For months former President Donald Trump and his allies have claimed

without evidence that the Biden administration has weaponized the

Department of Justice to pursue prosecutions against him for purely political reasons.

But as Laura Barone Lopez explains, the presumptive Republican nominee has also suggested

that a second Trump term could see an escalation of those prosecutions.

On the Donald Trump first called for his political enemies to be locked up during his

2016 campaign.

Now he's forecasting plans to enact such threats if he returns to the White House.

Last night Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Mr. Trump to respond to criticism that he would seek retribution

against his opponents.

It has to stop because otherwise we're not going to have a country.

Look, when this election is over,

based on what they've done, I would have every right to go after them and it's easy

because it's Joe Biden and you see all the criminality, all of the money that's

going into the family and him.

To discuss the rule of law and how a future President Trump could upend it.

I'm joined by Ryan Goodman, a professor at NYU Law who previously served as special counsel at the

Department of Defense. Ryan, thank you so much for joining us. There's been no

evidence of President Biden weaponizing the Justice Department and some of these prosecutions we

should note are state prosecutions not federal. What are the implications of

Trump's comments to Fox News? I think they're very serious implications because the President of the United States

is the commander-in-chief, but is also the top executive for the Justice Department and has

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