facing scandals of their own. very separate scandals. i think mark herring acquitted himself rather well with the statement he put out. you heard cory booker and some other democrats say he has been contrite, he has done the work he needed to do in reaching out privately to democratic lawmakers both at the state and national level. so he seems safe for now. but i mean it is a rather stunning turn of events that the guy who admits to wearing blackface to impersonate some rappers is of the three the safest one. governor northam in part because there is no mechanism to remove him from office. he still holds all of the cards here and at the moment he says he is not going anywhere, david. i m curious what you think this says about the relationship between states, politicians at the state level, and the national level. again, the chorus is so loud of national politicians saying that several of these men need to step aside, and yet they re not. what does it say to you the role of the nation
a perfect set-up. so here is extortion in ten words or less, right? give me a thousand dollars or i break your thumb. they did the equivalent of that in the white collar arena. extortion is nothing more than threatening someone to obtain a thing of value. they threatened harm to bezos. it can be harm to your reputation. it doesn t have to be thumb breaking. the thing of value is they were trying to suppress investigation and reporting of something that sure sounds news worthy. here is their nonprosecution agreement. it says you can t commit crimes for three years or else guess what, we can charge you, and everything you told us you did, because in this agreement, david, they admitted they engaged in campaign finance violations. they can now be prosecuted using their own admissions. because this goes like this. done. so i mean it couldn t have been more foolish. and i think here to your point, what in the world would motivate
david, i d like to answer that question but i think your five minutes is up. i mean i knew that was coming. i mean that kind of disrespect a doughnut, this is yus ji stuff. that kind of disrespect to representative nadler and the entire committee, not to mention the department of justice and the american people, is both inexcusable and unforgivable. it really was at times a clownish performance. he answered relatively few questions. i m going to find two bright spots though. one, he s gone in less than a week. and i think barr will be preeshbly better and that is probably an understatement. two if he can be taken at his word, and even though he s under oath, i m not entire sure he can be taken at his word, but he said, i have made no decisions in the mueller probe. i basically gave him free reign. i didn t cut his funding. i didn t deny him any requests he made. i think the fact that whitaker did nothing should give us all a
of course there is the stuff that is going on with the d.o.j. and how pecker and ami dealt with cohen and the stories you were talking about. but i also think it can t be understated, president trump, you can t talk about jeff bezos and what trump levelled against him, and the new york times and other news outlets get under his skin because he doesn t like things that get reported out there. when you talk about trump and the latest thing about bezos, it is at the heart of it. this is obviously not someone the president has been very found of, he has been out there talking about he is no fan of jeff bezos. the washington post, same thing. and long time friend david pecker at the center of this again. it makes you wonder, are all of these things connected sore it gossip? we will talk about the connection to saudi arabia, and david, quickly, looking at this, if i were a staff at the washington post, i would feel pretty good, jeff bezos, saying this is the proudest achievement. h
questions and the congress has the right to establish government rules. the results are that you are here. with the constitution at the ready. what did relearn about the administration s approach to these hearings from the way he comported himself yesterday in that hearing. in other words s-he an outis he? well, a couple of things, david. this is the first week where the confluence of investigations, state of the union made me think for the first time that democrats can screw this up in 2020. i think there s a real potential for overreach on these oversight hearings. i think they need to do due diligence. that s what the constituency demands. that wall you showed, you look at that. first of all i m sure that scares donald trump. very unpleasant the next couple of years. important things will be