you re holding up good too, man. all these years. there you have it. four for four of those parole board commissioners all unanimous in their decision to grant o.j. simpson parole. so he will be a free man as early as october. just a quick note before jeffrey toobin, we get your two cents. what you were listening to before then was o.j. simpson getting picked up on a hot mike over at lovelock correctional facility talking about mullets and mike tyson and donald trump. and i don t know if they realized they were live. that said, jeffrey toobin, free man. well, i mean, i can t say i think the board was wrong, given the standards they had to apply. i just think that o.j. simpson gave us some really good insights into his character or lack thereof today, and you know, it s just part of our continuing education, i think, in particular, about the way people view domestic violence and the way many people,
in a much more public setting? i think the main difference is there were american witnesses to what president obama and medvedev were saying. the problem with this exchange, as i m aware the media. it was a hot mike, right? it was a hot mike, but here you only have a russian translator. you know, strobe talbot, who was deputy secretary of state under president clinton and handled russia, he tweeted yesterday. the problem is be donwe don t k what possible commitment the president made when there is only russian witnesses to it. i don t think anyone objects to the president speaking to vladimir putin. i think that s a good thing. but it should be done in the customary way, when there are witnesses from both countries so there is a record that is accepted by both countries. it s not often that i get to cite people magazine as we talk about our political and foreign
first of all, is it illegal? no. is there proof of it? no. you think our government communicates in the media and public for everything we do? absolutely not. there is an absolute need for back channel with every channel. barack obama said he was caught on a hot mike saying he would have more flexibility. that wasn t supposed to go public. all the media generated this native that the american people need to know absolutely everything. wars are overted because of back channel. when it comes to espionage which is illegal. this would be illegal treasonous, espionage behavior because of the fact that the president was going to levy more sanctions on russia for the 16 intelligence agencies that all agree they interfered in our election, and this isn t a problem? we already have back channel ways to communicate with russia if we want to, and the president
but there is a kind of group solidarity effect that happens. yes. and we saw that with ailes. yea and of course these things tend to go in waves. there s a safety in numbers, and now that these allegations are so public, i would not be surprised that we see a flood gate of more women. you also reported today that in the interview with maria bartiromo with fox business news that trump had something to say about all this on the hot mike at the beginning of the interview. yeah. you know, he said that, you know, rupert murdoch has been great for trump and much better than roger ailes ever was. and i think, you know say that again. he said rupert murdoch has been great for trump and better than ailes ever was? yes. this is a case where there s a strategic alliance between fox news channel and the trump white house. rupert murdoch has business interests in having a very close relationship with donald trump. so that is why, you know, no little fact that the fbi and the u.s. at
more women calling me now. we saw a little bit of this with gretchen carlson and roger ailes, which was that it s very hard for women to come forward with these allegations because of the professional consequences, because of the scrutiny, because of the pressure. but there is a kind of group solidarity effect that happens. yes. and we saw that with ailes. yeah, and of course these things tend to go in waves. there s a safety in numbers, and now that these allegations are so public, i would not be surprised that we see a flood gate of more women. you also reported today that in the interview with maria bartiromo with fox business news that trump had something to say about all this on the hot mike at the beginning of the interview. yeah. you know, he said that, you know, rupert murdoch has been great for trump and much better than roger ailes ever was. and i think, you know say that again. he said rupert murdoch has been great for trump and better than ailes ever was? ye