment. Laura well by listening to this guy you would think that trump himself was smashing through the glass at the capitol that day. That was one of the most demogog would assume that trump was alleged to have carried out the capitol riot. This is the criminalization of disinformation in order to get a conviction he will have to use material in of in my view is clearly protected by the First Amendment. Laura now this case should never survive a motion to dismiss, a motion of summary judgment, obama judge ever do the right thing, i want to remind you s
i go to the supreme court. but in this case, you sit there and say because of the issues involved, because they are bringing it with a novel untested constitutional questionable theory, because of who it is and what the gravity is, this will almost certainly go to the supreme court. it s very different from most criminal cases, you sit there from the day of the indictment, you know it s going to end up there. laura: bret, if you can criminalize the opinion of a political opponent before or i mean, this time it was after the election, but next time it might be before an election. dangerous misinformation, right you criminalize that, you could see where that would happen where an emergency is called or a nonemergency. if you can do that, they are talking about attacks on democracy, they completely eviscerated the true