‘He might as well rob Fort Knox and take the gold out’: Reaction to Trump shaking down his own DOJ

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Michael Schmidt, New York Times Investigative Reporter and Andrew Weissmann, former top prosecutor at the Justice Department join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House to discuss the mountain of ethical red flags as a result of new reporting from the New York Times detailing Donald Trump demanding that the Justice Department pay him $230 million in what he calls damages a result of two investigations into him, and Trump has found a new low by now shaking down the American taxpayer for his own financial gain. 
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