department of justice, recommends that the georgia general is simply should convene in a special sessionony, receive new evidence and deliberate on this matter. the purpose of the special session the department recommends, would be for the general assembly to evaluate the ear grail at un a.i.d.s. in 2020 election. determine whether those violations show which candidate for president won the most legal votes, in the november 3rd election. and number three, to determine whether the election failed to make a proper and valid choice between the candidates, such that the general assembly could take whatever action is necessary to ensure that one of the slates of electors cast by the state, would be accepted by congress on january six. again, this is a letter, to georgia, dissipated december 20th. this is jeff clark, head of the justice department, writing this letter, telling the state legislature in georgia, that they should consider the election corrupt, because the justice department has looked into it and found all sorts of corruption. and therefore, the state legislature to take matters

and the justice department officials who have spoken so far and the justice department in general can really understand what was going on with trump's efforts to overturn the election and whether or not there was criminality, criminal behavior, they need to speak to people who are working at the white house, who had the full picture. >> "new york times" justice department reporter katie benner, thank you for your clarity on this as always, i really appreciate it. we've got more ahead tonight, stay with us. they are the heroes in my family. who are the heroes in yours? as someone who resembles someone else... they are the heroes in my family. i appreciate that liberty mutual knows everyone's unique. that's why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. [ nautical horn blows ] i mean just because you look like someone else doesn't mean you eat off the floor, or yell at the vacuum, or need flea medication. oh, yeah. that's the spot. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ ♪ ♪ even if you had to miss your quince. there's always your qu

our investigation in phoenix will be led by the justice department civil rights division. it is based on an extensive review of publicly available information and will consider several issues. first whether the phoenix police department uses excessive force in violation of the fourth amendment. second whether the phoenix police department engages in discriminatory policing practices that violate the constitution and federal law. third, whether the department violates the first amendment by retaliating against individuals who are engaged in protected expressive activities. fourth, whether at the city and its police department respond to disabilities in a manner that violates the disabilities act. this includes decisions to criminally detain individuals with behavior mental health issues. and whether they infringe on the rights of the homeless by seizing their belongings. those last two areas of investigative focus speak to that which is broader than the phoenix investigation. our society is straining by turning to law enforcement. too often we asked law-enforcement officers

and the justice department officials who have spoken so far and the justice department in general cane so much information. for them to really understand what was going on with trump's efforts to overturn the election and whether or not there was criminality, criminal behavior, they need to speak to people who are working at the white house, who had the full picture. >> "new york times" justice department reporter katie benner, thank you for your clarity on this as always, i really appreciate it. we've got more ahead tonight, stay with us. going to release the results of the 2020 census. at least they're going to release the parts of it that tend to make people the most crazy. "the washington post" previewed a slice of that data with this headline that made the hosts at fox news primetime shoot coffee all out their collective noses all at the same time. we are seeing a marked increase in diversity in our country. population growth is driven entirely by people of color. the number of white people declining for the first time in this country's history. that was just a preview earlier th

is troubling consider -- considering the politicization and partisan polarization of the department of justice'sivil rights division. whenever our panelist today has said that the department has a history of filing experience complaints -- filing spurious complaints. -- creating meritless litigation to trigger coverage. when one of our prior witnesses noted that it create something akin to the heckler's veto. it now appears states will not even be able to re-adopt voting procedures in place before the pandemic without input from the justice department. on july 28, the doj issued new guidance regarding state efforts to issue new temporary emergency voting procedures. the biden demonstration's new guidance suggests that states may not return to voting laws and procedures that existed before the pandemic, saying those laws and procedures may not be presumptively lawful. in 2020, state and local governments were tasked with administering elections during a pandemic. it was a once-in-a-lifetime event. many states adopted voting procedures to reduce health risks, despite prominent health officials say

that's the number two in command of the justice department. ent, effective immediately, end quote. the acting attorney general survive that attorney meeting, so the resignation liver was never. sent the reason we're learning this now as their ongoing active congressional investigations, into those final weeks in the trump white house. the senate judiciary committee is investigating chairman dick durbin, the chairman of the committee told my colleague last night, they will be calling witnesses in the coming days and weeks, in the house oversight committee reportedly spent several hours yesterday, interviewing that top justice official, who drafted the resignation letter. what more can we expect to learn? joining us now is a member of the house oversight committee, illinois congressman, thank you for joining, us you and i have talked about some amazing things over the last few. years this is really out there. there was a senior official of the justice department, fully expecting his two bosses to get fired, because they would not agree to donald

