you know, we've contracted the us department of justice for comment. we await the response. the french government's been accused of running a health dictatorship of response for cobra passes. people poured onto the streets of paris to voice their anger on thursday of to francis constitutional council group. the government moves legal and so to liberty, in the forty's, we had a period of occupation and people need to, to, to, to show a paper to go here or here. and it's a bad memory hearing friends. yeah. we are because i speak on behalf of everyone else. it'll angry. it's not that we against the vaccine, but we have no one said because it is only 6 months old. we can no longer go to the cinema oil. children want to go to the cinema. if the parents are not vaccinated, then they cannot, well, we can no longer do anything. it's called the fund, it's come to us because the french don't want it. we know very well that the constitutional counsel, that of people who are close to power and will not go against power. i don't much. i see this as a betrayal for french people because the

well, we have contacted the us department of justice for comment and he all responds, we'll bring it to you. and we will, of course, because the following this story, any developments as it unfolds will bring that to you as well. it's really her temporarily exempted residence of some marino from needing cobit passports, which only recognize you approved vaccines. now the tiny country sits entirely within at least borders and has almost completely immunized its out of population using rushes, but i think the shot. however, at that job, still not being given the green light by brussels, leaving many local stuck at home. earlier we heard exclusively from some marino's health minister. our green boss is erica, nice from you, bass, only for the people the summary. know about you. naked by pfizer. so the people and it is 94 percent of our population that's will be seen as the problem to move into italy in the service or italy bar or restaurant or c m. ok and the order close space, close space. so we are now working with the italian government to, to find a solution to this problem. well, ju

we contacted the us department of justice for comments will be closely following the story and bringing any developments. italy has temporarily exempted residences, some marino from needing coven possibles which you recognize. you approved faxing. see. tiny country sits entirely within its borders and is almost completely immunize its adult population using russia. splitting the shop without jump. still not been given. the green light by brussels, leaving many locals stuck at home. we heard exclusively from some marino's health minister, our green pass a recognize this from you, but only for the people in summary. know about naked by pfizer. so the people and it is 94 percent of our population that's will be seen that as the problem to move into italy and surveys are equally bar or restaurant or ok and the order closed space close space. so we are now working with the italian government to, to find a solution to this problem. lisa spending via some marino has shown it has an efficacy rates of more than 91 percent. the 32 percent of those inoculated have suffered adverse side effects wit

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we contacted the us department of justice for comment so far, no response. we spoke to barret brown, jernace, nativist, who was himself imprisoned in connection with the day to lake. he can bind in supportive mountain guts. felton says that his isn't an isolated case. having done for years and said myself, there are prison the us for my activism and having written, calling from prison. i can tell you this kind of behavior bug bureau of prisons is very common to the extent that one is engaging activism or, or simply pursuing one's own civil rights in the prison system. marty himself, over throughout the entire he was a brilliant, has been retaliated against 4 other articles. he's written or lawsuits. he has filed against the system against the visual wardens and so forth. he was shipped to a communication management unit about 2 years ago. in one of these actually magellio ation is this is where the new federal units were, are and you are not allowed to communicate with anyone a day to day, right. and so this, this is not an unusual development in so much to

we have a contact with the us department of justice for comment. now in the meantime, we did speak to byron brown or a journalist and activist who was himself in prison in connection with a data leak. he actually campaigned in support. martin got failed and says his, his is not an isolated case. nothing done for years and feds, myself of the prison. the us for my activism and having written, call them from prison. i can tell this kind of behavior bob. bureau of prisons is very common to the extent that one is engaging activism or, or simply pursuing one's own civil rights in the prison system. marty himself, over throughout the entire imprisonment has been retaliated against 4 other articles. he's written or lawsuits. he has filed against the system against individual wardens and so forth. he was shipped to a communication unit about 2 years ago in one of his actual evaluation. this is where the new federal units were for and you are not allowed to communicate with anyone a day to day. right. and so this, this is not an unusual development in so mu

fifa will receive $201 million in forfeited funds seized during a corruption probe, the us department of justice50 defendants have been criminally charged since the department ofjustice unveiled its corruption probe in 2015. more now on afghanistan and as you were hearing president biden says the us is "on pace" to meet an end of august deadline for evacuations, despite calls from allies for an extension. with thousands of afghan�*s airlifted out of the country so far, many have been asking where will they go? well, one company that has stepped forward is airbnb, it says it will house 20,000 refugees to help them resettle around the world. michelle fleury spoke to the chief executive — brian chesky and began by asking him how it would work. 0ur housing will be free to afghan refugees. 0n 0ur housing will be free to afghan refugees. on our side, some hosts will offer them for free, but by and large most of the funding is coming from airbnb, my co—founders and i. how long can people stay in these properties? where are these properties? where are these properties? where are these properties going t

