i think he could try to run and win. john cornyn happens to be, the other senator from texas. go take him out. claims he s not running against cory. but he could. he could. okay. that s when he should do. you asked what he should do. right? he is going to probably go to the dentist. right? instagram that. see how it plays out. promised an answer by end of february. where are we now? march. ides. ellie, mary, bezel, good discussion. still ahead a house divided. can democrats bounce back after a week of debate over comments made by congresswoman ilhan om ar. and we discuss that and the new fight the president may be picking to get his border wall.
and he is terrified that the connection between russia intervention and his presidency is going to become clear in court. elliott, talk about the manafort case in d.c. in particular. coming out this week. playing out where he faces a tougher judge. what do we expect to get from amy berman jackson? it s interesting. i think the apocalypse is coming because my good friend ellie is the voice of moderation in a discussion about sentencing someone in the trump inner circle. i am still concerned and we all should be i think, ellie made this point, too. the 47 months when viewed against what the guideline range was and again, this wasn t something someone pulled out of thin air. this is an almost scientifically calculated to some extent. based on the characteristics of the desert and the kind of offenses committed. it s a big deal it was that low in relation to what the sentencing guideline was. this said, seems more likely
he s made plain in the past, he feels it s perfectly fine to lie to the public. how likely is that, ellie? it s it absolutely needs to happen and i think it will happen once out of office. for various reasons that i don t agree with, but various reasons nobody in the department of justice will indict the sitting president for reasons that i don t agree with, but when he s out of office, when he sclothed the united states, he ll be under oath and go poorly for him then. kendis, on top of that, complicated to everybody aen subpoena a sitting president. there have been cases where congress subpoenaed ex presidents before, too. even that gets tricky legally and in the history of congress. i think, again, echo that view. it s not likely to happen. again, not just a question of indicting him it s even getting him to testify, just tough. the wild card is whether he
if he intended to do something wrong, you can call it obstruction. that point, which is he didn t know until the day after. transition part is going to be a key part in all of this. there is a lot going down in the transition. a lot looking at the transition which is after the fact, of what do we do now. my eyes continue to be plastered to that. i just go ahead. i wanted to say the issue of whether he knew or didn t know, he clearly had actions that followed his knowing it. and those actions are definitely culpable. jill wine banks and ellie mistal. thank you both. using the same criminal methods how the vulnerable democratic senator responded. and the reporter that broke that
if he intended to do something wrong, you can call it obstruction. that point, which is he didn t know until the day after. transition part is going to be a key part in all of this. there is a lot going down in the transition. a lot looking at the transition which is after the fact, of what do we do now. my eyes continue to be plastered to that. i just go ahead. i wanted to say the issue of whether he knew or didn t know, he clearly had actions that followed his knowing it. and those actions are definitely culpable. jill wine banks and ellie mistal. thank you both. using the same criminal methods how the vulnerable democratic senator responded. and the reporter that broke that story in just two minutes.