Rep. Michael Waltz on dismissal of Trump classified documents case
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Rep. Michael Waltz joined CBS News to discuss Judge Aileen Cannon's decision to dismiss the federal charges that alleged former President Donald Trump mishandled classified documents after leaving office.
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I really don't care what anyone on CBS thinks.
All CBS does is spread lies. So that’s a good thing.
Now try Biden on documents because it wasnt legal for a VP to have those documents....
Exactly
@@jennifferwalton3345 or a senator.
Yep. Robert Hur was legally appointed per the Cannon decision.
Niether is a former president. Additionally, that is what Trump was being tried for. He was tried for possessing them, refusing and obstructing their return. Even claim that he declassified them, which is irrelevant. It is irrelevant since classified documents are government property to declassify them, which would make them declassified government documents. Also, willful and unlawful retention or destruction of government documents carries a fine, prison time and permanent prohibition for the individual to ever serve as an officer if the US. The only exception is for military officers. And, yes, the president is an officer of the US. This is why he was so worried about the case. It would bar him from being president. But he brought it upon himself. All he had to do was return everything to NARA during the six months that they negotiated with him. Non-politicians would have had the doors kicked in and would be in jail without bail until the conclusion of the trial. Two-tiered justice system at its finest.
The whole reason for special counsel is the insulation of specific cases from executive control. They choose someone who has not Parr of the government. This is how it happened for Watergate, the Russian probe (under the Trump administration), Hunter Biden's case, and the documents case. From appellate court to the Supreme Court during Watergate, every court held that it was not unconstitutional. Until this one. The 11th Circuit would likely overturn her dismissal in another scathing opinion over her decision. Trump will likely appeal to the Supreme Court, which knows how five of those six will rule. They'll ironically probably side with Trump and say that Congress needs to create statutes for it. The irony is that the Constitution doesn't give any federal court the ability to interpret law, yet they use it all the time. Every time I hear a justice mention something not being in the Constitution, I am reminded that neither is the power of judicial review. The only way to get judicial review was to use it and then say we interpreted the Constitution to have granted us such power.
Corruption anyone??
Why didn't biden get charged again.
@@mushy2bc482For What? Biden has ZERO Charges!
The prosecutions are politically motivated. Turnaround is fair play. Tends to balance things out.
It's Cannon, she was in Dump's pocket from the beginning.
@@mushy2bc482 because Biden didn't have boxes and boxes full of some of the most sensitive information the US has, he didn't lie about them, and he didn't refuse to give them back. Any other brilliant questions?
Considering cbs reporting on Trump's "vicious fall" from "loud noises" sat im surprised this video had no screeching
😂 the liberal media is pure evil
Gonna be appealed with a different court. Canon taking Thomas's "wink" advice was really ill advised. What Thomas did when he made that statement that Canon took to heart was criminalized in 1911 by SCOTUS. Again, Thomas broke the law.
I Ain't Lying 🤥🤟😎💯💯
Biden couldn't be prosecuted for doing the same thing because he was too feeble minded according to the prosecutor
hahahahhaha
Really sound reasoning in the decision, which I just read. Went 93 pages discussing all of the facts and positions of each side and law, regulations and case law. That politically biased DC judge Chutkin will also now have to tackle the issue. No doubt she will find a way to disagree. SCOTUS will wait for both cases to be appealed before they will hear the case. That will probably be after November election. I predict Cannon's clear and honest reasoning will be upheld by SCOTUS.
Uncle Thomas knows there's a special prosecutor waiting for HIM.
The other felonies he was charged with will also be overturned by the Supreme court.
Because there were none ,except for those committed by Clinton, Obama, and Biden.
Did you see all evidence that grand juries & trial jury saw? Cultist opinions are futile.@@jameshendley1975
STOP making excuses you can't fool us. It was a massive failure by the Secret Service. Any one of us commenting could have done a better job than the Secret Service !@
He won't don't forget his friends at SCOTUS gave him immunity..
faulure by TRUMP he could have had mroe all he had to ask or pay for.. trump di dnot. so this is on trumps incompentance AGAIN
The Secret Service communications from Jan 6th mysteriously disappeared. It is illegal.
As a former president, Trump has a smaller detail than a sitting president. If that was inadequate for the venue, it's really the campaign's responsibility to hire more. Campaigning shouldn't be done on the taxpayer's dime (like Trump did as president).
Great decision by Canon. I just read the actual decision. First, CBS's explanation is completely wrong. Canon did not decide that he was a superior rather than inferior officer -- although she detailed the facts that tended to show that. She found that no law gives the A.G. the power to pluck up some random outsider to the Justice Department like Jack Smith and appoint him to a responsible position. If Garland had appointed a U.S. Attorney who was already duly nominated by the president and confirmed by Congress, like Hur, that would have been OK. Also, she found that Smith was illegally drawing on a bottomless fund authorized only for "independent counsels" although the law that allowed independent counsels was revoked in the 90's and Smith doesn't meet the legal definition of independent council anyway -- according to Smith's own arguments in court which claimed that he was an inferior officer working under the direction of Merrick Garland.
