they re precise about this. what would your best guess having worked there what they will do? first thing, they don t have videotape recordings as other courts do. they do everything through transcripts. you later find out about oral argument. they are a public court and forum. they will be very attentive to the fact that this is a case that many people are looking at. there s a lot of public interest in this. and i think they would be reluctant on giving the past president to do something where the entire proceeding would be completely kept let s play that out. let s say it is mueller and mueller wants it totally blocked because that s what they got with the d.c. circuit court of appeals. you re saying they can say no, mueller, we re going to open part of this up? i think they would weigh whether they want to be disclosed, whether it s something that would either compromise national security or compromise the ongoing investigation and they would weigh it in deciding whether or
one law professor saying there s no record the high court has ever heard an entirely sealed case before the justices. let s go to professor melissa murray who has clerked for justice sotomayor. thank you for being leer. thank you for having me. do you agree this is weird? it s super weird. everything in washington is weird. this is not unusual. let s start big picture. when you look at roberts saying this, this doesn t tell us everything. it just tells us they re taking time. what do you think comes out of this and how mueller related does it look to you? everyone seems to think it s related to mueller. we don t have any confirmation that it is. this is all coming from a politico source at the courthouse when someone was requesting information about the latest filing. we don t know it s related to mueller, but it looks like it might be. i think the chief justice is trying to get a gauge of what s going to happen. they ve never had to shutdown everything, have the oral
mystery subpoena and controversies over trump s acting attorney general misstating his record. a lot of news in what would otherwise be a quieter holiday week. we begin with the trump-made chaos royaling washington and wall street. many people are nervous including elected republicans. one retiring senator speaking truth to washington. her name you may have heard is claire mccaskicaskill. she basically dished on what she says her republican colleagues say in private. that trump is not acting rational and things could get a lot worse. now, they ll tell you if it s just the two of you, you know, the guy s nuts. he doesn t have a grasp of the issues. he doesn t he s making brash decisions. he s not listening to the people who know the subject matter, but in public if they go after him, they know they get a primary. and they know that s tough. i think history will judge some of my colleagues harshly that
bringing financial chops to a time when washington certainly is being heard. however, unhappily by the market. mr. from, i d begin with you as a white house insider. how concerned are you about the acting nature of all this and does it reflect a fundamental lack of interest in this president? it reflects something i think even more worse than what you said. it reflelkts an attempt to circumvent senate oversight. you have acting secretaries because you don t have anybody confirmable. you have to get a vote in the senate. it s clear before the news about mark whitaker s exaggerated athletic academic attainments that he would have a lot of trouble. you shut down senate oversight by bypassing the requirement that cabinet secretaries serve with the advice of the senate. this is becoming something i mean the chief of staff does not have to get senate confirmed, of