that is a quote from winston churchill. and it s from this 522 page book about winston churchill s illnesses. nothing but his illnesses. the name of the book is winston churchill s illnesses, written by two british physicians. the quotes about champagne comes from the chapter titled, was churchill an alcoholic? the book was published in 2020 and using all of the latest analysis about alcohol addiction, the others conclude that it was in churchill exhibited none of the traits of alcoholism and that the image of churchill as a very heavy drinker was much exaggerated including by himself. announced many close observers of the british prime minister, the book notes many close observers of the british prime minister, saying things like this: personally, throughout the time i knew him, i never saw him the worse for drink. the glass of weak whisky, like the cigars, was more assemble than anything else, and one glass last him for hours. churchill himself once wrote, i have been broug
will see you again tomorrow and now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening lawrence. good evening lawrence. we have mandela barnes joining us tonight. he s innocent the sickle tie in the senate race and wisconsin with ron johnson. so it is a really tight one, like so many of the senate races and we are going to hear from him about what his closing strategy is. it is a fascinating race, mandela barnes is really compelling candidates, and the ads that they have been running against mandela barnes are shameful. so you have a lot to talk about today lawrence. thank you alex, thank you! good show. thanks. i could not live with that champagne, in victory i deserve it, in defeat i need it! that is a quote from winston churchill. and it s from this 522 page book about winston churchill s illnesses. nothing but his illnesses. the name of the book is winston churchill s illnesses, written by two british physicians. the quotes about champagne come
years. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this thursday, june 30th. i m jonathan lemire. live from madrid, where the nato summit is under way. we ll have more on what is happening here in just a moment, but we begin with news from washington. the january 6th committee has issued a subpoena for the testimony of trump white house counsel pat cipollone. investigators are compelling him to appear for a deposition next wednesday, july 6th. it comes after the committee s repeated request for him to testify and one day after he was featured prominently in bombshell testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. cipollone sat for an informal interview back in april but in a letter to the former white house counsel, the committee rights in part, you have declined to cooperate with us further, including by providing on the record testimony. we are left with no choice but to issue you this subpoena. the committee states, it has obtained evidence about which
absolutely! mark meadows falls into a very different category and you can understand why the georgia district attorney and why the federal government wants to speak to him because he basically is the man in the room for basically every possible facets of this game, mark meadows seems to be a witness. he is making the phone call to roger stone and to michael flynn on january 5th at the direction of the former presidents. he s on the call with georgia, i mean he is a wealth of information as we know from the testimony of cassidy hutchinson. so you could understand why the prosecutors are going to be like a dog with a bone and terms of litigating this, and mark meadows as is his right, is going to be contesting the authority, both the state and the federal level.
privilege arguments, and lawrence, the legal precedents is on the side of prosecutors. president nixon and clinton both claims attorney-client privilege for the white house counsel and they lost. none of these privileges are absolute. attorney-client privilege is the most protected, but none are supposed to be used to cover up crimes. and andrew weissmann, they mark meadows is getting closer to that testimony in georgia, where he s under subpoena, that he has been fighting. but a low so we are going to see an appeal in that? absolutely! mark meadows falls into a very different category and you can understand why the georgia district attorney and why the federal government wants to speak to him because he basically is the man in the room for basically every possible facets of this game, mark meadows seems to be a witness. he is making the phone call to roger stone and to michael flynn on january 5th at the direction of the former presidents. he s on the call with georgia, i mean he