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Charge of the office of legal council, they said as members of congress were acting in bad faith that even though congress claims to have a legislative president trump, wanted to have them to embarrass trump. therefore, they didn t have to give them to congress. that was the doj s architect. now biden s lawyers running doj, including the office of legal council, what they said is look even if some members of congress are hoping that the president will be embarrassed by the contents of his tax returns, hard to imagine why he would be. maybe some are hoping that. what the doj says even if they are help hoping that, it s not germane to whether or not congress has a legitimate reason to reach for the tax returns and the llc confirms, yes, they do have a legitimate legislative reason. one thing in history that s cited in the doj opinion is the reason congress got the power to ....
Too. which there is a pattern here. this is a sustained effort, your reporting indicates as opposed to a one-off conversation? right. absolutely. and you can see also through his public statements that trump, he through the late half of 2020, trump keeps trying to throw the justice department into the argument she s making about the eexwill. before the election, tomorrow bill barr is willing to entertain and help with these notions, after the election, the mood and the relationship really changes and you know barr leaves as that relationship has soured. and rosen is sort of left there to try to manage the situation and not upset the apple cart, essentially. and there is a really dangerous dance. one former official described it to me as you know the department was on a nice edge trying to both listen to the president, not blome off or anger him or incite a greater confrontation ....
Were his people. daniel goldman served in the first impeachment trial of president trump, prior to that, the southern district of new york and he joins me now. i am struck by the similarities here, particularly that line that is so damming. just say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me. what s your reaction to that? yeah, you are exactly right, chris. it s the more desperate, more extreme and more untethered donald trump trying to cheat or in this case overturn the election. the ukraine impeachment was all about donald trump trying to cheat in the 2020 election. he had won the 2016 election using russian interference. he wasn t charged criminally with that, but the mueller report indicated that he certainly knew about it. his campaign knew about it and they used the russian interference. then he tried to extort ukraine into helping him cheat in the election. then he lost the election. ....
Few days. but that s the next step. and the fact that doj has changed its position makes things a lot less trouble for trump. all right. betsy woodriffe, swann, thank you for making time tonight. thank you. if you want to know why the cdc says it s time to mask indoor again? you need to only look to a motorcycle rally in south dakota. we will explain ahead. ....
His dirty work. they restricted. the individuals held ultimately which is why it was a failed coup. well, i just got to say, talk about like world historical cowardice from william barr. he knows what the guy the up to. he could have gone public. but he leaves right and utterly like preposterous and combium to the greatness of donald trump, knowing he attempted a coup in the moment and just hand over the job of protecting american democracy of said queue to jeffrey rosen and out. good work. up until the sycophant s res ig fakes letter, he did stand town trump on this one issue. he was his lackey and accomplice for two years. on this issue, he said there was no evidence of election fraud. that did set the stage i think for jeffrey rosen to be able to ....