of power. it was using his power as the supervisor of the department of justice to try to stay in office throughf corrupt falsehoods. and, you know, that is -- that would have been an impeachable offense if he had stayed in -- if he had stayed in office. the question is whether it is an actual crime i think is much harder. and my guess is the department of justice is going to stay away from it, which will be frustrating to a lot of democrats. >> why won't merrick garland investigate it in your view, then? >> because i think it's hard to identify which federal statutes were violated here. it's actually very similar to the president's infamous phone calling to the president of ukraine where he was threatening the withholding of american aid to get political advantage and dirt on joe biden. that was an abuse of power. the president was impeached because of that. but whether it was an actual criminal offense, i think this is a much harder call and it's also -- and i think that's a similar situation here. you know, good prosecutors are very reluctant to use their power. they only use criminal process

know first hand, trump's repeated attempts to use the justice department to overturn the 2020 election. today we get details how he tried to use the department ofustice to pursue and to create basis claims of voter fraud, including what one official who went so far as to draft a resignation letter in response to what he said were twump u trumps questions to the results. this was drafted january 3rd, three days before the deadly insurrection. but the pressure campaign started long before that and i want to lay it out for you. sow understand what we are really looking at here. i'm start with december 1st. on december 1st, trump summoned then tomorrow bill bar a to meet with him. after barr told the associated press the department of justice had quote not seen fraud on a scale that could have affectled a different outcome in the election. period, number stop. basic facts from bill barr. according to abc news reporter jonathan karl, trump said, quote, the eye and mannerism of a madman in this meeting with barr. barr tells trump in this meeting december 1st, to trump, you keep on saying the department of justice is not looking at this stuff and we a

>> i think we are getting closer to the full range of trump's big lie and his use of the department of justiceng over the attorney general, acting attorney general and trying to get them to push out the big lie. we are closer to getting to the truth. by the way, this is important because the big lie still going on with all of these voter suppression bills being considered in the legislatures. >> so many people sadly buy the big lie. >> yes. >> there's new reporting that jeffrey clark was actually given a high level intelligence briefing by trump's own appointee as director of national intelligence was told directly. there was no evidence of foreign interfeerrence in the election which clark had by trying to float at the doj. there was no information that would convince him otherwise. >> jeffrey clark is turning out to be trump's guy in the department of justice. he tried to replace the attorney general with this person, it would have been disasterous. thank goodness there were people in the doj who thought they were a separate department apart from trump. this went far. president went far to g

of command is very short. what's unusual and what unfortunately has become the norm is that the administration was using the department of justice and trying to use the united states attorneys around the country to do its bidding, more specifically, trump's bidding. and so, you know, i want to be careful and not talk about whether or not somebody should be charged, because i really think that you do serve at the discretion of the president. when you take the appointment, you're confirmed by the senate, you know the president at any time can ask you to step down. he or she, hopefully we'll see a she one day soon, but he or she can not like something that you said in public, might take a different view on a case that you've prosecuted or handled, they can ask you to step down. there's nothing particularly nefarious about that. but then i think you look at things out of the vacuum. you look at things like the call to raffensperger. you look at things like the pressure they were putting on park. those things go hand in hand. i don't know if i would say the call to park or the discussion is enough to be a criminal case here. but i th

justice department, jeffrey clark, were trying to do here? >> i think we are getting closer to the -- the full range of trump's big lie. and his usee, like it was his own law firm. jumping over the attorney general -- acting-attorney general. and trying to get them to push out the big lie. and so, we are closer to getting to the truth. by the way, is -- this is important because the big lie is, still, going on with all of these voter-suppression bills being considered in state legislatures. >> and so many people, sadly, buy the -- the big lie. >> yeah. >> there's -- there's new reporting that -- that jeffrey clark was, actually, given a high-level intelligence briefing by trump's own appointee as director of national intelligence, john ratcliffe, was told directly. there was no evidence of foreign interference in the election, which clark had been trying to float at the doj. but that clark didn't believe ratcliffe. basically, that there was no information that would convince him otherwise. >> jeffrey clark is turning out to be trump's guy in the department of justice. and he tried to replace the attorney general with this person t

