Two journalists who cover the court. And chief Justice John Roberts presides over the Senate Impeachment trial of donald trump. And were going to look ahead, probably ahead. And for National Public radio, you dont know who these people are in detail, look it up. We have 25 minutes and going to talk. You were the acting solicitor general but he acted for a long time, of the United States. And chief Legal Correspondent for cbs news. And paul clement who was solicitor general of the United States. And before that the deputy. Both of these guys are there often, they are both very good advocates. Im going to start by talking about news. There are two cases before the Supreme Court pending, waiting for the justices to say what, if anything they are going to do with them. One is on the dc circuit and the dc circuit ruled when Congress Asked for information from, in this case, Donald Trumps Accounting Firm related to whether they will pass ethics legislation that would require the disclosure o
Joining us out swaying, white house editor for Bloomberg News and Catherine Mcmanus who is with rollcall who decovers capitol hill. Lets start with the rate over the weekend, that baghdadi raid. The comments we heard from followers questioning about whether the president should have informed democratic leader schiff ahead of time. He mentioned he didnt in his comments. Do we know what the president is supposed to do or by tradition has done in these situations . Typically the president would inform what is called a gang of eight. It is leadership of the house and senate, republicans and democrats as well as a Certain Committee chairman including the Intelligence Committee chairs. And one of the reasons that i imagine trump will continue to hit on is that adam schiff is one of the traditional people that you would have told ahead of this raid. And that did not happen area he specifically said leaks were part of his rationale. I Foreign Policy success for sure for the administration and
Threephase deal he calls it substantial. He says its bigger than previous iterations of the deal. And some of the items you mentioned were in it a pledge on currency transparency, a pledge by china to buy up to 50 billion in u. S. Agricultural goods a tariff hike that was planned for october 15th will not be going forward. And the signaling from the trade representative ambassador Robert Lighthizer was that there will be many weeks between the signing of the phase one deal and the december 15th tariff hike or the december 15th consumer facing tariffs to potentially deal with those. Thats going to be important to the market now whats interesting about todays announcement was that up until earlier this woke the president said vehemently that he wanted a big deal he wanted a comprehensive deal and it was not his preference to do a deal in pieces. He was asked that question multiple times this afternoon about why he chose to structure the deal like this given president promises that he had
Two questions, one is my observation and he echoed it that this was a federal right in terms of the court split in ways that conservative justices were joining the liberal justices in the majority of the cases. You agree that this term was a quiet interlude for my comp . And then maybe talk about what might come. And please talk about your area of expertise to the gerrymandering case. And does it portend other future decisions that we should be aware of . Like everybody else i want to say it like nikki rooney, im happy to be in the show. [laughter] right that the term is characterized in part by the cases that court took and partly by the cases the court postponed or did not take. To hide too cases tdap the beginning of the term and one set of them were on the summer conference list for last year where the cases about the scope of title vii, whether covers discrimination based on Sexual Orientation or on gender identity. The court could have taken those cases last september and did not
Singled out as an adversary and opposed for nearly 20 years, Vladimir Putin. This was less than 24 hours after the outrage Industrial Complex was disappointed yet again by special counsel mueller. Partisan democrats and their media allies were crushed a few months ago when muellers report cleared the president of conspiring with russia during the 2016 campaign. And now their frantic hyping of the special counsels congressional testimony has fallen flat once again. But the conspiracy theories and reckless accusations had to continue. Too many people had invested too much time in the hysterical echo chamber to simply wind it down and join the rest of us in the real world. The outrage storm system complex needed a new target the outrage Industrial Complex needed a new target, and thats where i come in. Mitch mcconnell, the hawkish Foreign Policy conservative who spent decades pushing back on russia every way i can think of was accused to what amounts to treason by multiple Media Outlets w