Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), member of the January 6 Select Committee, joins Meet the Press to discuss the unsealed affidavit released by the Justice Department for the Mar-a-Lago search. Plus, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis and Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul talk about the developments in Ukraine, now six months into the war. Also, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson looks ahead to the Artemis lunar launch.
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You forgot to mention the FBI was at Trumps home in June of this year to review the documents, the FBI took some documents and gave approval for Trump to keep the remaining documents. Again you look like a fool for reporting garbage news.
Crying Kinzinger your done Trump 2024
The “Justice Department” is actually a weaponized Stalinist left brood of vipers.
Well, maybe Democrats can push for mail in voting again. Then they can cheat the election for Biden one more time. Bring back covid. I kinda miss being the only one without a mask in Safeway.
NBC. Nothing But Crap
So why not send secret service or cia to serve warrant and get those alleged classified documents?🤔 makes no sense. If it’s national security issues🤔
Cia is for other coutries. SS is compromised.
…because neither the secret service nor the CIA are law enforcement agencies. They have no power to serve warrants
Ashley’s dairy admits to inappropriate showers with Joe Biden
DOJ 🤦🏻♀️
President Trump is a good man with a wonderful family and was an awesome American president!To suggest anything else is lunacy and evil! God bless President Trump and his family! Thank you sir for all that you did and continue to do to save our country from these leftist lunatics!
There is a difference between overthrowing an election and getting to the truth of an election.Massive fraud in 2020 that is a fact!
Trump Derangement Syndrome Level: Boring 😴 🙄
Adam Kinzinger is a national loser.. thank God he’s leaving,, but he has no choice he would have been voted out just like Liz Cheney.. we’re taking our country back one Rhino at a time..and one lunatic Democrat at a time..
the obviously to have anything. I guess Trump wins again.
Ppl actually watch this show?????
“From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” Matthew 4:17
“Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” Matthew 5:38-39
I don’t believe you
Legs of iron and clay- the 4th kingdom is operating towards totalitarianism. The kingdom of heaven is at hand
What does that even mean? The kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall!
The punishment for the crime of treason against The United States of America, is DEATH!! #treason #trump etc…
Fake news
poor poor cry babies…
Not really Todd ask a real lawyer and don’t ask rino did no more than rest of swamp
Don’t be so childish. You don’t realize it, but you’re really embarrassing yourself.
Biden/Garland/Wray/Mayorkus/Pelosi/Fauci for prison 2022
Yes, please!!!
Rep. Adam Kinzinger RIP 🤣😂🤣😉
Meet The Propagandists
KInzinger is even more dillusional than Liz
GUANTANAMO
we chinese really like american democrat party. they are same as the ccp and we like that.
The number of SCIF documents found was ZERO. NBC working on its stellar credibility here.
I guess NBC didn’t get the email, Trump declassified ALL the documents before he removed them from the WH. Stop creating spin and report on the laptop.
It’s time to take down Fascist Dictator Biden and
his merry bunch of Globalist SS troops once and
for all and return freedom to America and its
people!
His mentality is like a small spoiled child ……be wise ♡
You been told WRONG, ”
Don’t throw your future vote, ” for someone who doesn’t care for us peasants , someone who’s never had to look for a job or worry about the next payment, his Fortune has been given to him ,( silver spoon) …be wise ♡.
ULTRA MAGA Y’ALL CANT STOP THE MOVEMENT.
movement? joe’s bowels?
Where were you in 2020? The movement is stopped already.
@ARB no it’s not. Trump is a king maker. He names whoever has a “clean” track record and it’s on like Donkey Kong. Please tell me how your side will defeat DeSantis?
@ARB checkmate
1:48 if it works, Biden will take credit, if it doesn’t work, they’ll blame Trump
Dementia Joe already lost to President Trump and Democrats know it.
This is an attack on a political opponent
I stole your dollar but it is not a crime because it belonged to me anyway. Republican response to this troubling mess is just unbelievable
NBC is a terrible news outlet.
