Number of significant procedural protections where the president even on the house side, as you know the role of the house is to act as the grand jury and the prosecutor and the actual trial takes place over in the senate, but still, we had significant procedural protections we invited the president and his counsel to attend, we provided the president s counsel the opportunity to cross examine witnesses and object to the admissibility of testimony, and we provided the president s counsel it make presentation of evidence before the full Judiciary Committee including the chance to call witnesses. The president chose not to avail himself of any of those opportunities. It reminds me the president Blockading Witnesses saying you dont have enough people with direct firsthand evidence. First of all, were those rights provided only in Judiciary Committee. Youre not the Principle Committee of impeachment. Youre sort of the final stop. Did the president get those
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theft like that just didn t treated seriously. it s still considered a misdemeanor. when you have organized shoplifting like that, when you have large groups going into these stores, it ought to be a felony. it s going to get worse before it gets better. right. on that note, it seems like there doesn t seem to be a consequence in a lot of these situations or if it is, to your point, it s treated as a misdemeanor, which isn t acting as a deterrent, clearly. do you get the sense there just really isn t any, enough of a consequence? well, there s not enough of a consequence and we re starting to see more and more of that. listen, i understand where people are in a store and steal food because they can t feed their families. that s not what this is. i mean, stealing louis vuitton bags has nothing to do with your poverty or inability to feed your family or anything like that. it s just flat out theft is what it is. and when people do that sort of
in the cover-up. scandals have played to this governor. i served in albany. but they don t share because the press corps refuses to hold the governor accountable. they have been a lapdog not a watchdog and people are finally realizing there is a problem with this guy. he cannot handle this pressure and really isn t acting appropriately in my view for someone who is accused of pretty serious stuff what that sexual harassment in a right to defend yourself but also sexual assault allegations and that s getting more serious. jon: let s talk about the crime situation that terrible murder in atlanta park to murders overnight in denver gallup back in march ask how much do you personally worry about crime and violence? 70 percent of americans said they worry a great deal. a number say they don t worry
you re in the middle of a global pandemic. it s not exactly easy and that can lead to significant impacts. yeah, good point. tell me this. how does the perpetrators being, it would appear, in russia hamper efforts to get on top of this, even if these aren t government actors and they might well be? but even if they are just criminal, it would certainly seem that vladimir putin and his government isn t acting against them. how significant is that? it absolutely gives them air cover. so a lot of these criminals in eastern europe and in russia and other places, their governments don t lock down or crack down at all on their actions. the mind-set is as long as you re not attacking our companies, you re not breaking our laws, therefore we re not going to get involved. because ransomware operations are very easy to get into, it s kind of cheap to start off in, and the payments can be, you know, multi-million dollar payouts on each company they target, and your home government isn t willi