Kasie Hunt: CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson joins us live now. Joey, good morning. What do you make of JD Vance’s defense there?
Joey Jackson: Kasie, good morning to you, uh, the answer is not much. Uh, he also, that is, the vice president filed that up by indicating that the January 6th, uh, rioters or denied due process. I’m not sure exactly what he’s talking about. Obviously, there’s a political imperative, right? He was inconsistent that is the vice president was his boss. And so now he has to backpedal and somehow justify intellectually the messaging that it was okay, right, just to pardon everyone. He talked about the denial of due process. What are you talking about? Due process is notice in an opportunity to be heard in any prosecution, the prosecutor indicates what the charges are to those being charged, and then you have the right to defend yourself. In this case, that is exactly what occurred. No one was denied due process.
Everyone was given an opportunity to have a lawyer, either that you choose yourself, but that’s appointed to you. At the end of the day, a number that is a thousand plus, pled guilty, no denial of due process there. Your, you indicate right to the judge. Yes, I understand what I’m pleading to. Yes, I’m guilty. Yes, I take accountability. Where’s the denial? And then with respect to a trial, there’s a trial, you have an attorney, the prosecutor prosecutes, a jury makes a decision. And so I think if we’re gonna speak about this, we can’t reinvent history. We have to embrace and acknowledge exactly what happened and just say it was a political decision and this is what you opted to do. But stop trying to justify it on bogus grounds.
Kasie Hunt: Joey, I want to ask you also about another story we’ve been following because of course, this is again the beginning of week 2 of the Trump administration, but it is head spinning to try to keep up with it all. President Trump fired a number of inspectors general across the US government…