suggest that. is there any evidence to suggest that the presidency was what they were focused on? there is some evidence of that. there were people saying we don t want jefferson davis to be elected president and there was also one of the drafts of section 3 specifically mentioned the presidency and the vice president. but it wasn t the final enactment. right. it wasn t the final enactment, but it shows there was some concern about some people about confederate insurrectionists ascending to the presidency. we look at the historical evidence and pick the evidence we like and interpret is tan den shally because you can throw this counterveiling evidence back in our face. we wanted to focus on the text of the constitution, this was a compromised provision that was enacted in section 3. let me ask you another question about the states. you have forcefully made an argument about the states not being able to enforce section 3, so if we agree with you on that, what happens
saying ahead, protest mad. i ll cover your legal fees, knock these guys out and his rallies he s never been held responsible for. no, he hasn t and so this culture of intimidation and threat threats and violence is something very purposefully stoked and conditioned to this environment. for moments like this. another person who s getting death threats is alvin bragg, the d a. and one of the things molly as you know that they keep doing is trying to link him to george soros. so george soros is the a universal bogeyman for a lot of people on the right. and they say that alvin bragg was supported by him . they the truth is the two have never met. they ve never communicated. they ve never spoken on the phone, however. george soros did give to a pack that is a sort of social justice pack that contributed some money . too many different campaigns. one of them was alvin brooks. yes as a jew, i ve i ve sat in horror and watch these trump supporters say like trump is good fo
we are now seeing another guy from florida make moves. ron desantis is reportedly telling people in his circle he is set on running. sources tell the washington post he is going to declare in may or june. desantis has 70 mill in the back left over from run for governor. and desantis super pacs are coming alive. i don t know how it could be more obvious but ron desantis is in iowa today. if you talk to floridians, there s no drama in our administration. there s no palace intrigue. they basically just sit back and say okay, what s the governor going to do next and we roll out and we execute and we do things and we get things done. and, in the process, we beat the left day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. [applause] jesse: no drama ron. that s a clear shot at the former president. no drama and execute. we re going to see those themes repeated from the desantis camp. desantis winning the iowa caucus would be very big. trump didn t win iowa in
two. i m john roberts in washington as we sit and watch and wait. sandra: every day is a new day. i m sandra smith, and this is america reports. the judge told the jurors they must be unanimous to find the former president guilty on any of the 34 counts that he currently faces. they also cannot hold trump s decision not to testify in this case against him. and when it comes to the prosecution s star witness, michael cohen, the judge told the jury that they cannot convict solely on his testimony. john: let s bring in our panel, trey gowdy, host andy gaudi, and lydia hu, correspondent for fox business. so andy, let s start with you. the jury has to unanimously believe that donald trump committed a crime in order to convict him. but they do not need to unanimously agree on what that crime was. and in what world does that work? andy: not in any world i have ever been in, john. you look at what makes it a criminal prosecution appropriate in the sense of taking somebody s
but instead have what he considered a bankrupt philosophy. one that is ultimately destructive. he said that all people especially those who are members of the muslim faith need to rise up against this sort of ideolo ideology. are there ways to hold the islamic state forces, are you hearing anything about that? reporter: there has been debate in the past several days what the government is prepared to do in order to help iraq prepare with the march across the country. the president has been adamant since he first announced airstrikes back on august 7th. that the usa would not be sending in ground groups as the peshmerga tried to regain territory from these fighters. the president has ruled out undeniable there would be any cooperation of any sort with the syrian government because the u.s. believes it was syrian s action actions in trying to crush it s own political revolution that led to the development of i.s. so there are these concerns because the administration h