willie, you look at the leads in the papers today, the major papers today. the wall street journal talking about the white house warning that funding for kyiv to run out in weeks. obviously, a desperate, desperate situation for those trying to stop a russian invasion here. the leads on the times, also, their lead story, of course, about israel pushing further south into gaza and approaching another large city center and the growing concerns about a humanitarian crisis. and, of course, over here, something that there s more and more focus on, it s about how donald trump s second term could obviously create a much darker trump and, of course, willie, very few checks and balances. we ll be getting all of those things today. a lot of really important stories and a lot of ground to cover. yeah. we re also going to be joined by liz cheney in just about an hour from now, and she ll tell us about her warning, as well. she believes if donald trump is elected to the white house a
the judge overseeing donald trump s federal election subversion criminal case just reinstated the gag order she issued on the ex president earlier this month. a significant development made by u.s. district judge tanya chutkan who denied trump s request to pause the initial order while his appeal plays out. she also lifted a temporary freeze on the gag order that she issued on october 20th while she considered his request. now, you may recall the gag order, which was limited and initial scope, had prohibited donald trump from making certain statements about the special counsel s team, or potential witnesses, including any comments that directly targeted the courts personnel. potential witnesses, or the special counsel and his staff. here s some important context on this late breaking developments on the sunday evening. earlier this week, following a report that is former chief of staff mark meadows might have actually reached an immunity deal with the special counsel, donald
subversion criminal case just reinstated the gag order she issued on the ex president earlier this month. a significant development made by u.s. district judge tanya chutkan, who denied trump s request to pause the initial order while his appeal plays out. she also lifted a temporary freeze on the gag order that she issued on october 20th while she considered his request. now, you may recall the gag order, which was limited in its initial scope, had prohibited donald trump from making certain statements about the special counsel s team or potential witnesses, including any comments that directly targeted the court s personnel. potential witnesses, or the special counsel and his staff. here s some important context on this late breaking developments on the sunday evening. earlier this week, following a report that his former chief of staff mark meadows might have actually reached an immunity deal with the special counsel, donald trump attacked meadows on his failed social medi
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juan, ratcliffe has a 96% lifetime rating from the american conservative union. what do you make of a staunch conservative being nominated to a position that s traditionally been nonpartisan and given to people with significant intel backgrounds? you re right, the tradition of the director of national intelligence has been one where the professional assuming that role has either been a former ambassador or had a long standing role in the intelligence community and has had a gravitas in independence unto themselves that allows them to be an adviser to the president, to speak truth to power, to present intelligent assessments, not just to the president but to the american people in a credible way. it s important for that person not to see the role as a political role and that role be seen as an objective role, not just to the president but to the american people. there s a lot of questions obviously here. i would give a little bit of benefit of the doubt though