attack. todd: not really answering the question, visited many other communities. kind of an odd answer. what kind of an answer is that? it is typical where they ignore and go after the narrative they are trying to create out there. it s not working. and i think the president needs to kind of get a grip on the reality what is going on in the mainstream. it shows one more time that joe biden is just not in touch with america and people are not respecting him because he does things like this. carley: you know there is a similarity between what happened in waukesha and buffalo. in both cases, the attacker displayed warning signs that were ignored. waukesha it is even more apparent because he had a lengthy criminal rap sheet but in buffalo, shooting up a school and detained by the police and then given a mental health evaluation. nothing really came of that. is there a lesson here to be learned? yeah, i think we need to look
looks like he s somewhere, i used this analogy, you re going up the ladder here, right, he s not the lowest rung, he s not the highest rung, but he s certainly somewhere in the middle here. do you expect this to go to trial? or do you expect them to do everything they can to see if they can get him to if he can if there is someone more to give, if they can get him to do that. yes. and let me explain what may seem like an odd answer. overwhelmingly, when people are indicted by federal prosecutors, they don t go to trial. more than 90% of cases resolve through plea agreement. but here, you have 11 defendants. so even if you just did the math, it would seem like one or two or three might go to trial and the others would try to strike plea bargains and perhaps cooperate. so, hard to know what any individual will do. but usually it s in their best
and why i acted the way i did at the time. joining our discussion now tess bridgeman, former deputy legal advisor to the white house counsel in the obama administration. also joining us tom nichols. and tess, whenever they re running to the white house lawyers in this testimony i m always thinking of you because you used to be in that office they were running to in this testimony today. what did you make of tim morrison s rush to the lawyers and the lawyer he s rushing to that position is your boss when he was working in the white house, is that right? yes, that s exactly right, and it s an odd answer that morrison gives that he rushed straight to the office of john eisenberg and he also does mention his deputy michael ellis. to make them aware generally of the call and because of concerns about a potential leak.
ambassador volker? in those hypothetical cases, no, not appropriate. but you re not sure of joe biden? i can only speak to what i understood at the time and why i acted the way i did at the time. former deputy legal advisor to the associate white house counsel in the obama administration and joining us former republican senate staf member, tom nicholls. whenever they re running to the white house lawyers in this testimony i m always thinking of you because you used to be in the office they were running to in the testimony today. what did you make of tim morrison s rush to the law and the lawyer he s rushing to, that was your boss, is that right? yes, that s exactly right. it s an odd answer that morrison gives that he rushed straight to the office of john izenberg and
and you ask these good folks who offer you advice. the recording by jim sciutto that the president did not consult with the current director of national intelligence, dan coats on this, does that surprise you? i mean is that if this really is a legitimate review based on national security issues, is he somebody who could be kind of looped in? let me give you an odd answer, anderson. it shocked me and did not surprise me. it shocked me that this would be done without any sense of process, but it did not surprise me because frankly, i i don t want to imply anything with the current leadership, but frankly, i can t imagine senator coats or director haskell or any of the other leaders signing on to this for cause, saying this is a good idea because. so i m not surprised at all that they weren t consulted. i m shocked that the white house thought it was okay not to