supreme court justices? another great question. yeah, breyer, we had to fully prepare him, but it was 87-9. we knew he would be confirmed. that was like a walk on the beach, and his nominee, biden s, will be like a run through a nor easter. the change is not the candidates, to be clear. it s the senators and the viciousness and sort of down and dirtiness of the politics. it s hard to see a kind of winding back to the more, you know, responsible and thoughtful days of yore. it seems to me we have pastpass point. the last three trump nominees were the closest ever and we re looking at a 50/50 margin. i think it s stable but razor thin. will they go back? i don t think so. i think the best case scenario is this nominee gets roughed up, takes all kinds of criticism about liberal activism and the
relying on what zelensky who is the victory here says and the report zelensky did not know of the blocking of the aid at the time of that phone call. again, i heard you say earlier, lawrence, that mitch mcconnell doesn t want to call witnesses. and i have a different theory why that is. and that is because every single w witness called by the house, every single e-mail we were provided of course not by the white house or executive branch agencies but every single e-mail showed the quid pro quo, showed the dirtiness of this. so of course mech kgb kmitch
and the report, number three, zelensky did not know of the blocking of the aid at the time of that phone call. again, i heard you say earlier, lawrence, that mitch mcconnell doesn t want to call witnesses. i have a different theory about why that is. and that is because every single witness called by the house, every single e-mail we were provided of course not by the white house or executive branch agencies but every single e-mail showed the quid pro quo, showed the dirtiness of this. so of course mitch mcconnell doesn t want more evidence presented in the senate. and that is what is going on in that absurd third defense. we heard from an official in the department of defense that upon polling her staff she there were instances of the ukrainians in july calling up and saying, hey, what s going on
democrats doing all of this to undo the results of the 2016 presidential election. martha. martha: gillian, thank you very much. joining me now on set on the story here in new york eric trump. good to have you here. thanks for coming in tonight. good to be here. martha: let s go through these one by one. what s your reaction to the news john durham has asked to expand the investigation. he needs more agents. he has a longer time frame than they originally thought when they started this whole thing. i m reading it just like you are. that s never a good time for them. right? you only need more agents if one things happens. i have never seen dirtiness like this my entire life. they have been trying to impeach my father since before he took office. you had 70 members of congress coming out and saying we must impeach donald trump, right? then they went through the whole russia investigation and that fell on its face. then they tried to do the same with brett kavanaugh and that f
david simon and david simon used to work for the baltimore sun at one time yes a wonderful person he also has a way an inflammatory way with words i i m not sure that s a productive sort of conversation to have but i but there s no question that. this president. uses. racism as a weapon that in fact his description of baltimore was based on. you know some language about infestation and that he would conjure images of of rats and dirtiness and things like that and it is a comedy doesn t neighborhoods of color and not so much any script criticizing neighborhoods where white people live so that s a very common pattern and it s it has sort of been part of his. sort of way he s operated since the cab the 1st campaign so there s no question i think and