charlie: so the thing that's different for alvin bragg and letitia james, they're in courtrooms. here in new york, so they have to go into these courtrooms. but in terms of getting security clearances for all these other people, it's a money-making scheme. it's a way that these -- they become lobbyists, basically, for hire for anybody who wants to hire them, and it gives them access the you are nation -- to our nation's secrets. and they maintain them in their retirement even though they have no responsibility to the government, they're not working for the government anymore. they're working for, you know, whatever -- and, obviously, there are all kinds of rules governing who they can work for, but, you know, who knows? i mean, i don't have a whole lot of faith in those rules. none of these people particularly care about rules when it comes to all the other aspects of life. so basically, it's like a protected cottage try of these former intel officials who make money and trade on their access to government secrets. and i think it's disgusting. i think they all should have -- grif

alvin bragg of new york. what does this mean for them? >> you know, i think that's something that has to be looked into, how much that's going to impact their daily work. but certainly there are instances when the local officials work with federal officials. right. that's something that there has typically been cooperation between federal before between federal and state governments. and, you know, the question is whether that's going to really continue in the trump administration and whether there's going to be that unity, because there are going to be these legal lawsuits going back and forth. now that's, you know, that's something that happens in republican and democratic administrations where depending on the attorney general, sometimes you're working with the government, sometimes you're working sort of against the federal government and suing the federal government. you can still work together in those different capacities. but, you know, that's i think right now there is this question of the national security vulnerability to the u

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and i think alvin bragg is going to say, no way. and we could end up in a showdown in court over this. but look, this is politicization. i mean, there's no reason to reopen these cases. i've been critical of these cases. you know, i think that there there have been prosecutorial missteps. but to go into this and to try to declare that these were politically driven, i think is in itself political, political. >> and there's this question of what happened to states rights. i mean, you know, donald trump and the republicans have always been talking about states rights. and in this case, i don't know if that's something that's going to come up. but i do want to ask you about bondi, who is threatening sanctuary cities and sanctuary cities. you know, for people that understand what they're doing, they basically give more protections to undocumented. migrants and tell their local authorities not to to help out federal immigration authorities. so she's talking about rescinding money, taking money away from these cities or states that are doi

>> well, president trump says that he's targeting some people, including alvin bragg, who, of course, is the da of manhattan, but also letitia james. he's saying that he's going after these people because they politicize their their roles and their responsibilities, and they unfairly targeted him. that's the argument that trump is making. president trump is making in revoking these security clearances, that essentially these people misused their security, these security clearances. but of course, there are critics of the president who are saying this is really about revenge. he's going after officials who went after him for doing things that he that they believed were right. they believe that their responsibilities were to hold president trump accountable, especially when he was a citizen going after his business dealings, going after things that they believe were wrongdoings of his. but of course, president trump is, of course, sort of really arguing that just the opposite, saying that these people were just going after him because they didn't like him politically. so we should expec

the american people saw it for what it was, politically driven for there was alvin bragg in new york,is and nathan wade in georgia or jack smith with his ridiculous case the one the judge says was baloney, he wasn't even appointed in a proper way consistent with our constitution and the case in florida so we will look back at david weiss, there concerns there. david weiss had a sweetheart deal for hunter biden and the court said no, you can't do this and we had two whistleblowers come forward and tell us the games they played in the investigation so we will look at that and then jack smith, one issue in particular, remember when one of the lawyers for jack smith, j bret asked a lawyer representing stan lee, the counsel representing walt in the classified documents case, they were having a meeting and he says to the defendant's lawyer, we didn't know you were a trump guy. we thought you are interested in this judge position as a -- not a veiled threat to a guy who's representing and defending being charged by -- this is how ridiculous and political jack smith's whole case was and when

barring entry to federal facilities to new york attorney general letitia james and manhattan district alvin braggoth brought cases against trump. this comes just days after he revoked former president biden's access and announced that ex-secretary of state antony blinken and former biden national security adviser jake sullivan are also being blocked. >>> the cause of an explosion and fire at a pennsylvania industrial plant is under investigation. about a dozen people were injured in the incident yesterday at the parker lord facility in crawford county north of pittsburgh. several firefighters were hurt. it caused major damage to the plant that makes specialty materials. >>> a powerful earthquake in the caribbean sea triggered tsunami warnings over the weekend. the 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit in the middle of the sea south of the cayman islands saturday. the u.s. national tsunami warning center issued a tsunami advisory for puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. that alert was later called off. no reports of major damage. >>> coming up, quarterback aaron rodgers' days with the new york jets may

