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demand that judge merchan show up and explain and want to get behind the money that fueled this prosecution against donald trump. david lit pointed out on twitter wait so actions of judges family members are enough to make them biased? thomas and leo are going to be mad as heck when they hear about this. that s where we are. chief justice need to talk about thomas and alito. they need to have the conversation. you can t avoid it. the longer you avoid it, chief justice, the further down the court is being taken in the eyes of the american people. you can t play oh we want to be under judge merchan s robe without getting under thomas and alito s robe. i am not getting under any
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trevor now. and trevor, the really good news is now you get to roast the president of the united states, and unlike in moscow, you won t go to jail. joining us now, someone who knows a thing or two about writing jokes for the president, david lit is here with me, a speechwriter for president obama and author of thanks obama my hopy changy white house years. how did he do? i thought he did very well, laura. thank you for having me on. i think in particular the if you think about the things that presidents traditionally do on a night like this, they need to show they can laugh at themselves, they need to show they can tell a joke or two, take a couple of shots that are in good fun, but maybe a little bit edgy at least for a president, and i think most importantly they need to show up and talk about the importance of a free press and i do think for all of the many elements of the correspondents dinner that are a little bit bizarre, acknowledging the free press and
i think similarly the importance of the president of the united states acknowledging that a free press is essential to democracy is not the enemy of the people, but is part of our democratic process or part of the institutions and keep our democracy alive. that matters too, especially when the press and the president have an adversarial role. those things are good. lots of other things, i think are pretty bizarre and maybe less good. euphemistically. fair enough to say. david, thanks so much for coming on bright and early. i m sure you had a late night. thanks for having me. this was a lot of fun. great. with housing and rent prices hitting record highs, americans are left to make some really tough choices. up next, what cities can do to alleviate the burden since these prices are not expected to go down anytime soon. finding the pr isn t easy. but, at upwork, we found her. she s in austin between a dog named klaus and her r favorite shade of green.