let s turn to the hunter biden investigation. now the special counsel in that case has been appointed, what s next? first, let me say the appointment of the special counsel was unnecessary. it is merrick garland giving a performative virtue signaling with an infusion of when pianists. he is the most powerful law enforcement official in the country and he really doesn t have to hand off his most important difficult decisions to special counsel s, even if that means people are going to be happy with his decision. so it wasn t necessary, but it s not a game-changer. it s the same republican appointed prosecutor who stays on the case, the plea bargain broke down, but it could still happen. 90% of federal criminal cases are resolved with plea bargains. garland didn t say why he wants
understand that everybody is talking to the same people but they are not coordinating with each other, in the way that you point out the special counsel s and very much the states are to. there is no coordination there. i do wonder, because it looks as a fani willis is ready to hand down an indictment, or ready to bring in indictment against donald trump for his role in the georgia fake electors plot, or the efforts to swing the election in her state, is there anything stopping the arizona a.g., or the michigan a.g. from issuing their own charges against donald trump given that one state agent is? no, there s nothing stopping them from issuing separate indictments to specifically correspond to the individuals in the indoor states. the jan sixth federal case, however, seems like the umbrella if president trump himself and other sort of senior campaign officials or lawyers instigated this plan in multiple states, than they have exposure in all of those states,
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months and months and months of the whole investigation being held in washington, d. c. this is where the special counsel s, this is where dozens and dozens of witnesses have traveled to testify before the grand jury, suddenly they are hearing from witnesses in florida. specifically in miami. we expect witnesses reporting tomorrow. the big question is, why florida? we don t actually know, why florida. what we do know is that effect that this has been here in d. c. for the entire investigation, they have been asking questions, gathering evidence, this has been something the trump team has been focused on, they have made it clear that if the client is charged in the say they are going to challenge what is called venue, the location of the charges. they are going to argue that any alleged criminal conduct didn t have a specific connection to washington, d. c. . they would argue that yes the requests belong to the government, but that is not enough to try it here. they would much rather sa
department will say we are going to look at the facts, all of the evidence and whatever. but i do think that that is a huge issue in question here. how will the public look at this? it seems like from all of the very and clear timelines that we have presented, been presented on january 6th, whether we are talking about the fulton county investigation or looking at who is getting subpoenas and the special counsel s, examination of trump s role on january 6th, that feels like it is down the line. that mar-a-lago felt for a moment like it was gaining steam, in terms of potential criminal indictment. january 6th, when you talk about the gravity of what we are talking about, it seems more plausible for criminal indictment. but the crime timeline on that scene seems like the distant future on the horizon. i think that you can see something sooner rather than later. they have this report that has gone from the grand jury. they have been investigating for a significant amount of time. it