while the president may want to commute his sentence now, he had no issue booting blago from the apprentice out of all things, harry potter trivia. your harry potter facts were not accurate. who did the research? there was not a specific direction who did the research on harry potter. i was the one who said houses and classes more interchangeably. but it s slithering and it s hufflepuff. i have great respect for your tenacity for the fact that you just don t give up. but, rod, you re fired. all right. and i should note dennesh desousa was for campaign violation, not for running for senate. that wraps up things for me this hour. ali velshi picks up right now. i m not going to put you on the spot and ask you anything about
again. beto should be running to unseat democrats need the senate as much as the white house. they re young enough, there s time to run for president. so i think this thing now is the only thing to do now is to run for president, but they have a right to run. they re both exceptional candidates. i think i agree slightly with sally, but i would say it a bit differently. within this is that the constituency in place is moving the party more towards progressive and liberal left terms which i use interchangeably. i don t know we ll see a whole lot difference. and then the risk that runs, here s the bad part potentially is that it does become a beauty contest. and so i don t know if that s the best way to pick it. it also makes the democrats
to use campaign funds in order to do this. in order to make these payments? and they would have looked at them and said are you out of your mind? this is a personal expenditure. this is a campaign expenditure. you can t have it both ways. if it s a personal expenditure. it s a personal expenditure. it s a personal expenditure. they can t be sort of used interchangeably and that s one of the things that came up in the john edwards thing which is why i don t think from the president s perspective that it was a crime. i don t think that would be an sufficient impeachment defense. a lot of time has been spent on that. the problem is his lawyer admitted to it as a felony and the president was directing it while in office. let me ask you another question. that s his criminal intent and that doesn t mean that criminal intent was shared by the president. true but doesn t mean it wasn t also. let me ask you something else, do you think michael cohen wins a civil suit saying that the presi
them and said are you out of your mind? this is a personal expenditure. you can t have it both ways. if it s a personal expenditure. it s a personal expenditure. it s a personal expenditure. they can t be sort of used interchangeably and that s one of the things that came up in the john edwards thing which is why i don t think from the president s perspective that it was a crime. i don t think that would be an impeachment defense. a lot of time has been spent on that. the problem is his lawyer admitted to it as a felony and the president was directing it while in office. let me ask you another question. that s his criminal intent and that doesn t mean that criminal intent was shared by the president. true but doesn t mean it wasn t also. let me ask you something else, do you think michael cohen wins a civil suit saying that the president i m a lawyer. i think not a chance. even though he was doing these things for the president? is this the retainer now?
consideration. one more round of 40-year-old scare tactics will not stop us from doing the right thing. shepard: there you go. mitch mcconnell talking about precedent and what has happened in the past. chad pergram joins us live now. he s up there on capitol hill. the arguments can be made interchangeably cycle to cycle on which party is doing the appointing. yeah. the different here, if they nominate a conservative justice, that this will change the balance of power. anthony kennedy was viewed as a swing vote on the court, maybe switching this to 5-4 to 6-3. this is interesting. we heard earlier today from bob casey, the democratic senator from pennsylvania who is up for