in his political friends and also to try to urge the justice department to uses very powerful tool to help him read trump used his control over the diplomacy and law enforcement technology or powers to help him win the election, john bolton's book, the very conservative john bolton who saw trump up close and personal said that in the context of his kind of law enforcement and in his kind of abuse diplomatic our, he basically said the trump seem to commit of obstruction of justice as a way of life. another example of the lustful use is the parking power work trump use this power promiscuously and not in obvious ways illegally but certainly abusively, there's not been present has come close to using the pardon power and self-serving ways to help them to pursue political agenda and help himself. in the way the truck didn't some presidents presidents had done some of that in the past but that was exceptional and trump made it the rule. so these were all that i would call serious abuses of power and amazingly, not necessarily illegal. some might've been illegal in software the most of thes

justice department to back his effort to overturn last year's presidential election. respondent, evan perez, has details. you're learning new information from your sources. update our viewers. >> wolf, this is emerging from an investigation now being done by house investigators of the house oversight committee, and this is a letter that was sent or that was prepared by patrick hova kenyon, who was chief of staff to the then-acting attorney general jeffrey rosen. it happens on january 3rd at a time when he thought jeffrey rosen was about to be fired by president trump at the time because the justice department was refusing to go along with the president's claim that the election was fraudulent. i'll read you just a part of the letter to give you a sense over what was happening. he said the acting attorney general, jeff rosen, over the course of the last week repeatedly refused the president's direct instructions to utilize the department of justice law enforcement powers to improper ends. again, this is a letter that was prepared. it was drafted but it was never sent. w

moreover, the justice department has already said these former justice department officials from the trump administration can come in and testify. and that itself was a big step, because what they've done is given a license to these former officials to come in and talk, which the trump administration just didn't do. >> i appreciate the energy. i heard you had a cold brew before the show, you'll be up until like 4:00 in the morning. >> anything for you, don lemon, i will stay up all night just to talk to you. >> thank you, i appreciate it, elliott williams, everyone. thank you, sir. >>> new york governor andrew cuomo defiant, digging in his heels and resisting growing calls to resign in spite of the state attorney general's bombshell report on sexual harassment allegations by 11 women. the impeachment investigation moving quickly, with the governor asked to submit any evidence no later than august 13. >> people are hurting right now. and they need leaders who can focus and not be in the middle of defending themselves against endless charges against them. get outta here. everybody's a

department of justice. it says in part "the department of justice is investigating various igreg lirties in the 2020 election for president of the united states. at this time we've identified significant concerns and they've impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states including the state of georgia. while the department of justice believes the governor of georgia should immediately call special session to consider this important and urgent matter, if he declines to do so we share with you our view that the georgia general assembly has implied authority under the constitution of the united states for the matter of purpose of issues pertaining to the appointment of presidential electors." basically clark and trump teaming up spell out what they want. they want the acting attorney general and his deputy to say the georgia general assembly needed to use the power entrusted to it by the u.s. constitution to simply come together and send their own electors to washington. now, this would be a violation

department of justice. it says in part, the department of justice is investigating various irregularities in the 2020 election for the president of the united states. at this time, we have identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states, including georgia. while the department of justice agrees the governor of georgia should immediately call a special session to consider this important and urgent matter, if he declines to do that, we share with you our view that the georgia general assembly has implied authority under the constitution of the united states to call itself into special session for the limited purpose of considering issues pertaining to the appointment of a presidential elector. basically, clark and trump teaming up, spell out what they want. they want the acting attorney general and his deputy, to publicly state the election in georgia was too tainted by fraud to be trusted, and that the georgia general assembly need to use the power interes

