Howard weve all seen this movie before way too many times, its washington Melodrama Beloved by the media, suspenseful story, a ticking clock. Its a selfinflicted crises with a Government Shutdown hanging in the balance, and journalists start issuing dire warnings of all the people whod be hurt if the feds cant pay their bills. Talk about a waste of time, an endless parade of dysfunction. Its real americans who will be paying the price while the elect representatives who are suppose to be working for you, they arent doing that. A Government Shutdown that will leave roughly 7 million women and children without s. M. A. P. Benefits which means they could go hungry. Active duty Military Members will go without pay. Howard the warnings come true and the focus shifts to how long the politicians will keep squabbling before coming to their senses, or theres a last minute if deal. Thats what happened last night. And usually that means a stopgap funding measure, in this case about six weeks, tha
okay, julie thank you for the prop up ther from capitol hill joining me right now is jason crow, a democratic member of the house intelligence and armed service committee. good to have you back on the broadcast let s get into i here i am curious what you make of potentially seeing a forme president indicted or, arreste and the kind of impact that is going to have both on capito hill, as well as across th country, hi,. alex first of, all way to talk with some facts here a lot o political accusations ar flying around number, one we don have kings and queens or royalty in america we just have americans every, american regardless o position or title is subject t the law and accountable to the law and every american also ha equal protection into du process, to former president trump has to be treated equally, and we will see what happens secondly, this is a really important points, politician do not indict people that is not how our system works. what happens is that granted
and indictments a very rea prospect here. lisa, are they taking a har look at testifying or is tha already off the table? i think it s off the tabl for some of the reasons that peter already discussed. this is a person who at leas understood that he was i enough jeopardy to have take the fifth amendment almost 500 times in a prior civil o position with the new york attorney generals office we also know that when donal trump s unconstrained, doesn t vote the fifth and testify civilly. he gets himself into all sorts of trouble exhibit a for that is this deposition in the carroll case which about the rails eigh ways from sunday i think it s highly unlikely that he accepts the substation and alex it is only an invitation it is not a subpoena he s not being compelled t testify. it is a courtesy built into new york criminal law. peter brings up a goo point. this is the first bu potentially the first of a few indictments coming down th pike between this hush money case
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