Lets pick up where we left off on wednesday. The main argument i was trying to make then focused on James Madisons role as the agenda maker for the philadelphia convention, and the particular argument i wanted to make is as madison prepares himself, i think the key item he worked on in his agenda is the idea that a system of federalism based upon the voluntary compliance of the states with the recommendations, the resolutions, the requisitions that came from the Continental Congress, was never going to work. When he reasons about this, he does so in a very interesting way. He combines a set of empirical observations about what took had taken place back in the 70s and lessons americans like him had learned since 1776. How washington functions. He takes a step back, and then what he does is to think abstractly, and what we can see a, at least implicitly, theoretic framework where he comes up with the idea that because states have different interests and different interests within each st
The like. And so, welcome into the msnbc headquarters here in new york. High noon in the east and good morning in the west. We have an alarming escalation with reports of turkey deliberately targeting u. S. Troops in northern syria, and isis prisoners escaping. And now, news from d. C. And what to expect from the testimony of a key figure in the ukraine scandal, and there are some riveting details. And breaking details regarding hunter biden and a big move that he is making that is going to be reported in u today. And we begin with fastmoving developments on the turkey border. Conditions are becoming increasingly dangerous for the 1,000 troops on the ground there, and the u. S. Military is conduct and expedited withdrawal. Richard engel is on the front lines and this is what he told chuck todd on meet the press a short time ago. In a disturbing development, the u. S. Officials telling us that the same militias including al qaeda and other members are advancing farther and close to u. S
Taylor. The news was first reported by the Washington Post which reports that sondlands language in the text was relayed to him directly by trump in a phone call, according to a person familiar with his testimony. For the Washington Post, he also plans to testify that he has no knowledge of whether the president was telling him the truth. That at that moment, its only true that the president said it, not that it was the truth. Well, joining me now to discuss, david corn, msnbc political analyst and coauthor of russian roulette. Cynthia oxney and paul butler, both former federal prosecutors and legal analysts. David . Well your thoughts . This is a classic case of someone jumping off the ship before he believes the ship goes down because hes out there saying the president told me something. I dont know if it was true, and it makes it look like theres a conspiracy and im kind of didnt really know what was going on. Theres a lot of what he says that can be contradicted by facts. Hes still
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