republicans tonight do they think mike pence, a president mike pence would intimidate an american career diplomat? do they think a president mike pence would attack john mccain? do they think a president mike pence would say he didn t understand what george h.w. bush meant when he said a thousand points of light? why can t they make this choice? why can t they admit we took a flier and we were wrong? that would be true of the american tradition of actually responding to changing data? john, you think about the old phrase of defining deviancy down. the watergate burglary was not ultimately considered the most successful crime operation. it was famously decried as a third rate burglary. but few people on the republican side were saying the fact that it wasn t effective, it wasn t a good burglary, whatever that means if you re into crime, was
told him it was the president who came to el chapo to solicit the bribe, to say he wouldn t need to hide if he paid the money. what might he have asked for in exchange? the most important thing was information. what exactly are the law enforcement groups doing? what is the military doing? he would have gotten the complicity of policymakers, the kinds of decisions they make about putting resources that get in the way of his ability to operate. the testimony comes halfway through el chapo s trial, with the accused drug lord s former beauty queen life in attendance. he is charged with international drug trafficking, conspireing to murder rivals, gun charges and money laundering. el chapo pleaded not guilty and his lawyer says he was a leader of nothing. the u.s. says he was the leader of a worldwide crime operation who alluil eluded police for ye.