America, its really kind of pathetic. Larry, thank you so much. New developments in the new york trial against former President Trump. Lets bring in former assistant u. S. Attorney andy mccarthy. Okay, andy, this is unfair. So judge merchan, its good to see you, thanks for joining us. Judge merchan holds former President Trump in contempt for nine violations of his gag order on trump. He fined former President Trump 9,000 total, ordered him to take down 7 posts at issue from truth social, threatens trump with jail, but watch this. Abc news is reporting Michael Cohen is making money by talking on tiktok about the ongoing new york trial against trump. Hes taking viewer donations doing nightly live streams on tiktok. What do you make of this disparity here . Well, i think its always been a constitutionally improper gag order, liz. Michael cohen aside, i mean, its obviously not fair that trump cant talk about the witnesses, but the witnesses can talk about him all they want. Its worse that
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Developing countries respond to that at the summit . I know you met with people on the side. Yeah. There are a lot of things that i saw being discussed that relate to the president s plan. We had and most of the meetings i went to were with industry, so it was really fun. Large industries as well as small. We talked about the 111d proposal and the broad context about its sort of gamechanging nature, that its a really strong signal for the u. S. The president s presence there was clearly another strong signal. I also had discussions with oil and gas on methane commitments. There are some great opportunities to work internationally and we have the Largest Companies participating in those discussions through our climate and what is it called . Climate and clean air coalition, which is an International Sort of collaboration with dozens of countries and business sector. We talked a little bit about hfcs. There were big commitments on those as well. There was a lot of discussion over the dev
For reelection without considering the dozens of proposals that are already out there, to pass a more specific statute tailored to isis, i dont know what Congress Left for president obama in that situation. I want to talk about International Law as well. To beh how can you craft legislation when the threat appears to be changing . Group f khorasan, no one talked about that. On tuesday the president mentions this group for first ou time. How can you tailor legislation to a specific threat when you dont know where the next threats coming from . Ve theres a great blog post on steves quout standing blog called just security. Org. It talks essentially about and i think its your response to Jack Goldsmith, the law ok, professor from harvards piece, that its one thing to say, iss okay, we want to narrowly tailon it towards isis and perhaps khorasan and other clearly identifiable groups that are that have core ties to al qaedao its another thing to say as chn Jack Goldsmith andge others are sa
Answers. It is a carl icahn began difficult. We do not historically have a great track record, the United States nor any other nation in the world. That said, al qaeda core, the group that struck us the into of 11 has been decimated. There has been some success along the way. Host here is a tweet from one of our viewers. And aumf is not a substitute for the declaration of war that the constitution contemplates and mandates. Are we at war . Guest we are at war. The president use that in his inaugural address. There is a big difference legally between being a Armed Conflict versus section eight where we declare being at war. Weve than a five times. International law has changed. This would be a long boring legal the session. The preferred venue today in these types of conflicts is an authorization for use of military force, not an article one, section eight congress declaring war. Host do you agree, jennifer . Guest absolutely. War has been declared five times. For better or for worse, t