it does not get into 16. he only managed for about four months in the summer of 2016. harris: why do you think bob mueller is perched? for the reasons that this judge has said, what you only one paul manafort, you are only squeezing him, the judge s phrase, they do not speak this way from the bench. harris: this judge has been very candid. very colorful, you are only squeezing paul manafort because he want him to testify against the president. the response to that is we are lawyers and we have ethical duties. we are prosecutors. if we find evidence of crimes, we must pursue that criminality whether it is our original mission or not, that is a truthful statement of the obligation, they can pursue it themselves or pass it on and have their pursuit. harris: you are judge looking at this case, how much time could paul manafort face? that s where the pressure comes in, right? he could be convicted to 60
is going to use is full arsenal of constitutional weapons to gain compliance. this is too important. the ig report has even heighten the need for us to understand what happened in 2016. harris: has intelligence chairman devin nunes also vowing that lawmakers will not back down. documents do not begin to be turned over tomorrow and a clear path forward for everything else is not clear here in the next couple of days. they re going to be hell to pay by wednesday morning. harris: they have not had immediate comment. it will tell you when they do come in. robert driscoll, former deputy assistant attorney general under president george w. bush. so i next official, and is and when he used to be at the doj and it s always great to have you on the program. let s start with who wins this battle because i completely
decades after the time in office has ended is the way that he has constituted the federal courts. these are dozens of appointments on the federal district courts of appeal. that enabled the president to get people in there that share his understanding of our constitution, that share his approach to the rule of law. this administration moved with rocket speed out of the gate and filling the vacancy with a few misfires by and large a+ candidates that are now populating the general judiciary committee. lisa: there are a little bit of politics at play here. look at exit polling in 2016. harris: should be trust any of that? lisa: the fact that you have a supreme court nominee and confirmation in the ballot really did motivate some people to turn out. 21% said that was the most important factor of voting in 2016. we also had senator dean heller and then come out and say if we had another supreme court nomination hanging in the
nuclear deal. this despite that france and germany said this could lead out to war in the middle east. and with us here, great to have your perspective. first of all, the talk on the hill right now is that the president has will pull out of this deal. we won t know exactly until the president speaks. your thoughts? well, this is what we fully expected the president to to when he was elected. he campaigned on allege to get out of this discyster disastrous deal. if he announces that, he will fulfill another important campaign promise he made to the voters in 2016. harris: so with this reported 90-day window, what can happen now that hasn t happened up till now? this deal hats been on the table. the president has been
i m sure there are really good people who take these people in. you have 100,000 kids coming across the border and they are given out to who knows who. where is the cry for these kids who maybe 8, 9, 10 years old? harris: there was a huge cry a couple summers ago if you remember where the number 100,000 was like 90 in one summer. do you remember that? yeah. since 2016. harris: it s supposed to be a relative or someone close in this country that would take this child. the problem we found in detention type situations while they figured out where to put them which is what you are talking about this things can happen with those children. with our hearts we can lean on this issues as a nation. my issue goes deeper than that. this is going to offend a lot of people. we have some corruption south of our border in some governments. why don t they put forth policies that get their own citizens to want to stay more? i understand wanting to go north. i get it. in this term of like a wave o