i think she set a great example is a servant leader. i which wish others were due. it let s talk about republicans because kevin mccarthy hopes to have this thing locked down on his side, but he doesn t. we have already heard from andy biggs in arizona. he can t support him. is mccarthy going to get the votes here? it s like herding quayle. i assume are, since there s no alternative, there is not a single alternative i know of. maybe jonathan knows if there s an alternative. i think he s going to do it, and then he s going to regret every day of the week after he gets it done, and he becomes, oh, what did i catch here? what is the situation? because every single voting needs, it s not just core rallying the marjorie taylor greene s and the lauren boebert of the world. i think that s going to be easier than the seven or eight republicans who represent democratic districts who are newly elected who know that the message in the election was, stop the crazy, are gonna be
situation is, and especially this situation, and then he s gonna do that here. just think about what when he came down the escalator. he pointed to like mexicans is the problem of why somebody done lighter job in dearborn, michigan, or whatever. he finds an enemy, blames it on them to distract from his own problems. he will continue to do that. i m glad of this appointment because i m going to always agree with the law professor, the wolverine law professor, i ll always agree with her on this. because i think it streamlines the process. it completely streamlines the process out of a bureaucracy where he could make decisions. this wasn t gonna happen before christmas anyway, even if there wasn t a special counsel. i know there s a lot of backseat drivers in america, but i actually think this is gonna force the process forward. but donald trump s politics, it s new day same thing. it s gonna keep going. grievance. all right, john, what do you think? no matter what republicans are gonna
during the biden transition and teaches law at the university of michigan, an msnbc contributor matthew dowd, and founder of country over party. barb, you know i m gonna go to you first. does this special counsel need to start from scratch? this has been going on for months and months and months. not at all. this is very different from the situation that robert mueller inherited. when robert mueller showed up he had to create a team. he was brand-new to the case. no work had been done. so the first thing he had to do is hire a staff. this is the group donald trump famously referred to as 18 angry democrats. instead what jack smith is being hired to do is to oversee the teams that have already been conducting this work. as you say, for many months. i imagine he needs to get briefed, but in the meantime those agents and those prosecutors can continue their work. so if they have meetings
investigation. it s in terms of how they play, out because republicans and democrats are playing different gains. republicans say they plainly show that they don t respect the process. the republicans will watch these committees, but i think democrats will show up. we ll see the secretary of homeland security in front of congress. now you re going to have this special counsel appointed for trump. but trump never shows up. he s wildly successful at running the crock. the law has been going after him for decades. for decades. we have been in a new york for decades. other people in new york for decades. been watching the show for decades. what has stuck. oh, let me check. nothing. you know what i mean? i won t say this is different. if i were him i would be nervous about this, the georgia situation and the documents at the gold plated hole hotel mar-a-lago. okay, well, how about the fact that he is using a lot of high powered support. one of don trump s favorite
think people are losing their minds. they like the service, and it seems chaotic, and they re worried about it. people who have worked their say that. when they do, they are thought of as lesser than and on this genius. so he could be playing 3d chess or he could not be. maybe he s just doing a bad job. i think it s very hard for silicon valley people to ever question anybody, and every error is an attaboy, and it s always boys, as you know. they all considers and sells geniuses in every possible way. even in the last 24 hours, we re going into midnight last night like it was titanic with people signing off for life. fast forward 18 hours, and elon musk is on a platform with a, should i reinstate donald trump? it is there a disconnect here? no. i think a lot of very good technological people, he talked to them, this is problematic situation. you don t know when it s gonna go down or what. but if he s gonna make these drastic changes he s gonna need