What Chuck Schumer is trying to do is illegal, warns Whitaker

MARIA: WELCOME BACK MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY ALVIN BRAGG AND JUAN MERSHON WORKING TOGETHER TO DEPRIVE FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS CONSTITUTIONAL LEGAL RIGHTS IN THE NEW YORK TRIAL. ALL OF THIS ACCORDING TO JUDICIARY REPORT, THE COMMITTEE SAYS THEIR FINDINGS SHOULD PROMPT THE COURT NEW YORK APPELLATE COURTS TO REVERSE THE VERDICT, THE 35 REPORT OUTLINES THE COMMITTEE'S FINDINGS SINCE IT LAUNCHED ITS PROBE INTO THE CASE LAST MARCH SENATE MAJORITY LEADER CHUCK SCHUMER IS ANNOUNCING PLANS TO ADVANCE LEGISLATION TO STRIP TRUMP OF THE IMMUNITY THAT HE WAS GRANTED UNDER THE RECENT SUPREME COURT RULING PROTECTING THE PRESIDENT OFFICIAL ACTS FROM CRIMINAL PROSECUTION, JOINING THE ACTIVE U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL MATT WHITAKER, GREAT TO SEE YOU, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE, WE REALLY APPRECIATE IT. WE HAVE A LOT TO TALK ABOUT, FIRST LET'S TAKE YOUR TAKE ON THE SCOTUS RULING, WE KNOW THE SUPREME COURT RULED PRESIDENT TRUMP DOES HAVE IMMUNITY FOR OFFICIAL ACTS IN THE WHITE HOUSE. IMMUNITY FROM ANY PROSECUTION BUT SCHUMER WANTS TO REVERSE THAT, YOUR THOUGHTS? >> CHUCK SCHUMER IS OBVIOUSLY WRONG ON THIS. THE SUPREME COURT LAID ON THE IMMUNITY DECISION WHAT THE LAW IS AND NOT JUST WHAT THE LAW PASSED BY CONGRESS BUT THE CONSTITUTION PROTECTS FOR PRESIDENTS BECAUSE OF THE SEPARATION OF POWER IN THE STRUCTURE IN ARTICLE ONE VERSES ARTICLE TWO, CHUCK SCHUMER DOESN'T HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE SCOTUS RULING BECAUSE IT'S A CONSTITUTIONAL OPINION AND NOT JUST WHAT THE LAW IS. THIS IS A CLASSIC WASHINGTON, D.C. TRYING TO PUT THEIR THUMB ON THE SCALES BUT THIS ISN'T GOING TO WORK. IT IS ILLEGAL WHAT CHUCK SCHUMER IS TRYING TO DO. MARIA: YOU THINK THIS IS POLITICS NOT GOING TO GO ANYWHERE? >> ANYTIME CHUCK SCHUMER IS DOING ANYTHING IS JUST POLITICS. BUT IN THIS CASE HE DOES NOT HAVE ANY ABILITY TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION THE HARD WAY WHICH IS GOING TO THE PEOPLE AND PASSING OUT OF CONGRESS BY SUPER MAJORITY. I JUST DON'T THINK IT'S GOING TO WORK. MARIA: WHAT ABOUT THE NEW REPORT FROM JUDICIARY THAT THE MANHATTAN DA WAS WORKING WITH THE JUDGE AND JUAN MERSHON TO DEPRIVE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL RIGHTS, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE GAG ORDER IN ALL OF THE ATTENTION ON WHAT TOOK PLACE IN THE COURTROOM, THE JUDICIARY WANTS THAT VERDICT OVERTURNED, WILL IT WORK? >> I THOUGHT IT WAS A REALLY GOOD COMPREHENSIVE SUMMARY OF ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WERE WRONG BOTH LEGALLY AND FACTUALLY WITH THE CASE AND HOW IN CONCERT TOGETHER THE DA, ALVIN BRAGG AND HIS OFFICE ALONG WITH MATTHEW COLANGELO WORKED WITH JUDGE MERSHON THAT NEVER SHOULD'VE BEEN ADMISSIBLE THAT WAS RELEVANT OR PRESIDENTIAL AND HOW THE LAW WAS TWISTED IN HOW THE CONSTITUTION WAS VIOLATED AND THE CHARGES WERE THE JURY DID NOT HAVE TO BE UNANIMOUS ON THE ACCOUNTS OF WHAT THEY CONVICTED DONALD TRUMP OF. