so yes, a lot of her language is colorful, but she and alvin bragg, i think, did a really terrific job in laying out the facts and legal position and why it's completely inappropriate for jim jordan to be weaponizing a committee in congress to interfere with those prosecutions. >> here is our just attorney willis closed her letter to jim jordan. she said, as it seems you have a personal interest in the fulton county district attorney 's office, you should consider directing the department of justice to investigate the racist threats that have come to my staff and me because of this investigation. for your information, i am attaching ten examples of threats this office has received. i'm providing these examples to give you a window into what has happened to my staff and me as i keep the promise of my oath to the united states and georgia constitutions and do not allow myself to be bullied and threatened by members of congress, local elected officials, or others who believe lady justice should not be blind and that america as different laws for different citizens. mary mccord, isn't that

district attorney alvin bragg. merchan has signaled, quote, in light of trump's rapidly evolving trial schedule that he'd be open to delaying the hush money trial date, which is right now scheduled for march 25th, which bragg has signaled he might favor to allow the federal election interference trial to go first, from a new msnbc op-ed co-authored by andrew weissmann, quote, the delay makes room in the schedule for perhaps the most important of the criminal cases against the former president. in light of the strength of bragg's case and his court's success defeating trump's effort to remove the case to federal court, his willingness to push his case back to allow smith to go first in the public interest is remarkable. particular play for an elected official. neal and basil are back. neal, this case went -- this was the first indictment of donald trump i think everyone will always remember where they were, right, all four times when an ex-president of the country was indicted, i always remember where i was because

no questions asked and alvin bragg is doing his best to destroy the city, as people who live here, wesay that is unacceptable. >> cheryl: they have no id, they are not vetted, streaming through the border. they are sanctuary city, so they cannot call up ice. >> right and emily touched on a funny point, democratic officials are complaining when reality is every detail in this story is direct consequence of failed democratic policy. biden is not vetting anyone coming across, and then you have fact here in new york city, you can commit multiple crimes in two months and never be arrested for it. this man shop lifted from three stores before he assaulted a security guard and the cops can't do anything because prosecutors will not prosecute him. >> cheryl: alvin bragg, ladies and gentlemen, they are selling travel packages at the southern border, cartels are. we have more coming up. bill maher wants to know what happened to liberals he used to know, calling out the far left's fix agsz with race. she runs and plays like a puppy again. his #2s are perfect! he's a brand new dog, all in less th

they were talking and white house give the marching order and fanny willis marching orders and alvin braggy the way is supposed to be a very good defense lawyer. >> yeah, and everything they're doing is trying to overwhelm president trump and the election president and election interference at its worst and using through litigation and often litigation is used to smear somebody and using it too much and it's impossible for president trump to actually run a campaign and they're going back 2.5 years on some of the claims and if these were so urgent and so important, why would they not prosecute president trump two and a half yearsing a and now you're saying everyone is pretty much beating joe biden in the polls. is >> another thing, larry, this energy thing is so big. when joe biden is cut off our ability and shutting down the drilling on federal lands and i'm clinging to my gas-powered car. gas powered motorcycle and gas-powered stove they're trying to take away from me in washington. this is all critical election interference and we've got to stop it. it's terrible for the american people

i think alvin bragg has also been targeted. >> exactly. >> you look at doj, the resources they have torotect it officials and staff, and i imagine they dwarf the resources that some of these local prosecutors have. i remember when alvin bragg was targeted by trump and his supporters, and it was the same sort of thing -- white powder that ended up being innocuous. the call and response is so well established, i wonder if you think there's more that can be done to protect these people. >> just remember that there was a photo of donald trump with a baseball bat. >> right. >> and alvin bragg's head. you know, i'm old enough to remember roger stone posting a picture of the judge overseeing his case with crosshairs on it and then a hearing where he lied about it in the same way that donald trump said, oh, i was doing a promotion for american products, which is -- doesn't really require that and alvin bragg's head being in the same vicinity. to me, there's sort of two issues. one is you are, when you are out on bail on one case, leapt alone four cases, not entitled to the same rights as the r

