We need to stop this evident to change our elections now before it goes further. Ultimately we need the united states senate to act. Having federal intervention to protect the right to vote. The new york times is reporting that the president is expected to step up his public profile on the issue of voting rights. The times is signaling it may at this point simply be window dressing. They report, quote, president biden is expected to put his political muscle behind the issue in a speech in philadelphia tuesday. In congress, democratic senators have been unable to move voting and election bills that would address what many call a fundamental attack on american democracy that could lock in a new era of republican minority rule. In the courts attacks on voting restrictions face an increasingly hostile judiciary. There is extreme peril in the democratic party s frame on this issue. The democratic construct politically is pushing moderates to abandon the filibuster is more dicey than to allo
I m chris hayes. The case against the trump organization has chief financial officer allen weisselberg has charges and indictment and allegations. Obviously, it s not the sum total of what prosecutors know, and we haven t read the defense. But if the allegations in the indictment are true in the context they are presented it sure seems like a pretty black and white picture of tax fraud. Not some incidental bookkeeping ever but a plan that was systematically engineered over the years to create an alternate hidden means of composition that evaded taxes. Historically, the smoking gun of tax fraud, any fraud, is the two sets of books, right? anytime a business or has different financial records you ve likely found fraud, right? because why would you need to? it s telling one set of people like tax collectors lies about your finances while you are keeping another accurate set of records hidden and in order to keep those lies straight you need to sell some books and that is exactly what pros
Financial officer allen weisselberg at this point just charges and indictment. They re allegations. It s not the sum total of what prosecutors know and we haven t read the defense response. But if the allegations are true in the context they are presented, it sure seems look a pretty black and white picture of tax fraud, not some incidental bookkeeping error, but a plan that was systematically engineered over the years to create a means of evading taxes. The smoking gun of tax fraud is the classic two sets of books, right? any time a business or individual has financial records you have found fraud because why would you need two. The cornerstone of fraud is telling one set of people like tax collectors lies about your finances while you were keeping an accurate set of records hidden. And you need to two sets of books. That is what prosecutors allege they have evidence of here, just one example of many. Prosecutors say, quote, the payment of tuition expenses for weisselberg s family. Wa
significant penalty is that you re barred from seeking office in the future and response, a white house spokesperson said a politically motivated impeachment against the president with 12 days remaining in his term on lee served to further divide our great country. a growing list of lawmakers has joined calls to remove the president in the aftermath of the mob of his supporters storming the capitol in a deadly insurrection. vice president. pence is reportedly opposed to the 25th amendment, and several republicans have dismissed impeachment senator lindsey graham tweeted, it will do more harm than good, but gop senator ben sasse said he d consider the articles. donald trump has acted shamefully. he has been in flagrant dereliction of his duty, and he will be remembered for having incited this senator lisa murkowski, cold for the president to resign. pelosi also said she spoke to chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley about taking steps against trump initiati
charged in federal court and 40 others in local court for their roles in breaching the capital. my heart just went out. really, to all the people who work there. very attorney david limb once worked at the capitol, is a staff assistant to a congressman and is a former prosecutor and defense lawyer. you could make a very colorful argument that everybody who went in there with the intent to disrupt the counting of the electoral ballots. is guilty of sedition, he says. to prove more serious crimes like sedition, that u s attorney will have to show that the person acted with force. so i think one of the defense is gonna be well, you know, my guy was the 50th person through the door. the police were standing there d start to just let him in. he didn t exert any force to get in. but for now, federal prosecutors appeared to be relying on more every day statues. lonnie coffin of alabama was charged after a search of his gmc pickup uncovered 11 molotov cocktails consisting of mason ja