evening after jeff rozen in last week refused the president's direct instructions to utilize the department of justiceforcement powers to his own end, president removed him from the department. rich donahue. that's the number two in command at the department. rich donahue and i resign effective immediately,ent quote. but the acting attorney general survived that white house meeting, so the resignation letter was never sent. the reason we're learning this now is because there are ongoing active congressional investigations into the final weeks in the trump white house. senate judiciary committee, chairman told ari melber they'll be calling witnesses and oversight reportedly spent several hours interviewing the top justice official who drafted the resignation letter. what more can we expect to learn? joining us now is a member of the house committee. congressman, thank you for joining us. we've talked about amazing things in the last few years, but this is really out there. there was a senior official of the justice department fully expecting his two bosses to get fired because they wouldn't agree to do

bush administration, white house contacts with the justice department just the way they did with theirttorney generals as you know, you cover justice, the attorney general said no. this is exceptional. we're -- they can say -- people don't have to testify or they can fight that out with congress. again, what's happening but what we're learning is a two-fold thing and it's a powerful combination. a congressional committee with subpoena power, with the ability to get people to testify under oat and possibly compel the testimony on the one hand and no claim of executive privilege to clock the testimony on the other, and you put those two together. we learn a lot. >> but do you not think? you've been an outspoken critic of former president trump. do you not think doj should be doing more, or do you agree with what officials have been telling evan that this is more of an issue for congress? >> yeah. look, if there's a crime, people have an obligation to -- if there's clear evidence of criminality they have no case to pursue it. let sunlight in and let congress act as it chooses and if there

rosen was essentially facing firing by the president because the justice department kept telling thee that they could not find evidence to support his claims that the election was fraudulent. and so this letter was written on january 3rd as he knew that rosen was possibly going to be fired that day by the president. i'll read you just a part of the letter in which he said acting attorney general over the course of the last week repeatedly refused the president's direct instructions to utilize the department of justice law enforcement powers for improper end. and what was happening at that point, anderson, was he and other officials were facing the prospect that if the president fired rosen, that they would then also resign. he along with a number of other officials were planning to all walk out, which is something, frankly, that would recall the 1970s, the nixon era. saturday night massacre. of course, the letter never got sent because trump never fired rosen. >> essentially he was resisting a coup. >> he was. that's what the president was trying to do. he wanted the justice departme

you had jeffrey clark, who was another official at justice department.alking to behind the scenes. and jeffrey rosen. both went up to the white house, where the president essentially had these men vie for the job of attorney general. the president was looking for someone who was going to do his bidding. rosen was not willing to do that and, eventually, rosen and other officials talked the president out of firing rosen keeping him on the job. but i mean, it's -- it's an un -- just an extraordinary episode to happen inside the white house. again, just a couple days before the attack on the u.s. capitol, which was carried out by people who were believing the president's lies about the election. >> right. and if they had found some henchmen at the department of justice to go along with that, i mean, that would -- >> course of history, right? the course of history would have been changed. >>. incredible. evan perez, thank you. just to amplify both the factual absurdity but also the real danger of that letter we mentioned a moment ago, which was drafted but ne

department of justice to serve the united states president's political ends? what was going on decide the department of defense? this was not normal. what he was trying to get the justice department to do is just not how it operates. and the way to prevent that from operating in the future, is to have people sitting in this office know that it's wrong, and that there will be accountability. if you try to overthrow the peaceful transition of power, you will be held accountable. and people in congress running interference, rather than protecting the integrity of u.s. institutions and u.s. democracy itself. that's incredibly dangerous. that sends a message that if they can get by with their voter suppression laws, outrage, and disinformation and get through this election and the next one, and reclaim the levers of power, then everyone will know, there is no accountability. you can do everything you want to do, and as long as the republican party is in lockstep, you can shirk accountability. that's incredibly dangerous for american democracy, and that's why it's so

it's what they're asking and the justice department officials who spoke so far and the justice departmentm to really understand what was going on with trump's efforts to overturn the election and whether or not there is criminality criminal behavior they need to speak to people who were working at the white house. who had the full picture. >> new york times estimate reported katie benner it's a real pleasure to have you here. thank you for your clarity on this as always. i appreciate it. we've got more ahead tonight. stay with us. onight stay with us ♪ rock the boat don't rock the boat, baby ♪ ♪ rock the boat don't tip the boat over ♪ here we go. ♪ don't rock the boat, baby rock the boat ♪ see disney's jungle cruise. it's time to rock the boat, america. >> tomorrow, the government is going to release the results of the 2020 census. at least going to release the parts of it that tend to make people the most crazy. the washington post previewed a slice of that data this week with this headline that made the hosts that fox news primetime should coffee out all their collective noses all at th