trump administration officials testified before senators this weekend about efforts to use the department of justice to promote false voting fraud claims. crime and justice reporter has more. >> reporter: the senate judiciary committee over the weekend made quick work of getting on the record key leadership at the justice department at the end of the trump administration as they investigation how much president trump at the time was pressuring the leaders of the doj to substantiatuate his election fraud claims. what we learned was the number one person and the number two person at the doj at the time both sat for very substantial interviews on friday and saturday. that's the x-acting deputy attorney general. he went on five hours. on saturday the number one person, the x-acting attorney general jeff rosen spoke for seven hours with the committee and rosen specifically was talking about five key episodes where a subordinate of the two men, a man leading the environment section of law at the doj was trying to act out of the chain of command at the justice department to push election fraud claims that

, went on for seven hours, but it is all part of the larger investigation into what the former president did and if he tried to use the department of justiceverturn and undermine the results of the 2020 presidential election that he lost. listen to more from senator durbin just this morning. >> what was the most shocking to you? >> just how directly personally involved the president was, the pressure he was putting on jeffrey rosen. it was real. very real. and it was very specific. this president is not subtle when he wants something. former president. he's not subtle when he wants something. and i think it is a good thing for america that we had a person like rosen in that position. who stood -- withstood the pressure. >> reporter: and another senator who was in those interviews talked to reporters about their content. he said he was struck by how close the country came to total catastrophe. so i know we always live in a haze of headlines here on capitol hill, in broader washington and in the political world, but more and more information continues to come out about former president donald trump and those last weeks between when he lost t

former acting attorney general jeffrey rosen about former president trump's efforts to use the department of justice to overturn the results of the election. senator richard blumenthal sits on that committee and here's what he told msnbc. >> let me be very blunt. the president of the united states, then donald trump, mounted a pressure campaign that was absolutely relentless, brutal, personally involved, directly aimed at the department of justice, seeking to break it and weapon it to overthrow the election. i want to put aside talking about specific individuals, but i will say as a former united states attorney and a state attorney general for 20 years there's a real potential here for criminal charges. they should be seriously considered. >> and meanwhile a growing chorus of on-the-ground reporters and writers and scholars began sounding the alarm about 2024. their message? if present trends continue and if nothing is done, the next presidential election could be stolen, legally stolen. these are not the cries of extremely online provocateurs. they are fact-based warnings about what is actually ha

have bill barr, who, you know, during his long tenure in the department, did so much to tear down the independence of the justice department to useoint where he said i can't manufacture claims of fraud where none exists. there were ones, including jeffrey clark, who were apparently willing to do so. he was the head of the civil division of the justice department and here he is asking the acting attorney general to urge georgia to convene a special session basically to try to appoint a slate of electors who don't represent how georgians voted and on the basis of bogus claims of fraud. it's really breath taking and it shows how very close we came through the use of this fraudulent but purportedly lawful process losing our gem si. >> the report from abc news, that's the guy, this report from abc news detailing the contents of a draft, he mentioned he was the high ranking justice department official who was apparently more on board than the acting attorney general jeff rosen. the dennis hastert urges the georgia legislature to go into special session over the results. it's completely over theline. you look at these events individuall

use the completely fabricated allegations of voting fraud and irregularities that had been pumped into the atmosphere by trump and repeated by his allies and the right-wing media and use that to have the department of justice officially send a letter to the six most closely contested states, five of which have republican-controlled legislatures, and say, hey, this is the official blessing of the u.s. department of justice telling you the results in your state are tainted. they can't be trusted. we don't really know who won. and by the way, you have the constitutional authority to call a special session, select a slate of trump electors and send them along to washington. keep in mind the republicans running these state legislatures are a receptive audience. they're the same people who in michigan went like completely nuts over the governor's public health makers or the legislators in arizona running the sham election audit or georgia which have made voting much, much, much harder. finally after flailing in the courts where they got nowhere, they realized there's a much better avenue. just have the department of justice give state republicans the official green light to say, elections tainted by fraud, got t

