Capricious, ash tear or made sense. The Supreme Court in boumedin struck it down saying it was not an adequate substitute for habeas. Thats correct, senator. Your role was to find out a way to engage congress on the Detainee Treatment because it was your view that congress, being involved, would strengthen the president s hand . As a lawyer . Yes. I was not a policymaker but i did advise. As a lawyer. As did many others. There were very other many fine lawyers, too, senator, who advised the administration that Engaging Congress would be a good idea, because we had read our youngstown and our justice jackson. Any lawyer i think who understands this area of the law would suggest the president is stronger when he has congressional support. The Signing Statement. Is it fair to say there was a conflict between the Vice President s office and other parts of the Bush Administration about what the Signing Statement
should say or look like . Thats my recollection, and thats about all i can reca
Thats that this is a question of president ial leadership. At the end of the day, it will come down to the president of the United States being willing to lead in a big picture and in a more macro sense, make a decision what he can support and pull the trigger on it. Here was Lindsey Graham in our conversation just a few minutes ago. What the house sent over is unacceptable to me. The cres can i the militar chs kill the military. I appreciate House Colleagues but we need to get this done. Were inside the 10 yard line. We need a white house that can make a decision and stick to it. And andegreeia, Lindsey Graham has cultivated his relationship with the president and the attempted skill of talking to the president through the television. And i think theres a lot of message sending going on that look, the way out of this is for the president to live up to what he talks about as the tuesday
version of the president from last week when he seemed to embrace willingness to deal with a biparti
Wa welcome to prime time at the top of the hour, ugly scenes here in new york tonight. There is supposed to be a curfew, started at 11 00. Didnt get it done. Shimon prokupecz is on the phone. Along with jason carroll, outside of new york city, part of new york city but right outside of manhattan. First with you, shimon,s that quieted down now . It is quieted down. Im actually driving around now, and it has quieted down. You are still seeing some people out on the street and some of the groups that have been looting. Theyre still out and about. But what im not hearing are the sirens and police cars that were racing from location to location. Is this a live picture were looking at right now . All right. This is earlier tonight. So live is talking to shimon but the picture youre looking at is not from right now. Why do i make the distinction . One, accuracy. And two, optimism. You know what i mean . We shouldnt be so anxious to see things as bad as possible and as provocative as that can
I can tell you from talking to police, there are still incidents going on in this city at this very moment. There was a lot of chaos that happened in different pockets im told across the city even before the curfew because, remember, there was a curfew, 8 00 in new york city even before that was in place there was violence happening amidst all the protests. This is an example. I can tell you that if you were a business that didnt have wood boarded up, you pretty much were going to get hit by looters at some point within the evening. I do want to talk about that, incidents where theyre being attacked by these looters, by these criminals. Its kind of disturbing. It shows essentially at 12 45 in the bronx. The Police Sargeant is now in serious condition in the hospital with a head injury but other injuries. He is stable. Thats not the only incident of a hit and run. One happened in the west village. Were still waiting to get that number. More than 200 people arrested. If you look over her
Week. We cant let that happen. Hopefully george is looking down right now and saying, it is a great thing that is happening for our country, theres a great day for him, it is a great day for everybody. It is a great day for everybody. This is a great, great day in terms of equality. It is really what our constitution requires and it is what our country is all about. Joining me now is my coanchor for the next two hours, katy tur. Not surprised that the president is ecstatic about getting that betterthanexpected number. We are going to go right into this and lets go back to the unexpectedly positive job numbers out today, showing in may the u. S. Economy added 2. 5 million jobs. Additionally the Unemployment Rate fell down to 13. 3 . Look, thats extremely high but the fact it fell is a big deal, surprising when you see the weektoweek numbers because tens of millions still remain out of work. Obviously the president celebrated this news with a press conference this morning before departin