Failed to pick an Attorney General = how smart are you? maybe no Attorney General would take this bogus case
Absolutely ridiculous! No one should be above the law!
You libs are really something 😂😂 🙏🙏
Then Joe goes to trial for his money laundering and his classified documents that he's taken for over 50 years.
@@jameshendley1975 love your fiaist glow.. may history lok at you as they did germanies brown shrts, you are the same
@@jameshendley1975exactly something alright more like an it
Exactly including an elderly old man with a poor memory
Poor Jack Smith. Poor Democrats. I'm having pity over here.
No one is surprised, it was easy to see this coming. This person that’s being interviewed. Sounds like he’s full of BS. Also, no news here just corruption.
Very true.
Corvette documents???????
😂😂😂😂 yep
What do you think Trump was indicted for that Biden also did?
"We had a history of these special councils".... err yes, going back centuries in fact. Incredible that over a hundred years later you suddenly arrive at this decision at this time?
All because of one defendant, the same one who after two hundred years needed total immunity, Dementia Don.
Thank God for coincidence, eh?
all other were nominated and confirmed
@@jamesdouthat3999 You need to read up on this. They were never confirmed
because most special councils are done by attorney generals, which are already appointed/approved by law
Jack Smith was a private citizen, if you want to appoint a private citizen as special counsel it HAS to be done by the president and approved by law (congress/senate). That didn't happen in this case.
Nobody is above the law, including Merrick Garland's illegal appointment.
Funny how this issue never came up in the 90's with Kenneth Starr's investigation of Clinton. Just a reminder that Ken Starr also defended Trump and his good buddy Jeffrey Epsten as well.
Because it wasn't against Dementia Don and MAGA loses its mind whenever there is an attempt to hold him accountable for his crimes.
I had to go look this up but apparently Starr was an independent counsel and Smith is a special counsel. The statute that allowed Starr to operate as an independent counsel lapsed in 1999. ...this is all according to what I found online. It seems both operate in the same way but apparently there was a statue way back when that would have covered Starr.
Actually, it did come up, but not in that Clinton case. There was a non-profit which sued the government, asking it to recover classified documents that Clinton was known to have in his possession after leaving office. The result? The DOJ argued in court that under the Presidential Records Act, the president alone has the authority to decide which are personal documents and which are government documents. And that authority was absolute, and the DOJ had no legal authority to question Clinton's decision. AND the DOJ argued that the very act of taking the classified documents to his home MUST be viewed as a decision to class them as personal. This case was brought up by the Trump attorneys in his classified documents case.
@user-hg9hd9ju9g independent council appointed by the AG, Janet Reno, not a "special council" created out of thin air. After Kenneth Star stepped down he was replaced by Robert Ray at the direction of Janet Reno.
@@srmeyer2 that has nothing to do with Cannon's decision. Independent and special council are interchangeable terms. There have been seven special counsels since 1999. The terms special prosecutor , independent counsel and special council all refer to a lawyer appointed to investigate, and potentially prosecute, a particular case of suspected wrongdoing for which a conflict of interest exists for the usual prosecuting authority. The history of the special/independent counsel/prosecutor goes all the way back to 1875 . The specific term Special Counsel was used interchangeably with Special Prosecutor as far back as 1875 as well.
So what about the classified documents???
Not sure. Biden had them in several unsecured locations. One being in his garage. Weird huh.
the investigation was dropped against Joe...after Joe broke the law by taking documents as a Vice Prez...totally against the law. Trump was dragged into it as a former Prez...it's all political...if Trump wasn't standing in the way of a Biden reelection the whole investigation would never have taken place.
The government has them, so what's the big deal? It's not like Trump gave copies to a Chinese Energy company for $5 million like Biden might have.
"In July 1974, Leon Jaworski argued to the Supreme Court that not even the president of the United States was above the law. As the special prosecutor in the Watergate proceedings, Jaworski sought tape recordings made by President Nixon. The president claimed executive privilege, but the court sided unanimously with Jaworski." Guess they were wrong?
I suppose Trump wants America to foot the bill of secret service to now protect his entire resort so he doesn’t have to pay a security team. There is no end to his grift.
You're talking about the guy who donated his pay for four years to such well documented recipients as the National Park Service, Department of Veterans Affairs and so on? That's the grift?
We already footed the bill for Jack Smith's illegal Trump prosecution. $24 million per the court findings.
A history of special prosecutors, but Jack Smith was created out of whole cloth? Totally makes sense. BTW, the "history" goes back well over 100 years.
Newsom/Pelosi 2024🎉🎉.
