Should not the silence of the West in the face of the genocide currently underway in Gaza prompt skepticism about the loud cries of moral indignation of
the hawkins case. a defendant had graphic videos of little boys, 11 years old and 10 years old and young as 8 years old being violently sexually assaulted by adult males. that gave that defendant a slap on the wrist of 3 months in jail. the guidelines provided for 10 years. the prosecutors wanted a long sentence and she gave that defendant 3 months. she had no explanation as to why. the democrats got up set. how dare you focus on her actual record isn t american people are concerned whether they will have a supreme court justice that will follow the law or we will have a supreme court justice that is looking for loopholes to let violent criminals out of jail. her answers and record were really concerning. jesse: are you going to vote for her? no. jesse: do you think a lot of your republican colleagues will
analyst. andrew weissman is the former fbi general counsel, msnbc legal analyst. frank, your reaction to william webster finally speaking out on this. lawrence, when somebody like william webster speaks, which he doesn t do often anymore, america needs to listen. when he says this isn t american, this isn t the rule of law, we need to listen. i think if you read his op-ed in the new york times, you ll see his reference to what s coming down the road, where this could be headed. so i want people to understand, this isn t about a thin-skinned group of fbi folks who can t take criticism. fbi agents get bashed and beaten and shot at. they can take the criticism. what pops out at me out of the editorial is webster saying this isn t so much about where we are right now, but about where this is headed. he talks about perhaps losing
joining our discussion now, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence, frank figliuzzi. he s an msnbc national security analyst. andrew weissman is the form fbi counsel, msnbc legal analyst. frank, your reaction to william webster finally speaking out on this. lawrence, when somebody like william webster speaks, which he doesn t do often anymore, america needs to listen. when he says this isn t american, this isn t the rule of law, we need to listen. if you read his op-ed in the new york times, you ll see his reference to what s coming down the road, where this could be headed. so i want people to understand, this isn t about a thin-skinned group of fbi folks who can t take criticism. fbi gets beaten and shot at. they can take the criticism. what pops out at me out of the editorial is webster saying this isn t so much about where we are
is or isn t american. brian, we have seen an uptick in hate crimes in this country. president trump knows the tweets about the other, about immigrants, have actual security implications and he just seemingly doesn t care because it ticks a political box for him. how powerful are they then? the social media summit, how powerful are the provocateurs? there have been studies that very little fake news is being seen or shared on places like facebook and twitter. i think the twitter study was 80% of fake news was being seen by just 1% of twitter users. how much of that is donald trump s twitter account, though. that has misinformation. some of it is hyper partisan content. it can be accurate but if it is obsessed with immigration, you come away with a misundersta misunderstanding about the world. it is a new way to deliver information to people.