So many of you have heard that the Trump administration is going to be investigating Jack Smith uh out of the office of special counsel. That is not to be confused with the special counselss that are created like special counsel Mueller who I worked for, special counsel Jack Smith, but it's a separate agency called the office of special counsel and its remit is the Hatch Act. And the Hatch Act is a civil statute that prohibits uh certain members of the federal government from engaging in political activity ...

If you think back to Donald Trump's many problems with federal probes, there was the Müller probe, which got a lot of his people in trouble, but ultimately quite carefully and fairly issued a report that did not seek his indictment in office under the sitting rules and didn't necessarily give a path to indicting him after office. Indeed, as you may recall, nothing from the Müller report ever led to a Trump indictment. What did lead to it was conduct by Donald Trump, including the attempted stealing and over ...

Federal officials are now investigating former special counsel Jack Smith. If you remember, Smith was the special counsel oversaw multiple criminal investigations against Trump, which included Trump's handling of classified documents and of course his actions on the day riers stormed the capital on January 6th. The US Office of Special Counsel, which is supposed to be independent of the Trump administration, said it's investigating Smith for alleged violations of the Hatch Act, a law that prohibits certain ...

Federal officials are now investigating former special counsel Jack Smith. If you remember, Smith was the special counsel oversaw multiple criminal investigations against Trump, which included Trump's handling of classified documents and of course his actions on the day riers stormed the capital on January 6th. The US Office of Special Counsel, which is supposed to be independent of the Trump administration, said it's investigating Smith for alleged violations of the Hatch Act, a law that prohibits certain ...

And Senator Padilla joins us now. He's a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. >> Senator, thanks for joining us.We know the Office of Special Counsel this White House submitted a new name to lead up that office, a Trump loyalist, some may say stick. Do you really believe that the office of special counsel under this administration would do an investigation into this. Look, I know there's questions and whether they may or may not actually do the job of investigating, which by the way, they have confirme ...