it has been said that the supreme court is like a family. a family composed entirely of in-laws. 42 years ago, i was assigned to help then judge o connor join that family. it was my first day in a new job at the justice department, and i was proud to be part of her team. i thought i did a pretty good job. after all, the justice was confirmed 99-0. we must have had something to do with that. only many years later was i told she thought i was slow in getting material to her. i should have learn ed that whe she had a challenge or responsibility before her, her approach was simple and direct. get it done. the way she participated in oral argument at the court is a good example. justices have many different styles on the bench. some like the back and forth of debates, others pose unusual hype otheticals, some badger counsel to get concessions. others spell out a particular theory at length and ask for comment. now all this is fine and good, but justice o connor was different. af
ally rudy giuliani decided to scapegoat me and my daughter. whatever happened to them, which is unfortunate for other people overreacting. but everything i said about them is true. not true, rudy. a judge has already ruled that you defamed ruby freeman and shaye moss who tonight are awaiting a jury s decision on how many millions you will have to pay for your election lies. also tonight, the strange axis of putin, orbon, and the republican party and their embrace of authoritarianism. plus, the court trump largely built, and now trump is banking on his hand-picked justices to come through for him and keep him out of jail. but we begin tonight in a washington, d.c. courthouse, where an eight-person jury has begun their deliberations into how much one rudolph william giuliani should have to pay in damages to the two georgia election workers he defamed following the 2020 presidential election. accusing them of engaging in election fraud. giuliani was expected to testify
this is the faulkner focus. i am in for harris today. so far no splashy events or speeches since the president announced his re-election bid one month ago and one day ago. his rivals on both sides meantime of the aisle already making moves. the president s low profile may be not hitting with voters. a new fox poll shows only 33% see the commander in chief as a strong leader. our own karl rove says it will be tough to change minds. this guy is in real trouble and do we think he is going to get better, people will see him as a stronger leader? only if there s an international or national crisis in which he acts in a way that goes against the type we developed in our minds of him over the last two and a half, three years. i don t see it happening. the president got more competition this week across the aisle. south carolina senator tim scott and florida governor desantis announcing their 2024 bids as biden slogs along. desantis hitting the ground running. he is having a camp
there live. with eight days to go with a possible default, wall street is getting nervous again. stocks down again. will the markets get washington to act? welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. let s cut to the chase. what we re hearing in washington with chad pergram who has more. chad? good afternoon. kevin mccarthy reiterated today that people should not worry about their stocks. the path to an accord is unclear. the sides talks again today at the white house. i don t think there will be a default. i don t know how you blame republicans. we re the only ones that acted. so if the american public didn t if they get rewarded for not taking an action and reward ago problem, the democrats will win that award every day. mccarthy says he trusts janel yellen that early june is the deadline. some conservatives are not sold. some down played an economic catlism. there s not some catastrophic day of june 1. oh, we ve hit the limit. markets will get jittery. they go up and do
crime, a waste of time and money what the left tells you. what is the truth? the truth is, a sad day when avoiding indictment is seen as vindication, clear to anyone willing to work, highest echelon of the fbi engaged in conduct, the country is divided in its response, we re inching close dor the cliff called relativism where friends cannot be wrong and opponents cannot be right. it is okay to victimize those with whom you disagree, every investigation, found bias, what you call it confirmation or political bias, it was bias among those empowered to take your liberty, and property and your life. the left tells us that the bias does not matter, inspector general criticized work and objectivity and fairness of the fbi and doj, yet media and left do not care. fbi spun a thin, allegation to a year s long odyssey that weakened a president and the department of justice and a country. the fbi and doj did their best to conceal their conduct from investigators and the fisa court, yet,