tough on the d.o.j. but the toughness was merited. but by and large, this man is great to be around. i remember being on marine one with him taking off and he asked me an odd question, why are you here? i m press secretary, it s odd. he said no, why are you here? he found out my husband was playing a baseball game, he told me at the end of the trip, i m honored you are here during your husband s baseball game but sent one of the young kids and go to my private dining room and propped up your feet and enjoy the game. i didn t but it tells you about how he was. i didn t agree with him on every tweet or everything he did, you never do but i tell you one thing, he was a great president of united states. have people in public office now who attack the country and the people of the country who don t believe in the founding
of defense, i was in not secure? tough on the d.o.j. but the toughness was merited. but by and large, this man is great to be around. i remember being on marine one with him taking off and he asked me an odd question, why are you here? i m press secretary, it s odd. he said no, why are you here? he found out my husband was playing a baseball game, he told me at the end of the trip, i m honored you are here during your husband s baseball game but sent one of the young kids and go to my private dining room and propped up your feet and enjoy the game. i didn t but it tells you about how he was. i didn t agree with him on every tweet or everything he did, you never do but i tell you one thing, he was a great president of united states. have people in public office now who attack the country and the people of the country who
take someone else s life away to protect someone else s life. and senator davis, i wanted to ask you about the focus on the leak versus the focus on what happens if this is actually the decision. do you think that the focus on the leak is merited? clearly mitch mcconnell wants that to be the focus, but the reality here needs to be on 49 years of legislative jurisprudence that has had allowed women the rights to control our future, our destinies and our own bodies by doing that, and with all due respect to the congresswoman, every woman, every person who can give birth should have the right to make this personal decision for themselves. in no situation whether we are talking about at the rape or insist or life of the mother, and whether we are talking about the experience that i had with a
so she s very clear this is certainly within the scope of its investigation. i will agree with one thing that was said in trump s legal pleadings and that is we all ought to read the washington post. you know what? i agree with you on that. but, joyce, in all seriousness, what about the doj? what about the department of justice? are they completely immune to the politics on something like this as they re meant to be? you know, doj s stock and trade is their immunity to the politics. sure people try to influence the justice department. and typically once you re inside of that building on pennsylvania avenue you re pretty much tone-deaf to what s going on the outside. congress can certainly make a referral if doj think it s merited. they ll pursue it. if they don t, they ll simply ignore it. because as a prosecutor that s your job. your job is to follow the law and to follow the evidence. and the politics simply doesn t
impact here giving a speech like this. traveling to georgia, of course, one of 19 states, you know, it certainly is real here. that is why he came here. so, he knew the odds were long but he is still making his case. all right. jeff, thank you very much. and i want to go now to ben jealous, former president and ceo of the naacp, he was at biden s speech today in atlanta and our chief political analyst gloria borger, of course. so, ben, senator manchin, obviously, has been clear for, you know, time and time again, he is not changing his stand on the filibuster. senator cinema not onboard, either. so it doesn t seem there is a chance that biden makes headway on voting rights as it stands right now. so the current president of the naacp derek johnson issued a statement tonight saying quote, while president biden delivered a stirring speech today, it is time for the administration to match their words with actions. um, and that s the criticism coming from the naacp. do you think it s