The evidence is mounting that President Donald Trump's DOJ spied on members of Congress to determine how they were going to interrogate Attorney General Pam Bondi on the Jeffrey Epstein case files, MS NOW justice correspondent Ken Dilanian told Mika Brzezinski on "Morning Joe" Thursday — and it could blow up into a massive scandal.
"Ken, I'm interested in something specific that we we could see from one camera angle yesterday, and it looked like the attorney general had like the search history of the lawmaker that she was talking with up," said Brzezinski. "And I don't know if that's her search or whose search history it is. What reporting do you have on that? What's going on there?"
"Mika, I'm glad you brought this up, because in any other time, in any other administration, this would be a massive scandal that would consume acres of newsprint and we'd be talking about it every day," said Dilanian. "There was a binder that showed that they had she had the search history of Congresswoman Jayapal, the search history when, remember, members of Congress got to view unredacted copies of the Epstein files, and presumably they did so on a Justice Department system. So the Justice Department had access to what they saw, and they used that as opposition research, essentially to try to embarrass the congresswoman."
"And that, by the way, that's a — that's an enormous thing," Dilanian continued. "Joe knows this. He was a member of Congress. I mean, remember when Dianne Feinstein accused the CIA, credibly, of spying on her in their oversight effort on the CIA torture question when a staffer was inside a CIA SCIF going through files? That was a major deal."
"And just think about what the Republican senators have been saying about Jack Smith obtaining their call records," he added. "So this is a really, they — according to this, they were spying on these members of Congress and using this information against them. And even the Speaker of the House, when he was asked about this, he kind of didn't want to engage, but he said if that was, if that happened, that was inappropriate."
"I mean, this is a huge deal," Dilanian conculded. "This is, this is a line cross. Members of Congress do not do not like it when they perceive that the executive branch is is poaching on their prerogatives, is using their own information against them, is essentially spying on them. And that looks like that's what happened here, guys."
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