people in these mass movements get swept up and say and do things, they lose an nom onymit say or do things they wouldn t normally do. a mob mentality mind-set. the other thing i ll say i was sitting in my sunday school class at church this past sunday and the sunday school class is about parenting. specifically how to parent. all of the advice we were hearing about, you know, making sure that our children are prepared for the real world and that they know there are consequences to the things that they do. donald trump breaks everything we could teach our children of how to behave. never mind at devout religious christian, whatever your religion is, just as decent human beings, donald trump goes against almost every single thing. this is a microcosm of that. well, spending your sunday
your job is bizarre and inappropriate. the second nugget, jim. the headline is, kent says volker reached out 0 giuliani, because he, quote/unquote, had influence over president trump s thinking on ukraine. one of the quotes is, and i think by that moment in time that was self-evident to anyone who was working on issues and therefore made sense to try to engage the mayor, meaning that rudy giuliani had influence on president trump on all things ukraine. again, this just as we ve had so many conversations, jim, just about how it was giuliani. it was giuliani who was seemingly running the show or putting these ideas in the president s head with regard to ukraine and dot, dot, dot. it was it was the president s personal attorney. exactly. the president s personal attorney and seems clear to everybody working on this issue
house, the person who is third in line to the presidency and most powerful woman in our government. mr. senator, you don t have to agree with speaker pelosi but you should respect her. matt lewis, senior columnist for the daily beast and cnn political commentator and matt, you were as angry as i was. tell me why. not only disrespecting the speaker of the house this is a grown man disrespecting a lady in public and being cheered for it. i think it speaks to civility and this is very common. we saw the other day rand paul at a rally very similar playing to donald trump standing beside him, standing to a trumpian crowd calling for the media to unmask the whistle-blower and here you have a u.s. senator not to be disrespectful, of course, but calling nancy pelosi dumb, and he was really just it was a caricature of the demagogic
new today a judge just ordered president trump to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit with the state of new york. the lawsuit filed in 2018 against trump and his three oldest children accused donald j. trump foundation of violating campaign finance law and saying a little more than a checkbook to serve mr. trump s business and political interests. the foundational lawyers accused the attorney general s office s political motivation and released a statement saying it will donate the $2 million among eight different charities and went on to write in part we are pleased the court in rejecting the frivolous request interest and other damages recognizes every penny ever raised by the trump foundation has gone to help those most in need. more trouble inside the tom steyer 2020 campaign. a report out by the associated press this afternoon indicates a
these republicans. i don t know how they don t seem like normal people. i think there s a reason why they re losing the suburbs. which i think is going to be a long-term problem. some are. look at mitt romney. that s true. some are. some of them are i have wharn is donald trump saying? i assume some are good people? but the case of lindsey graham is especially egregious. someone who knows better. he s not just a partisan hack. right? at least he didn t used to be s someone who was john mccain s best friend. someone who was the house impeachment manager during bill clinton who has completely flip-flopped and now he is at the point where he is literally saying i think because the cognitive dissidence is so great has said he simply can t or won t read the transcripts. yet they re coming from transparency yet he s not reading the transcript? i guess afraid where the evidence may take him, if he actually reads it. it s stunning. matt lewis.