been reported. we ve received those referrals. our prosecutors are looking at those, and i can t say anything more on ongoing investigations. that was deputy attorney general lisa monaco dropping the bombshell news yesterday that the justice department has opened an investigation to the fake election certificates submitted by pro-trumper republicans in seven states. in five of those states, republicans not only forged official documents, they impersonated real electors in order to falsify results and award donald trump the presidency. as we all know, they did this at the behest of the trump campaign, which could be a conspiracy of election fraud. they also broke the laws in their respective states and should still be held accountable there without delay. they told the washington post they are already cooperating with the feds as they prepare parallel efforts. the non-democracy group law
same day, donald jr. got his first message from wikileaks, he told everybody else on the campaign that he was now in contact with wikileaks. he told steve bannon, he told kellyanne conway, he told brad persca perscale, he told jared kushner, and jared kushner then told hope hicks. we don t know exactly how the atlantic got ahold of those messages, but we know that don jr. has turned over documents to the senate judiciary committee, as have others, including paul manafort and the campaign itself. last month, the committee asked jared kushner to turn over documents as well, and apparently he did turn over some, but today in a letter to jared s lawyer, the judiciary committee said there s a problem. and they broke some news while explaining this problem. the committee s lawyer excuse me, the committee told jared kushner s lawyer, quote, you produced documents to the committee, but the production appears to have been incomplete. there are several documents that are known to exist, but we
obstruct an investigation into somebody for forgetting to fill out forms. it s another thing to obstruct an investigation into someone plotting a violent felony, right, an international kidnapping and involving a prison island and millions of dollars. so, that s a very serious allegation that was laid out in the wall street journal last week, something reportedly under investigation by the mueller special counsel investigation. but now, tonight, the story has just become even more cinematic and more specific in terms of its human intrigue, because nbc news has a scoop on this story tonight. nbc previously reported on november 10th, last week, that when it came to that december meeting during the transition, during the 21 club, where they supposedly discussed the specifics of the kidnap plot with the private jet and the prison island and the $15 million and all of that, nbc news reported last week that mueller s investigation was looking into not just whether flynn was shopping the id
after his corruption case ended in a mistrial. and then the government tried him again after that and today, right now, 2017, rod blagojevich is still in prison. but because bob menendez and roy moore were not enough for one day, today also brought us the bombshell news about liberal senator al franken. leeann tweeden said today that al franken, before he became a senator, he kissed her and gr groped her against her will when they were on a uso tour together in 2006. last night after that washington post story came out about roy moore, i had to read the quote from the woman who said she was 18 when roy moore did almost this exact thing to her. now i have to read a statement that sounds remarkably similar in terms of the alleged behavior, except this time it s about al franken. it s this is my life now. the woman here is talking about being backstage with franken as he insisted they rehearse a kiss
he said the photo was something was clearly intended to be funny but wasn t. and he said he was story. we got that short statement shortly before 11:00 a.m. clearly that was insufficient. by early afternoon, senator franken realized he needed to put out something less dismissive and more fullsome. and shortly before 1:00 p.m., we got this new statement from the senator and it ended with the senator asking for an ethics committee investigation into himself. so, all this news, all happening at once today. it does raise some interesting, i think, answerable questions. when was the last time a senator asked for an ethics investigation of himself? has that ever happened before? does it matter if this is going to be handled by the ethics committee investigating franken, does it matter in terms of the jurisdiction here that the behavior involved happened before al franken became a senator? i remember when david vitter was the subject of a sex-related