We go out together. Welcome to The Beat. We Begin tonight with breaking news. A Trump Scandal is rocking the Department Of Justice. The doj has Been busted for Surveying Donald trumps political opponents and a twist that we will get into, the Surveillance Or Tracking of records of children. This is nixonian stuff. But it goes farther than what president nixon got away with. Searching the records of the house democrats in a coequal branch of government who had the authority to Be over seeing the doj and the executive branch. It is a huge story. Well get into it with our experts tonight. I want to Be clear about what were discussing. This is abusing some of the most serious powers of search of Fourth Amendment constitutional oversight and abusing them. Now, congress is the one that is supposed to oversee the Justice Department under Donald Trump what we were seeing is a politicization to get to a point where the Justice Department, with some judges involved, which well get to, was trying
committee for his role in facing a false slate of electors for donald trump was so committed to the big lie that he said that he would completely purge the voter rules there. i get to appoint the secretary of state of state and that secretary of state will clean up the election logs. you have to re-register and we ll start all over again. what could go wrong? earlier this week in michigan, republicans nominated a trump-endorsed election denier. who has appeared in qanon rallies to be the state s top election official and they nominated another 2020 election denier who sued to overturn michigan s 2020 election results to be their candidate for attorney general. the seemingly relentless march of big lie republican candidates faces its biggest test perhaps in georgia where as we reported earlier this week, trump endorsed election fraud conspiracy theorists. david purdue is running on a platform of lies about the 2020 election in his bid to unseat sitting republican governo
is not the truth. is that just misspeaking or part of a campaign of deception? it s time to go deep. let s get after it. in an on the record interview with reuters, the president says that he could run the probe himself if he wanted. all this coming after his biggest tweet storm yet about mueller and word that his white house counsel cooperated with mueller s probe more than trump might have known. here to discuss that and much more, former attorney general michael mukasey. judge, good to have you as always. good to be with you. so if you were to hear that the president has decided, i m taking over this probe. i m taking it over. what would your reaction be? i would shake myself and wake up. just a dream? yeah. can he, or should he not? i i have no idea whether he can. i can t believe that he can. he d have to fire mueller in the
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making a false statement to an fbi agent.
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he said that initially. they later reversed themselves and flynn was indicted for making a false statement to an fbi agent. but as point of fact, judge, he s told them things that were not true and things that he should have known and recollected in realtime. right. maybe he did. and maybe he did it because he thought there was some impropriety about having the conversation with kislyak. that s why sally yates, then at the a.g. s office, then went to don mcgahn and said you better figure out what s going on with this. i don t think there was any impropriety in that conversation at all. in fact i think flynn would have been committing malpractice if he had not had the conversation with kislyak. he is the guy who was going to be the national security then why did he lie about it? beats me. that s a good question, no? it s an excellent question, but i don t know the extent t
Classified information, which is a goal i share. i passed that along to the attorney general, i think it was the next morning in a meeting. trump didn t see that, though, as a nonpartisan goal for the attorney general to independently investigate. comey s memos explicitly stated trump focussed on leakers as, quote, putting reporters in jail. like so many trump scandals, the plot is not only brash and obvious but all the different ingredients are just jammed together. this one included russia as well. then attorney general sessions demanding a hunt for the sources we re feeding accurate reports about trump s team and russia. as the new reports show, it all failed. the probe didn t find the blame for any intelligence leaks on those democrats. an echo of the comey clash. when you follow the line, the reason that matters now is whether there is consequences for just how long-term and