a recent interview with alito in the opinion pages of the wall street journal in which the justice says congress has no authority to regulate the high court. comments that senate judiciary committee chairman dick durbin criticized this week as unwise and unwelcome. let s bring in james she around tone she ran toe, co-author of that interview with justice alito. so, james, tell us about that interview with justice alito. it was very unusual for a justice to sit down for what was four hours with you and david rivkining who s a frequent contributor to the journal. i should add that, for transparency s sake, i was in on the second e of those interviews. yes. paul: is why do you think he decided to talk? well, he told the us in the second interview that he normally when judges are under attack or the court is under attack, the organized bar, the professional lawyers association, defends judges. that isn t happening, so he s decided that he s going to defend himself, and he did so w
predicted at the beginning of this war, and certainly far more than vladimir putin predicted. but if you re the ukrainians, you re fighting for your survival and you know that this war is not going to just go away. we re 500 days in, 497 days more than putin thought this was going to last. and the other thing going on, we are likely to see this war go on either at high levels or low levels for some long time to come. and that s why the most interesting thing that s happening here is what isn t happening. no discussions so far of opening peace negotiations, ceasefire negotiations, no one is ready for that because they want to see if the counter offensive can work. it s been a pretty remarkable absence a year and a half into this war that we don t have any discussion under way of what the end game is. and that s one of the key
about revenge. and, yes, they ve lost a lot of weapons and explosives. but there s also ways here of replacing them on the black market. you can buy apparently american m ii or m 16 rifles for about £30,000. ironically, many of those have been stolen from israeli army stores. so i think that while all this messaging is going on about claiming victory, the messaging that isn t happening and hasn t happened for many years now is between the two sides and the message with the message, you know, we better talk about this, guys, because actually, if we don t, it s going to get worse. and i think in the continued absence of that, because there is no peace process and there are none of those contacts going on, i think the situation with everything else happening here remains just another couple of bad incidents
here of replacing them on the black market. you can buy apparently american m ii or m 16 rifles for about £30,000. ironically, many of those have been stolen from israeli army stores. so i think that while all this messaging is going on about claiming victory, the messaging that isn t happening and hasn t happened for many years now is between the two sides and the message with the message, you know, we better talk about this, guys, because actually, if we don t, it s going to get worse. and i think in the continued absence of that, because there is no peace process and there are none of those contacts going on, i think the situation with everything else happening here remains just another couple of bad incidents away from the next serious crisis. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said that,
four the requests of your administration s, and all of that has to be in the opinion that comes back, saying it s okay to do these things. if that isn t happening, if he isn t seeking ethical guidance in that way, then you have to ask why. is it because he doesn t want to hear the answer and at the end of the day he would rather ask forgiveness than permission? carol lam and barbara boxer, thank you to both of you for joining us. dave, we re gonna ask you to stick around until the gop s double standard when it comes to law and order. stay with us. voltaren. the joy of movement.