Been released but no one in the public has seen the video before. Now they will. Thats what this battle is about. It had been a lengthy battle over whether to release these videotapes or not and cnn along with several other Media Outlets, they filed a motion with a d. C. Superior judge to have them released. Its important to note Donald Trumps lawyers argue the videos shouldnt be released, they second it could be used politically, thought it could come in the president ial campaign, appear in tv commercials by Hillary Clinton so they argued fiercely these tapes should be sealed. The judge did not agree, did not give credence to that argument and granted the motion just last night to release the tapes. Now, as you noted, we have the transcripts of the deposition but this will be the first look at the videotape showing trump testifying under oath in june as part of that deposition. And the reason the trump camp fought so hard to not have these released, interestingly, judge curiel is the
Immigrants. When a judge temporarily blocked the ban on friday, trump attacked in a tweet, saying, the opinion of this socalled judge, which essentially takes Law Enforcement away from our country is ridiculous and will be overturned. Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says trumps attack raises the bar for his new Supreme Court nominee, neil gorsuch. Joining me now is democratic congresswoman barbara lee of california. Thank you for being with us, congresswoman. Good morning, reverend al. Glad to be with you. Now, when the president says, first of all, a personal attack on a federal judge, this socalled judge, how do you respond to that . I mean, this seems to be a little over the line to, you know, a sitting president attacking a federal judge as a socalled judge. Lets start there. Its outrageous. First of all, another bit of evidence that this president doesnt either understand or respect the three branches of government in this democracy. And when you denigrate and dismiss the judiciar
And here is the president two days later on thursday. Tonight i call on all civilized nations to join us in seeking to end the slaughter and bloodshed in syria. And also to end terrorism of all kinds and all types. So, okay. We figured there must be some politics behind this syria strike. Lets ask brendan boil, a democrat from pennsylvania. He sits on the Foreign Affairs committee and our analyst, malcolm nants. Let me go to the congressman second, but let me ask you, malcolm, we hear all kinds of things since the attack, theories that this is all some kind of understood back and forward with russia to cover things. This is something necessary in that the president was genuinely moved when he saw the pictures of the victims of the chemical weapons attack by asaad. I mean, from your intelligence background, what does this attack, the air strike really mean from a military standpoint. Well, it was clearly a demonstration of fire power. Thats what the president intended to project. A demo
Stand up for whats right. And the way that this congresswoman has been treated and the way the Johnson Family has been treated is a moral disgrace to the United States of america. Well talk with representative wilson and sergeant johnsons widow shortly. But first, democrats and republicans are plotting ways forward after tuesdays democrat victory and races big and small from coast to coast. Democrats are looking at this series of wins as a signal that President Trumps political brand has eroded one year after he won the white house. But republicans are left to ponder the flip side of that coin which is whether the president has already become a drag on their partys future. One year ahead of the crucial 2018 midterms. Joining me now is the governor of virginia, terry mcculloff. Thank you for joining us, governor. Reverend, great to be with you. Your state was probably the crucial state people were looking at on tuesday night. And the democrat won your chosen successor and won big as wel
In 1972 the dnc sued the committee for the reelection of the president , aka creep, the fund raising arm of Richard Nixons Reelection Campaign at the center of the watergate scandal. The campaign settled with the democrats for 750,000 on the very day nixon left office. Fast forward to today, and the democrats are suing over another breakin, alleging the trump campaign, wikileaks and russia conspired to disrupt the 2016 election by hacking dncs emails. Trump seems to think shes named wendy. The lawsuit comes as a group of House Republicans have formed a veritable committee to protect the president by attacking fired fbi director james comey. The republican chairs of several key committees forced the doj to release memos written by comey about his interactions with trump. The memos were promptly leaked to the press. Well, this attempt to discredit comey didnt quite work out the way the republicans thought. The memos are consistent with comeys testimony to the senate and with his book, ad