frank bauman is a federal, former federal and state prosecutor. he says, trump is likely to direct his nominees for the justice department to ensure all the cases against him. a dropped of course, he's lost one map gets the fairer congressman from from florida, who to be frank was egregiously unqualified, and also remarkably unpopular on both sides of the aisle the resistance from the senate. this plan because mr. trump, to withdraw his nomination. d is you nominate pam bondi. me is at least nominally more qualified on paper. she should have more qualification. she's a former attorney general of the state of florida, and she has much more legal experience and mister gauge did. on the other hand, and this ties into what you commentator was saying about this 2 drops current case . mr. trump is now nominated pam biology. we used to be as an impeachment, defense stand to be the attorney general and he's nominated to other people who are his trial trial, defense team and criminal cases. to assume subordinate roles and adjust the spartan . you have the

let's speak to frank bauman, who's a professor narratives at the university of missouri school of law. and a former federal and state prosecutor is joining us live from colorado. thank you very much for being with us. first of all, the criminal charges against donald trump will those now go away? as well as you correctly pointed out, they fall into 2 categories of federal prosecutions and state prosecutions in the american system of those to systems, state and federal rule, essentially independent of each other. to a very large extent, mr. trump, when he becomes president, will essentially control the executive branch of the federal government. and he can, in the technicalities, maybe prove a little difficult. but he could essentially order the justice department to dismiss the cases that it brought against him by. ready to say the dc case involving a january 6th as direction and the foot florida case involving the classified documents. i expect you'll do that as promised and those cases for the near future will go away. right. state cases remain and none the less. i think it may be d