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DOJ embarrassed again, after grand jury rejects effort to indict lawmakers for speaking out
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12:10Now PlayingJP Cooney, Former Deputy to Special Counsel Jack Smith who is running for Congress in Virginia, Mike Schmidt, New York Times Investigative Reporter, and Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor at the Justice Department join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to the Justice Department failing to secure and indictment of the six Democrat lawmakers who made a video reminding service members not to carry out illegal orders, after a grand jury of ordinary citizens denied the arguments that the DOJ attempted to make in Donald Trump’s continued vengeance tour.
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