intelligence and british intelligence that this thing would be over in a matter of days. the thing that changed it now it s the weapons coming from the west by the things that change in the early days on snake island, when those ukrainians told those russians what they did, was pure gumption. it was pure guts. yes, it really was, it really showed us for the first time with the russians were up against. yep. and why they cannot succeed their. that s right. thanks, ali. have a good show. thank you. today, 233 years after the first supreme court justice took his first oath of office, ketanji brown jackson was sworn in as the 116th supreme court justice, making history in more ways than one. she is the first black woman to serve on the supreme court. and she has increased the number of women on the supreme court to an historic high of four out of the nine justices. justice jackson s husband, doctor patrick jackson, held the jackson family bible and the supreme
from the beginning, from that first moment when they told the russians what they thought they should do. it was very early on, lawrence, but it gave us insight into what the russian troup somewhat the russian people were going to be like in this war, you will recall, in the early days, we are told by u.s. intelligence and british intelligence that this thing would be over in a matter of days. the thing that changed it now it s the weapons coming from the west by the things that changed it the early days on snake island, when those ukrainians told those russians what they did, was pure gumption. it was pure guts. yes, it really was, it really showed us for the first time with the russians were up against. yep. and why they cannot succeed their. that s right. thanks, ali. have a good show. thank you. today, 233 years after the first supreme court justice took his oath of office, ketanji brown jackson was sworn in as the 116th supreme court justice, making
a preference for a supreme court justices being nominated by a republican, or by a democrat. and if you are prepared to live with supreme court justices from either party, then you are a very unusual voter. so this is the product of all of those votes, all of those people who went out and voted for joe biden, that is how this has happened tomorrow. a little piece of good news, i m looking forward to your show tonight, lawrence. thank, you ali, thank you. tonight, we have a new reason i knew apparent reason why the january 6th committee rushed into that special session yesterday, to hear the public testimony of cassidy hutchinson. they want the white house counsel. they want him. and that s why they had to have that hearing yesterday. because cassidy hutchinson s testimony fully justified the subpoena to trump white house counsel pat cipollone that the committee issued today. the last time a president was destroyed by a congressional investigation, the white house coun
testimony fully justified the subpoena to trump white house counsel pat cipollone that the committee issued today. the last time a president was destroyed by a congressional investigation, the white house counsel was a key witness. richard nixon s white house counsel, john dean, helped bring down the nixon presidency, with his testimony in the watergate hearings. and now it looks like pat cipollone could be the witness who locks in donald trump s guilt for the january 6th committee. when presidents break the law, the white house counsel knows. the white house counsel s job is to prevent presidents from breaking the law, among other things. that is to say, prevent them from breaking the law intentionally or, as can happen, unintentionally. when someone in the white house has a bright idea, like banning all muslims from entering the country, it is the white house counsel s job to say, we can t do that, that s unconstitutional. the white house counsel is not the president s pers
mexico while their asylum cases are under review. so what do these major rulings say about the direction of the court, and what can we expect for the next term? ilya shapiro is author of supreme disorder, which is available on paperback on tuesday. ilya, welcome. good to see you here. historic term for the supreme court. did the court surprise you with its ending? the court finally colessed; has, the conservative majority that has long been promised, expected, feared, vaunted finally came together this term. and i don t know whether it was terribly surprising, but it was a little breathtaking to see it actually happen. this is what, you know, many people thought would happen once all of these justices, particularly the trump-appointed ones, got on the bench, but it didn t happen last year on the bench, it didn t happen right when brett kavanaugh was confirmed. but here with all of this constellation of issues that you listed there, it really took a significant jump. and,