no, there's an obvious enemies list, and it's letitia james and alvin bragg and fani willis and jackth and anybody who investigated donald trump or brought charges against donald trump and that's i mean, i confess, i'm not surprised. i anyone who believed when donald trump did you believe donald trump when he and his nominees said there's not going to be any enemies list? or did you believe him? months earlier when he said, you know, i am your retribution when he when he talked openly about seeking retribution and revenge against his enemies. i think that was the real donald trump. and i think this is probably a requirement of the job. pam bondi i don't know whether she's doing this with with enthusiasm and how she intends to proceed, but i think she probably had to do it to get the job, frankly. >> you know, but if you're a government employee fired for doing your job, prosecutors, for example, are assigned cases like even if ultimately the courts say you were fired without cause. there is a question of what this does to your life. it goes back to what you and i were talking about a

and there were references to alvin bragg.rk, and certainly the fact that they have dismissed, as maybe jamie raskin was. alluding to earlier, in addition to the prosecutors working on j. six cases, they also dismissed prosecutors who worked on what was arguably the biggest j six case of all the case against donald trump working for special counsel jack smith. a lot of those people are out of the building just walking around the building. last week, i saw nameplates that had gone missing of people that had had, you know, maybe not minor roles, but certainly not lead level roles in that investigation. so there's already been some action. whether that will progress to some kind of criminal action or other action against jack smith, i think weights remains to be seen right now. >> josh, there's new reporting by the washington post which says candidates for top law enforcement and intelligence positions in the trump administration are facing simple yes or no questions related to the outcome of the 2020 election. and those saying i

another evaluate 18 million which was a joke they didn't care and you had local prosecutors like alvin braggtute of limitation on illegal for nda put together by an attorney and labelled as illegal for expense and they came up with a novel legal erie to go after donald trump they got away with that nobody on the left seemed to care i watch during your hearings in the hearings of others know of the sudden the left whenever other to word silence was deafening over on legal justice of the law now they seem to fear of that which they did to donald trump might be done to them have you noticed what i have great. >> i sided with adam in his hearing and he received a pardon from president biden which is very telling to me he received a pardon as well as liz cheney more worried about liz cheney and my confirmation hearing then the crime in california and the crime in california skyrocketing its remarkable the double standard they have been professing and projecting throughout the country. but it has ended sean let me ask a final question the doj i believe has been a weaponized. with that there are ma

stripping security clearances of former president biden former secretary antony blinken, letitia james, alvin braggrump stopped daily intelligence abbreviation for president biden unfortunately these guys played fast and loose with law i am not provide what do you think. >> they were added to national security now in retirement would be different deal yov a problem with them taking those away is not planning on using their expertise. >> good to see you this morning thanks so much. we will be right back. ♪ . join thousands of advertisers who have built their businesses, reaching america's most influential audience. need creative? we can help. fox news media impact starts here. advertise with us today. from recent grads... ♪ ...to rising stars... ♪ ...to living legends. - you got this. - thank you. vanguard retirement solutions. fifty years of helping investors be well on their way to their financial goals. when i started walton goggins goggle glasses, i had no idea what i was doing. but godaddy airo does. using ai to build a logo, website and social content. so i can let the world know, if your gogg

alvin bragg and former national security advisor, jake sullivan, among others. >> he's been very busy. fitting allotted to that report. appreciate it. elon putting an end to the old way of doing things in washington. big changes and does recruit are living proof. expert engineers and many are under 25. six young tech prodigies that accomplished this enormous lifetime for the success but don't tell that to the establishment left. >> elon musk and crew of teenage mutant insults continue to tear apart to 50 years of democracy. >> this band of musketeers rampaging through government -- >> 's group with their drives staging a digital coup. >> is not the worst the kids are dealing with, they are facing anonymous violet threats from leftist like these on the line. trust us, there are plenty worse than what you're seeing there on that screen we were talking about how they do kind of deserve a band name, does du dues -- >> there's so many responses to the soundbite we've heard from democrats and folks in the media. i find it fascinating, find educational, perhaps it would be worse that home, f

