take a democratic senator, bob menendez. he was indicted for bribery allegations.strial. doj dropped it. take a very famous convicted politician, who was actually, as a footnote, pardoned by trump. democrat rod b lo ogoovec. just this year, there was a nebraska congressman convicted of lying while they were investigating illegal campaign contributions. no special counsel. now, take it from a lawyer, lawyers can debate words like extraordinary and public interest. but the history suggests you can investigate politicians, and it's not extraordinary or unusual. that's why it usually happens without special counsels. so, this appointment doesn't mean trump is more likely to be indicted at all. there's nothing that assumes that. it also doesn't mean it's less likely he'll be indicted. there is nuance. so, we heard just now, i walked through why garland's move seems a bit unnecessary. we heard from a guest tonight about why he could have done something different. so, is there any substantive defense of what garland's doing? the answer is yes, and i want to share that wit

been a welcoming from the senate foreign relations committee, the chairman of that committee, bob menendez welcoming those talks in mexico city. but at the same time, warning that if this is as he puts it, another ploy by nicholas my do to, to delay things to remain in power. then sanctions will be re imposed and re doubled. so a warning and a welcome from the head of the senate foreign relations committee above mendez. but to underlying that, all the us is now relaxed. some of the sanctions it's imposed against men as well as a way of encouraging those talks in mexico city. my can i thank you very much indeed to catch up on all the action from today's game set, the world cup in ketta. ah, argentine is a wild cup campaign is a back on track after lino. messy in spite has seemed to a vice, a win over mexico, at least sales stadium. after a goal, his 1st half a messy, fired in one of his trademark strikes from the edge of the area, hammered the ball low past the mexico keeper and into the nets. huge relief afford the fans and were 3 minutes to go 21 road and they've fernandez just a moment o

bob menendez has warned that should this prove to be a nother stalling tactic by nicholas my daughter, then those sanctions are going to be re imposed and even possibly redoubled. so there's been welcoming situation from the by that administration from senior senate members in congress to the process and the progress made in these talks in mexico city and the u. s. government now agreeing to offer some kind of inducement for those talks to continue and possibly reach some kind of success. mike, thanks for that. mike has a life for us, a washington ukraine is paying tribute to the millions who died in a family doing it. joseph stallings, soviet rule. the country is holding the memorial day as many people face a desperate winter there. rory challenge reports from keith. ukraine is a country that knows all about hunger. the great famine of the early 900 thirty's is seed into the national consciousness. so it's no coincidence the presidency lensky used hallowed a more memorial day to host european leaders and launch the grain from ukraine program. he wants to, well to know that russia's i

in fact, he investigated democratic senators like john edwards, and bob menendez, and republican congressmans, like vernon buchanan, and richard frenzy. he successfully prosecuted former republican governor, bob mcdonald, only to see that conviction vacated by the supreme court. but, smith's resume here, and is important to note, is a bit of a double edged sword. on one hand, he has a long history of working on cases that have been politicized, trump, and his allies, will no doubt use that to try and hurt his credibility, and paint him as biased, but, on the other hand, it means that jack smith has been in a lot of tough positions, like this one, before. when he took that public integrity unit joe back in 2010, the new york times asked smith if he considered politics one bringing prosecutions forward. he answered that question by saying, if i were the sort of person who could be cowed, i would find another line of work. joining us, matt miller, former spokesman for the justice department during the obama administration. matt, thank you for being here. it is great to talk to you about this an

senator dick durbin, who had to the judiciary committee and senator bob menendez, who was an originalnsor of the 2013 bipartisan immigration legislation. back together, restarting these talks. the key being restarting the talks. look, you talk about the timing, this is a tiny little amount, a sliver of time that we have between now and when the new session of congress starts, when democrats will lose their majority in the house and things will really shift in terms of what they can get done. durbin and menendez would like to find a fix, to find a pathway to citizenship for the 600,000 dreamers who are living and working within the united states right now but we don't have any resolution as to what their future holds. as you point out, immigration has always been a thorny issue for congress. so, the bottom line here, these talks have restarted but they still have a long way to go and not a ton of time. >> jessica dean, keep us posted. >>> a world cup mired in controversy. today, a platform for protests. the iranian soccer team silent as the national anthem for their country played mome

among those sounding the alarm are bob menendez, cindy lummis, and pat toomey who say it's been pushednto foreign situations this coming as blockfi weighs a bankruptcy of its own. and tesla revealing two crashes. this according to national highway traffic safety administration both crashes being reviewed by the agency involved the company's model 3 sedan. all automakers are to immediately report all crashes involving self-driving tech. very scary. >> thank you very much for the headlines. >>> to washington, dc, and former president donald trump making good on his promise for a special announcement as he looks to retake the white house in 2024 nbc's brie jackson joins us with the latest now brie. >> reporter: good morning, dom former president donald trump made it official, announcing a third bid for the white house. all of this came from an event at his mar-a-lago estate in florida. his 2024 white house bid comes just two years after he was ousted from the white house. and a week or more than a week after many of his hand-picked candidates were defeated in the midterm elections. now, i

statement coming in from your counterpart on the senate side, foreign relations committee chair bob menendezve to believe any strike into poland had to be a mistake by russia. if so, putin should come up very quickly and say so. how do you see it? >> well, look, i don't want any of what i have seen initially from the russians where they say that this is a polish provocation. clearly, everyone knows how russia has been the aggressor in the ukraine when i have visited poland on several occasions, you know, after the invasion of ukraine, i saw the borders and the threat that presented itself then with russia firing its missiles. so, look, that's why i want to get all the facts whether it was intentional, accidental. we know russia, you know, thus far, you go by what they have done. they have continually lied and/or set up some falsehood to move forward. they said they were not going to invade ukraine. they did. you know, they generally come up with something. when i see the response we heard from russia that this is a provocation by poland, you know, that gives me a -- makes me somewhat suspici

edwards, a democrat from north carolina, governor bob mcdonald, a republican from virginia, senator bob menendezmocrat from new york. we see a pattern emerge in. republicans and democrats alike. and you know what? his unit, they won some of those cases, and lost some of those cases. but what can we tease out of the way that he operates? he is willing to go after people left, right, and center. he is willing to take challenging cases, cases that are not short winners, and cases that are short to be sort of politically fought. he is going to get criticize. do you know what, simone? give me a prosecutor who's brave enough to do that, and loses some cases, that is who i want on my team. >> yeah. jack smith seems overly qualified. like, he is the right person for this job. i guess, i was talking to people, and also want to get into what general, former attorney general william barr said two -- on pbs news hour. we will weigh in on that in just a second. but i guess that there are people out there who, i was talking to myself, they see everything that has happened. and they are wondering, is this just

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