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE SEEN IN SUCH ASSISTING COMMANDER WITH ALL OF THE LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS LAID OUT AND ALLOWED TO SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY. IT WAS VERY WELL DONE PRODUCT. MARIA: THERE'S ALSO EVIDENCE OF MEETINGS BETWEEN SOME OF THE PROSECUTORS THAT HAVE BEEN TRIED TO TAKE TRUMP DOWN THAT OF BEEN MEETING WITH THE WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL BACK IN NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR. THERE IS AN ARGUMENT TO BE MADE THAT THIS IS CORRELATED BY HIS POLITICAL OPPONENT, JOE BIDEN. MARIA: I'VE SEEN MY PHONE JOHN RATCLIFFE COME ON YOUR SHOW AND LAYOUT THE CASE VERY COMPELLING MANNER NOT ONLY DID YOU MATTHEW COLANGELO, NUMBER THREE MOVED TO JUDGE MERSHON'S TO PROSECUTE DONALD TRUMP IN THIS CASE AND BEFORE THAT LETITIA JAMES IS OFFICE TO MAKE SURE THE CIVIL CASE WAS PROCEEDING BUT YOU ALSO HAVE THE MEETINGS WITH FULTON COUNTY DA, WITH OTHER FOLKS TO TRY TO COORDINATE. REMEMBER THE CALL WENT OUT FROM JOE BIDEN WHERE HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO HOLD DONALD TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE TO THE LAW IN ALL THE FOLKS PICK THIS UP WHETHER MERRICK GARLAND, FANI WILLIS OR ALVIN BRAGG IN ORDER TO DO ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND FORTUNATELY FOR THE RULE OF LAW, THE SYSTEM HAS WORKED IN PUSHBACK AGAINST THE NOVEL LEGAL THEORIES WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET DONALD TRUMP WITH IN THE ELECTION YEAR. MARIA: LET ME GET YOUR TAKE ON THE WORK OF THE DAY THAT IS FOR THE CONGRESSWOMAN ANNA PAULINA LUNA EXPECTED TO FORCE A VOTE IN A RESOLUTION THAT WOULD FIND ATTORNEY GENERAL MARK HUNTER MERRICK GARLAND $10000 A DAY WOULD NOT COMPLYING WITH THE SUBPOENA TO HANDOVER THE AUDIOTAPES FROM BIDEN'S INTERVIEW WITH THE SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT HUR. MIKE JOHNSON SAID IF IT'S BROUGHT TO THE FLOOR HE WILL VOTE FOR BUT SOURCES TOLD ME THAT JOHNSON HAS CONCERNS AND ACTUALLY TRYING TO STOP LUNA. I SPOKE WITH ONE LAWMAKER THE SAID JOHNSON IS TRYING TO STOP LUNA FROM INTRODUCING HER CONTEMPT RESOLUTION AND HE'S BEEN DOING THIS FOR WEEKS ALTHOUGH EVEN WITH THAT THERE'S NO ENFORCEMENT TO THE RESOLUTION INTO ONE PASS BECAUSE REPUBLICANS WILL VOTE FOR. SHE CHANGED THE LANGUAGE TO FINDING GARLAND BUT CONGRESS HAS NO ABILITY TO FORCED TO EITHER WHAT YOUR TAKE ON THAT DOESN'T SCHOOL NOWHERE AS WELL? >> ORIGINALLY THIS IDEA OF CONTEMPT IS A PRETTY GOOD IDEA AND I THINK IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS THAT CONGRESS HAS THE POWER TO BRING WITNESSES AND GET INFORMATION WHEN THEY ISSUE A SUBPOENA. AT THE SAME TIME IT'S ALSO THE TOOL THAT IS CERTAINLY IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY BRAKE, THE QUESTION IS DO YOU WANT TO USE THE TOOL RIGHT