but one thing we ll try to him about is something i haven t discussed in a full segment on this program but i have suggested from time to time, that i do not see, given that presidents of the united states get lifetime secret service protection, i have not been able to see how a president, former president, can be sentenced to prison. that means a dozen secret service agents. you ve seen how many secret service agents go to court with him. how many have to go to prison with him? how do you do that? in what prison? how is that supposed to work? i have just as i think about it i have thought i thought it to be impossible. eric holder thinks it s possible. as attorney general used to be in charge of the bureau of prisons so finally we have someone who knows more about this than i do, which is pretty easy to find. those are some logistics i would like to hear about, lawrence, so i will be tuning in. finally we re gonna have that discussion. i m eager to do. it at long last.
also live in a world where former president trump asserts that there was a politicized process that resulted in his prosecution related to classified documents and other things. so, for the public, if democrats and this administration say trust the department of justice, trust the institutions, but you are also arguing here gratuitous political cheap shots and false assertions. how are they to process that. i talked about this a minute ago, and when you have the former attorney general, when you have the former acting fbi director, when you have the former general counsel of the fbi, you know, these are experienced people at the justice department who spent decades working at the justice department and they are saying it s gratuitous, they are saying this is inappropriate, this is inconsistent with doj policy and practice, it s them saying. we agree, you know, you heard the president speak about this last night, and the vice president speak forcefully about this today, we a
former president trump asserts that there was a politicized process that resulted in his prosecution related to classified documents and other things? so for the public, if democrats and this administration say trust the department of justice, trust the institutions, but you re also arguing here gratuitous political cheap shots and false assertions. how are they to process this? i talked about this a minute ago, and i think, you know, when you have the former attorney general, when you have the former acting fbi director, when you have the former general counsel of the fbi, you know, these are experienced people at the justice department who spent decades working at the justice department and they re saying it s gratuitous, this isn t appropriate. this is inconsistent with the doj policy and practice. that s them saying it. we agree. you heard the president speak forcefully about this last night. you heard the vice president speak forcefully about this today. we agree that
impossible. eric holder thinks it s possible. as attorney general, he used to be in charge of the bureau of prisons. so finally we have someone who knows more about this than i do, which is pretty easy to find. those are some logistics i would like to hear about, lawrence, so i will be tuning in. finally, we re gonna have that discussion. i m eager to do it. at long last. i will stay tuned. thank you. this day began with the announcement of the emmy nominations, honoring some, but not all, of the very best work done on television in the last year, which makes it a fitting day to consider how much damage television has done in some of the places where we are allowed to point our cameras. i am speaking, of course, about what television has done to the congressional hearing as we approach the 70th year of television coverage of congressional hearings. this hearing has turned into absolute chaos. that happened at 11:39 a.m. today, 69 years after the first televised co
captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight on 360, trump s latest excuse. it wasn t a crime, just bravado. woodward and bernstein join me live. also vladimir putin moves to look in control as questions swirl about what really happened with this weekend s rebellion. author and columnist thomas freedman joins us. plus, e. jean carroll now the defendant, countersues, claiming she defamed him. good evening. when we left you last night, the former president had just floated a new explanation of the tape of him apparently sharing a classified plan for attacking iran, which he was not authorized to have, with people not authorized to see it. and that explanation now is, i was just bsing people. he didn t say bs. he said it was bravado, fancier word, same bs. before reading you his latest excuse, here are his actual words, july 2021, showing off the documents. this is secret information. look at this. this was done by the military, given to me. i think we can probably