Justice Department's New Voting Investigations

What's gonna come out of this, John?

What do you, what, what is your feeling on this one?

Yeah. So I- I've been on the same rollercoaster you

have, Glenn.

You know, you do lots of this great reporting.

You try to help people.

I, I've been in the White House, uh, declassifying documents, and you see this

extraordinary body of evidence, and then you see the people implicated

in that body of evidence walking free, thumbing their nose, going on television,

making money, writing false letters that mislead Americans in elections, and

you're like, "Is it worth even doing?" So the answer,

of course it is. It is.

Um, I have detected, uh, since the beginning of the White

House Task Force, uh,

a new

sentiment in the Justice Department in the prosecutorial world, and I'll just

use some examples. So, you know, our original releases at the task

force were the basis for the president's July

speech about, uh, China in- uh, interventions in our

election, including the theft of voter records.

Uh, the fact that there were a lot of non-citizens on voter rolls

and some appeared

to have voted, uh, and then the election vulnerabilities.

Now, I can tell you from the work I've done

that this has long been known

in the government, but it had never gotten to the president's

attention.

In fact, there was an intentional effort by the

intelligence world to keep

two presidents and probably a mem- and two Congresses in the dark on this.

The antiseptic of light kicked in a whole new sort of activity at

the Justice Department, and I suspect it wasn't the Justice

Department wasn't

looking at it. It was probably the career people like,

"There's nothing going on

there, nothing there. It's rare. Doesn't happen." All of a sudden,

you've seen

north of 100 non-citizens charged with voting.

You got a major criminal investigation in New Jersey about maybe systemic

non-citizens, uh, getting on, uh, the board.

You've seen some new actions taken to protect our voting machines.

The intelligence that we made public was six years old, but nobody ever

acted on it until Donald Trump gave his speech.

Um-

Jesus

... you heard the other day that, uh, John Brennan in a court filing said he was

told by prosecutors he's a target.

You only give someone a target notification if they're about to be

indicted.

I see an awful lot of activity in the grand jury talking to defense lawyers,

looking at, uh, activity and behavior by, uh, James

Comey and his inner circle. Uh, I didn't see that activity for much

of the last first 13 or 14 months of the Trump presidency,

except in the FBI. The FBI was always churning.

But it seems to me that the Justice Department

is in a different gear,

and that gear has been kicked in for different reasons.

HSI takes on Ilhan Omar separate of the DOJ.

They drive that case. The president's speech puts new evidence

out there.

I've seen more accountability activity before grand juries and in courts in the

last eight weeks than I saw, quite frankly, in the first six

years of the two Trump presidencies. So something is going on.

Mm.

But it only matters if you get results, and the result will be someone

being charged if there is criminality, um, and/or being

sued or being charged with fraud or having their job taken away.

I think we're in a window now where we're gonna finally know the answer.

I don't know which one it will be, but there's enough activity

that the Justice

Department is probably gonna give us some clarity.

And certainly on election integrity, you're seeing things you've never seen

before in the history of the Justice Department. Not Trump.

I mean, there have never been this many

non-citizens prosecuted in the history

of the Justice Department in one year.

You've never seen a case like they're bringing-

Wow

... in California, where the pay to play with the homeless

people has blossomed

into a very big scandal. And last night, while you and I were probably getting

ready for bed, Glenn, the Justice Department did something

really significant,

something they could have done a year or two ago, but they didn't.

They told California, "We see these many people

that we think are non-citizens on

the 26 voter rolls. You better get them off before Election

Day, because if you

allow them to cast a ballot, we're coming to charge you with knowingly

and

willfully letting a, a illegal alien vote or a non-citizen

foreigner vote."

And that's never been done before.

Wow.

That is a shockwave. That's activity we haven't seen in the

past.