london has said to that so they are wary at this point in time they are wary and we will catch up to marbury s of reporting from brussels thank you. let s bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. algerians have taken to the streets in protest again after the country named its first new president in almost two decades lawmakers installed the speaker of the country s upper house. as interim leader after have disease beautifully stepped down but demonstrators saying he is a regime insider he demand a radical overhaul instead. of courts in hong kong has found nine leaders of the twenty eight fourteen movement guilty on public nuisance charges they could now face jail time for their role in organizing the pro-democracy rallies calling for greater autonomy from china. unity increased u.s.
building to your however. do you know why, as a good man who has a law degree, he says the courts should be inferior? which is flatly contradicted by the most canonical supreme court precedent of marbury? i haven t talked to him about this specific issue, but i think a big issue. big issue. he might cite our favorite precedent, which is hamilton: the musical. alexander hamilton wrote years and years ago that the president should have not unchecked, but certainly broad powers to make these appointments. yes, with advice and consent of the senate. but we ve got an unusual situation here where there s a vacancy, and i think overall, ari, the supreme court, who may decide this case, would defer to the president of the united states. nick, i feel like what guy is saying is enough to make you as mad as if somebody taxed your whiskey. that could be.
thought the mueller investigation was illegal and out of bounds and he had prescribed ways for essentially thwarting it and one gets the distinct feeling he is there for that purpose. maybe he won t do that, but there are other things that have come up that relate to the other things on your list that are disturbing because he s written and spoken about the court system as an inferior branch of government. right. he thinks marbury was improperly decided. and if he s advising the president on the constitutionality of the things he s doing, we re in for rocky moments here. on to the next one. i m sorry for the whiplash but a lot to cover and i want your take on that all. trump is alleging.
is actually a pretty big deal? yeah, it s a foundational constitutional case. and so it says that the supreme court is the final arbiter in determining what the law is. so this is foundational place, and, you know, all of these issues, his views on whether or not there is a biblical requirement for judges, his views on marbury and madison, his views on potentially as your story reported his office when he was the u.s. attorney in bringing a politically motivated case, all of those are the types of issues thad would be explored in a confirmation hearing. if he actually would have gone through a conifer haitian hearing for a senior position in the justice department. and that s why you re seeing in part so many lawyers across the political spectrum over the last 24 hours raise really serious concerns about the fact he s been elevated to the position of attorney general having not gone through that confirmation process for service in this administration.
one now at the helm of this justice department to disagree with marbury is like a physicist denouncing the laws of gravity. this is just one of many, jaime, concerns about this man. this is not credible. the president said over and over again he didn t know him. he has been obsessed with the mueller investigation and russia. that s why jeff sessions is gone. he didn t pick the obvious person or anyone, frankly, in the line that would normally go, rod rosenstein on down, he plucked matt whitaker from chief of staff to make him attorney general. so our reporting and the new york city reporting is that matt whitaker has been the eyes and ears of the white house in the justice department. he is a loyalist.