alvin bragg made it known he would not be oppoing that, and from d.a. o first, and i think it's commendable that he really looked at the big picture. i don't think it's a sign at all that his case is weak. i don't think he would have brought the case if he thought it was weak. he could not have been banking on this development and so i think that's why it's a win for frankly the entire electorate to have the d.c. case go before the republican convention, before the general election, so there will be a jury verdict whichever way it goes. >>> coming up, one of our next guests was an impeachment manager when donald trump was accused by congress of inciting an insurrection. we'll speak with representative joe neguse who has an impeachment of his own. "morning joe" is back in a moment. his own "morning joe" is back in a moment ♪ oh what a good time we will have ♪ ♪ you can make it happen ♪ ♪ yeah oh ♪ now, try new dietary supplements from voltaren for healthy joints. some people just know what road to take. those are the people who know to choose allstate. th

very similar to what we saw with respect to a bat that the former president had with respect to alvin bragg. and so what they're seeking is limited restrictions that by the way apply to all of the lawyers of the case and they make that point. they say the lawyers are backed by this and they pointedly say that donald trump's lawyer has violated the local rules on that by making these public statements. and says that donald trump should not be able to do what he's lawyers can do and should not be making these statements and obviously this has to be taken very seriously by judge chutkan because you do not want to see violence erupt and they're honestly is a pattern of actual violence and not just conscious threats of violence. >> i don't say this lightly but you have prosecuted dangerous individuals in the eastern district you dealt with the mafia. when you deal with some of these types of alleged groups this hangs over it. this is how they got to where they are. part of the power that they wielded. i don't want to prejudge the case because the defendant trump is presumed innocent. and the cas

since that time, there have been threats in the manhattan alvin bragg case to the prosecutors, to the judge, to their families. and as the filing today says, all of that has continued, whether it's respect to georgia, whether it's respect to florida, and obviously with respect to d.c. also. the president -- as you, know in d.c. which has cited by the prosecutors is the roger stone case. where the threats included posting a picture of the very eminent federal judge and having crosshairs next to her face. very similar to what we saw with respect to wombat where the former president had will with respect to alvin bragg. so what we're seeking is limited restrictions that, by the, way apply to all the lawyers in the case. and they make that point. they say the lawyers are bound by this, they pointedly say that donald trump's lawyer john lauro has violated public statements and donald trump should not be able to do what his lawyers can do and should not be making the statements. it obviously has to be taken very seriously by judge chutkan because you don't want to see violence erupt. and th

they went to manhattan and held kind of weird political stunt hearing attacking alvin bragg. of the points that fani willis made that i think is a little wonky but important, she said you have no legislative purpose here. this is something that the january 6th committee had to prove, you have a legislative purpose for what you're investigating. the fact that the georgia state case is a state case and congress is a federal body should tell you enough. jim jordan has no rights or reason to be there. and i also want to mention that jim jordan was involved in this january 6th plot to overturn the election. the january 6th committee subpoenaed him. we wanted to talk to him. he talked to donald trump multiple times on january 6th. so jim jordan is by no means an actor that doesn't have his own skin in the game here. he's still close to donald trump and i believe he's still doing his bidding. he's talking to him about these investigations and interfering with him. >> he implied that congress has authority here because of federal grant funding that goes to offices like fani willis. b

didn't -- you know, we saw a big bump in fundraising for him after the new york indictment, the alvin braggk, because of the murch around the mugshot, or will we see an uptick in trend, going back to what it was like with alvin bragg? >> the murch played a significant role in trump's fundraising windfall this past week. the fact there was an image, something that could be put on t-shirts and coffee mugs, that really spiked fundraising. it gave people something to buy and something to purchase. in fact, it's not just the trump campaign that's really seized on this, this mugshot to make money. you're also seeing other organizations, like, for example, barstool sports, the popular pop culture and spors website that basically has been doing its own t-shirts. this has really become a big money machine over the past four, five days. you're seeing people really being able to turn this mugshot into fundraising, into money. >>> up next, house republicans come to the defense of donald trump in the georgia election interference case. we'll explain what the chairs of some key committees are now doing,

