A grand jury is now in the mix on the Russia collusion investigation, and we ll give you the latest on it, and where we think this is going, and what we think it means for the future of the investigation.
00:00:05.600Tuesday edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show kicks off right now.
00:00:12.160And we've got a lot to discuss, including the referral to the DOJ of those names from the Russia collusion soft coup attempt of years past.
00:00:24.880And now the impaneling of a grand jury, a grand jury is now in the mix on this.
00:00:34.020We shall give you the latest on it and where we think this is going.
00:00:39.160Prosecutors are starting that grand jury probe into the Obama era officials of the Russia collusion investigation.
00:00:48.660You know, I talked to our friend Miranda Devine on also our friend, legitimately these are friends of ours, are also our friend Will Cain's show yesterday.
00:02:24.780But if the conspiracy was continued and there was cover-up and it even endured during some of the Trump years and beyond, perhaps into the Biden years, that would.
00:02:36.140Now, I hadn't heard this before, but she indicated this on TV, that that could be a part of all of this.
00:02:42.520Because short of that, I look at this, Clay, and I say, I don't understand what the statutory framework would be for the charges yet.
00:02:52.800But I'm not a lawyer, but Clay's a lawyer.
00:02:56.800I think the grand jury probe into Obama officials is an interesting step.
00:03:02.500I am still not convinced it is likely that any of them will face, even with a grand jury looking at them, criminal charges.
00:03:11.540But I'm certainly open to and know I could be wrong.
00:03:14.640What do you see, given where this is right now?
00:03:17.380There are so many different angles that you can analyze this report from.
00:03:23.360The one that I think is paramount and matters more than anything else is, where is the grand jury going to be impaneled?
00:03:30.880And I haven't heard this widely discussed because, to me, it's the only thing that matters.
00:03:36.040Because if they did a D.C.-based grand jury, I think the odds of anybody inside of Obama's administration getting indicted for anything related to Russia collusion are virtually zero.
00:03:49.100And so, I think you would have to find a hook to move the grand jury out of D.C. and put it somewhere else.
00:03:57.620Now, what I've heard being discussed is, because of the Mar-a-Lago raid, maybe the grand jury is going to be impaneled somewhere in South Florida, as the Mar-a-Lago case was.
00:04:34.320So, one, everything else, all I think that matters is where is the grand jury located?
00:04:39.740Two, is there a, is the grand jury, if it were located in Florida, is that a valid grand jury?
00:04:49.320And that's where you try to argue, oh, this is all part of one grand conspiracy to get Trump, and it includes even the Mar-a-Lago investigation and raid from the FBI.
00:05:01.260I would imagine that almost immediately, you would see where the grand jury is located as a major part of any defense that was offered.
00:05:11.580And remember, this became an issue, because initially, Jack Smith tried to impanel the Florida classified documents case in D.C.,
00:05:22.380and then up at the last moment and recognized that he had a jurisdiction issue, a venue issue, and he suddenly moved it to South Florida.
00:05:31.180This is me being a legal nerd and telling you where this case is headed.
00:05:35.360Part of me wonders, Buck, whether this is partly just an exercise in following through on promises,
00:05:47.020and if the jury declines to indict politically, the Trump team can just throw up their hands and say,
00:05:54.620Democrats won't indict Democrats for committing crimes.
00:05:58.820We did everything we could in this case, and then they think they win politically because it retains the issue here,
00:06:06.920but they did everything they could do from a legal process perspective.