understand trump's efforts to manipulate the department as part of the attack on the election leading up to january 6th. if trump wanted to use the department of justice to delegitimize the election, raskin noted the earlier machinations reveal his intent to overthrow our democratic process. i think the case laid out was the public statements tying the insurrectionists to the actions they took in the impeachment. and the damage they did to the building, to the police officers. but katie's reporting closes the loop on donald trump's intent. he intended, through mr. clark, to have the justice department declare the election corrupt, and have the georgia officials to overthrow their results. we know if you want something corrupt done in georgia, it's a decent bet he wanted it in other places like pennsylvania and arizona. because georgia didn't get him where he needed to be. >> i'm not sure there is an off-ramp. the public evidence is clear of trump's intent, of all the acts that occurred. and there may not be the appetite inside of doj to engage in a prosecution without another body requesting that they do so. in terms of the ig, we're probably waiting

of their deliberations. that's the jeffrey clark plot, it appears. with >> chris, that is the smoking gun. it's unnerving how close trump came to using the full weight of the justice department to overturn the election result. but clark was saying to the georgia governor and legislature's, not just you have a greenlight, but you should call a special session and say that the election was corrupt and overturn the result. now, here is the shocking part. he says, this is a concept that we can use in every other battleground state. it's like a high school student doing a copy and paste assignment. there is not even a pretense of looking at the individual states and if there was fraud committed. basically, let's just use a copy of what we did in georgia and send this to every other battleground state and tell them, it's corrupt and they should have the legislature convened to have a -- electors. it is amazing how close trump came to subverting our democracy. we got these famous notes from donahue. and again, i'm getting all this truth from the reporting and the documents it seems fairly rock-solid that rosen and donahue did the right thing here. but this of course as trump saying

department of justice. i think that there are very important evidence that have to be considered by the department of justice in an investigation of criminal lawbreaking. but the important word -- you've just usedreaking, they need to be held accountable. we want to know what happened so it never happens, again. and that has to be our common purpose here. find the facts. follow them and the law, wherever they go, and get all tr they go and get all the witnesses that will voluntarily testify to provide us their truth just as jeff rosen did very credibly. >> senator blumenthal yuft so i understand when you talk about the prospect of criminal behavior potential criminal referral are you talking about the justice department officials who allegedly participated with the former president or are you talking about the former president? >> i am talking about what we know right now which is at least one of the department of justice officials engaged in conduct that could be regarded as law breaking and certainly the pressure brought to bear on department of justice officials warrant consideration for possible prosecutions. we need to know a lot more fact. what i'm saying is that the department of justice

barr, who -- who, you know, during his long tenure in the department, did so much to tear down the independence of the justice department. to useut even he got to a point where he said, you know, i can't manufacture claims of fraud that don't exist. but there are other people in the department, including jeffrey clark, who were apparently willing to do so. and he just wasn't some senior-level official, he was the head of the whole civil division of the justice department. and here he is, asking acting-attorney general to urge georgia to convene a special session, basically, to try to appoint a slate of selectors who don't represent how georgians voted. and on the basis of bogus claims of fraud. it's really breathtaking, and just shows how very close we came through the -- the use of this fraudulent but purportedly lawful process to losing our democracy. >> the -- the -- this report from abc news -- um, yeah, that is ethe guy -- this report from abc news detailing contents of a draft letter written by jeffrey clark, as we mentioned he was the high-ranking justice department official, who was apparently more onboard with trump's

of us doing our part. not just people who have titles in the department of justice, but each of us making sure that we are te responsibly in our democracy. i'm pleased that some of those professionals in the department of justice stood up to this president, but make no mistake, we came very, very close. we must now heed the lessons of what occurred that led to january 6th. understand, the big lie led to january 6th. january 6th has now led to state lawmakers across this country not just pushing sham audits but trying to restrict the right to vote. all of these things are connected, and the american people, we need to make sure rise up against that type of conduct being perpetuated by those pushing the big lie and speak out for our democracy, speak the truth, and elevate people to positions of authority who are going to respect the rule of law. >> we should point out that you have gotten into steve bannon's head, and that is a good thing. he views you as one of the obstacles to importing a maricopa-style audit there, which i will tell you i think that's a good thing in the real world. maybe not in his word.