Trump and his team need to be punished
No, Trump would not be disqualified from serving as president again if convicted of taking government records. That is because the Constitution sets the eligibility requirement for a presidential candidate, and a statute can’t change the rules set in the Constitution.
A person wouldn’t be disqualified from serving as president unless they didn’t meet the qualifications outlined in the Constitution.
The Constitution lists only three qualifications for the presidency — the president must be at least 35 years of age, be a natural born citizen, and must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years. There is no mention of crimes involving government records as disqualifying someone from running for president in the Constitution.
18 U.S.C. § 2071 is a federal law that prohibits someone from destroying government documents. The statute says anyone who “willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys or attempts to do so … shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both … and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.”
Some of the tweets about this statute and its connection to the search of Trump’s home focus specifically on this line from the law: “[The person] shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States.”
But, that wouldn’t apply to Trump and his possible bid for president in 2024, UCLA Law Professor Rick Hasen wrote on his blog, Election Law Blog. That is because eligibility requirements for president are outlined and granted by the U.S. Constitution, which supersedes federal code.
“That statute [18 U.S.C. § 2071] cannot trump the Constitution, which sets the exclusive qualifications for President. So this is not a path to making Trump legally ineligible to run for office. (That’s a different matter than the political point— it is probably going to be hard for a convicted felon, if Trump is convicted of any felony, to be successful running for office.),” Hasen wrote.
Barbara McQuade, a law professor at Michigan Law, told VERIFY she thinks this statute would not withstand a constitutional challenge when applied to offices defined by the Constitution, such as president, vice president, senator or representative.
“It could apply to other offices, such as the Attorney General of the United States. If Donald Trump were to be convicted and then run for president, someone would have to challenge his eligibility. I believe that that challenge would fail under this statute,” McQuade said.
This is not the first time 18 U.S.C. § 2071 has been brought up with regard to someone running for president.
In 2015, some speculated then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton violated the law and was disqualified from running for office because she used a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. She served as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, from 2009 to 2013.
Seth Barrett Tillman, a law professor at Maynooth University in Ireland, penned a journal article on the topic of Clinton and said not only does this statute not apply to anyone running for president, but the Supreme Court has ruled Congress can’t alter eligibility requirements for the presidency. The Constitution does allow Congress to disqualify people from holding office in impeachment proceedings, Tillman wrote.
Clinton was never charged with crimes connected to her email server.
Presidential rules for official documents
There are rules in place that outline what a president or vice president can or can’t do with official documents and presidential records. The Presidential Records Act of 1978 (PRA) governs the official records of presidents and vice presidents that were created or received after January 20, 1981.
The PRA was enacted in 1978 after President Richard Nixon sought to destroy records from his presidency after his resignation in 1974.
The PRA changed the legal ownership of the official records of the president from private to public, making them the property of the United States and the American people.
The Presidential Records Act does not explicitly outline any penalties for violation, McQuade told VERIFY.
There hasn’t been any president, sitting or former, who has been charged or convicted of taking documents from the White House.
But, even if Trump were convicted of any of any felony, he could still run for president.
All bs. Always vote Red.
Over a million republicans passed away for not taking covid serious. I wonder if that will affect the power of the red vote?
@ARB oh and I personally know lots of republicans. They plan to stay that way and keep the areas as such.
Hey Chuck can you investigate Joe Biden taking inappropriate showers with his daughter….we need to know 🥸😱
Why don’t the democrats address the problems with country? Instead all they can do is go after president trump. Address the drugs coming into our country, the crime in our country, the many aliens coming across the border that are not vetted. Address the high gas prices and high cost of living how about instead of forgiving all the student loan debt how about do an investigation on why the colleges charge so much money for tuition and they have all the large amounts of endowments and address our lousy education system. Care about the American people.
Trump can declare any document unclassified ‘and say I’m taking it with me’, Stupid !
NBC is so biased it is far from news or relevancy.
Yes the memo they released really cleared up my questions lol
@E2772 Mendonca but if charges are never filed, which is absolutely likely, we’ll never know 🤔
@E2772 Mendonca sure. Believe the lies.
questions are answered at trial – not on the news
@1ronin I believe the facts. I’m not so weak minded as to be in a cult. I don’t worship anyone.
