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🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Fmr. U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg explains the three statutes in the target letter sent to former President Trump as part of the probe into January 6th and 2020 election interference. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), a member of the House Oversight Committee, discusses the IRS whistleblowers alleging the Justice Department’s probe into Hunter Biden was mishandled. Chinese President Xi Jinping says the country’s environmental policy “will never be influenced by others” following U.S. climate envoy John Kerry’s visit to the country. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	If it's Wednesday, we have new details on the target letter Donald Trump received from special counsel Jack Smith,
0:08.0	including the potential criminal charges he could be facing tied to the investigation into the 2020
0:13.5	election interference and January 6th. Plus, Trump's allies zero in on testimony this afternoon
0:20.4	from a pair of IRS whistleblowers
0:22.8	who alleged misconduct and preferential treatment and the government's investigation into the president's son, Hunter Biden.
0:30.3	And a severe summer heat wave breaking records and threatening lives worldwide
0:34.7	as U.S. and Chinese officials meet in Beijing to talk climate cooperation.
0:51.7	And welcome to meet the press now. I'm Ryan Nobles, in for Chuck Todd here in Washington. And that's where the House Oversight Committee is hearing right now from two IRS whistleblowers who allege political interference in the Justice Department's investigation of Hunter Biden. Those allegations have been a focus of House Republicans' continued investigations of the current president.
1:11.8	And it comes as we learn more about the latest possible indictment facing former President
1:16.9	Donald Trump and his efforts to rally Republicans to his defense.
1:21.3	NBC has confirmed that the special counsel's target letter to Trump in its investigation
1:26.0	into January 6th and interference in the
1:28.6	2020 election specifically cited three federal statutes in play. Deprivation of rights under
1:35.1	color of law, conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and tampering with a witness. Those statutes
1:41.4	suggest a potential roadmap for what the president could be charged with and what charges he may not face.
1:48.2	Sitting on social media, the former president continued to attack the special counsel's investigation,
1:53.4	claiming it was a form of, quote, election interference to derail his candidacy.
1:58.2	This is what he told supporters in Iowa last night.
2:01.7	If you say something about an election, they want to put you in jail for the rest of your life.
2:05.9	It's a disgrace. So they can cheat on an election, but if somebody wants to question the cheating,
2:11.4	they want to call you a conspiracy theorist and all these other things. These people are sick.
2:17.6	NBC has also confirmed that Mr. Trump specifically called House Republican leaders,
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