even releasing tax returns is really not sufficient to figure out some of the ways a person might be conflicted or receiving money in illicit ways. it would be interesting to see if there was a real effort to address that in a public way. you know, harry litman, as russ is talking and the congresswoman has been explaining the process, i m thinking of john bolton s book where he revealed for the first time that he went to bill barr because he was concerned that donald trump was conflicted and that u.s. foreign policy was wrapped into donald trump s business interests in turkey, with erdogan, and other countries. these aren t suspicions held by the new york times or democrats in congress. these were suspicions held by donald trump s own national security adviser. how do we have a system right? yeah, because all of the cautionary institutional barriers were broken or dissembled. look, what russ said is right, but what do other presidents do? they put all their assets into a
march on the capital. but, he also said that we are going to go peacefully. he threw that in there one time. so now, as we have heard over and over, he refers to that one statement as an indication of what he really, truly meant, not everything else that is there. andrew and i have both prosecuted my bosses and this is the type of behavior that you see out of the mob, where they re trying to cover their own tracks. they will slip in these false exculpatory s, and that is really donald trump s mo here. so we are getting into a lot of technical legal fees, about what will come in and what wouldn t, but i think the bigger and broader point here is that we are also seeing donald trump dissembled. he is getting more and more extreme and unhinged and we always think that there is a
exculpatory s, and that is really donald trump s mo here. so we are getting into a lot of technical legal fees, about what will come in and what wouldn t, but i think the bigger and broader point here is that we are also seeing donald trump dissembled. he is getting more and more extreme and unhinged and we always think that there is a bottom, but what it s really clear is that there is no bottom with donald trump. he will burn the whole country down in his effort to overtake the presidency and install himself into power. it really is incumbent of every republican in elected office to stand up to that, and every
people who cannot, under the advice of counsel, say under oath whether they were involved in violence or this overthrow of the government, this attempted coup, because they might incriminate themselves. as you take pains to point out, joe, and i agree with you, in a criminal trial you can t bring that up to the jury because of the fairness of our system. but the rest of the country is not engaged in a criminal trial. they re trying to understand why something that was first blamed falsely on anifa or dissembled is now something that can t be honestly answered because of many issues in public life where people debated it. they go back and forth and say maybe i did do that or they re wrong, whatever. this is a reminder that the facts matter in a way that even proven lirps know because they don t want to go in there and deal with this truthfully because they would either lose i guess some of the moderates, independents, a few
against covid protections. and even in washington there are signs republicans are beginning to acknowledge that their voters might be a part of the problem. yesterday house republican leaders gathered with a group of doctors for a press conference billed as a press conference to discuss the need for individuals to get vac nated, uncover the origins of the pandemic and keep schools and businesses open. sounds promising. here is how it played out according to the new york times. house republican leaders used the event to attack democrats who said without proof dissembled about the virus. the new york times ads the appearance by the second and third ranking house republicans, representative steve scalise along with doctors said the spread had not prompted the party to change its town.