it taps into a wider debate, doesn t it, about the state of the american media? and i tell you what steve schmidt, who s a strategist who worked for republican campaigns and he s co founder of the lincoln project, which campaigns against trump. and he said on twitter on 12 september, there is a profound crisis in the american media because there has been a collapse of trust between news organisations and the public. i mean, does he have a point in, arguably, this one case that we ve been discussing about you not making that information that you learned about the january 6th riot and what trump said in real time, has it contributed to that in any way, that breakdown in trust? i ve addressed this a few times. this is information that i learned during the course of reporting a book that i had turned to after the second impeachment trial. so this would not have been possible to have reported in real time. if i had information, if i had known it then, i would have published it then. i do
of the american media? and i tell you what steve schmidt, who s a strategist who worked for republican campaigns and he s co founder of the lincoln project, which campaigns against trump. and he said on twitter on 12 september, there is a profound crisis in the american media because there has been a collapse of trust between news organisations and the public. i mean, does he have a point in, arguably, this one case that we ve been discussing about you not making that information that you learned about the january 6th riot and what trump said in real time, has it contributed to that in any way, that breakdown in trust? i ve addressed this a few times. this is information that i learned during the course of reporting a book that i had turned to after the second impeachment trial. so this would not have been possible to have reported in real time. if i had information, if i had known it then, i would have published it then. i don t know how much more clearly i can say it. all right. a
but throughout this term and other recent terms religious conservatives have been winning. now there was a point in which justice alito was would often dissent or write saying the court isn t going as fast or far as he wants to go. now the brakes are off. think of what he was able to do to reverse, you know, nearly 50 years of abortion rights. and then, jim, the other thing that s happened here is that the court has increasingly gone in a single direction and very fast in a single direction to lower the wall of separation between church and state, to allow more government funding or require more government funding of religious schools to allow more prayer in public spaces like we had you remember, of course, the football coach who wanted to pray on the 50 yard line and with with other with young football players who might have felt some sort of coercion there. but that s this court is going in the direction that sam
so ft. for the first time, the uvalde school police chief is giving his side of the story. essentially, defending last month s police response to the massacre where 19 children and two teachers were murdered. in an interview with the texas tribune, guided by his attorney, chief pete arradondo says he never considered himself the incident commander. he also blamed the delayed action on the classrooms steel-enforced doors. there was no way to break them down. they had to wait for the right keys, he said. cnn has reached out to texas safety officials and the district for comment but according to arradondo s attorney, the chief isn t giving out any more interviews at this time. one of the reporters who spoke to chief arradondo for the texas tribune and he joins me now. james, i am glad you are here. i have it tell you we have all been waiting to hear from it this chief in some form or capacity. i am actually a little surprised that at this point in, several
says he never considered himself the incident commander. he also blamed the delayed action on the classroom s steel enforced doors, that there was no way to break them down, that they had to wait for the right keys, he said. cnn has reached out to texas saufty officials in the school district for comment. but according to arredondo s attorney, the chief isn t giving out anymore interviews at this time. jane is one of the reporters who spoke to chief arredondo for the texas tribune, and he joins me now. james, i m glad you re here. i have to tell you, we ve been waiting to hear from this chief in some form or capacity. i m surprised at this point in, several weeks later, he is saying that he didn t think he was the incident commander. first of all, could that be right? and two, why is he only saying that now? hi laura. thanks for having me on your show. and i think that is the question that so many people have had in terms of what he the incident commander.