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district attorney who indicted
former president trump is now
suing Republican congressman Jim
Jordans, our chief congressional
correspondent. Manu Raju is up
on capitol hill for us, Manu
walk us through this lawsuit and
how congressman Jordan's now
responding. Alvin Bragg, the
Manhattan district attorney,
filing this lawsuit in federal
district court, seeking to
prevent Jim Jordans
investigation into brag from
going forward, of course, brag,
brought forward the case against
Donald Trump that led trump to
become the first former
president to be indicted and
criminal charges stemming from
that hush money investigation
involving the former dull film
actress stormy Daniels and
accusation that he falsified
business records are trying to
help his political career in
2016. What Bragg is alleging in
this lawsuit is that Jordan, in
his words is trying using a
transparent campaign to
intimidate and pack him and
issue a subpoena that Jordan's
issued last week for a former
district attorney in his office
. Mark Pomerantz and bite brag
is trying to block that subpoena
blocked the efforts to get
primaries to come, testify and
for those documents that Jordan
has demanded. They say this in
this lawsuit, congress lacks any
valid legislative purpose to
engage in a free ranging
campaign of harassment and
retaliation for the district
attorney's investigation and
prosecution of Mr trump under
the laws of New York. Can
campaigns, a direct threat to
federalism and the sovereign
interests of the state of new
York? The court should enjoying
the subpoena and put an end to
this constitutionally
destructive fishing expedition.
Now Jim Jordans pushing back in
a tweet, saying, firstly,
indicted present for no crime.
Then they sued to block and
congressional oversight. When we
ask about the federal funds,
they say they used to do it that
werewolf about $5000 in funds
that brags offices were used for
a different trump investigation
, but Jordan's still pushing
ahead and plans to have a field
hearing in Manhattan next week
to try to discredit brag in his
record prosecuting a crime in
New York. All right, Manu Raju
up on capitol hill watching all
of this. Thank you very much.
Let's get some analysis right
now from our legal and political
experts. Laura Coates. How
strong is Braggs case? Case
here. Oh, right from sound in
this indictment and a lot of a
second. Hold on a second. I
don't know if I wasn't hearing
you, Laura, are you hearing me?
Okay I am hearing your now. Here
you go ahead. Start again. How
strong is Braggs case here? It
is quite strong, given the fact
that of course, it's never been
happening before where you've
got a member of congress in the
federal government trying to
usurp the role of a state level
prosecutor. It's about staying
in one's lane and remember, it
was a grand jury. Hey that
indicted this particular
individual, a grand jury, not a
politically motivated or elected
official, as he is accused of
being that makes a world of
difference here. And so what you
have now is an intention to try
to undermine the process that
needs to play out in any
criminal proceeding and instead
use congressional wait to try to
influence perhaps what might
take place here. We'll see. Adam
Kinzinger congressman Jordan's
your former colleague. How hard
will he and other house
Republicans fight all this? Will
help fight as hard as he can. As
long as he's raising money. This
is all about raising money. It's
about showing the base you're
fighting. So if he stops, you
know being able to raise money
on this will probably stop
fighting. But my guess is among
the base among the people that
you know they continually go to
and milk every dollar that they
make from them on this, you
know, political move that
they're actually doing Jim
Jordans. Then he'll keep doing
it, but I think he's completely
wrong to continue to go after
prosecutor on this Alvin Bragg
we believed as Republicans in
state rights states' rights
until about five minutes ago,
when it became inconvenient, and
Donald Trump isn't anything but
a employee of the federal
government and being an employee
of the federal government or a
former employee of the federal
government. Does not indemnify
you against any case brought by
a steak horde. Gloria Borger.
How much is this congressional
effort to investigate brag led
by these Republicans, actually
about defending former president
trump. Oh, it's all about
defending former president trump
and I'm old enough to remember
when congressman Jordan's was
subpoenaed to appear before the
January 6th committee, which
Adam Kinzinger, of course, was a
part of and what did Jordan's
himself do? He challenged the
constitutionality of that
subpoena before a congressional
committee. He did not appear,
and now he is the ones
subpoenaing mark Pomerantz here
and so you know, it's kind of
ironic to me that he would say,
oh, yeah, we have the right to
subpoena mark Pomerantz, but he
himself did not appear before
the January 6th committee. Adam
Gloria makes a very solid point
here. What incentive does brag
have to comply with house
Republicans now that the shoes
on the other foot well, I don't
think he has any. I don't think
he has any incentive. And I said
this during the whole, uh you
know, the committee hearing is
like, look, you guys want to be
in the majority, you're going to
be in the majority. More than
likely. Now they are. And now
you think you have the right to
subpoena people. When you said
that congress didn't have the
right to subpoena you, it is
kind of the shoes on the other
foot, and frankly, turnabout is
fair play. I hope we can get
back to a functional congress.
But we're not there right now.
Laura how will this fight fit
into the bigger picture of
Bragg's ongoing case against
trump? This is so crucial. I
mean, first of all, grand jury
particular supposed to be
secret, and so until there is
actually a trial or any grand
jury related testimony or
evidence that ought to come in
under a judicial order and
permission, we have a long way
to go until that point, the idea
of using the court of public
opinion through whatever hearing
Jordan is anticipating, rather
than waiting for the process to
unfold, and I remind everyone
there was a the reason we wait
for the court of law. There are
protections. There is
evidentiary protections that are
in place there that you want to
have in place as much to protect
the defendant. As for the united
States, government or the state
government as well, and so if
you have everything unfold at
the whim of a politician, as