NOW IN THIS CIRCUMSTANCE, THERE'S NO DOUBT THAT MERRICK GARLAND IS IGNORING AND VIOLATING A SUBPOENA NO DOUBT PETER NAVARRO AND STEVE BANNON ARE IN JAIL FOR CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS, MERRICK GARLAND SHOULD BE TREATED SIMILARLY BUT THERE ARE SOME REAL UNTESTED CHALLENGES THAT CONGRESS IS GOING TO HAVE TO JUMP THROUGH THE HOOPS AND FOR SOME REASON THEY LOSE ANY OF THE ARGUMENTS IN COURT WHEN THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PUSHES BACK AS YOU WOULD EXPECT THEY WOULD BACK COULD TAKE AN IMPORTANT THREAT OFF THE TABLE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF CONGRESS. MARIA: TODD. >> IN THE END TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HEAR THE ROBERT HUR TAPES BEFORE NOVEMBER 5? >> THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION, OBVIOUSLY WE SAW WITH OUR OWN EYES THE CURRENT SITUATION WITH JOE BIDEN AT THE DEBATE. I THINK THAT TOOK THE NEED FOR IT BUT AT THE SAME TIME ANOTHER PIECE OF EVIDENCE. RIGHT NOW THE MESSAGE HE HAD A BAD NIGHT AND HE STILL IN COMMAND OF EVERYTHING AND AS LONG AS YOU GET THEM IN BED BEFORE 8:00 P.M., THE TAPES ARE IMPORTANT, I THINK MERRICK GARLAND WILL GIVE THEM THE DAY AFTER THE ELECTION OR IN TIME THAT IT WON'T HELP CHANGE THE OUTCOME OF THE ELECTION BUT OBVIOUSLY JOE BIDEN CONTINUES TO TAKE ON WATER IN HIS MENTAL FACULTIES ARE UNDER QUESTION. MARIA: WE JUST SPOKE WITH RALPH NORMAN AND HE WAS QUITE CONCERNED ABOUT PEOPLE TIED TO ISIS COMING INTO THE COUNTRY, TERRORISTS POTENTIALLY COMING INTO THE COUNTRY, THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY ANNOUNCED JAPANESE WILL BE OFFERED PROTECTED STATUS FOR ANOTHER 18 MONTHS AS IRAN BACK TO THE REBELS DESTABILIZED THE COUNTRY. SOME ARE CALLING IT A RISK AS YEMEN IS CONSIDERED A SPECIAL INTEREST ALIEN COUNTRY MEANING THAT YEMEN POSES A POTENTIAL NATIONAL KIT SECURITY THREAT. IN THE LEGAL LOBBY AND MARGARET WANTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGES IN SPAIN HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN MASSACHUSETTS ACCORDING TO ICE, THE MIGRANT CROSS THE BORDER ILLEGALLY IN DEL RIO TEXAS IN JULY OF 2022 AND THE IMMIGRATION JUDGE RELEASED ABOUT ORDER ON RECOGNIZANCE RECOGNIZANCE, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT ALL OF THIS? >> THIS IS MOST DANGEROUS TIME SINCE 9/11 FOR AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY, THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT OUR BORDER SITUATION OF 10 MILLION OR MORE OF PEOPLE COMING INTO OUR COUNTRY ILLEGALLY HAS DESTABILIZED AND MADE US LESS SAFE. I WORRY EVERY DAY ABOUT A TERRORIST INCIDENT OR INCIDENTS COORDINATED WERE NOT COORDINATED ON AMERICAN SOIL. THE TPS FOR MANY MIGRANTS ILLEGALLY ENTER COUNTRY IS VERY DANGEROUS TO ALLOW THE FOLKS FROM KNOWN TERRORIST COUNTRIES THAT REMAIN IN OUR COUNTRY. MARIA: IT SEEMS QU

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Length: 8min 41sec (521 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 10 2024