as a progressive place. then there s the future of democracy itself today, with the republican party, in some places like arizona, deciding through its voters tonight whether the party s nominees for top jobs are backers of the big lie of baseless election fraud claims, of attacks on the way we do nonpartisan democracy in this country, with trump encoursed candidates currently viewed as front-runners, including a maga governor candidate who s pushing claims of fraud, kari lake. those who do stand up to trump, including three who threatened to voted to impeach president trump. there s more at stake than a typical primary night, and a lot more issues. as the political guru s de la soul put it, issues close like an elevator door but open once we get to the next floor. as the stakes is high, you know the stakes is high. fact check, true. the stakes is high. it is primary election day in missouri, and several high profile races could help bring voter out to the polls. histor
Trump is allegedly back at the white house. We should mention, this happens under president s of both parties. Usually a motorcade snafu. They were eventually gathered up. And we show you what we keep out back here, the Rockefeller Center tree is up and lit. A 75footer from the new york suburbs. It certainly changes the view from here at this time every year, at least for a while. And that is our broadcast tonight. Thank you so much for being here with us. And good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. And thanks for joining us this hour. In the summer of 1974, the Special Counsel who was investigating the Watergate Scandal wrote a letter to congress, to the Judiciary Committee in congress detailing what his investigation, what his prosecutors and investigators
had turned up about Criminal Behavior by the president at the time, president Richard Nixon. Now, by this point, by the summer of 1974, the president s Campaign Chairman, who would also have been his Attorney Genera
that, and now there s an open criminal investigation of those texts. you have to wonder exactly what s going on there. and the backing down, renato, do you see investigators say they don t want to look at the facts? it s fine to get the facts and say, maybe there was a tech mistake. and drop it. are you aware of any good reason they would say they don t want to info? no, and that s why.com look, i appreciate the fact that congress is trying to get to the bottom of this. that s the question congress is asking. that s why there s some oversight occurring. but i do think the justice department needs to accept in. they can move this a lot faster than congress can. then you have the open probe in georgia where there has been more and more signs of real action. they want to get testimony from lindsey graham, whether he was involve in the just normal oversight or something wrong in term of trying to stage a coup. he s trying to avoid testifying before this grand jury, saying
wasn t just potentially deleted texts or inadvertent by the department of homeland security or another agency with missing texts from key trump officials missing from january 6th. i think the time has come for the justice department to have its own investigation into this matter and this is, i think, a great subject for a potential criminal referral from congress, even before the january 6th committee investigation is over. and the watchdogs? i think that, you know, that is something that really the justice department should take a look at. there s that old saying, who watches the watchers? ancient roman history. we don t want to necessarily have a situation and set a precedent that congress is going to force out every but there s a concern here because those texts were something that and take steps to follow
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