The Trump appointed judge whose shown to be all MAGA all the time dismissed her cult leaders case. Shocking.
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Yea right I’m brainwashed because I want lower prices in America. And people like yourself who voted for Biden aren’t brainwashed or cult like 😂
@@mushy2bc482 emoji are for children...grow up or be quiet while the adults are speaking
Of the same charges Biden escaped because he's too decrepit. Btw, he wasn't even President when he confiscated the files that he showed to his ghostwriter. Syad.
Jack smith worked for Biden
The man was special council for war crimes committed during the Kosovo War. Are you saying he is not qualified to be special council for the predecessor's illegal activities against the country?
Yep. Qualifications: Must be nominated by the president and confirmed by Congress.
lol not voting for this guy… I’m doing my sample ballot rn😂
and Trump schedules these rallies in a few days or less
@@conniegilchrist6925 What's your pointless?
Enjoy...... REFILING
Newsflash for MAGA - America is already great. Let's keep it that way by not electing Donald Trump.
I thought democrats always say America was never great? 🤔
So true. America was great until Trump.
CBS Trump world
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! ... Justice prevailed!
Yes. I feel happy to see justice prevailing. It gives me hope for America.
A complete horseshit case that they knew wouldn't stick
Very true. But democrats won’t understand that.
@@nevermorefrompast-qx5wb What?
Agreed. They only wanted to wreck his campaign. All the cases against Trump are the same. Baseless garbage cases which would all be eventually settled in Trump's favor.
Let's not pretend that Judge Cannon made some brilliant ruling here.
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She did... get over it.
No need to pretend, SHE DID.
Actually she did. Her findings were solid.
For all the supporters of the criminal here saying that she did, they sure felt the opposite about John Durham going after Hunter for years over conspiracy theories.
Shocking.... All other special were approved the same as all other on history
No they weren't. They were approved legally by congress. This fool wasn't
Sherry that’s a lie. Do better! 🙏
@@kevinchambers1101he didn't have to be go read the law and started in 1999 special prosecutors don't have to be approved by Congress or nominated by Congress their appointed by doj. You know that if you wanted to educate yourself on the facts but apparently you like being willfully ignorant and you like to pair it with Fox propaganda tells you to pair it because you don't have an original thought of your own
Read the decision. No, they weren't. Robert Hur, like all other legally appointed special counsels, was nominated by the president and confirmed by Congress. Smith was a DOJ outsider who was known for his dirty legal tricks and hatred of Republicans and was never nominated by any president nor confirmed by Congress. BIG DIFFERENCE!!
Cool 😎
One would think of the “tumbling house of cards”-thing for democrats except the house is also burning at the same time.🤣
TRUMP RETURN ALL CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS IMMEDIATELY
LIAR
Then I guess Biden should too
Why are you yelling? Child😂
I think the Gestapo, oops, sorry, FBI seized them after they staged the photos of them with the added, colorful "TOP SECRET" covers.
They took all the documents when the raided Mar-a-Lago, remember?
TRUMP 2024!!!!
Its not over this will be appealed corrupt judge
She is not corrupt. Just following the law. Special Counsels have to be appointed by the President and approved by Congress. Smith was not. Case dismissed.
It won't and can't be appealed.
Deal.
😂😂😂😂 no it won’t
@@douglasb.1203it will be refiled. The case was dismissed, he wasn’t acquitted.
😂😂😂 Liberal panty meltdown
Love waltz!!!!!
so hunters off the hook right ? and all the people convicted by special counsel are free now / can they sue the courts ? lots of questions about this bizarre ruling ..
Special Counsels have to be appointed by the President and approved by Congress. Smith was not. Case dismissed.
Wait, I didn't know there was more than one Hunter....but no, both of Hunter's cases don't apply here, he lied on his gun application (I thought Lefties were against guns, so why are you defending him? If anything, you should want to see him in prison), and he didn't pay his taxes (I'm sure there's lots of other money that he's received that he hasn't reported).
Hunter's special counsel Weiss was legally appointed. The president nominated him and Congress confirmed him. Jack Smith was plucked up off the streets. Totally illegal!!!!
We have only used special councils since the 1800's. Shocking how they question it now.
they were nominated and confirmed before being appointed
Special Counsels have to be appointed by the President and approved by Congress. Smith was not. Case dismissed.
They have memories of convenience in all things, no ethical foundations, simple self-satisfaction and tribal grievance. Not people I would want sharing a foxhole.
Smith is not a legally appointed special counsel, like Robert Hur, who was nominated by the president and confirmed by Congress, as required by the Constitution.
Reversed on appeal.
Almost had em...haa haa
His 🗳️ 🙃
Appropriations Clause. Article I, Section 9, Clause 7: No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; HOW CAN SMITHS OFFICE DEFEND THERE UNLIMITED MONEY THAT CANNON SAID THEY SHOULDNT OF BEEN ALLOWED TO HAVE