what this looks like you ve got acting at cbp, acting at the top of the agency, here are the acts just at the cabinet label, security, u.n. ambassador, fema director, and a storm bears down on new orleans. at some point, this is going to bite very hard, don t you think? it s an astonishing list. it speaks to a lot of the incompetence that we see i think one other vital point is that acosta was criticized by some for not moving quickly enough to dismantle worker protections. and we have to remember, and secretary reich remembers this better than anyone this is a department assigned to protect the american worker and the american workplace in the regular story state that it presides over. it has a real meaningful effect. and to bring a guy in who s idea of freedom is a sweatshop island, i mean, it really does speak to their vision for the
legal analysts believe that the states, the u.s. supreme court, is going to have to weigh in on this eventually because it s depending on where you are in the country, the mpolice have different case law backing them on what they can do. ultimately, something like this gets to the supreme court, as somebody who studied it, if you got pulled over right now, what would you know if you re allowed to do or aren t allowed to do if they want to see your phone? in the moment, one is you don t have to agree to any type of search. you don t have to agree to give your pass code up to your phone in the moment. but we also need to know is that ultimately, police can obtain a search warrant. to search your phone. in the meantime, you can also fight against providing that pass code if you so choose. but then also know that they can charge you with contempt of court and you may end up in jail. which is what happened to the guy in exactly. florida. exactly. so it s a different story.
a viable general election candidate, because people could envision hime actually being a president and making those kind of presidential decisions. good point. wes, down five points in the monmouth poll. should the sanders campaign be alarmed? i don t know about alarmed per se. i do think that the entrance of former vice president joe biden into this race did really begin to show and underscore where the democratic base is in this moment. again, who could they take seriously? who could they see as a commander in chief? and the person who used to the under-study of that job has taken up a lot of the oxygen in this race. i think one of the challenges as molly was talking about for senator sanders is proving to democratic voters that this is not just a guy who has been right about a host of domestic issues, not a guy who, well, sure if he lived in an alternative universe and i would get everything i wanted, put that guy in, but somebody tomorrow voters could see stepping into the situ
after. so i would love to have cohen in congress answering some of these tough questions, whether saying he is getting threatened seems pretty silly to me. sandra: jim jordan suggested something almost similar. he suggested that perhaps democrats on the committee came to this realization, watch. maybe they got sensitive to the fact that the first big hearing they were doing they were bringing a guy in to testify in front of congress who in five weeks is going to prison for lying to congress. maybe at some point they actually understood that may not be the best thing to do. i don t know what mr. cummings is going to do or how it will work out. we re focused on getting the truth out. if mr. cohen comes we ll be prepared to ask him the quels that the american people deserve answers to. exactly. that s we wanted cohen to come in. i think this is all it makes no sense he is using the excuse he has been threatened. it doesn t make sense. bill: a piece today in the
democrats in an awkward position. they write they must decide whether to force mr. cohen to testify despite the concerns about security or walk away all together from the hearing that they held out as the first marquee moment in their plan to showcase their aggressive oversight of mr. trump and his administration. i think that s exactly right. a couple of things are in play. if they subpoena him, they may. what will he answer? when you re subpoenaed, do you take the fifth? how does it work out. that s the concern they have to deal with. second is this. maybe they got sensitive to the fact that the first big hearing they were doing they were bringing a guy in to testify in front of congress who in five weeks is going to prison for lying to congress. maybe at some point they understood that may not be the best thing to do. i don t know what mr. cummings is going to do or how it will work out. we re focused on getting the truth out. if mr. cohen comes we ll ask the quefls the american p