of characters that that you know involved in these cases that we ve heard from so much. it s important to hear when they are under penalty of perjury, and i think that there is some interest there. and by the way, what we can t forget in this whole discussion is a lot of people decided in my party, you know, in 2016 to turn a blind eye to the stormy daniels affair and to kind of plug their nose and vote for donald trump, but i think that it s kind of a necessary reminder of what happened in the circumstances heading into 2024, so i m not sure that they was out there in some ways, which is the access hollywood. actually, you re right, hollywood. that was why it was so important to briber because they right it better. on top of that. it would have been 12 punch. yes but let s talk about the judge in this case because the judge, it turns out the judge in this case. gave a whopping $35. a political contribution he gave $15 to the biden campaign and $10 to
the briber and the person receiving the bribe are guilty of an offense, right, because one is trading his official capacity for payment and the other person is doing the payment. it s a little bit of a stretch to say that president zelensky was willingly engaging in a bribery scheme here. i mean, this is a new president whose soldiers are at risk of being slaughtered if he doesn t get the aid already promised to him and, in fact, had been appropriated by congress. now the threat is the president of the united states is going to withhold that aid unless president zelensky does what the president of the united states wants in order to help him get re-elected. so i think the word shakedown was used by one of the witnesses this week. i think shakedown or extortion is actually even a better fit for what happened here. and again, as i said before, i think the facts are all
return for a public statement of a fake investigation into the elections. i mean, bribery s pretty easy. i m going to give you this money and you change what you re doing as a leader of your country in exchange. that s what donald trump s doing here. he s bribing them with a military what s interesting is congress has already passed this. he still is holding it up because he doesn t believe the constitution holds any checks and balances for him. so you can call it bribery, arms for dirt, political dirt, you can call tay lot of things. but quid pro quo really does sort of undersell it, doesn t. there are a few names here, congressman from ohio, representative buzz lukens, william jefferson, a former illinois governor, all in jail for bribery. for briber. i it s a crime, it s that
brussels. briber talk about thirteen hours of heated discussion at the end of which the european union environment ministers have agreed to a thirty five percent c o two reduction for new cars by twenty thirty the ministers meeting in luxembourg were essentially split between eastern and western europe germany backed by eastern european member states fiercely resisted the forty percent cut which the european parliament voted for last week the target was reduced it to thirty percent for brands luxembourg and lands and nordic states had pushed for more ambitious productions the meeting aimed to establish the use position for talks at the united nations climate summit in poland in december. now let s get some more analysis on this deal with our correspondent band rieger and brussels band are the targets that you ministers agreed on in line with the demands from this week s un appeal to drastically address global warming as a unix have also for rep it an unprecedented reforms and none of t
you be separately charged with the bribery crime both the briber and the bribe e. you want to keep those two questions separate in thinking of a hypothetical. and in that mr. chairman, i got interrupted an awful lot. i want to finish this question. but i made sure that if the timer didn t treat well, give him another minute. thank you. god bless you. i ll be forever thankful. president trump claims he has an absolute right to pardon himself. does he? the question of self-pardons is something i ve never analyzed. it is a question that i ve not written about. it is a question therefore that is a hypothetical question that i can t begin to answer in this