didn't, you know, we saw a big bump and fund raising for him after the new york indictment, the alvin bragge of the merch that has been around the mugshot or do you think that there is an uptick in a trend here, and we're going to go back to what it was like after alvin bragg? >> well look. the merch played a very significant role and his fundraising windfall, trump's fundraising windfall this past week. just the fact that there was a image or something that could be put on t-shirts and make shots, and coffee mugs. that really spiked. it gave people something to buy and something to purchase. in fact, it's not just the trump campaign that is really seized on this. this mugshot to make money. you're also seeing other organizations like for example barstool sports, the popular pop culture and sports website, that is basically doing its own t-shirts. so this has really become a big money machine over the past four or five days. you're seeing people really being able to turn this mugshot into fund raising, into money. >> up next, house republicans come to the defense of donald trump in the geor

you had alvin bragg's case first. i think people on the other side of the aisle were skeptical of that. all of this playing out during the primary process seems to be helping president trump. does it move an independent voter toward trump? probably not. but trump is i think the near term winner actually with you know, with all of these cases piling on top of him. >> that is interesting to think about the thumb on the scale. we certainly see the money being raised. the government, the consistent talking point. they are really after you. i'm in the way taking the heat for you here. let's go down to mar-a-lago for a second. jack smith has a cooperating witness against a former president in that classified documents ca. it's an it worker and he could testify the efforts by trump and the other codefendants in their attempt to delete security camera footage. that could be particularly damning for trump. are you surprised now that there is that cooperating witness? what would be your suggestion here? >> i am not surprised th

then there is alvin bragg who is trying trump for his hush money payments to an adult film star. trump has reposted a picture of himself with a baseball bat next to bragg's head. it's not very subtle here. and the judge in this case, in this manhattan case, has warned trump through his attorneys not to make any statements that would incite any violence or threats against any officials. in 2022, when senate republicans joined senate democrats in a vote, a pretty simple one to keep the government open, trump said senate minority leader mitch mcconnell had a death wish. if you listen to people from the trump white house, they'll tell you, the violence is the point. it is the feature. not the bug. here's what cassidy hutchinson, former aide to trump's chief of staff mark meadows, told us this week. >> donald trump knows the impact of his words. on january 6th when he wanted to go to the capitol, that was intentional. the mark milley tweet that you earlier mention trd this past weekend. he knows the impact those words will have. he knows people will come out and be violent against the

i wonder if alvin bragg is there, the radical da prosecuting trump and twisting and bending the law,elping destroy our belief in a fair legal system. don't go to a city public school, biden's powell, randy weingarten, ruined them, a kids camp. perhaps the president heard last night latebreaking news, they are considering removing george washington and christopher columbus statues of the city's a mess. that their priority. jeffrey seller, well-known theater group, introduced the president at this broadway for biden event. he said, quote, we in this theater, 1500 strong, are your warriors. do they really care about the city, this country, do they just hate trump? tomorrow, lawyers for biden, know where they are coming from. second hour of varney just getting started. this just coming at us, drug cartels sending thousands of migrant to the border to overwhelm the system and that is what we are seeing. 7500 stop on sunday alone. 2200 people rushed the border in eagle pass, texas. we showed it to you yesterday. a train full of migrants smiling as they head towards the united states. sean

whole point of this trial isn't about law or truth with the point of the trial like jack smith or alvin braggn manhattan is to put donald trump front and center through the rest of 2023-24 throughout the primary campaign. if he gets the nomination throughout the general election, not talking about the issues that face this country and the contrast between donald trump and president biden when it comes to the economy or crime or border or educational foreign policy, talking about watching donald trump at all these trials where i don't think prosecution, to make him front and center of the news cycle and press -- take president biden off the news cycle. stuart: relaxed, calm down, it's friday morning right before a long holiday weekend, be calm. >> thank you. stuart: wait a minute. i'm in the studio in new york and i see some food coming towards me. look at this. john see year, john ii, they are not brothers. what have you got? >> we just wrapped up for fox and friends this morning at want to bring some food. we have a barbecued slider, bacon, mac & cheese, it is national bacon day tomorrow. so

. >> alvin bragg declined to take this, a very similar case to trial on a criminal basis.f he loses this, is he at risk of maybe bragg going you know what, maybe i don't just care about the hush money. i care about this. >> exactly. now it's prepond rans of the evidence so perhaps the d.a.'s office was looking to see the evidence to see maybe we'll go for it. the investigation is still open. d.a. bragg has said it's not closed so there is still time if he chooses to go to the grand jury. david, we woke you up. you decided to wake up for us because i needed to have somebody who knows this man, who knows donald trump and knows how he'll react to that. particularly this manhattan piece because it looks like he's going to lose. >> well, he has lost. by the way, greetings from berlin. as catherine said, there's no issue i'm paying them too much. same with the unions. they get 5%. all of a sudden, they're making more money than the people who own the company. >> joining me now, robert reich, former labor secretary during the clinton administration and professor of public policy.

