Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Don jr. And it goes on to say this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics. It is done frequently in politics when everyone involved is an american citizen. It is much more treacherous if there are any foreign nationals who are part of a meeting like that because there are violations of the law if foreign nationals contribute anything of value to a campaign. Money, information, anything of value. So thats where it gets a bit tricky. Now, one of the issues, we know, is that donald trump jr. , through his testimony and the emails that he released, did acknowledge that it was a meeting to get information, dirt as it was described on Hillary Clinton. We also know that another attendee of that meeting, jared kushner, who is the president s soninlaw and senior
earlier talking about talking about how bad policies are forcing disinvestment in businesses to leave insses to is anothercs, it form of disinvestment. he said it s not politics, it s policy. s and i think democrat,n alik republican alike. and we should we should youe, know, the mayor or mayors wantgt to try to make their city sound better. i do agree with you. t this is his straa strangnge vic, bu it at the same time,he i understand what she s saying. but she d spent a lot it d be at th lot better expenditure of timeci if you got the council togethelr and tried to figur e how do weoing f prevent these things from happening going forward. that s what she should haveo said durin g that interview.ple th she should have said , look, people think so poorly of the city. wethe city are not the city you, but we need to do better. and here s what i m announcing. and i think i think, unfortunately, politicians today get so thin skinned with remember, this is a national problem. eight out o
away is in the way the mayor touted the success, numbers of arrests, numbers of felons. we re evaluating law enforcement but for the things that they can get away with charging people for, not numbers of convictions, not number of folk who are in less crisis, not the metrics of actual safety, the metrics of punishment. as long as we ve got metrics of punishment then for sure law enforcement is going to look like a huge success. the you gotli right to the cor of one of the issues here if the real reason is to have a scorpion unit and by the way i don t care what the acronym is, if you have a poisonous predator for the name you re using state dollars for, don t think that s going to end up with ath lot of safety going on. wasn t is the scorpion who stabbed the frogs and they all drowned in the river in the firstd place?fi but if you ve got a scorpion unit whose job it is to deal with the most violent crime, the murder spike we saw at the height of the pandemic, there s no justification
will be honest in transference with you about the good in the bad news. what happened to that pledge? big again, the white house, the want to keep a promise, but i m concerned about the justice department, the same justice department justice department that handled these things in such a different way is the justice department that spied o president trump s campaign they lied to the court, the justice department that paid a confidential source even after they knew that soares had lied to them. the same justice department tha played twitter money to keep information from the justice from the merkin people. and that is why i think you see this dark. it is political unfortunately. this is why we are going to mak sure all the facts get on the table. type said this so many times, but it is so true. the first step in stopping this kind of behavior and getting back to equal application of th lot in this country is to expos it and get all the facts on the table for the country. congressman
every day. and they re in a situationy where they re biting their tongue because they think it will be better. yes. foorr their children. that s right. so even me in my position, i was biting my tongue on my ony political opinion because i though pt it would be better for my children. got a lot more on that and what it did to him as a man living through it tomorrow. night. but first, our friendth jason whitlock, the host of fearless, joins us to assess. jason , what did you think of that? icker, i thought a lot of things and forgive me for doing ,but i m going to unpack all of this on my show tomorrow,fi ndfind youtube .com slash jason whitlock. but listen, that s a man wrestling with his faith inod ad and wrestling with the fame that has makes w money and makes him rich.ke and so throughout that interview tonight, i heard a guy that s a devouty christian and i heard a guthy that is keusch with the disease of fame. it s undermined his ability to o