i think it's just further emboldened the fbi and the department of justice in its use of these typesdy. ♪ ♪ >> the liberty city/sears tower case was significant in the sense of taking people with bad motives, bad intent, off the street, holding them accountable, and then serving as a deterrent to other potential terrorists. >> were these terrorists in a real sense? >> my personal opinion was no, because-- and that's why i describe them as aspirational rather than operational-- because i didn't believe they, they could do something based on what i had seen. >> i'm not gonna hype these cases to be something that they're not. but they're very important, because if, if we can't do 'em, it's gonna be hard to stop terrorists. the liberty city case was one of the cases that we would use in training: okay, this is a cautionary tale. you know, be careful as to how far your, your undercover agents or your informants push. and when you do arrest, you know, don't overstate what, what you've got. the goal is not to take somebody that is not a terrorist and make them a terrorist. they weren't real

was this theory, real fear within the justice department that jeffrey rosen would leave and clark would start commanding the justice department and use the powers oflaw enforcement to perpetuate the election fraud and undermine and eventually over turn the election. it is extraordinary days leading up to the riot, jim. >> goodness. remarkable. a thin line between saving the election or successfully over turned it. thank you so much. >>> lawmakers tell cnn they have the votes to impeach governor andrew cuomo if he refused to resign. >> that news comes as multiple district attorneys taking another path here, looking into possible criminal charges over the sexual harassment claims against him. we'll bring you an update next. daddy printed out my permission slip, right? steven? (dramatic opera music) do you suffer from cartridge conniptions? be conniption-free, thanks to the cartridge-free epson ecotank printer. big ink tanks, a ridiculous amount of ink! the epson ecotank. just fill & chill. ♪ lisa here, has had many jobs. she's worked in retail during the holidays. as a barista during rush hour. and a nanny to a couple of rambunctious kids. now, all

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directly from former president trump's last white house chief of staff mark meadows about trump's efforts to use the u.s. justice departmentscuss this and more, democratic congressman jamie raskin of maryland and a key member of the house select committee investigating the january 6th capitol insurrection. congressman, thanks very much for joining us. does your committee, the select committee want to pursue testimony from former trump chief of staff mark meadows? >> we want to get testimony from every material witness. there was clearly a campaign originating with donald trump but sweeping within it the whole executive branch to try to convert the department of justice into an instrument of the president's political will. that's extraordinary thing that not only over rides the traditional boundary between what's political in the white house and what is law enforce 7 ment in doj but really threatens the hatch act. they were attempting to get the department of justice to become essentially campaign actors for donald trump and we know that that was part of an on going odyssey by the president, the then president to overturn t

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we have already talked to the department of justice. they have assured ushey will cooperate, with the production of various documents, that we request. that they will not stand in the way of our committee doing our job with joe biden as president, and democrats in charge, actually receiving the information, that we will need to do our job should not be as it would've been if donald trump had been elected president. >> mister chairman, i have to ask you about one thing that i noticed looking at all the different requests of these agencies. the different categories that we are looking for. some different timelines. a lot of incidents you're asking for information from it's on a different people, from a done a different things that is really narrow, just on january 6th itself. for other categories of information, you're asking for different timeframes, the timeframe between november 3rd and the january 6th attack. in the inauguration. and in some cases, you're asking for information going all the way back specifically to april 2020. requests for information ab

the what trump wanted to do was create the appearance of corruption and irregularity and use the credibility of the justice departmentat 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 biden justice department sort of in a broad way said that they are all released to do so. the opposite tact that we saw the trump administration do when they were under investigation. so that makes sense. but these are the things that are just kind of coming out now. we still don't know what we don't know. and the fact that they were, i don't know, that they were leaving a paper trail for someone like jeffrey

and lied about those nursing home deaths you were talking about in order to prevent department of justice probe. using deception to thwart the pending federal investigation is called obstruction of justice. it could also be false statements. it could also be perjury. beyond that, sean, there's the state investigation into whether he secretly exploited government workers for his own use to write and edit a book for which he was paid $5 million. the conversion of government resources for personal financial gain is called corruption. it's a crime on the street. it's known as theft. finally, let's not forget about all the 11 accusers who were eligible to file lawsuits for money, damages against cuomo and the state of new york for all of the reasons, sexual harassment, retaliation, hostile workplace, ratified by the state attorney general in a 165 page report which he said is evidence cuomo violated state and federal laws egregiously. to the reign of terror by andrew cuomo may be over but his legal problems are just beginning. >> sean: let me go to the doj on the nursing home issue because they decided to