and we know that alvin bragg will be watching this trial. it's not clear whether he would follow up with any criminal action, but this really guts trump's business. and it's not just in new york. it's all over. there will be a receiver involved, there's a monitor involved, and so what we have here is a dangerous situation for the former president. >> all right, jeffrey, we'll leave it there for now. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> all right, we continue to watch activity on capitol hill, possibly at any moment there may be a house vote on a short-term spending bill to try to keep u.s. government functioning. we'll be right back. >>> we're keeping a close watch on capitol hill, where the house is expected to vote on a short-term funding bill to help keep the u.s. government open. our lauren fox is on capitol hill right now. lauren, we heard from the house speaker kevin mccarthy say if it means losing his job to keep government going, he's willing to do that. at the same time, he talked about a short-term funding bill, a proposal that mig

when i was campaigning for governor last year, i was advocating for alvin bragg to go.g his they want memo saying he is going to refuse to enforce laws. they said, that makes me a racist. overhaul cashless bail. you are seeing that as a dog whistle because you are a basis. no, it is because law-abiding new yorkers are fed up that the streets are being turned over that we don't have the backs of our men and women in law enforcement that we are passing these old criminal laws in albany. it is on the merit that we care about the future of our community, our city, state, our country and we are passionately fighting for it. it is nothing at all to do with the color of the guy's skin. i don't give a crap what color his skin is, whether he is male, female, i don't care. all the left has left, calling as a racist. [applause] >> greg: well said. lee zeldin! coming up, looking (female announcer) attention! medicare has expanded dexcom coverage -for people with diabetes. -if you have diabetes, getting on dexcom g7 is the single most important thing you can do. it eliminates painfu

it of course did you use federal funds we asked the same questions to alvin bragg and he sued us andook us to court and the court ruled in our favor and we got to depose one of the prosecutors working on the indictment up there a president trump, we asked the same questions of fani willis and she gave us an eight or nine page letter with all of her excuses and things that she put in the letter but the fundamental issues is the one that you raise, interfering with a federal election and i was the get about this today as you step back and look at this and how it's escalated, this is the part that is most rightly, it started with spying on president trump's campaign in 2016. then it was probably the special counsel in interviewing and imposing all the president trump family then it was impeachment one, impeachment two inner 13 months ago they rate his home, searches home in search mar-a-lago and it's not one, two, three, four different indictments, two by the state prosecutors in two by the federal council and as you pointed out it is a 14th amendment that they are trying. the escalatio

dictation of the terms, the mannerisms she uses, and what she did in that letter, similar to what alvin bragg did when jim jordan kind of pulled the same letter stunt investigation stands and the new york case, what's fani willis did is pick a part his entire argument, as well on top of that supplement it with arguments against and regarding other issues that are going to be coming up in the case. she even goes as far as to include arguments about, hey, fulton county, the only power you have as a congress person is over federal budgeting. look at how we spend our federal budgets. look at these programs. it was a full attack and throw did response. it was very powerful, and i think she ends up in a better position at the end of the day. >> well, as you said, it's not the first time we've seen jim jordan try something like this. we know that a lot of, it, frankly is aimed i did audience expecting his allies to defend him in this way. josh schiffer, thanks for joining us. >> thank you so much. >> and new reporting just in, that rudy giuliani owes millions of dollars in unpaid legal bills. hear w

effort, frankly, to derail the prosecutions in those cases and i will start with the one, this is a alvin bragg effort. a chairman and two other committee chairs sent a letter, i think two actually,he was sti investigating former president trump for potential prosecution. and then after he was indicted, they raised the issue again. and the concern i had on that the committee chairs sent was demanding information that potentially would have violated state law in new york, similar to the federal grand jury secrecy laws that we have in some of the matters that you got.. if he had complied with what the committee had demanded, but more importantly, i thought it was pretty clear-cut that itsim investigation to that with d.a. willis. >> what the gentleman yield for just a second? >> and not at this point, although i would be willing to make your letters a part of the record at the end of this. d.a. willis in georgia faced similar cause. in fact, there are a number of prosecutors across the country, frequently in blue jurisdiction city is in red states, where they face pressure from usually estate off