@1ronin oh, I forgot. Stop the Steal.
Got to hate them Democrats trying to hurt everyone. It’s radical change never voted on or discussed. Like dictators.
just SIMPLY woke “FOLK” blather here.
Can you imagine having a President that took NO salary, put ALL American Citizens First, ran the country like a business instead of a party while increasing EVERYBODY’S spendable income and lifestyle, making us energy independent at a cheap price. Also increasingly making the country more safe with a stronger military, bringing back Manufacturing, and increasing the border security on a daily basis. Using his own plane, not taxpayers, which he acquired running his own successful businesses not government grants. Playing golf at his own resorts at his own expense with his own money, not taxpayers. And during his FIRST hole at playing golf accomplishes more Making America Great Again then the Democrats have done in the past 100 years.
Disclosure confirmed backed engineered disks.
Why are We, The People being mislead again? MSM being paid for the smokescreen? We have discs, take us to the moon in under five minutes. NASA knows that. All for defense contractors…🔥
I can’t wait for this RINO to go.
The nation’s biggest RINO is Trump. He could give a crap about party; he only wants loyalists.
@Matthew Roy I’m sorry but the party is the people, not career politicians
Democrats are toast most of Americans blame democrats for the troubles from the border to the prices the world blames you and God don’t back. Evil democrats goodbye Felicia to democrats
Commie bawling kinzinger remember benghazi wicked witch Clinton lying thieving evil obama administration almost done Trump will be back real soon
No your still a republican and they have no idea what conservatism is?
More hearsay for the 6 year long hearsay hearings
waaaaaaaa waaaaaa orange man bad….HOW LONG HAS THIS REPEATER BEEN CRYING ABOUT TRUMP?
@Fred Coyote show me ONE time, clownshow.
@riCK Fountain I don’t have your post history, but they have rent free space in your head. Lots of vacancies in that empty space.
@Fred Coyote how’s that fourth booster working out?
@Fred Coyote fred I bet $100 you have facial hair…..
@riCK Fountain Wrong again, you must be used to that. Got a point? Nope…
Would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see cutie Adam Kinzinger donned in only an elephant trunk speedo & silver badge riding upon a trusty steed to Mar-a-lago to arrest the REAL President of U.S…What a HOOT! ❤️🙏
The real president? Trump is even a real Billionaire. He’s a con man, a hustler, a New York businessman, and a yankee carpetbagger.
Your new station is misleading or not telling the whole story. People know your game by now.
Don’t be so childish.
@Kosmo Kritikós how’s the pee-pee dossier going?
For real- so one side wants a police state? I grew up in the seventies, this is not the Democratic Party. Democrats are for everything that those democrats were against. Clown world for real
Just read Exhibit A attached to the redacted affidavit.
Meet the press used to be an interesting and somewhat balanced program. Now it is better structured version of the View.
When Russert asked Kerry about 322, I knew he didn’t have a lot of years left to live.
Amazing how the far right thinks it’s the center.
@Fred Coyote Yeah, Following the Constitution, securing the borders, equal application of laws, sound economic policy….. dangerous far right stuff!
@john baker Yeah, magatards do absolutely none of that. See what I mean?
Meet the P___y
And this is why people don’t trust the news….
Clinton’s accused crimes pale in comparison to Trump’s proven malfeasance. He deserves a new wardrobe.
America is a big baby
“Hey its my moon”
Just like they told Iraq it’s my oil
Used to be one of the richest happiest countries now America screwed it up what a bunch of pirates America is
Why do you spent time on this democrat political interference when there is a war between US and Iranian proxies- and Biden is running to the worst deal with Iran giving them billions again to insure they can continue their terrorist activities and raise it to nuclear?
The concrete is still in the Iranian centrifuges. They can’t make weapons grade Uranium. You may want to look into how that concrete got there.
