be the deciding vote on trump s pick for justice. she claims to support a woman s right to have an abortion, why won t she rule out voting for trump s anti-choice picks. katon got a chance. charlie pierce, democrats don t belief it when people on the right say they re not trying to explicitly put somebody on that overturns roe. is that a good faith disbelief. i want michelle bernard as my political strategist because she has the proper ferocity, that s number one. number two, of course not. you don t get on the federalist society list if you re wishy-washy on that particular issue but there are a couple points i want to make. number one, i ve always believed the real target of this everyday is not roe but griswold. in the republican judicial circles there is an article of faith that there is no right to privacy in the constitution. and that leads me to my second point which is that this particular fight has little or
haven t read that story, charlie pierce was referring to an interview that rudy giuliani gam gave to the new york times where he said nobody is going to consider impeachment if public opinion has included this is an unfair investigation and that s why public opinion is investigation. that s what the point of this is, trying to drag down the investigation so donald trump can survive an impeachment? absolutely. and i say this as a former white collar criminal defense attorney as much as it pains me to have to say this. if you look at what rudy giuliani is doing despite all of the gaffes he makes, he is making a very vigorous defense of the president, if you look at congressional testimony and intent dealing with the independent counsel statute, nothing says the attorney general can t do what what he did. there s nothing that puts a time limit on the investigation. there s nothing that says you cannot subpoena the president of
picks. lindsey graham is urging fellow republicans to rally around whoever trump picks as the nominee. expected to make a final decision with a primetime tv announcement tomorrow night. i m joined by my guests now. let s tart with a piece of lindsey graham sound. this is him talking about what he says is the dilemma for red state democrats. this is a nightmare for red state democrats to oppose a highly qualified nominee and all four of these people are highly qualified, been on the court, know what they re doing, mainstream judges. so red state democrats are going to have a hard decision. charlie pierce, nate silver said it s not so hard of a decision. they could remain noncommittal and do what they do. if they vote for the nominee, then the two red staters vote for them. then they try to support the
help. the order appoint the special counsel that he has the right to look into any platters that ray rose or may arise directly from the investigation into links between russia and the trump campaign. that would presumably include attempts to stifle the investigation. those facts don t seem to matter to team trump because the attacks are meant just as much for the court of public opinion as they are for the courts. they appear to be working. a recent washington post poll shows nearly as many people, 45%, disapprove of mueller s handling of the investigation. joining me now, i have the think cross founder of the beat d.c., charlie piece, writer for esquire and michelle bernard of the bernard center for women, politics, and public policy. good morning, let s start off by taking a listen to giuliani this morning on abc down playing, though he does admit donald trump telling james comey, the former fbi director, to let
security advisor to the united states. charlie pierce, let me play for you rudy giuliani on abc basically coming to the idea that mueller wants to charge his client with objection. take a listen. the obstruction statute they want to charge him with do you know they want to? no, but i think they re investigating although they ve never told us what they re investigating which we want to know, it says you have to obstruct. when lester holt asked him do you expect this investigation to go on, the president says of course i do, in fact i believe it s going to go on longer now around i did it for the best interest of the country. the president knew the investigation was going to go on. that s the best fact we have. charlie pierce, i won t presume to know how long you ve been doing media but i don t think i ve ever heard a president s lawyer go on tv and say oh, he s going to charge him. but he seems to think his client