attorney general jeff sessions spoke about nazi germany last night on fox news when asked a question about the president s zero tolerance policy on illegal immigration. here s how the exchange went. nazi germany, concentration camps, human rights violations. laura bush has weighed in, michelle obama, melania trump. you have all the first ladies. general sessions, what s going on here? in nazi germany, they were keeping the jews from leaving the country, but this is a serious matter. we need to think it through, be rational and thoughtful about it. we want to allow asylum for people who qualify for it. with me now is harvard law school s alan dershowitz. he s the author of the new book called the case of impeaching trump. alan, i want to know what s
well tonight the words of u.s. president donald trump if they do not come back to haunt him with at least reveal that he has it some point not been honest about money his attorneys and a pornstar named story for months the u.s. president has denied knowing anything about hush money paid by his attorney to stormy daniels just before he was elected i want you to listen to what mr trump told reporters on air force one when they asked him about the hush money. and. thirty. well now enter a new attorney and former new york mayor rudy giuliani last night on fox news mr giuliani said that the money paid to daniel s had been funneled through personal attorneys law firm and that mr trump knew about it take
president says matters we know that the u.s. president would trump he uses the term fake news or wot we ve heard other heads of state coat this term and apply it to justify shutting down media outlets or opposition groups in their countries i mean health harmful has this been for journalists who are working in countries such as turkey. yeah so you ve hit the nail on the head what we re really saying is that they impact of president trumps anti-press rhetoric is being felt most strongly abroad in countries where there are not robust protections for press freedom such as turkey which is the world s leading journalist of jail with at least seventy three journalists and president according to our last census which is more than any other country and accounted for the majority of journalists present and last year. fifty what we re seeing in terms of the fake news impact is that that s being used as an excuse to clamp down on
legitimate reporting and to just you know get to just you know not pay attention to actual factual issues on the ground of reporters so we saw this in myanmar where they re running a crisis which the u.n. has termed a case by case or started textbook case of ethnic cleansing has been dismissed as fake news by me and me me and maher officials we seen in syria the president dismissed allegations of torture in prisons there as news we ve seen that cambodia used the excuse of fake news to push out radio free asia so around the world even in democratic countries like poland and hungary which you know were at the dock in . the democratic movement area using the same terminology to clamp down and and according to you know use the bridges to europe with me what is the situation right now we ve had two journalist we have a journalist in slovakia we ve had a journalist multiple both murdered because of their work how dangerous has it
well, they are getting the bob mueller is doing his independent investigation so we re ultimately getting that anyway. i don t think, you know, with all of the smoke and the smoke and the smoke that we ve seen from this russian investigation we can infer that if he had just let it go this would all be over because the investigation would still be going on. that s why it ultimately starts to feel like a cover up when you hear about all these things that trump did because the investigation, we don t know what s going on with the official investigation. but we keep learning things about contacts, about, you know, russian meddling, all of that and that s why you know there would have to be absolutely no there there for this to go away. sara, the name you don t hear a lot about this is nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, bernie sanders, democrats. that s what makes what eric trump said to sean hannity last night on fox news particularly eyebrow raising.