the possible deletion of records. these revelations come on the heels of exclusive cnn reporting that the justice department is preparing to fight in court to force former white house officials to testify about trump s conversations and his actions around january 6th. cnn s ryan nobles starts off our coverage from capitol hill with new details about even more witnesses from the trump white house cooperating with the january 6th committee. the department of justice is inching closer and closer to former president donald trump. new cnn reporting reveals that prosecutors are tkpgirting for big fight to testify about the role trump may have played leading up to january 6th. when courts have considered these separation of powers in the context of criminal cases, they haven t looked favorably towards the white house and the presidency. now, the biggest and the most office is the united states versus nixon. reporter: trump himself is not considered to be a target
congress and it s so many other bad things. these are valid, corrupt people. these are the people. and very bad for our country. trump even accusing both men of treason. a crime punishable by death in exchange with our peter alexander. who are you specifically accusing of treason? i think a number of people. they have unsuccessfully tried to take down the wrong person. you look at comey, if you look at mccabe,. comey, in 2018, didn t hold back his feelings about trump either. i don t think he s medically unfit to be president. i think is morally unfit to be president. the years of dramatic discourse leading trump to believe that trump may have something to do with the audit. telling the new york times, maybe it s a coincidence or maybe somebody misuse the irs to get out of political enemy. given the role trump wants to continue to play in our country, we should know the answer to
statements, a copy of his thanks christmas card that he had the children that he claimed as dependents. how did two of president trump s top perceived enemies and of facing that kind of an audit? the kind of audit that seems designed to dig up any possible dirt. how does that happen? a spokesperson for president trump said he had, quote, no knowledge of this. but in a statement to the times, cheney comey said that we were all thinking. maybe it s a coincidence, or maybe somebody misused the irs to get at a political enemy. given the role trump wants to continue to play in our country, we should know the answer to that question. and quote. that we should, and part of the story that i really don t think that we should overlook is how we almost never learned about it. james comey and andrew mccabe had worked together for years, and neither one knew that the other had been audited like this. both after they were fired from the fbi. and neither man knew that the other have been audited
the times, maybe a coincidence or maybe someone misused the irs to get at a political enemy. given the role trump wants to continue to play in our country, we should know the answer to that question, end quote. part of the story i don t think we should overlook we almost never learned about it. james comey and andrew mccabe had worked together for years and neither one knew that the other had been audited like this. both after they were fired from the fbi. quote, neither man knew that the other had been audited until they were told by a reporter by the times. that reporter was new york times michael schmidt, i don t know if there are other trump enemies who had undergone intensive audits by the irs, but if there are others, please email us. michael, thanks for joining us this evening. we mentioned this particular type of audit, exhaustive and
christmas card that he had the children that he claimed as dependents. how did two of president trump s top perceived enemies and of facing that kind of an audit? the kind of audit that seems designed to dig up any possible dirt. how does that happen? a spokesperson for president trump said he had, quote, no knowledge of this. but in a statement to the times, cheney comey said that we were all thinking. maybe it s a coincidence, or maybe somebody misused the irs to get at a political enemy. given the role trump wants to continue to play in our country, we should know the answer to that question. end quote. that we should, and part of the story that i really don t think that we should overlook is how we almost never learned about it. james comey and andrew mccabe had worked together for years, and neither one knew that the other had been audited like this. both after they were fired from the fbi. quote, neither man knew that the other have been audited until they were told by a rep