so my question is, how did bill barr impacted justice department as a whole, do you think his impact is permanent pre

to decide is no longer going to be part of the lawn the justice department a strong role. and this is an issue on which we look at twice but it's conceivable that they would change it. i don't know what the administration plans are on it. bob do you have thousand that. bob: i don't know, i do have an opinion. the prison if these facing impeachment in criminal investigation, and that in and of itself they were wrong but i am concerned about the way they were obstructed and i think that we now have a problem, jack and i discussed this in the book, we have a difference of opinion on this on the one hand people assume that the president is in office and he or she cannot be prosecuted can be investigated but not prosecuted. when they leave office, there's this general sense and a little bit of sort of a wave or aftermath of the pardon that is divisive for one administration to prosecute more so than another administration prayed that perhaps a better reason is just not to do it. and jack points out in the book that he's not arguing that conduct prior to becoming president for p

we're talking about the assistant attorney general in the department of justice.d? >> sure. >> i'm not a shrink, but a lot of people seem to want to be shrinks and analyzing what happened in the 2020 election. so, i'll take my chance at it. there's a level of hysteria from your prior guests in this discussion that i think is very unhelpful in understanding what the nature of the problem we face is. and we do face a problem. i would characterize this way, it's donald trump who is a real aberration in american politics. so, before we draw sweeping conclusions from insufficient information, let's all take a deep breath. now, let me try to respond to your question which is a fair question. and to say in the reagan administration, i was an assistant attorney general in charge of the civil division. i know that job very well. it's probably the happiest job i ever had in the government. and i appreciate what you say about it being such a high-level job. i could no more helped conduct a coup against the president of the united states than the chair you're sitting in. i do

so certainly they will find it. >> the justice department, what's going to be the justice department'stigation because they are basically stepping aside for now? >> yeah. i mean, what this tells us is that at least for now they are going to be turning over documents. what's going to be interesting what this committee is able to do as far as getting documents from the former trump white house, will the white house, the current white house waive privilege to provide things that come close to the president of the right now they have already cleared four former justice officials to talk about eir interactions with the former presidt. this now comes closer. mark meadows, people in the white house counsel's fice. there's a lot of people, wolf, who served as gudrails, people that -- that the american people haveever heard of, whordrails ap was trying to pull off in those key days, and, look, again, the public needs to know and i thi that this is the way that we're going to find out. >> bause you know, elliott, there are a lot of people out there, legal experts, who don't just want an investig

he also testified that right after this enormous showdown in the oval office between top justice departmenther or not the department would intervene in georgia, about whether or not trump would replace the top of the department, right after that meeting was over, and we see this also in emails and notes released by congressional investigators, that the number two official in the department immediately reached out to that u.s. attorney, bj pak, and said call me, it was 10:30 sunday night. pak said it was made clear to him that the president was so upset about georgia, he was not going to stop hammering on georgia, that pak had the choice to quit or be fired, that he was going to be leaving right away, and you see at 7:00 the next morning, he resigns. >> what's the significance here of a u.s. attorney getting a phone call at 10:00 at night on a sunday saying this is the writing on the wall here, you either need to quit or you're going to be ousted, how significant is that? >> i think there are two things we should consider. one is that is how much the president was pressuring the justice depa

with the department of justice letterhead on the top. would have read something like the department of justice is investigating various irregular regular latarius in the 2020 election for president of the united states. the department will update you as we are able on converting investigatory processing progress. but at this time we have identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states, including the state of georgia. it's a lie. that letter would have laid the groundwork for republicans in the state of georgia to essentially invalidate as many votes as they wanted to in order to overturn the will of georgia's voters and falsely declare the ex-president the winner. this sounds like the kind of thing that goes on in authoritarian regimes in the 1930s and 40s. this is 2012 in america. and the reason -- the reason that letter was never sent was because a very small group of people decided not to be criminals. and they squashed this plot early on. the former acting attorney general jeff ros

