joining us now are former special counsel to the general counsel department of defense ryan goodman and rebecca roissy. thank you both for being here on what we said was definitely no shortage of news this morning. i wonder what s your reaction to this first filing that we got from trump s legal team today. it took two weeks for them to get there. and they are now asking for this third party attorney. but i think, we re wondering, if it s too late? it does seem too late. it s two weeks after the search began. so you d actually think it should be filed hours after the search began. and it s a reasonable request in some sense to ask for something like this from a third party. why is it reasonable? it s reasonable, because we might think we don t necessarily trust the way the fbi would conduct it. we want an objective third party institution to view things to sort out what they should have versus what they shouldn t. but the content is as quite bizarre. what they re saying
society are given credit for the confirmations of neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh, and amy coney barrett. it was leo who was in the driver s seat of those nominations. leo is the person who can raise the money and has the background to put in place judges who will build a conservative judicial infrastructure around the country. leonard leo now has an unprecedented amount of cash to spend on whatever political projects he likes. and while the donation was meant to be kept secret, name and address withheld on the irs form, cnn has confirmed the source as 90-year-old businessman and philanthropist barry side, who donated the entire stock of his company to marvel freedom trust, which turned around and sold it for $1.6 billion. cnn has attempted to reach mr. side without response. his donation will leave behind a dark money political legacy that could last decades. already, marble freedom trust has given more than $200 million to other causes. including $40 million to donors tru
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Good evening. And he represents rhode island in the United States senate. Thank you. You see any number . The Senate Judiciary committee, most importantly, is it sort of its customary. Let me welcome senator sheldon whitehouse. Thank you all. I think the routine here if i talk for about 10 minutes, then we have question and answers. So let me start by thanking you for coming out. And thank you for the interest in this book. I worked pretty hard on it. As if you get around to reading it, youll see, its pretty dense stuff. I would describe it as more or less equal parts textbook if that doesnt scare you off detective story and warning flare. And as we talk about it there are two concepts i want to put in your mind. First because theyll help illuminate rest of the conversation. The first is something called agency capture or regular battery capture, which is a phenomenon that goes way back into our history. And you might think of some of the early episodes of agency capture or regulatory
In the United States senate. Thank you. You see any number . The Senate Judiciary committee, most importantly, is it sort of its customary. Let me welcome senator sheldon whitehouse. Thank you all. I think the routine here if i talk for about 10 minutes, then we have question and answers. So let me start by thanking you for coming out. And thank you for the interest in this book. I worked pretty hard on it. As if you get around to reading it, youll see, its pretty dense stuff. I would describe it as more or less equal parts textbook if that doesnt scare you off detective story and warning flare. And as we talk about it there are two concepts i want to put in your mind. First because theyll help illuminate rest of the conversation. The first is something called agency capture or regular battery capture, which is a phenomenon that goes way back into our history. And you might think of some of the early episodes of agency capture or regulatory capture as, say, Railroad Barons running the