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discuss them thomas defended the trips an denied they need to be reported with me now, josh gerstein senior writer for roberts technically doesn t have any disciplinary powers over his colleagues. walk us through why that is. well lisa, sometimes compare the chief justices job it sounds like a very high profile powerful job, we r used to seeing him swear in th present united states and in m lifetime at least on a few occasions seen him preside ove impeachment trials in th senate there s really nowhere in th law or in the constitution tha says the chief justice can basically tell any other justice what to do about who should hire as a staff, or necessarily, about what he should do with regar
to that point. the first manhattan da t handle this investigation wa alvin bragg s predecessor, cyrus vance. my bet is that if anyone can fill in the blanks for us, i is him joining me now is former manhandled, tierney cyrus vance, who is now partner at the la firm baker mckenzie. thank you for joining me her this morning i want to start with there a been a lot of reporting abou your tenure as the manhattan district attorney with regar to this case and some of it is conflictin and is being used to attack th merits of the case so, i wanted to clear up any confusion here if we can one narrative is that yo declined to before didn t item on the hush money case and tha alvin bragg revived the case there is a conflicting narrative that you greenlit th case before you left office an bragg pumped the brakes unti now. so when you left office in 2021, how close were you to an indictment on the hush money case well, good morning, jen
beef audible or confuse anyone it is consistent with th pattern of behavior that w have known and become very familiar with, at least in washington in the last six years. and to new yorkers know all to well, for a much longer than that so can we dial back the oh m god, this is - yes it is a sad day with regar to that, but he is a unite states citizens who action were brought before a gran jury that grand jury found probable cause for indictment for crime committed, that process will take place on tuesday and th rule of law will continu thereafter take us inside your phone michael. take us inside to your tex messages, your child s wit fellow republicans who hav been with the party like you for decades and decades. while many republican affected officials are out ther tweeting those statements, going after alvin bragg, i part of that just for show and