he has revoked securityvern clearance of antony blinken, jake sullivan,ke s alvin bragg, letitia jamesfter pulled the clearance on joe biden saint truth social post this, there is no need for joe biden to receive access t o classified himn 20 information.elli he set this president in 2021 with intelligence community tofm stop me, accessing details on national security. a courtesy provided for former presidents. in that same special counsel robert hur described biden at methe time is an elderly man wih a poor memory. trump echoed that sentiment said thatden biden can't be trustedh coclassified information.up so a couple of things to unpack here, guys, joey, i want to send something here. a little bit of a curveball but we watch an entire minute longth ad from secret service. you or someone that's all and add some pointu ar in your life and stirred to serve your country. to that type of p.r. matters trying to capture the imagination and excitement, passion of young people. when you see that from the secret service and they have hey' been through the ringer the last hour.>> what you think

looking into cases brought against president trump by jack smith, letitia james and manhattan da alvin bragg and attorney general bondi, listen to this, jack smith spent more than $50 million of taxpayer money to target trump? not going after -- let me back up. forgive me. there's been 50 jihad i did plats uncovered over the last four years but they're targeting trump and school board parents and catholics? >> you're exactly right. it was the fbi under merrick garland that listed parents who cared about their children not being indoctrinated as domestic terrible resistances and this is the thing that pam -- terrorists and pam bondi going after this and building confidence for the american people. it's better and full transparency. she's going to issue quarterly reports continuing this look to the weaponization to the white house released to american people and it'll expose what happened and whether it was unethical tactical practices on j6 and whether actually letitia james, fani willis or weaponization of the justice system against a person running for the presidency being used by incumbent

alvin bragg, on friday he pulled former president biden's clearance, a move he says his predecessor pioneeredo in d.c. now this. >> dana: a harrowing close call on a minnesota school bus. driver praised for quick thinkinging that he swerved out of the way a semi truck if time. >> i figured i would try to get around him and see if i could avoid him and he ended up going right down the side of my bus. >> dana: the four students and three employees on board are doing just fine. >> bill: we have some news out there that people need to be aware of. new variant of the bird flu infected dairy cattle may have a mutation that helps the virus copy itself in other mammals including we humans. jonathan hunt is on that story live in los angeles. hey, jonathan, good morning. >> good morning. bird flu is spreading among birds and dairy cattle right now. the fear is that as the virus mutates humans may become more vulnerable and virus could change further to make it possible for human-to-human spread raising the prospect of another pandemic less than two years after we officially emerged from the covid crisi

blinken, attorney general, new york attorney general letitia james, manhattan district attorney alvin braggbiden's national security advisor. jake sullivan, biden's deputy attorney general, lisa monaco. and lawyers andrew weissman, mark zaid and norm eisen. and joe biden himself. apparently, he wants to revoke his security because, oh, guess what? during january 6th, when trump was all in that messed up in that little insurrection thing that occurred in the building behind us, president biden did the appropriate thing and said, you know what? let's slow the roll on giving this kind of information, having these briefings to donald trump, the pettiness of trump is what drives these lists. >> yeah. >> what's the impact, though, on the functioning of our government? these individuals still play roles. yeah, administratively and otherwise. help us understand why these threats and the actual revocation of these levels of security and, you know, access to security clearances matter. >> well, revenge. >> and. retribution are the. >> commanding animus for donald trump right now, in the same way that

so alvin bragg, the district attorney in manhattan who oversaw the hush money case, as well as letitia, who is the attorney general that oversaw the the the other case, the the fraud case against the trump organization. so all of that is going to be included in this weaponization look, which includes, by the way, the fbi agents who worked on january 6th cases. >> yeah, this is a huge story. and it would be leading our shows were it not for so many other huge stories. evan perez, thank you so much for the update. brianna. >> elon musk and his team are bulldozing a path through the federal government in their effort to cut what musk calls waste. but we've seen this playbook before. when musk took over twitter. cnn's clare duffy is with us now on this. and, clare, i know you've been talking to former twitter employees. what are they telling you? >> yeah, brianna. >> a lot of former twitter employees are having deja vu now, watching what elon musk is doing within the federal government. one of the most striking things, of course, that we've seen musk do at the government level is just the