@Ken Smith Iran has new centrifuges for some time, different areas which inspectors are not allowed in even if these areas were known. Israel has been running practice missions through Saudi airspace and arial refueling. If they must they will got it alone. Iran cannot have a bomb
@Ken Smith they announced they have enough for multiple weapons already.
Why the open lying Ken?
The redactions (blank pages) in the fake DOJ affidavit match the blank sectors in Brandon’s Brain. The brain surgeon who performed his surgeries thinks he MAY have reinserted his brain in BACK-ASSWARDS! OOPS!
Thank the Lord for the honesty and integrity of Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney. They can be relied on to tell the truth and live by it. 🙏🙏❤️❤️💥
SAY WHAT….???
Hahahah 🐑🐑🐑 Biden approved this comment for her. Orange man bad, repeat the line.
Lol.. this has to be next level trolling!
A Cheney! Hahaha. Good one.
Why did Kinzinger bring his 38 pistol to work on Jan 06? What did he know? How did he know it. Let’s see his phone records.
🤣🤣
Hillary Clinton has Special Access Programs on her private server, that alone should have brought treason charges against her! So don’t give us this b.s. about you would be arrested right away if you attempted to leave a SCIF with extremely classified documents!
There was not one investigation to find out who gave her these SAP documents…..not one!
You clearly don’t understand what is required for a charge of treason. Leading with a mistake like colors the rest of your comment.
@Ken Smith aiding and abetting.
Sure looks like a duck. With her “foundation” looks just like pay to play. Like what hunter does for the big guy.
The destruction of the evidence after the subpoena didn’t help..
Neither did her IT expert with his no show for a congressional subpoenas.
What a crock of horse $hit the Feral Bureau of Instigation is.
Socialism Sucks: As a lifelong socialist, I can assure you that in fact, you do.
I bet you didn’t say that when they went after Hillary on the eve of an election.
WHAAHH, WHAAHH, WHAAHH….
Hillary Clinton
TDS
Sen. Warren ‘very worried’ the Federal Reserve will tip economy into recession? Someone should tell Pocahontas America is in a recession
Technically, no the US is not in a recession. There are several measures that all must turn negative for a recession to be declared. The US still has shown growth in the number of people employed
@Ken Smith
Although Joe Biden the illegal alien POTUS continues to deny our nation has reached the point of an economic recession, he can’t hide from the numbers. There is no question that our economic crisis is out of control. The U.S. economy shrank nearly 1 percent in the second quarter of this year and by 1.6 percent in the first quarter.
Hahaha.
I wonder if he’s worried about Guam “tipping” too.
Rinos exist
@Ken Smith Orwellian.
Technically it’s called “new speak”
Only the most honest governments deploy tactics like this.
*Cry More*
But NONE of those in Congress have ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY to Declassify even the most Top Secret of documents. And he does not have to tell any paper pusher under him.
@Very Handy Mann so they raided his house over papers they can’t compell him to turnover….OHHH K…..
@riCK Fountain they lied to a fisa court for Obama’s spying.
Ohhhh k?
@riCK Fountain there’s a difference between not complying and can’t force to comply fool. he was asked for the documents, he lied about having them, he was subpeonad for the documents and c refused to hand them over…so he was COMPELLED to by the search warrant kid. yeah, you’re not too bright are ya.
I’d like to take the time to say Trump was a absolute gem. Kisses libbys, enjoy the 3 months.
@riCK Fountain yes, just like the Russia Collusion hoax, was truly a hoax, didn’t you hear that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC actually pain large fines for lying about how the Steele dossier came about. Hillary actually paid for it.
And the Mueller Investigation was a hoax. The Ukraine story was a hoax.
So will you finally go do your own research.
The search warrant used to raid Trump’s house mentions the Espionage Act and the Presidential Records Act.
MSM and their “experts” are so disgustingly dishonest and corrupt.
Let’s Hear about ASHLEY BIDEN’S DIARY 🤷 and Why the Fbi WAS USED TO FIND IT🤷. WHY ARE WE USING TAX PAYERS MONEY TO COVER FOR CHOMO JOE 🤷😢
Thank you Mr garland for vindicating djt once again.
