Structure structures in our political system, as envisioned by the founders, that sometimes theyre going to disadvantage democrats, but the truth of the matter is, is that if we have a strong message, if were speaking to what the American People care about, typically you know, the popular vote and the Electoral College vote will align, and i guess part of my overall message here as i leave for the holidays is that if we looked for one explanation or one silver bullet, or one easy fix for our politics, then were probably
initiative and School Nutrition program is a greater threat to democracy than our government going after the press if theyre issuing a story we dont like. I mean thats an issue that i think weve got to wrestle with. And we will. People asked me how do you feel after the election . I say well, look, this is a clarifying moment. Its a useful reminder that voting counts, politics counts, what the President Elect is going to be doing is going to be very different than what
that. jack smith, quite a well-known prosecutor, handled a lot of high profile political cases, working at the international criminal court at the hague as merrick garland alluded to there, and he ll be coming back from the netherlands soon to assume his responsibilities here. shannon bream, anchor of fox news sunday, so we have your chief legal correspondent hat on with all of this. the point has been made that this investigation will not just be about the documents at mar-a-lago, this is about january 6th. people could face charges as a result of this special prosecution, including the former president, including some republican lawmakers, potentially, and if that were to happen, in a narrow majority in the house, could this investigation potentially change the balance of power in congress? it could have very broad tentacles. somebody obstructing the ability
in this setting, viewers will see a familiar face, dr. ashish jha stepping into his role with the covid organization. feels like there s two pieces to this, kell. there is the sort of politics messaging piece of this, which is this administration walking this line as they ve been trying to do for several months now. covid is here, we have to learn to live with it, and we also have to take precautions. there is also the impact, as you put on your correspondent hat, some things on the agenda like nominations. reporter: there is a lot here, and it is just a coincidence, but a very helpful one, that dr. jha is making his first appearance in the briefing room today. that was scheduled to happen, anyway. it is more than timely. it will be very useful to have his expertise in the briefing room because of this positive covid test with the vice
we also just learned just now from a republican lawmaker who came out from this deposition. i asked him if mike pompeo, the role of mike pompeo was discussed behind those closed doors. he said yes, it was. he wouldn t go into a lot of details, but we know that s a big question, especially for democrats and these geshl investigators on what role mike pompeo had. what did he know about the shadow state department operating in ukraine, and what did he do about it? but richard, we are also told that we could have at least two more hours left of this deposition, so the day is not over yet. which has been typical for those who have come to give testimony so far on the hill. kelly, your white house correspondent hat on right now and the ruling that came down from the federal judge saying this is legitimate. on top of that you must turn over documents that are related to the mueller report.
does something about it. pulls this thing out of the fire and everybody moving on with their lives. we ll see. trace: i don t want you to put your chief congressional correspondent hat on here. can you gauge it for us? it doesn t appear there s an easy pathway for legislation on this any time soon. is that a fair assessment? yeah, i don t think there s an easy pathway to much legislation on capitol hill, particularly in an election year. we don t know if this will path muster with house republicans let an lone the senate. that s we kirstjen nielsen is also urging the president to say, you know, if these bills fail, then we have to consider this idea of stand-alone legislation that could attract bipartisan support to fix this family separation deal. the president may have to end up eating it. i m not sure at this point this is still a very fluid situation.