employees for the state are also being told to come in later today. they are dealing with it, several more hours to go before this one is done. another storm headed for california later this week. miguel marquez in waltham, true story, my parents first home together was in waltham, massachusetts. think of the coincidence there. i know, who could have predicted. former president jimmy carter is back in the hospital. the 95-year-old suffered a new medical setback. cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joins us now. what happened? and you seem to think this isn t cause for enormous concern this morning. yeah, look, i mean he was two weeks in the hospital former president carter. you remember this, he had this brain operation that was done. he got out of the hospital this past wednesday just in time for thanksgiving, which i m sure was the goal, but then we heard that he was admitted back to the hospital closer to his home this time near plains, georgia, for a urinary
which they tore mr. van der zwaan s head off. the fact that your wife is having a baby isn t reason for you to get leniency from the court. the fact that you stopped lying and pled guilty after we caught you isn t cause for leniency either. he does not deserve credit for adhering to the law. the special counsel s filing literally ends, the last sentence with suggesting that if he really wants to get home for the birth of his first child, maybe he should hurry up and get to prison to start his time. the special counsel s office is not messing around. it s important to remember that even though alex van der zwaan has pled guilty, he s not cooperating. he has not agreed to cooperate with the mueller investigation. he pled, and he wants them to be lenient, because he pled, but he s not cooperating with them. so presumably, this very
that alex van der zwaan s lawyers were making to the court. in response to those arguments, the special counsel filed their own document with the court, in which they tore mr. van der zwaan s head off. the fact that your wife is having a baby isn t reason for you to get leniency from the court. the fact that you stopped lying and pled guilty after we caught you isn t cause for leniency either. he does not deserve credit for adhering to the law. the special counsel s filing literally ends, the last sentence with suggesting that if he really wants to get home for the birth of his first child, maybe he should hurry up and get to prison to start his time. the special counsel s office is not messing around. it s important to remember that even though alex van der zwaan has pled guilty, he s not cooperating. he has not agreed to cooperate with the mueller investigation. he pled, and he wants them to be lenient, because he pled, but he s not cooperating with them. so presumably, this very har
parts, what we re looking for is who is the next defendant to draw the scrutiny and focus, it really seems to be jared kushner. there seems to be a lot of focus and questions about mr. kushner s conduct, his meetings during the transition, and a lot of speculation right now about his fate. so that s really what we re looking for, but back to what donald trump could do about robert mueller, you know, as we know, he can actually fire him, rod rosen stein would have to follow him. we could be looking at a saturday night massacre situation, if trump tried to make that happen, and rosen stein didn t want to do it, and resigned. would he put an acting person. there are some standards in place, and there s a justice department set of rules that say mueller can only be fired for good cause, not just for any reason, brian? good cause is usually a high bar, a high standard, especially among legal types. jill wine-banks, we have noticed
and then it got down to the third person at the department of justice. who didn t care about there being cause. the american people cared, and they protested and the president richard nixon had to appoint a second special prosecutor, three days after firing him. that is a lesson we should all keep in mind, if there isn t cause, and so far there is absolutely no cause, then the president should be warned and should learn from history. it was one of those moments where people started thinking, hey, maybe this president nixon fella has something to hide, something to worry about. our thanks to our leadoff panel, including two of the finest kens in washington-based journal im. ken dilanian, and ken vogel, thank you to you too. jill wine-banks as well, for joining us tonight from chicago. coming up for us, steve bannon unplugged in vanity fair. why there s an even more intense civil war, and a firestorm coming.