NOT! Come on. Grow up. Weirdo!
Gavin McInnes just got arrested during a podcast. They’re coming for everybody.
Thank you, Congressman Kinzinger!
For what? His crocodile tears?
Give it up NBC.
no one cares anymore ! Trump 2024
Fake news….
Kinzinger has a face you just wanna punch lol
Question. If Pres. Obama left office with 15 boxes of classified documents, what would FOX and Trump/ GOP subordinates be talking about? Donald Trump is not a victim. There is no deep state. Trump stole top secret classified documents. They repeatedly told him not to do this. Trump refused to return the documents. Why?.
I wouln’t hire you to run a lemoade stand
Hahaha.
Thanks pee-pee dossier guy.
THEY HAVE NOTHING!!!!!! OTHERWISE DEMOCRATS WOULD OF ACTED ALREADY!!!!! SHAMEFUL!!!! YUST ANOTHER CLOWN SHOW!!!!!
Still no good reason why the raid happen. Democrats weaponize the government…about as unamerican as hilter
Kinsinger is a whiney b…. Hillary did wipe her server and smash cell phones with hammers.
Democrats are so consumed with destroying Donald Trump while the country is going down the drain
Kinzinger, the grift that keeps on grifting. Roll on January 3rd!
How is he griffting, please explain. We know you wont…..
@james wheeler Taking money to say what they want him to say.
Hmmm…what about Hunter?? Hypocrisy again, or are you merely a coward???
Your whataboutism is so bad it is funny. Do you honestly want people to believe that if there was anything Hunter could have been charged with, the Trump DOJ would have let it slide.
@Ken Smith Here’s a couple for your indoctrinated, sheepish mindset; flooding the country with millions upon millions of illegals to elevate their criminal voting base while destroying the sovereignty of this republic (what responsible & ethical government does this?), shuddering our energy independence causing catastrophic inflation while begging terrorist countries to produce more oil ( again, what responsible government does this?), denigrating law enforcement and elevating criminal rights to spread fear and division as a distraction to their plot, allowing Russia’s Putin to have access to the Nordstream pipeline which controls the majority of natural gas flow into Europe and has directly financed this grotesque war against Ukraine while decimating much of Europe into stratospheric inflation, propagating the racist CRT in our public schools which causes segregation and division amongst ethnicities while dumbing down our educational institutions, electing and nominating folks according to their ethnicity vs qualifications ( racism incarnate), allowing specific members of congress to participate in insider trading and manipulate the markets for personal gain, etc, etc. G.T.H.O.H with your feeble opinions and speak with facts
Biden just went to New Mexico and praised the border pouring illiterate yet tangible white owl fresh with Biden poor quality.
It’s all evidence of FBI corruption.
The losing team always blames the umpire. In just a few short months we have gone from “back the blue” to “defund the FBI”.
This isn’t real, he’s not even crying.
Kinzinger should be packed and ready to leave soon.
Kinzinger has TDS
Kinzinger don’t even put yourself in president level,you’re nobody.
This reprehensible act by the government against one of our finest Presidents shall return upon them when they least expect.
Trump is the only republican who ever lost a presidential bid to Biden. Of the entire GOP this makes him the biggest loser of them all.
Whoop!
Yes nbc select the idiots to speak for the republicans no way this fool is a DEMOCRATIC!
He has been a republican longer than Trump has been. What he said it a good example of the feelings of constitutional conservatives now that Trump has done a hostile takeover of the GOP.
This is not Justice, this is Democrat fear of Donald Trump.
….pushing their agenda for 50 years has has worked i guess..look at all of you? And the media? Now only political propaganda from the people that owned the media company’s for 50 years. Seems kinds easy how they took control of everyone….gave them the power, saying it’ll make you safe….
So yea let’s all have the 80% media company’s owned by Same people. Just shut the f up about trump, who the f cares…just propaganda spewing. Everything they whine about is political!! Wtf??? How about news?? Americans died for the country for…this???? They are only Pushing this agenda for 50 years . Read history, no one these days will make life better than back then, have big family’s enjoy life….