he's prosecuted democrats like john edwards and republicans and others, alvin bragg and letitia jameso you may or may not know, a lot of their staffs are people taking public service lawyer salaries. they don't have endless funds to deal with potential legally frivolous efforts. there's a call for investigations into what bondi says were, quote, unethical prosecutions relating to january 6th, an ominous conclusion being leveled far before any of her own evidence has been reviewed or new investigation has been done. today, trump's d.c. prosecutor says they will pursue what they call inquiries by inquiries of anyone referred by elon musk, and reuters notes. the announcement of that investigation itself publicly. so just touting this as a public thing is unusual and contrary to doj rules, to which you might say, of course, and you'll notice how the friction is working. we try to follow the evidence and the quotes here. i am not freelancing, and i certainly am not trying to be overly alarmist, but when i report to you that former fbi agents are warning about looming violence, encouraged a

you have local prosecutors like alvin bragg. the statute of limitations had run out on what was a legal nda put together by an attorney and labeled as a legal expense, and then came up with a novel legal theory to go after donald trump. and they got away with that. and nobody on the left seemed to care. and i watched during your hearings and the hearings of others. now all of a sudden, the left, who never they never uttered a word. their silence was deafening about unequal justice under the law. now, all of a sudden, they seem to fear that which they did to donald trump might be done to them. have you noticed the same thing i have? >> well, sure. i saw it with adam schiff and his hearing, and in fact, he received a pardon from president biden, which is very telling to me. he received a pardon along with liz cheney. they were they were more worried about liz cheney in my confirmation hearing than the crime in california that is skyrocketing. so it's truly remarkable, this this double standard that they have been professing and pr

new york post reporting that trump is also stripping the security clearances of letitia james and alvin bragghis country, in their role in keeping the public safe. >> oh, absolutely. >> and actually. >> in. >> that article. >> one of my colleagues. >> who was co-counsel with. >> me on the ukraine matter. >> has apparently had his security clearance stripped. as well. i have yet to hear about mine, but. the fact of the matter is, it's a chilling effect. it's a tool to target individuals and intimidate people from doing their jobs. that's what we're here to do is. >> to use. >> the judicial system, the process, to make sure. >> that people are. >> held accountable. >> one of the. >> things that i also want to talk about today, that. >> i don't think has been reported. >> and it's really. >> important to just. >> to grasp the significance of what's happening. so we know that, for example, doge has been in the department of treasury sucking up information and. for what reason, right. >> i have. >> talked to. to individuals within the intelligence. >> community and have. heard that doge is also wi

now include former secretary of state antony blinken, new york attorney general letitia james and alvin bragg manhattan's district attorney, as well as one of my next guests. joining me now is mark zaid, who has been a target himself of president trump's retribution. he's also co-founder of the nonprofit legal organization whistleblower aid. also with us to help provide that historical perspective is julian zelizer. he is a cnn political analyst and historian at princeton university and author of the book in defense of partisanship. all right, mark, let's start with you, because trump says he is revoking your security clearance. i want to note your representing current and former federal employees in lawsuits against this administration. what is the direct impact of this? >> well good morning. so first, i have received no official notification from the u.s. government. all i know is what the new york post responded or reported based on some leak, apparently, from the white house. but, you know, let's let's be clear. while i'm honored to be among the other individuals on that list, unlike all

immediately doing exactly the opposite by launching a probe of duly sworn prosecutors jack smith, alvin bragg and letitia james for the apparent crime of prosecuting the democracy was that that's hot going to apply. and we're just going to forgive them all. we'll wipe out all the agreements. we'll go around the law, circum little less awe. he's been making a blizzard of moves in these first 18 days of his second administration, meant to inspire fear and outrage, creating problems and then pretending to solve them so that he can look like a savior, keeping his promises to his base. and while it's all really bad and destructive, i think it's important to sort out the actual fires from the smoke and mirrors because, let's face it, we can't react to everything effectively all at the same time. but that's what autocrats and coup leaders want, right? while we're running from fire to fire. trump and elon's little doge gang are dismantling our federal government from within. so just for a moment, let's just take a step back and look at what he's been saying versus what he's been doing. trump announce

