Donald trump, helping him post the 91. 6 million bond for e. Jean carroll. Now that he has shown he can get the money, what can it mean for the 460 million and counting he owes the state of new york. Joining us now msnbc legal continue, lisa rubin. He was due to post this bond on monday. Yesterday you and i were talking about the delay he was asking for. That was denied. That was. So posting it, what does it mean to have this on the books. It means that e. Jean carroll is protected through the Second Circuits disposition. One of the things i noticed when i was going through the bond today is that it actually only covers the appeal to the Second Circuit. It doesnt cover any appeal that he would take from the Second Circuit if it affirms the jurys verdict of 83. 3 million. Youre going to have to explain that. If he appeals further to the supreme court, hes going to need Somebody Else to come in and provide that security if he takes that appeal further. Otherwise, he will owe her that mon
division. john demurez, a trump appointee who announced he is leaving his post next week. a department official tells fox news demurez departure was planned for months schumer wants foreign minister sessions and his successor is bill barr. this is not some kind of washington insider thing. this is about people s phone records being subpoenaed without them even knowing about it. house intelligence committee chairman schiff today called for doj reforms. hours after the attorney general released a statement leading, in part, political or otherwise improper considerations must play no role in any investigative or prosecutorial decisions. bret, about an hour ago, the attorney general just wrapped up a meeting with news executives to talk about the seizure from doj of journalist private communication. a readout from that meeting says progress was made no. other prudent details to share right now. we do know the inspector general of the department of justice is investigating the matter a
announced probe on friday and now lee lisa monaco will work on problematic matters. the attorney general is meeting today with executives from cnn, the washington post and the new york times. all of whom want answers they demanded log from journalist communications. this is not some kind of washington insider thing. this is about people s phone records being subpoenaed without them knowing about it. reporter: we know the trump apointee will lever at the end of the month. something that was previously planned. it s notable because the national security plays large role in the leak investigations and they would be directly involved in obtaining these records from journalists and democratic lawmakers. wolf. all right.
no, i think it s much, much more complicated than that. two things off this iowa poll. number one, to show you how complicated it is in iowa and it is the only place right now where there is a four-way race. they asked who is the most electable? and three people got 21% each. let met guess. the three the top three in the thing. three of the top four. sanders probably actually, sanders was below. exactly. sanders will be in fourth. and the second is buttigieg s rise in a really weird way. has really helped bernie sanders because if you look at the second choice options for buttigieg, they re split. half go to warren. half to back to biden. so the idea that he is there, he is lowering where elizabeth warren could be and lowering where biden could be. and sanders is still very much in this game, particularly in iowa. you re nodding along. yeah. no. i conspiracy theory. no. but that s right. the second choice and this is sort of the polling sort of insider thing. ri
who can be strong and who has answers, and so i do think it was confusing to us as first, but it wasn t a partisan thing, it was an outsider versus insider thing. that s still alive. i think you heard a couple of democrats tonight on the stage try to speak to those voters. right. tim ryan of ohio certainly did. i thought she whe was speaking directly when he took on his own party for being coastal and elitist. by the way, bill de blasio, coastal and elitist, new york city mayor, but he also made the point at one point. very strong. the populist argument where he said it s the corporations that are to blame, not the immigrants. so i think he was going after those voters as el. well, and just getting back to elizabeth warren, it was mentioned that she didn t engage trump but her argument is that there are bigger things there s a bigger structural problem in this economy that transcends trump that she is running to try and remedy and goes to this the things that