Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Elections is something that actually the fcc should be looking into. Theyre preparing for impeachment and theyre trying to win hearts and minds. Ken, they did so, i imagine not being a lawyer but a layperson, at some professional peril. Listen to what mimi rocah said. I suppose it could attract some attention, American Bar Association type stuff. Does the base need that much bolstering that these guys have to dog and pony it across xm radio . Brian, its very much a part of the pr strategy that the president himself has led and set the tone for, and it just shows frankly how far Rudy Giuliani has come from when he first started on the legal team and famously was sort of chastised by donald trump for not having his facts straight on the Stormy Daniels payment, the 130,000 hush payment to Stormy Daniels. Now y
produce that testimony to a jury or a grand jury and you say do you believe it? do you believe alyssa farah griffin and mark milley, there you go, there is the intent. it is a crucial part of the case, so that is why this testimony is so important. there might be other testimony with jared kushner saying i don t think he actually thought he lost, we might be getting into a pistol optical questions about what is in his mind, how does one ever know what they know? so to be so clueless, or to be so misinformed, or misguided, to think, or believe, that you lost the election or won the election i should say, that could be a viable defense? i think the category would fall under, legally, what we call advice of counsel. here i am, donald trump, and have these lawyers rudy giuliani, sydney powell, telling me that i can fight this. , ortiz example of pressuring mike pence, well john eastman, constitutional scholars, former supreme court clerk, he s telling me that the vice president does ha
shannon: the rulings from the supreme court, let s analyze the impact and what they signal about how the justices may vote. we bring in tonight s panel, former biden campaign surrogate kevin walling. former supreme court clerk, carrie severino. good to have you with us. i want to put up video that i think we have from last fall when justice barrett was in her confirmation hearings. you heard a little bit of this in the reporting. we were told that she was going to be the end of the affordable care act and that was the reason president trump had nominated her. there were posters of people who lose their health care. this is what professor jonathan turley is saying about how the media handled it. they surrounded her with pictures that made her look like some type of judicial serial killer. the narrative continued in the
eric: we are back with matthew, former justice department. who is on your horizon to be nominated as ag? i think the president has a number of good options, one person that has been discussed in conservative and republican legal circles secretary of labor alex acosta, former supreme court clerk, he s had bipartisan support, confirmed by the senate four times, four different positions, there are a number of names out there as well, bill barr, former attorney general for george h.w. bush, i know janice brown has been mentioned, those are 3 names, there are a lot more out there but, you know, i think the president has got a lot of good choices, i was giving him advice i would say make a choice quickly because that ll be bring stability to the department of justice and leadership. eric: and finally, just less
of rich black guys. and then we re just coming off the following from laura ingraham, well known to many in the media world, former supreme court clerk, long-time lawyer. she said this, and we ve attached her attempt at a cleanup the next night. in some parts of the country it does seem like the america we know and love doesn t exist anymore. massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the american people. and they re changes that none of us ever voted for and most of us don t like. now, much of this is related to both illegal and in some cases legal immigration that of course progressives love. the purpose of last night s angle was to point out that the rule of law, meaning secure borders, is something that used to bind our country together. and despite what some may be contending, i made explicitly clear that my commentary had nothing to do with race or