levin. mark: professor, reynolds, i am not opposed to prosecutors or criminal laws, or violating people who break laws. i am all for it. i do not support is criminalization of politics in the totalitarian tactics against one individual. i briefly mentioned joe biden and his tax returns, do you think that local prosecutors will look at his tax returns. i am unqualified to offer a tax opinion, but it surprising how small a splash it made, the press is pretty much drives the narrative. mark: you made a points, that is
rule hearings. thee little gu these little guys think there we re done. there s nothing more to say. what a bad act. the only thing i will say, willie, is that there were a good number of them who decided actually to humiliate themselves, break laws, expose themselves as being rank hypocrites in the hopes that they would stop the news, that they would distract from everything that donald trump has been caught doing. yeah. let s also point out that the day before this stunt yesterday, on tuesday, they went to the white house and met with trump and told them about their plan. they had a long meeting with him about the impeachment inquiry, said we re going to do this, boss. we re going to take care of you. i m happy that we didn t hit this story until about 6:52 because all it is is a smoke screen, they re not arguing anything at all about the substance of ambassador taylor s testimony. and that s why they re doing this. they want to create some cloud around the investigation. as you
fact this is something that was a directive from the president to try to hold up the aid for ukraine rather and simultaneously get the country to look into corruption he alleges by one of his political rivals. and this phone call between the president and the president of ukraine happened a day after mueller s testimony? yes. it did. and that s another thing that timing of course is striking. you see his critics and some of this seem to be and jake knows this better, but the sense we re getting from democrats on capitol hill, which is this is a president who feels invincible and feels uncheck and he faced no ramifications in their view for the russia investigation and for mueller s report and so there s a sense that he s going to continue to act this way. to break norms. some people would allege break laws, none of that has been determined, but unless someone stands up and stops him and so you sort of get that sense from
always complaining about the money he s losing in the white house, now says he s toying with inviting foreign leaders to his private florida club for next year s g-7 conference, raising eyebrows from congressional democrats who worry he s just lining his pockets in office, and rightfully so, because we learned this week that trump s attorney general, william barr, booked his annual $30,000 holiday party at the president s d.c. hotel. this as the washington post reported this week that the president is so desperate to point at his finished wall, his finished border wall in time for the 2020 election that he s offered pardons to officials that break laws to speed up construction. in a move more shocking, even by trump administration standards,
that congresswoman ilhan omar, hired by her campaign. the question is, what an arrangement like that break laws? will investigate. she is back from her military. she joins us from her first interview. is a