no, look, i don t think. it s much, much broader than that. you could make it it comes down well, in this sense he s put on the court a vision of really limited judicial power. it s not simply a republican/democratic idea, it s an it s an idea of judicial power that is is powerless in front of maybe the most important violation we have. you know, don, we were for many years we were leading to a point where the court was saying again and again you go too far, we re going to come with something here. that s including justice kennedy. now with kennedy gone, kavanaugh and gorsuch there, they throw their hands and this means, you know, forever more the kind of outright everybody agrees, including roberts, unconstitutional treatment is just beyond the reach of the court. deep sadness is absolutely the proper response here. and it can t be the case that the mere fact that elections this is on the elections of consequences point. it can t be the fact that the
and i have been talking about, unfortunately for months. i just don t know why it took this long. i just don t get it. it didn t have to. they didn t fight for anything out in the open that mattered more than what they wound up getting. and i said to cortez, i invite them on. come make the case and be tested. because if it matters that much then speak up. don t just waste people s time and let kids live in squalor. yeah. well, listen, do you remember back when the president wanted to do the emergency declaration? we were saying this is, you know, a problem of his own making, it was a manufactured crisis. it was. it is. here s you know what has been usually i don t like to respond to it. what has been infuriating is the not just the right, but the people who don t mean well who are supporting the president who are saying, oh, my gosh, look at all of these people who are on cnn, including don lemon, now they ve all of a sudden realized it s a crisis. we ve always said it s a
that much daylight between the chief justice and the administration. it s just on its face so patently obvious they were trying to come up with and jin up this phony decision. they had one thing they were doing and another explanation for why they did it and completely untrue and completely made up. harry, were you surprised the chief justice was so assertive in his opinion? i was. you know, he s deferential. think about the immigration decision where it seemed pretty clear that trump was pretextual, but they said we have to defer. i was impressed, just the way i said, with his ability to say, you know, we re nine guys in robes but don t think we re idiots up here. we can, you know, we can hear facts like ordinary people can. that did surprise me. yeah. thank you both. i appreciate it. two women coming forward to corroborate e. jean carroll s story, of what she says donald trump did to her in the 90s, and tonight carroll herself is speaking out to cnn about all of it.
and we are back. i m going to hand it over to anderson cooper and his team, who will bring you all the analysis of tonight s democratic debate. the candidates are wrapping up as we speak. take it away, anderson. don, you don t want to stay until like 1:00 a.m.? i ll let you do that. i ll be watching. good evening again. night two of the first democratic primary debate of the 2020 campaign. there were fireworks on the stage of miami as some of the top polling candidates sought to distinguish themselves from one another. plenty of heat, a few verbal shots, a lot of rhetorical pushing and shoving and a few curveballs. in short, whether you re invested in the outcome as so many americans say they are this time or simply interested in how the candidates make their case, this is a good night to be tufning in. a lot to get to onstage. self-help speaker marianne williamson, john hickenlooper, andrew yang, pete buttigieg, former vice president joe biden, vermont senator bernie sanders,
by donald trump more than two decades ago backed up by two of her friends. how significant is this? let s discuss now. alice stewart is here as well as ar areva martin, author of make it rain. good evening. her friends are both on records sharing their stories. listen. i said, let s go to the police. no. come to my house. no, i want to go home. right. i ll take you to the police. no. it was 15 minutes of my life. it s over. don t ever tell anybody. i just had to tell you. i said, don t tell anybody. i wouldn t tell anybody this. how significant as an attorney, how significant is it that two new york prominent figures are speaking out publicly about this? well, these are really powerful statements, don. they are the types of corroborating evidence that if this case were to be tried in a criminal matter and definitely in a civil matter, these witnesses would be very critical to carroll s case and they would