justice department? >> you know, it is really bad.ot nearly as bad as what his boss, his ultimate boss, donald trump, did. i think jeffrey clark was simply acting out the abuse of power that the president was engaged in. you know, what's gone on here with the president is so much like what he did when he told the president of ukraine that he should come up with dirt on president biden or lose government money. i'm not sure it's a crime. i don't think any of this, frankly, is criminal in nature. but it would have been impeachable if the president stayed in office. and i think it's an abuse of presidential power, which is in many respects more important than a crime. >> laura coats, what do you think? >> well, i think it's outrageous that somebody who would not even oversee elections or voting as the head of the civil division, i was in the civil rights division at one point in my career. and the idea that it would originate from jeffrey clark in a way that actually was adopted by a number of jurisdictions who wanted to promote this big

. : >> the justice department, a couple of brief house notes first though, because the questioning point, just click on the q&a icon at the primary screen. and you will find a link for purchasing copies of hatchet man. now the key thing to know about the aspect of his background, the highlights in the book is his experience as a prosecutor. he served 14 years as one first of the federal level in the southern district of new york 2004 - 2012 and at the state level in new jersey division of criminal justice and 2012 - 2016. he states that he served as a legal analyst for cnn, and host podcast in which a special counsel in a law firm. and advising on investigations and trial strategy. it is his time as a prosecutor that he draws on for his book, his stories from the party did that highlight lessons that he learned from the norms in the principles of law enforcement. lessons that he says for himself, should learn that he ever been a prosecutor. an essay that he is a lower guard and performing as attorney general under donald trump, that is an understatement, for a range of sins charging him

you have the department of justice taking action returning to the pattern of practice investigations a lot of americans in this country voted for. they are wanting to see change around this issue at the federal level. and so that seven years later is a work, among the things that still are left undone. >> the federal legislative level because we have a department of justice pattern and practices investigation now including phoenix, arizona. those are the three cities where the department of justice is looking into it. you know, one of the things that came up last year was defund the police and there were a lot of people who liked the idea, a lot of people who disliked the idea and a lot of people who think it lacks a little bit of nuance. the attorney general, jelani, put out a statement -- i don't want to ascribe motivation, but it sounded like the long form explanation of what some people may mean when they saydee fund the police. let's listen to it. >> our society is straining the police profession by turning to law enforcement to address a wide array of social problems. too often

paula, what were these two justice department officials so concerned about?g some new information. >> dick durbin said that rosen specifically, he testified to how personally and directly involved trump was in trying to pressure these top justice department officials. >> he's the former acting attorney general. >> exactly. and helping trying to get them to help him overturn the election results. now, rosen says the former president never specifically asked him to overturn the results, but was asking him to sort of get involved in specific state elections, helping them to help him in this larger effort to basically steal the election. now let's take a listen to what durbin said. we have a clip from what he told cnn on sunday. >> what was going on in the department of justice was frightening from a constitutional point of view, to think that bill barr left, resigned after he had announced he didn't see irregularities in the election and that the pressure he was putting on jeffrey rosen, it was real, very real, and it was very specific. this president's not subt

is it the department of justice? as rachel said the problem with the department of justice, the attorney general, the poor guy goes to work every day at a crime scene. >> it is the department of justice. there is accountability in all sorts of different ways. i would argue there will be accountability potentially at the ballot box in 2022, which is going to be the first election since january 6th. and there is accountability that can occur in congress. they can pass laws to correct some of these issues that -- this impropriety that donald trump used to abuse his power. and there in fact is a law in the house drafted or a number of laws drafted by adam schiff to correct this. the trick here, and this is where sort of our urge for information conflicts with how the department of justice works. and that is that these criminal investigations, particularly one of this magnitude, related to january 6th, take a very long time. and it's very important that they remain confidential for a host of reasons that anyone who wants t

