The president was pushing the Justice Department to the point of saying he was going to replace the acting attorney general with one of the subordinates who would do his business and interfere with the Georgia election.
Katyal describes the unprecedented actions taken by Trump regarding the Justice Department and the Georgia election.
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I think that this really almost forces Merrick Garland, given what the Court of Appeal said last week, to do -- to indict Donald Trump there say -- the Court of Appeals saying, this is really serious, there's no abuse of rights.
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