political pressure in the way that some of the more political actors inside the administration do. he said he wanted to be an attorney general who would look only at the facts and the law and i think that is the way he approached the job so far. i do think this is a much closer case for the justice department than the bannon prosecution was. meadows privilege claim is clearly weak. it s been rejected by the sitting president. it covers ground that is clearly involving government misconduct. i think if it were to go to the courts ultimately he would lose the claim. that is not the same thing as proving a criminal case he knew he was required to testify and didn t show up and do it. i think his lawyer, one thing he has been successful at is kicking up a lot of dust. he filed a lawsuit last week to try to quash the subpoena and i think his lawyer who is a former deputy attorney general will go to the justice department and try to make the case that this is a disputed claim that is before
dismantling all of the iterations by smollett on the stand. you know, there are two reasons that a defendant testifies to humanize himself and then to explain a story. but that story has to be plausible. and it just simply isn t here. you know, the idea that these guys hate me and they re homophobic, but i had sex with one of them then, you know, i had a training session the next day and didn t show up and didn t cancel it maybe you cancelled it when you were doing the staged attack, i don t know. nothing adds up. what i ve been repeatedly saying, which i was pleased to see this prosecutor argue in closing, is the idea that if you are a victim of a crime you want the perpetrator to be brought to justice. you don t say that you don t believe in dna because you don t believe in ancestry.com, you don t refuse to turn over your cell phone and your medical records because the police are maga people and you don t trust none of this makes sense. that s why the prosecutor s saying you
friday, they were supposed to appear in court for an arraignment and didn t show up. that triggered this multilaw enforcement agency manhunt, lasting more than ten hours to try to find them, which commenced yesterday morning just before 10:00 a.m. in detroit. all along, the defense attorney for the couples saying that they were going to turn themselves in, but law enforcement, as well as the prosecution saying otherwise. i want you to listen to what the sheriff had to say about this very part of this investigation. they were in an art studio, within that building that has multiple kinds of partitions, if you will, in that building. they were taken into custody at about 1:30 in the morning. where they were and how they were seems to support the position that they were hiding and they weren t looking for surrendering at that point. we believe they were assisted in that location, to get there, to get in. and we re gathering that
that as a parent you know your child is susceptible to something like this and the handgun is introduced to the situation, a meeting happens in the school and is he put back in the classroom? just a lot of variables in here that led to this tragedy. rachel: appears that the parents weren t the only ones who weren t reacting or doing something about these red flags. that you had someone you were hosting primetime this whole week and had you someone on last night a reporter from the detroit area who said there were some weird things in the culture of the school that there were students who purposely didn t show up. they had some sort of premonition or signs from social media this might happen. if that s the case, then we are learning very little from all these school shootings. the thing that we were being told to learn from the school shootings was if you see something, say something. and one thing that really concerns me, will, is that this
because if he had just ignore to and just didn t show up, they could do what they did with bannon. this, he could say i at least showed up but i am relying on my lawyer who says that i am covered by this executive privilege. which, by the way, is still being litigated. we you know, we had the appeals court hearing just yesterday on this question. so, you know, he still has, i think, a legal leg to stand on for the time being. right. and of course, he was was the actual chief of staff. but um, i don t know how to play it out but i guess we all know, you know, certainly saying you are taking the fifth is certainly sounds more damning in the public eye than claiming executive privilege. especially, for a former-justice department official. it s it s a really incredible thing to see. it it truly is. all right. thank you, both, very much. and next, the u.s. confirms its first case of omicron. what we re learning about that patient. plus, trump s former chief of staff with