wanted to order the doj to prosecute his enemies. hillary clinton and james comey. that of course failed fantastically what his white house counsel refused the request. so, once out of office trump took matters in his own hand. in march, trump sued hillary clinton, the democratic national committee, james comey and a whole host of other characters. accusing them of being part of a conspiracy against him. in what he refers to as the trump russia conspiracy. this is all circa 2016. all of these people, according to, trump made up evidence against him in an attempt to deny him to russia hillary clinton and her, quo cohorts, orchestrated in unthinkable plot. trump sought $24 million in damages. that s not an insignificant amount of money. and he chose to file that lawsuit roughly 70 miles from his palm beach home, because the judge presiding in that jurisdiction just so happen to be his appointee. that judge whom we all come to know very well over the past few weeks, of course,
From cbs news and former judges Thomas B Griffith and michael love it. [applause] we are your dinner entertainment. Please continue eating dinner and lets all get around of applause to david not only for his speech but for a prettyamazing surf and turf. [applause] this is definitely not all rubber chicken circuit dinner so well done. One other thing. My first job for pay was as a dishwasher so i want to do this. Around of applause to the waitstaff. [applause] okay, im major garris chief washington correspondent and i am happy to be with all of you. Im distinguished to be in the presence of these two gentlemen. Theres michael lake you are from a momentago and judge thomas griffith. For purposes of this this will be my only way of talking to them. I want to start with this question is a structure question. Because lots of Americans Care about lots of different issues. But it strikes me that whatever issue you care about. Inflation or crime or womens right to choose, Everything Else depen
All right, we are going to get started. Everyone come on in and grab a seat. So, thank you for getting back in so quickly after break. We are starting the second panel. This one is directly from professionals on elections at the state and county levels who [indiscernible] i am really excited to be coming by five a Bipartisan Group of democrats and republicans. Whom i have known for years and respect a great deal. So i will briefly introduce them. Feel free to elaborate on anything ive said. When your turn comes. But as many of you might know, this is secretary joslin of michigan. Joslyn and i have known each other for years and years. And she has won election to the secretarys office in 2018 and then she also won the 2020 election. And she wrote the book on secretaries of state. For before took office. I encourage you all to read it. To her left is matt masterson. On one hand i can tell you, what i really think of him and his work. But he is going to be saying nice things about it. So
ruling. but if there is one appointed, the buck stops with judge cannon. that is to say, if they don t agree, she gets the final word. joining us once again is john fish wake, former u.s. attorney from the western district of new york. mr., it happened in this hour, let s talk about these candidates that we have on the list here from the government s proposed candidates, the honorable barbara s jones, the honorable thomas b. griffith, both appointed by republican presidents. how do you read that? that goes back to my last half full. i think it s impressive the doj would put up folks have been appointed by the other party. i think that will help restore confidence in the system. and i think, you know, that sends a strong message that they re confident in the position, and they want to have somebody from the other party, originally appointed by the other party. so, i think that s impressive. and what if the plaintiffs proposed candidates, the honorable raymond jay dairy, former chief
11,000 seized records from his florida beach club. over 11,000 records that include top secret and classified documents and empty folders. moments ago, the justice department and team trump jointly filed armored motion concerning that special master. judge aileen cannon asked that decides to come together to suggest a list of people to potentially be that special master. and to no one s surprise, the two sides do not agree. this literally just in, hot off the presses. the justice department puts forth to former federal judges, the honor of barbara as jones, and thomas griffith. interestingly enough, they were both appointed by republican presidents, and barbara jones was a special master in the michael cohen and rudy giuliani investigation. meanwhile, team trump has put forth the honor raymond thierry and paul hawk jr.. a reminder, the final decision, if there is a special master, and that is a gigantic if here, because the doj is in the midst of fighting a special master