Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. Today, monumental breakthrough in these sometimes

frustrating pursuit and pace of accountability and justice in the aftermath of the deadly

attack on the U.S. Capitol. In the 785 days since the insurrection he incited, Donald Trump

has managed to squirm his way through an impeachment, then we will pass to bipartisan

congressional investigations, stretching the scope of presidential immunity to great

effect so far. But now, the Justice Department says in a brand new court filing, such immunity

should not shield Donald Trump from multiple civil suits that have been brought by police officers

and members of Congress. In that new filing, in the course of urging an appeals court to reject

Trump's immunity claim, the Justice Department was very careful to avoid taking a position on

whether Trump is actually liable for causing the riot. But the new action does open new doors of

potential accountability for him. DOJ is essentially telling the court it does not believe Trump can

use immunity to avoid civil litigation. Consider for a minute what this could mean. Those officers

who run the front lines during the deadly attack and the innocent people that they courageously

protected may soon be able to make the case in front of a jury that Trump himself was responsible

for whatever trauma they sustained, physical or psychological. And thanks to the good work of the

January 6th Select Committee, the American people are already well aware of what that trauma looked like.

Get him up! Get him up! Get him up! Get him up!

They were peaceful people. These were great people. The crowd was unbelievable and I mentioned the

word love, the love, the love in the air. I've never seen anything like it.

Now, in the direct aftermath of what the FBI director called an act of domestic terrorism,

as Republicans look the other way and double down and triple down and protecting Trump from impeachment,

one of the more surprising voices to emerge on the narrow topic of civil litigation

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