everyone's reading the newspaper and everyone understands on september 4th, possibly later this month, alvin braggand justice merchan have expressed flexibility. >> it's entirely serve appropriate, and not lessening the circumstances of their case. >> it's good to be there every day. there's only one of them. >> we have to figure out how to manage this process. >> cy vance, always great to have you. here still ahead, it is donald trump's party. kevin mccarthy is just along for the ride. we'll have the latest republican plot to distract dragged from trump's trial could backfired spectacularly, next. to help prevent bleeding gums. try saying 'hello gumwash' with parodontax active gum health. it kills 99% plaque bacteria. and forms an antibacterial shield. try parodontax active gum health mouthwash. >> kevin mccarthy is not a complicated dude. if you cover him or know him, he will not dispute the fact. there's been deep political strategy behind what he doesn't, or there's there appear to be particularly zealous ideological motivation. right now, kevin mccarthy want to stay in power as speaker of the

alvin bragg, the attacks on everyone. >> fani willis, jack smith. >> everybody. me tell you something, i think it's going -- it's incumbent now upon government -- i listen again to a lot of pundits on the various different staxs talking about how they have to do something to curb donald trump's language. what are we going to wait until something god forbid happens and then everyone is going to say thoughts an prayers to the family? no. he should not be permitted to do what he's doing. he's threatening judges. he's threatening prosecutors. he's threatening witnesses. this is all obstruction of justice. >> yeah. >> and witness tampering. and if they don't do something about it, i have a strong suspicion a lot of people may not end up showing up to testify. listen, i'm considering it myself despite the fact i'm under subpoena. i don't have to put my life on the line simply because donald trump cannot control himself. and the courts are not controlling him. >> the point being that the witnesses don't have security. the judges have security but the witnesses are sort

to any of these issues whether it be impeachment, the prosecutions in new york, same thing with alvin bragg with hush money case. you know, it's his job, as he sees it, to play blocking back to the president. >> he also has a lot of time to discuss hunter biden, and i want to ask you about him, peter. because he's expected to be indicted before the end of the month. you have covered the story extensively. what do we need to know? >> yeah, he's going to be indicted, it looks like on gun charges. remember, of course, that plea deal fell apart a few weeks back. in which under biden would have pled guilty to two mr. meaner tax counts and would've agreed to a diversion program to get rid of a gun charge. that fell apart, and now the prosecutors andrew weiss is going forward with bringing it to trial. we don't know whether or not this will still go to trial. it's possible this is -- whether it's a maneuver to force to the back of the table in terms of the plea negotiations. but basically, this is bad news for a hunter biden, it's bad news for the white house. it keeps the story going. it highligh

historically comments which appear to be directly threatening to prosecutors in the case, the case of alvin bragg, and others. and at some point, a judge will say i warned you, i told you. and the question will be what will the sanction be? putting judge -- susan, putting former president trump in jail, i'm not sure that's a sanction that the judge will want to levy, because of just the froth nature of putting trump in jail -- but >> is it on the table? >> i think everything is on the table. and the judges, at the end of the day, of a very difficult job. there used to limit against playing by the rules. they're not used to lead against basically saying that i'm not only disregarding -year-olds, but i'm gonna go right in your face. and so, the judge is going to have to decide where they draw the line between first amendment issues and threats against the litigants or members of the jury or the prosecutors offices. and i'm sure that there are law clerks and judges in georgia, new york, and washington, d. c., talking about how do we manage what is essentially something we've never seen before. >> ye

we are talking similar for alvin bragg who had to answer to congress to tell them to stay in their lanessecurity that has to now be increased, her role is to enforce the law on behalf of the people of fulton county and of course, georgia. what she's confronted with will likely be a part of the underlying conversations at trial ultimately. remember, there was a racial undertone in terms of ruby freeman and her daughter. there was a racial undertone of targeting particular areas to talk about why those should not be valid or fair and free jurisdictions. so i think it's going to ultimately a lot of the attacks against her might fuel a jury to see this through a particular lens. >> why do you think that these awful, racist, horrible threats she's getting, these emails, and she's now asking the judge to make sure to protect the jurors. >> she's doing the right thing. it's absolutely horrible and somewhat expected under these circumstances. and the time is now for fani willis to take all the steps she thinks are necessary to make sure that her people and her grand jurors, who we know are ident