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the letter was trying to tell georgia that the department of justice had found evidence of vo voter irregularitiesa should open an investigation into it. even former attorney general bill barr said publicly that the department of justice had not found any evidence of voter fraud or voter irregularities. what we see here, wolf, is really an echo of what happened in ukraine. the what trump wanted to do was create the appearance of corruption and irregularity and use the credibility of the justice department as cover for that claim in the same way that he wanted president zelensky to announce an investigation into his opponent. this is, like, oops, he did it again. it's just the same pattern over and over again. and we are very fortunate that we had attorneys who were not willing to go along with this. >> very fortunate indeed that they weren't willing to go along with it. dana, i assume all of these officials are eventually going to be called to testify before this select committee investigating the january 6th insurrection. >> yes. and it's hard to imagine that won't happen. and the fact that the b

justice reporter evan perez. and this is really interesting. because i lay that all out. so much of it involves the department of justice. e department of justice according to evan right now is not looking at these events as prosecutable right now. so, john, what is your reaction to that? and is the doj doing enough? >> that's fairly stunning reporting. i'm kind of disappointed with the department, come what may, they should be investigating this, even if it's to exonerate trump. which i can't imagine. but to at least dig into it. they're sort of waiting for the results of the assistant u.s. attorney's investigation in the district of colombia to see if anything surfaces and head up. they are kind of waiting for a crime to quall in their lap. i don't think that's appropriate. i guarantee, i didn't blow the whistle in watergate to lay the predicate for trump to disrupt the entire government in the electoral process. this is pretty serious stuff and much u much worse than watergate. i'm surprised they're doing nothing. >> ryan, we know they were supposed to interview jeffrey rosen with his former attorney done a hue. they a

of the type of people that the president, former president was starting to rely upon in the justice department removed former officials and original confirmed officials started to leave the department at the end of the administration, leaving these acting appointments in place. >> we're learning more and more about these bizarre, very bizarre theories. thank you both very much. >>> up next, governor andrew cuomo's lawyers are now sticking out how they're shaping their defense. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." protected this nation. they are the heroes in my family. who are the heroes in yours? we can't make you leave your acne alone. but we can help get rid of the spots that your acne left behind. differin dark spot correcting serum has the maximum-strength dark spot-fading power you can get without a prescription. do things differin. your mission: stand up to moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. and take. it. on... with rinvoq. rinvoq a once-daily pill can dramatically improve symptoms... rinvoq helps tame pain, stiffness, swelling. and for some, rinvoq can even significantly

justice department. i should tell you, bj pak in his testimony on this matter were also invoked this week by georgia democrats who, right now, are trying to sound the alarm. trying to sound a national alarm about republican efforts in georgia to use these false-fraud claims trump has been taking about the georgia election. to use those false claims, even now, to justify, right now, a partisan-republican takeover of the administration of elections in georgia's largest county. fulton county. which, of course, is a diverse, dynamic, and very democratic stronghold in that state. >> former-u.s. attorney republican bj pak provided hours of testimony to the u.s. senate judiciary committee. in his testimony, he reaffirmed that investigations into fulton county by state officials and the fbi did not yield any evidence of voter fraud. it simply does not exist. republicans are acting in bad faith because they did not like the results of the election. >> that's georgia democratic state representative bee nguyen who,

every day, the justice department is putting in jail people who put minor amounts of drugs. -- there are facilitating a cool and trying to overthrow an election. i can't imagine why he would announce an investigation into the seriousness. it's got to be announced. >> i can't imagine three better guest to help us start off a new week lisa lerer, neal katyal, dr. kavita patel. coming up tonight, a preview of what is being called one of the most important senate votes of the biden presidency thus far, and perhaps ever. later, why the un says we are facing a code red for all of humanity and why a good many people who read the report today wondered if there's any time left to do something about it. comcast nbcuniversal is investing in entrepreneurs to bring what's next for sports technology to athletes, teams, and fans. that's why we created the sportstech accelerator, to invest in and develop the next generation of technology that will change the way we experience sports. we've already invested in entrepreneurs like ane swim, who develops products that provide hair protection so that eve

by pressuring the department of justice. and just make stuff up. we knew there's a lot of bad things that were happening. we couldn't get our hands on the evidence. i'm very pleased that jeffrey rosen is now stepping forward, and providing actual testimony. for investigators and i urge the department of justice to really look at what goes into this. we've >> given you agree it was a coup. given the importance of these officials, why weren't jeffrey clark and other doj officials called as witnesses, at the impeachment trial in the senate earlier this year. that seems like a huge missed opportunity. >> because what would happen in these republicans would've objective. and we would still be doing the impeachment trial right, now litigating those objections, in court. that was a problem. it was the timing of. it we knew the republicans would object. when people step forward voluntarily, like mr. rosen, that solve the problem. i also want to know that i looked at these election logs, from my perspective as a foreign prosecutor, in 18 united states code

