00:00Commissioner Treanor, I want to read from your testimony, they have said idly by and allowed a state officer to assert federal jurisdiction where they themselves had taken jurisdiction and couldn't prosecute.
00:11I want you to unpack that sentence for us again real quick.
00:13Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the question.
00:15The Department of Justice, all of these claims with regard to the $130,000 from Ms. Daniels stem from a complaint that was filed at the Federal Election Commission following the 2016 election.
00:25But you guys were investigating.
00:26We were in the process of investigating that.
00:28And the DOJ came to you and said, stand down, we're taking over, and give us your information.
00:33They asked us to abate that and several other things.
00:35DOJ meeting the Southern District of New York.
00:37That's correct.
00:38They took your information and you guys, you voted to stand down and give it to the Federal Authority.
00:42That's correct, Mr. Chairman.
00:43And they determined that there was nothing there to prosecute other than Michael Cohen.
00:46That's correct.
00:47They took a very long time in doing it and when they sent it back to us, we had no more authority to investigate because they sent it back to us and we were barred by the statute of limitations from even investigating the norm.
00:58Civil things that we would look at with regard to those type of expenditures.
01:01But your point here is they've said idly by and allowed a state officer to assert federal jurisdiction where they themselves had intervened to use the word and and taken jurisdiction from you and concluded there was nothing there regarding a federal statute.
01:16Right.
01:17That is a, quote, federal crime that they come up with.
01:21That is correct, Mr. Chairman.
01:22And I don't know what role Mr. Colangelo played in that investigation that took place when they took it away from the Federal Election Commission, did that investigation, and then he later left the office to go prosecute this at the state level.
01:32We're going to find that out on July 12th when Mr. Colangelo will be sitting in your seat.
01:35Mr. Bragg will be sitting in Ms. Foley's seat.
01:37We'll get a chance to ask him.
01:38The Democrats talk about, you know, jury of his peers.
01:46OK, fine.
01:47That's how our system works.
01:49But if President Trump didn't learn what the unspecified crime was until the jury got the instructions from the judge, that sort of changes the dynamic a little bit, doesn't it?
01:59Yeah, it's not blaming the jury.
02:01Of course.
02:02I mean, the jury, you know, has to operate according to the instructions provided by the judge.
02:07You know, the fruit, the poison here, the poison pill are the jury instructions themselves, which provided the notice, but it came too late for purposes of due process.
02:17So, yeah, I mean, you can't correct that through a bad set of jury instructions.
02:22You know, if there's a due process defect because he learned too late, you have to redo the trial.
02:27You have to reverse the conviction, and then the prosecutor has to decide.
02:30Yeah.
02:33I mean, I was an economics major.
02:35I mean, a major focused on wrestling, but you had to get a degree.
02:38I got one in economics, and they talk about this opportunity cost.
02:40If you don't know what the issue is, you missed the opportunity to maybe focus in on the issue as the defense counsel, right?
02:47Yeah.
02:48That's kind of important, particularly when you're talking about what kind of sentence they may try to impose on the president on July 11th.
02:55That's kind of important, right?
02:56It's kind of important, and I would suggest that any member of this committee who faced similarly amorphous charges or a loved one would be absolutely incensed by facing these kinds of charges, where it was a moving target.
03:09I'm not the only constitutional scholar who's raised this concern, this, I think, huge concern.
03:14Mr. Dershowitz, Mr. Turley, I mean, other esteemed constitutional scholars have said the same thing.
03:22I'm in good company.
03:23I think there's a general consensus that there are some due process problems here.
03:27You sure are.
03:28You sure are.
03:29Mr. Attorney General, July 15th, 2021, Alvin Bragg.
03:33I'm the candidate in the race who has the experience with Donald Trump.
03:36And I think it'd be hard to argue with the fact that that'd be the most important, most high-profile case.
03:41And I've seen him up front and seen the lawlessness that he could do.
03:45That's what he said as a candidate.
03:47Does that fit with kind of the ethics of someone who's a member of the bar and running for district attorney's position?
03:54Is that how you're supposed to conduct yourself in a campaign?
03:57Absolutely not.
03:58That abhorrent statement is an incurable impropriety that should have disqualified Alvin Bragg from prosecuting that case.
04:05Yeah.
04:06Not to mention, then, when he gets the job, he looks at the facts, looks at all the evidence,
04:11and he concludes, like, this case, I shouldn't prosecute it.
04:14I should do what the Federal Elections Commission did, not prosecute.
04:18What the Southern District of New York did, not prosecute.
04:20What my predecessor, Cy Vance, did, not prosecute.
04:23That's what he wanted to do until the political pressure came.
04:26They talk about us all the time, pressure.
04:28Came from the left.
04:30Mark Pomerantz left his job, volunteered, goes and becomes an assistant district attorney to go after President Trump.
04:36And then when Alvin Bragg gets there and looks at how crazy the case is, Michael Cohen's going to be their star witness,
04:40he goes, this is crazy.
04:41I'm not doing it.
04:42I'm not that crazy.
04:43But then they leak.
04:45Pomerantz resigns, leaks the letter, and all the left goes crazy.
04:49And Alvin Bragg says, now I'm going to do what I said during the campaign, even though I know it's wrong.
04:54And that's what happened.
04:56He got a judge that went along with all the crazy things Ms. Foley's pointed out.
04:59That's the story.
05:00And that story is consistent with the facts.
05:03That's why we're here today, and that's why we look forward to Mr. Bragg and Mr. Colangelo sitting right where you're at so they can answer our questions.
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