i think, at the very beginning, it was maybe understandable, because you had alvin bragg's case firstink even people on the other side of the aisle were a little bit skeptical of that. but all of this playing out during a primary process does seem to be helping president trump. does it move an independent voter toward trump? probably not. but trump is, i think, the near term winner, actually, with, when you know, all of these cases piling on top of him. >> that's interesting, to think about the thumb on the scale and enduring to, the benefit of trump, because we certainly see the money that is being raised, the idea of the weaponization of the government, a consistent talking point, i think, as we often discuss is, look, we are really after you, i'm in the way, we are -- for you here. but then we talk, about it's fulton county, and let's go down to mar-a-lago for a second. because jack smith now has a cooperating witness against the former president in that classified documents case. it's an i.t. worker, uso tavera -- yuesvil taveris walt nauta, and mr. carlos de oliveira as well -- a

i think the ability for the d.a., similar to alvin bragg in manhattan, to really try to shut down this inquiry in this public manner by filing a nine-page letter really also educates the country as to what the purpose of a congressional committee should be. and you can juxtapose what jim jordan is doing with what the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack did. we had a legislative purchase and we follows that purpose, and jim jordan is certainly not doing that here. >> hugo, let me bring you in to the conversation. congressional republicans have made almost their entire agenda centered around playing donald trump's legal team and investigating the investigators. do you think fani willis' letter will change anything or is jim jordan just going to double down? >> i don't think it's going to change anything. what we should always remember is when congressional republicans are going after these prosecutors, whether it's fani willis or jack smith, the special counsel, it's in order to help trump. trump doesn't have a visibility into a lot of these investigations, into t

alvin bragg put trump into first place in the primaries because people think it's unfair. something new, all they're doing is supercharging his campaign. >> gabe sterling, thank you for having this conversation with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. you have a great day. >> you, too. jim? >>> up next, libyan officials say flooding there has created just a catastrophic situation. whole neighborhoods believed to have been washed away. the death toll in the thousands already. i'm off to america's best i heard what you said about not overpaying for glasses. two pairs and a free, quality eye exam starting at just $79.95? the exam alone is worth... 59 bucks. i mean, people deserve breaks, right? yeah, brakes...! [out of control] book an exam today at amerisbest.com. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! not coughing? hashtag still not coughing?! mucinex dm gives you 12 hours of relief from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night. mucinex dm. it's comeback season. cut! another health insurance commercial, another aqua-aerobics scene. yup. most health insurance compa

they look at these charges like with alvin bragg, for instance, paying off adult film star, hush moneygeorgia and is that really something americans are saying boy, donald trump did something wrong. what, ask for a recount? you could go on and on. the bottom line is donald trump is the victim of a two-tiered justice system it only is bringing his numbers up and up, guys. that's the ironic part. >> carley: you mentioned election as well, new fox news polling shows joe biden would lose in a hypocritical matchup if the election were held today by donald trump by two points. vivek ramaswamy by one. haley pence as well. ron desantis, biden beats him by three points. also he would beat tim scott and chris christie. all of these numbers, joe, are very close. >> they are. these are national polls, remember. we see this auto strike in michigan, for example that can help decide that state. where that state goes probably the election goes or ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, georgia. in those swing states joe biden is in even deeper trouble. when it comes down to those states if is he trailing now n

they have gone after him with alvin bragg's indictment, gone -- all of these things they have done. did they think there was not going to be any blowback and returns wouldn't say okay, you set the precedent. you used these tools against us. by the way, also using the same institutions to protect joe biden and the hunter biden family. collusion between the fbi and the media to suppress the hunter biden story a sweetheart plea deal that was thrown out by a judge. so republicans are looking at this saying one, they're using these institutions. fair game. two, we don't trust the institutions anymore, so we need the tools of an impeachment inquiry to get to the bottom of this story, which is a legitimate inquiry as to whether or not there was corruption in the biden family. >> martha: i think that becomes a question. do they have the evidence to prove this. because you want to have a clear line through this inquiry because these allegations are very serious and there is quite a bit of evidence that points in this direction that has been uncovered by the oversight committee. richard fowle

