chance of this happening i cannot tell you the anxiet that has been going through th trump legal team their senior advisers and on the kind of legal sid as well, they really don t wan to see trump indicted and as you say, there s a lot o bravado. they think it will help th campaign it will boost donations. but at the end of the day, the fear indictment. part of that i think has to be the fact that the understand that they are now playing in a whole set o different rules than there use to playing with. they used to zavala. they re used to lawsuits there used to settlements. they re used to kicking the can, the court of public opinion. criminal indictment is just completely different thing and trump has never he has gone his whole life walking on the edge of the law and somehow never experience this right and now trump is having to brace for the first time for the possible ability of criminal indictment. and his lawyers were bracing this week. and i think when you get t sunday an
call for congress to ban assault weapons. back with us tonight to discuss, retired marine corps lieutenan colonel amy mcgrath. she also ran for senate in kentucky against minorit leader mitch mcconnell and michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee and forme lieutenant governor of maryland michael, we all know an assaul weapons ban is not getting through congress what do you make of th presidents move? right look, the presidents - figures, he says, hey, we ca take a little page out of th trump playbook and do th executive order thing an listen to the pigs in the yard squeal about it. and that is what is going to happen it will be a lot of noise about, he can t do this and it s violation of the constitution, all of that. but the president is trying to send a message that, on this issue, because the congres won t act, he will and it s within his executiv prerogative to make that decision now presumably his lawyers hav
will, do you see it the same way? i do. i think it is difficult to defend what the administration is contemplating, even knowing the political constraints, the reality of may 11th and th ending of title 42 what we keep seeing this administration revert to is th trump playbook this comes just weeks after th biden administration provide something similar to the trump administration s asylum ban. it s frustrating because famil detention was one of the few issues where you hurt president biden has actually delivered on his promise t change course from the trump era. so the idea that we ar contemplating reverting once again is mind-boggling, becaus family detention, it s wrong and ineffective, and it expensive. i don t think there is any defense that could be made jus based on the pressures of what the white house may be facin going into the 2024 election lindsey, we talked on this,
protect abortion access, and that is true of floridians i think that ron desantis is out of touch i ve heard him say that this will be the most productivi thit productive because what we are focusing on is culture wars, and it s also going to be th most out of touch legislativ session because he insists t move in the wrong direction an for policies that are no popular among floridians including the six-week abortio ban. here s the thing, representative fentric driskell here s the thing, we kee talking about this case. there is a judge in texas that will determine the future of medication abortion largely in this country the thing i keep reminding our viewers is that, yes, this is judge in texas, but th decision that he makes wil have implications for wome across this country. likewise, if florida goe through with the six-wee abortion ban, that map that yo have of the states where all across the south, where ther are already bans on abortion
preserving and defending our democracy, right that is what is actually a stake here connect the dots for me, how d all of these things tied together, and if this week, if we see developments in thi case, the type of developments we think we would see, is that put us in a different plac than we were last week i think it puts us in a slightly more in the case of trump, slightly more precarious case, because we have not seen the credibility. in fact, you just had impunity that means that the forces o authoritarianism are mor empowered. it is fuel for the right-win echo chamber to spin up an attacked the remaining message of these institutions, so it s a real concern i would say to tie all of this together, i think we might b there. your last question gets to i in the way that trump seized part of what these tex messages reveal, it s not defense element, the themselves are hostages to thi larger tsunami o authoritarianism, whether trum or somebody else, is already moving even these for