our investigation in phoenix will be led by the justice department civil rights division. s based on the division's extensive review of publicly available information and it will consider several issues. first, whether the phoenix police department uses excessive force in violation of the fourth amendment. second, whether the phoenix police department engages in discriminatory policing practices that violate the constitution and federal law. third, whether the department violates the first amendment by retaliating against individuals who are engaged in protected, expressive activities. fourth, whether the city and its police department respond to people with disabilities in a manner that violates the americans with disabilities act. this includes whether decisions to criminally detain individuals with behavioral health disabilities are proper. fifth, whether the phoenix police department violates the rights of individuals experiencing homelessness by seizing and disposing of their belongings in a manner that violates the constitution. those last two areas of investigative f

again, i ask why hasn't the justice department gone after clark or trump? we already have so much evidence that the then president incited the insurrection and called in during the attack, begging him to call off the dogs. this is how jamie raskin summed it up. >> the president said, well, kevin, i guess these people, meaning the mobsters, are more upset about the election than you are. that conduct is object part and parcel of the constitutional offense that he was impeached for. namely incitement to insurrection that is continuing incitement to the insurrection. the conduct described not only perpetuated his continuing offense, but also provides to us, here, today, further decisive evidence of his intent to incite the insurrection in the first place. >> since then, since that impeachment trial, we've only gotten more evidence of trump's crimes. so, what would you say if you saw this happening in another country? in a venezuela or a turkey or a belarus? we would be calling it a clear coup attempt. we would be calling for the coup plotters to be prosecuted.

they could subpoena current justice department employees, they could ask people from outside of the justicek are you listening, because he could be brought in and asked to testify as well. all of this is to either make the information public, or get to the bottom of the rot that existed in the department at that time. >> and i wonder what merrick garland does or doesn't about this and two, dana, what congress does. and man, it would be nice to have an independent bipartisan 9/11 style commission right now. >> yeah, it would. and what congress is doing is trying to get information for history's sake. trying to get information so that the people who live this, that the worst attack almost ever on american democracy from within, you know, let's take the civil war aside, but just in terms of the united states capitol, that is the most important role that it is playing and it certainly would be quite different, you're right, if it was a bipartisan independent commission. but you mentioned merrick garland. it is interesting that it is still an open question whether or not these are open to crimin

so the justice department is now concluded the treasury department must turn these over.ond thought, we don't think this is a case where congress has to say they need a legislative reason. the statute is clear if any of the three tax writing committees ask for the documents, the treasury shall turn them over. we wait to see whether the trump administration folks, trump's lawyers now will resist this. i can't believe they won't. >> trump will fight tooth and nail to make sure that doesn't happen. what are the chances he'll prevail? >> slim to none. as pete said, the statute is very clear. it was to me outrageous they sought to resist turning the documents over in the first place. when any committee requests the records of any taxpayer, the treasury department shall furnish those documents. there is one argument based on the supreme court's ruling last summer, when it involves a president's tax records because it involves the separation of powers congress has to show a higher showing of the need and it can't obtain the information over any other means. they want to look at

clark had held unauthorized conversations with the former president about ways to have the department of justice publicly cast doubt on joe biden's victory. with all that, let's bring in our lead-off guests on this monday night. lisa lerer, national political correspondent for "the new york times," neal katyal, department of justice veteran, former acting solicitor general during the obama administration, who has argued dozens of cases before the u.s. supreme court, and dr. kavita patel, clinical physician, former senior policy aide during the obama administration. she's also one of our public health experts and a nonresident fellow at brookings. doctor, i'd like to begin with you. where are we, do you think, in terms of the scope of this pandemic? there are reports afoot that we need more substantial masks and not to go without certainly. >> yeah, brian, that's absolutely right. so if there could be a theme to what we're seeing, it's younger, sicker, quicker. i think that references what you've noted about more children being affected. we don't think that this delta variant is resulting in a mo