from the top down, alvin bragg, eric adams, none of these people are standing up for average new yorkersnd citizens of this city. not only in terms of combating crime and making our streets safer but also as we just heard in terms of prioritizing the welfare of new yorkers versus the people who are flowing across the border and what really gets my goat, cheryl, is that all these democrats are furious about not getting more help from the federal government. none of them will talk about the essential problem here which is an open border. and democrats own this. joe biden owns this. frankly, eric adams owns this. this is his party. he made new york a sanctuary city. he's proud of that. we have no help in store. cheryl: he didn't make new york a sanctuary sigh. we've been a sanctuary city. but a year ago he was. bracing it, to your point and saying we welcome these people. we're going to help these people. guess what? those people are going to crush the budget and crush the lives of the people that are actually paying the taxes here in the city and i don't think that the government's willing

i believe you alvin bragg.rticularly in georgia that fani willis and her team are able to make their case clearly. the difference here is it's going to be televised. we will all be able to see it. >> i do wonder, michael steele, when you talk about the jury selection process, i -- i'm prematurely nervous about it. given, again, the fact that she would have to secure a unanimous conviction. when you look at republican attitudes towards donald trump as this process, as the evidence has been reported out, as we've seen more allegations come forwards and indictments come forward. the republican support for donald trump increases. cbs poll august 2023, -- the there are inevitably going to be some republicans in that jury. >> yes. there will be. [laughter] and that is the problem. look, it's a challenge, because when you are resolute in a conviction, that someone is not culpable of the crimes that are being alleged, it makes it, to simmons point, it makes it very challenging for the dea to put together the kind of ju

and yet, here we are, with them going after, as jim jordan did with the manhattan d.a., alvin bragg.nd now, investigating, and possibly threatening to remove fani willis. give me your thoughts on this, and what this says about the broader republican party? which again, they say that they are investigating the weaponization of the government. and here they, are using the full force that they have as members of congress, and what have you, and other representatives in the state, to go after prosecutors, who happen to be investigating donald trump. >> well, certainly, they have weaponized their positions ask congressman, in this circumstance, there's no question about it. and let's be really clear, jim jordan is not a serious leader. and, the destruction that he is trying to wreak on the american system, through his position, it is courtesy of kevin mccarthy, and the deals that he made to become speaker of the house to begin with. but what jim jordan is doing is clearly the definition of weaponizing government, to go after your personal or political enemies. what's happening with the re

historically comments which appear to be directly threatening to prosecutors in the case, the case of alvin bragg, and others. and at some point, a judge will say i warned you, i told you. and the question will be what will the sanction be? putting judge -- susan, putting former president trump in jail, i'm not sure that's a sanction that the judge will want to levy, because of just the froth nature of putting trump in jail -- but >> is it on the table? >> i think everything is on the table. and the judges, at the end of the day, of a very difficult job. there used to limit against playing by the rules. they're not used to lead against basically saying that i'm not only disregarding-year-olds, but i'm gonna go right in your face. and so, the judge is going to have to decide where they draw the line between first amendment issues and threats against the litigants or members of the jury or the prosecutors offices. and i'm sure that there are law clerks and judges in georgia, new york, and washington, d.c., talking about how do we manage what is essentially something we've never seen before. >> yeah

period, whether through the prosecutions of donald trump by fani willis or by jack smith or by alvin braggrious people to make sure that he is disqualified under section three of the 14th amendment, that he is left of the ballot. what we are all about is enforcing the law, and democracy under law is a thing that vladimir putin cannot abide. >> harvard professor laurence tribe, i wish vladimir putin could hear you tonight. thank you very much for joining us. i really appreciate it. >> thank you, lawrence. >> thank you. coming up, under pressure from the most extreme extremists in the republican party. house speaker kevin mccarthy gave them what they wanted today, an investigation of president biden. and there is still not satisfied. kevin mccarthy is still living in fear of them. congressman adam schiff joins us next. ♪ yeah oh ♪ now, try new dietary supplements from voltaren for healthy joints. remember the things you loved... ...before asthma got in the way? fasenra is an add-on treatment for asthma driven by eosinophils. it's designed to target and remove them and helps prevent asthma at

