i m going to attempt, and i probably regret this, i m going to attempt to make sense of the current debt ceiling situation. instead of having someone come on who doesn t know what s going on, i thought i don t know what s going on, i can just guess and so, we re gonna do a little bit of that. and i will advance a theory that joe biden is doing everything right. there is a theory that i landed on it today that joe biden is doing everything right. i reserve the right to take my mind tomorrow. [laughter] listen, lawrence, i will put my money on you being able to not only explain this but make sense of it, and have a plausible theory for all of it so i m eager to see what you have to say this evening. it s one of the things that i know will sound good while i m saying it. i don t want anyone to think about much after i say it. okay? [laughter] [laughter] let s see what the news is tomorrow. you ve got to get the 10:59. right, yeah! it is given some until 10:59, and
thank you alex! have a great show. thank you. well this is the breaking news that i m holding in my hands. this is a letter from donald trump s attorneys to attorney general merrick garland. the letter to the attorney general says, we represent donald j trump, 45th president of the united states in the investigation currently being conducted by the special counsel s office. they go on to propaganda rise about hunter biden which acquires makes no sense. and then they say what the letter is about in the final sentence of there s a very short letter. we request a meeting at your earliest convenience to discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your special counsel and his prosecutors. thank you for your attention to this matter. so there it is tonight, the trump lawyers asking merrick garland, attorney general of the united states for a meeting about special counsel jack smith s criminal investigations of donald trump which of course includes the documents
prosecutors want to get things right. if there is some story that we are unaware of, if there s some evidence that we don t know about, by all means please tell us! we love to hear about it! if there s some defense that we have not explored. i d be surprised at this anything at this stage that would persuade them in light of the ongoing back and forth they ve had with donald trump about these documents in the lighter s public statements. but prosecutors welcome that kind of information and i imagine that they would take this meeting at some point. kevin question, what did you make of this court session today in manhattan with donald trump on zoom, and a judge not speaking directly to trump, but speaking to his lawyers in pressing on the lawyers that if donald trump violates this protective order on some, only some of the prosecutions evidence, then he faces contempt rioters? while it was interesting because what dodge merchan did was actually quote from a criminal law statutes in n
right. if there is some story that we are unaware of, if there s some evidence that we don t know about, by all means please tell us! we love to hear about it! if there s some defense that we have not explored. i d be surprised at this anything at this stage that would persuade them in light of the ongoing back and forth they ve had with donald trump about these documents in the lighter s public statements. but prosecutors welcome that kind of information and i imagine that they would take this meeting at some point. kevin question, what did you make of this court session today in manhattan with donald trump on zoom, and a judge not speaking directly to trump, but speaking to his lawyers in pressing on the lawyers that if donald trump violates this protective order on some, only some of the prosecutions evidence, then he faces contempt charges? while it was interesting because what dodge merchan did was actually quote from a criminal law statutes in new york called criminal contemp
the reason that it will never work, the oklahoma statute, like standard criminal law statutes and jurisdictions across the country contains a negligence for criminal purposes. that s exactly what you were pressing him on and you were right. culpable negligence means a level of negligence beyond ordinary civil negligence. his analogy to the operating room and the nurses and so forth, that s wrong, that s not what we call criminal negligence. criminal negligence is of a different order, and that s what he s been charged with because his actions fulfill that kind of definition. and there is no need to prove an intentional problem there, an intentional act. the nonintentional act will do it for criminal negligence. i don t think that defense will work. eugene o donnell i was shocked today watching this defendant arrive in court, 72 73 years old. the federal law enforcement mandatory retirement age is 57