directly with trump on a lot of these issues between the election and the end of december and he used the powers of the justice departmentnvestigate a lot of these claims and he realized that trump was going to be unconvinced no matter what the evidence was. at the same time bill barr was someone that really, you know, he may take issue with this characterization but really enabled the president and was a tool of the president over his time as attorney general, like dating back to the mueller report and how he managed the end of the mueller investigation and throughout barr's tenure was really the attorney general that trump had been looking for on a lot of issues until basically he wasn't until the summer of 2020 when that relationship really starts to fray. so will we hear from bill barr? how will we hear from bill barr? what does bill barr have to say? >> bill barr famously saying the claims of the election being rigged were, quote, b.s.. michael schmidt thank you very much. i want to get your take, joe on this column in "the washington post," entitled why traditional conservatives should root for biden's success. ger

we've already talked to the department of justice. they have assured ushat they will cooperate with the production of various documents that we request, that they will not stand in the way of our committee doing our job. so with joe biden as president and democrats in charge, actually receiving the information that we will need to do our job should not be as difficult as it would have been had donald trump been re-elected president. >> mr. chairman, i have to ask you about one thing that i noticed looking at all the different requests to these agencies, the different categories of information that you're looking for. i noticed some different timelines. in a lot of instances, you're asking for information about a ton of different people and a ton of different things they were doing, but the time frame is really narrow. it's just on january 6th itself. for other categories of information, though, you're asking for different time frames. the time period between november 3rd, for example, and the january 6th attack and the inauguration. in some cases you're a

s. department of justice. he's joining us from washington, d. c. hi there, thanks for speaking to us on the news. ours. so, i mean, this is not a new issue, migrants trying to make their way to the us. but how do you explain these sharp uptake in numbers, particularly in the hot summer months in june and july, and seemingly since president biden took office? well, there are, there are what are called both factors and there are what are called factors. and both are at epic, so from the miss thoroughly on fresco. alright, apologies. we have lost our connection to the on for go. we will move on to other news for now and tell you about what's going on and sure lanka, because the archbishop of colombo is saying that he will seek international support . if this ruling can, government fails to bring justice to victims of the 2019 easter attacks. the church is demanding more transparency around the official investigation. when l fernandez has more from columbus, the catholic church is scathing in this government's treatment of the east bombings and the inq

president was trying to gin up all of these allegations and trying to substantiate them, and he couldn't do that. and what he wanted to do is use the justice department say yes, there is a problem with the election and if -- you know, if certain states want to do something about it that they're within their right because the justice department says this is a bad election. now these efforts fail, they didn't go anywhere, but it was the most aggressive effort we've seen certainly in modern times to try and use the justice department to subvert the will of the people. >> mike, it's jonathan lemire. it does seem striking we seem to have almost daily revelations about how the former president tried to use the levers of government to hold onto power and how close he came perhaps to succeeding. what are the next steps. who else are we going to be hearing from, who else is going to be testifying in the days to weeks to months ahead, what more could we learn about the disturbing days that took place between election day and january 6th and january 20th when president biden did take office? >> i think one of the biggest questions in that area is are we going t

the justice department's decision not to exert executive privilege over these conversations, we may not have known about a lot of this conduct and the efforts by former president trump to directly useurn the election, but if you think about the mandate that garland came in with, it was to restore the integrity to the justice department, and once again try and at least in the eyes of the public reinforce that this is an independent institution, and that is part of why when he's been asked about whether or not there's going to be a comprehensive investigation into the previous administration he's pointed to the department's inspector general investigating some of these matter, including efforts to overturn election, but he says he does not want the department to real be behind that kind of comprehensive review because it risks politicizing the work of the career officials there. at the same time though because they have said that a lot of their mandate is about restoring the rule of law, there's some critics who want this justice department to make it more clear through some some kind of consequences that no one including a former president is above the law. >> bill, you're being ver

department of justice. absolutely horrifying and dramatic detail that jeff rosen described made it all the more real to us.n realtime. anybody standing up to the president in the oval office, the wake of that office and the importance of that historic moment, they really had very important role in history and i must say, the seriousness of it was conveyed very importantly during the interview. >> obviously this is important for history. in terms of accountability, both the justice department and for potentially the former president, there is the question of what happens to this information. we expect that presumably -- will release the transcripts. there might be some report at some point. i was struck through the testimony that you said you see the prospect for criminal charges here. does that mean you are expecting your committee to make a credible -- criminal referral? >> we have to go forward with our investigation and of course they will decide what witnesses have to be proof sued. they will testify on wednesday but there are great many others who had positions of public trust, and donald trump uses a