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Lawrence: Speaker Johnson is trying to stop DOJ from charging Trump rioters
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell examines recent comments from Speaker Mike Johnson about efforts to release footage from the January 6th Attack on the Capitol with the faces of the rioters blurred out, as well as the latest filing from Special Counsel Jack Smith in his 2020 election case against Donald Trump.
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@johndente454
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Why are they wasting time and waiting to charge him with aiding? Is it ever going to really happen to these people that they are held accountable for the crimes they commit? Unbelievable!
@sheltonbailey6548
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
He’s a traitor & a Cult follower.
@vickilewerenz7061
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Thank you
@lhem0361
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
This is real journalism. Thank you for editorializing. No need to show everything they do. However, it is why you should break it down. Mike is out of order, it appears
@jimkirby1799
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Hello Lawrence. Do you see a resemblance between speaker Johnson and Howdy-Doody? And the likeness goes as far as seeing him sitting on the lap of Donald Trump, saying exactly what Trump puts in his mouth.
@scotts8684
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
OBSTRUCTION, plain and simple. Accessory after the Fact. Why is the DOJ and FBI afraid to do anything about lil mikey. He's plainly committing these crimes.
@raymonduter3247
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Maga Mike, speaker of the house, seems to be as much of a lawyer as he is a christian.
@charliecottontail1254
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
mini-mike johnson helped plan J6.
Lock him up !!!! His wife & son will be happy to have a break from this miniature, insecure, authoritarian- they won't ever EVER want him back!!!
@charliecottontail1254
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
mini-mike johnson wanna be dictator NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED for his illegal conduct!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@garyholloway9119
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Isn't that like "aiding and abetting" criminal activity?
@mickcnd2657
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
This is not part of being Speaker of the House. It's political, and that makes it treason.
18 US Code sec 2381-Treason
@maryconley4476
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Can't he be charged by the DOJ? Aren't they attorneys? It seems he would have a hard time finding and attorney to back him up.
@zxys001
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
cultist mike should keep his johnson in his tighty whities
@josephinepaulino9473
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
mike johnson is an accessory to the crimes of donald trump. Because of all the problems we are now facing, mike johnson should be arrested for complicity to donald trump's many crimes and his coverup of maga attacks on January 6, 2021 at Capitol Hill.
@johnlawrence8738
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Johnson should be booked and taken to task for obstructing justice. By his action Johnson is aiding criminals. Kick him (Johnson ) out
@thomascaldwell3275
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Johnson is as Un-American and corrupt as Trump. Both should be charged with Treason.
@jasonfocacci9234
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Well everybody knows that the whole January 6 thing is a hoax. Why has to be single person been charged with insurrection if it was an insurrection?
@123abcxmen
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Your DAYS are numbered. Hahaha
@brendaraudebaugh6246
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Mike Johnson needs to step down and kicked out.
@brendaraudebaugh6246
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
This has to be the WORST REPUBLICANS EVER. Nothing but a bunch of liars and criminals.
@lpquagmire3621
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
They need to know someone is on their side.
@JaneSoole
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Speaker Johnson and republican colleagues you are a stain on your country. Your grandparents and mine fought and were defeating Nazism. They lost millions of loved ones. Millions of women lost fiances and never married afterwards. Shame on every single one of you. Are you in Russia's pay? You might as well be given Putin's delight? Are your pockets being gilded? Jane Soole, 80 years, Dorset, England.
@barbarahartlen4052
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Was Mike Johnson there in the Insurrection crowd, better look at those tapes. That could be why he is preventing those who were there from going to jail!
@stacybritton1118
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Of. The. Movie. Is all. The. King. Men
@stacybritton1118
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Maga. Is. Tell. Him. What. To. Do. People. Look. At. Movies. The. Name. Pf
@sandrakincade1300
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
What? I already know he's in a ridiculous cult.😅
@stevei2x
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Johnson is above the law. They don't get the same treatment as the rest of us.
@delmonicofarquhar9893
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
The Republican Party abandoned reasonable party ideals long ago and replaced them with a single political one— opposition to Democrats whenever possible, thus positioning themselves squarely against our Constitution in word and spirit, even to the extent that today they rationalize morphing their party into nothing less than a criminal syndicate, hostile to any law they don't want to abide by. Little wonder that they would support Trump even more AFTER his attempted overthrow of the U.S. government and continue to ignore his many other crimes, as well.
@denisethorbjornsen7493
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson needs to be charged with obstruction of justice
@02bher1
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
As a Canadian I have to ask…is it in the air or the water that Americans seem to be turning into Trump Zombies?
@user-hj1up1or8f
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
People lost their lives in the January 6 crazyness Johnson needs to step down you are not a House Speaker you are helping Donald j Trump you need to go
@othaphillips9637
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
That because he might be one of those people was involved in the white house rioters
@maryfrump7937
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
DoJ where are you!
@maryfrump7937
December 27, 2023 at 4:23 pm
Grrrrrrrr