alvin bragg basically running for office saying i'm going to get trump and then he does this ridiculouse, people see that is and they know that's not the way the justice system should work. howard: trump also said in a recent interview if he's back in the white house, he would have the justice department prosecute his political opponent. isn't that the same axis lee bake -- accusation he's making against the biden white house? >> he ran in 2016 saying he was going to appoint a special prosecutor for hillary's e-mails, you remember that. and a lot of us thought that was appropriate because they didn't do a author reinvestigation -- thorough e investigation. two weeks later he said, ah, forget it. he didn't follow through on that promise. and it's not about going after your opponents. what we need to do is joust have a single -- just have a single standard of justice in this country. howard: as president, would you pledge to treat the justice department as an independent agency when it comes to criminal investigations? >> it's not independent from accountability. howard: sure. >> i am not

trump advice she fired back at a solid are reminding me of the back-and-forth between house gop and alvin bragg, when they indicted, in new york and basically the middle of my criminal investigation north or to hear that she went on to say, you do not understand the law what you're doing and so, these two are not going to be told getting together this weekend thanksgiving appraiser. liz: no christmas cards between them is had income there's a seven story from the movement in arizona, michigan, new hampshire new hampshire now, half-dozen already voters, your filing this lawsuit, try to kick off trump from the ballot in their states, citing the 14th amendment we think that because the argument is, than anybody is engaging in insurrection, should be ineligible for office but he has them and charged with incitement are insurrection special counsel right. shannon: loan people thought was very interesting of those are charges that the special counsel could brought printed offering of these people the 14th amendment language if used taken to defend the constitution you engage in an interruption coming

attacks on qualified immunity inside of the city, you have prosecutors like alvin bragg who wouldn't of the nypd would be done to put a case together. so, you already had the impact on morale. you had people fearing safety. if you want to be a law enforcement officer, you don't have to go that far outside of the city where you are going to get paid more, higher morale. elected officials in have your back. you raise a family with a yard. and now you hit this on top of it with all the other crime and all the other impacts on morale. people are going to just throw their hands up. they made it this far. that's amazing. this is going to be the last straw for many. >> brian: i just want everyone to know watching this is not a new york story. new york has 85,000 now. over 100 passed through the last year and a half. they want to blame governor abbott. he has only sent a few thousand, maybe, 10, 20. it's the broken border that's done it. by. >> way we reached out to mayor adams' office for a response. but mayor bloomberg, among the democrats and others who have had it with this and cannot be

if alvin bragg cares more about prosecuting donald trump for 7-year-old porn star than i will do it asa prosecutor, too. >> exactly right. >> brian: new jersey, governor murphy who you have been critical of before now parental notification policy. he says no more telling parents about their kids possibly transitioning or using pronounce. your stand? >> i told the voters in new jersey in 2017 when he was running when he said he wanted to make new jersey the california of the east that he meant it. this is another example of it. there is no one who should know that issue more than the parents. parents liv their children more than people anywhere else. >> brian: you like a governor getting involved either way? >> what i like the governor doing is putting parents in charge, brian. let the parents decide. no one loves our children knows our children, or can care for our children more than the mother and father. you and i know that as fathers. and we shouldn't have any governor getting in the middle of it. >> brian: of course. tim scott came out and he said i don't like -- he is on the stage

have tried to interfere, not only with fani willis's prosecution of donald trump, but also with alvin bragg'sr of the purse. they're saying to both of these offices, you receive grants that we appropriate to the department of justice. you receive grants from the department of justice and therefore we have some right of oversight. i thought, in some respects, the most powerful part of this letter isn't the rhetoric in the nine pages that fani willis wrote. but in an appendix where she goes through line by line all of the grants that the fulton county d.a.'s office gets from the department of justice. none of which have anything to do remotely with the prosecution that deals with trying to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. -- or ensuring violent crimes are effectively investigated and prosecuted. so jim jordan's attempt to exert oversight here hangs by a very thin line. funny what's was right to call him out on that in that very brutal service letter earlier this week. >> thank you to both of you. always good to have you two friends on the show. the legal analysts -- that's why go to when