these include new york attorney general letitia james, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg, formeran, and former secretary of state antony blinken. while more of a symbolic gesture, it could hinder james's and bragg's abilities to enter federal courthouses, prisons and federal law enforcement facilities. this line of attack began last night when trump announced that he will cut former president joe biden's access to intelligence information in a social media post. trump wrote, quote, there's no need for joe biden to continue receiving access to classified information. therefore, we are immediately revoking joe biden's security clearances and stopping his daily intelligence briefings. to be clear, former presidents don't have security clearances, but they do have access to intelligence briefings anyway. this example of presidential petulance appears to be payback for biden, saying during a 2021 interview that trump should not get intelligence briefings because of, quote, erratic behavior unrelated to the insurrection, trying to overturn a free and fair election should be reason enou

but also manhattan da alvin bragg and the civil lawsuit brought by the new york ag, letitia james. with me now, brendan belew is a former federal prosecutor who resigned in protest over trump's decision to pardon most january 6th defendants. brendan, thank you for joining. when you hear that ag bondi is creating a weaponization working group. what do you think is the intent? >> i think it's an intent to rewrite history. the basic problem that the new attorney general has is that her boss, the president, committed a bunch of crimes, and so did a lot of rioters who were acting in his name for his legitimacy and for hers. they need to rewrite the history of january 6th. and that's what i think this working group is meant to do. >> you know, one of the prosecutors who was fired for working on january 6th cases questioned bondi's decision to even review the cases. listen. >> and i do think it's a bit of a double edged sword for this administration to keep attacking january 6th, because, well, quite frankly, it may not end well for them because of the strength of the evidence and the str

jack smith, letitia james and alvin bragg. this this is their that's their target.y for the district of columbia is saying he will weaponize his office on behalf of elon musk, promising an inquiry into people referred to his office by musk and saying he will investigate them and will chase them to the end of the earth. i guess, you know, one person's weaponization is another person's weaponization. i mean. >> yes, the irony is not lost on me. and there's a portion of that letter that you were just reading from. you and i are having a mind meld here, michael, because i was looking at that letter earlier today, and there's a portion of that letter that really is chilling that i want to read to you and our viewers, because before he says he's going to chase them to the end of the earth and investigate them, he says if people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted unethically, we will investigate them. i don't know when it became the role of a u.s. attorney for any office in the country to prosecute people for merely unethical actions. the whole point of a

out by the attorney general, pam bondi, special counsel jack smith, manhattan district attorney alvin bragg underway within the department that we've been covering here for days now has reached new heights. the acting number two at the department of justice, emil bove, sent a message to the acting fbi director, calling his refusal to comply with bove's request for the names of agents who investigated. january 6th. quote, insubordination. bove, writing in his message that he was then forced to make a wider request for information, quote, in light of acting leadership's refusal to comply with the narrower request, the written directive was intended to obtain a complete data set that the justice department can reliably pare down to the core team that will be the focus of the weaponization review. pursuant to the executive order referencing trump's executive order to root out what he perceives to be politicization in the intelligence community, bove's recent moves have raised alarm inside the fbi that a mass purge of thousands of employees is possible and near. and as we discussed on this show

that is the criminal case against president trump here in manhattan by manhattan district attorney alvin bragg and then what's called the civil fraud case by new york attorney general tish james. that's the case in. which trump, if that. >> case is upheld. >> would owe hundreds of millions of dollars to the state of new york for overinflating the value of certain of his assets or under inflating. >> them, as it were. >> when it is advantageous to him. the idea. >> that there. >> was federal cooperation with those cases is itself sort of presuming something that just doesn't happen to be true. was there an occasion on which the southern district of new york. >> that's the department. >> of justice's office here in manhattan, gave. information to manhattan prosecutors who are prosecuting the hush money case? yes, but i don't think that the evidence will show that it was somehow some cabal against president trump to like, hey. >> let's. >> give them all this stuff that we didn't use while trump was still president. and we decided. >> not to. >> prosecute him. there were processes followed. there