stand up for his own children if push comes to shove. let s talk about those children. because bill barr talked about that earlier today. i want you to watch this. i m not even sure she has a good case against trump himself. but what ultimately persuades me that this is a political hit job is that she grossly overreaches when she tries to drag the children into this. yes they had roles in the business, but this was his personal financial statement. children. are we talking about barron who s 16. we re talking about 44, 40, and 38. for years, ivanka was a key executive in the company. she s the one who negotiated the trump hotel in washington. don junior and eric, they ran the company when trump was in office. what the hell is bill barr talking about? well, barr is really trying to get at laetitia james, who ran for office saying, eventually, i mean to get donald trump. that s really an imprudent
pretty important. for example, i report in the story that when there was a lot of pressure for biden to declare climate emergency after joe manchin had seemed to tank the deal, the biden folks were in conversation with schumer s office, with manchin s office saying, we ve got this ready, the but here s the language we re going to use, and that was all part of not rocking the boat too much so joe manchin didn t get up from the table, and they got all these things that are really significant and of course are part of legislation now, not part of an executive order that could be resended by another president. which is huge and a critical piece of this. laura, i want to pull up a headline from new york magazine. it says joe biden s best week ever. it s a good story and also hilarious that they re tweeting it on headlines.
plan, stephanie. but it has been telegraphed at every term. this was so clearly decades in the making. this was an undertaking that goes back to the sort of revolution that we are going to lose everything else, but if we take the court. we will ultimately win and in a deep deep way. i think when donald trump took office saying, i will do one thing right for all the things i do wrong, and that is transform the courts. i think we should ve believed him because this was all happening in plain sight. nobody should be surprised. josh, as i said just a moment ago. you are the reporter who broke the story when there was a draft opinion a month ago. this decision, how close is it to the leaked draft? it s almost identical, stephanie. maybe a few small changes here
university school of law. john, a senior editor for politico. he broke the story last month. this conservative supreme court has been in the making for decades, and while today might be shocking, or jarring. should we be surprised? wasn t this a game plan? not only was this the game plan, stephanie. but it has been telegraphed at every term. this was so clearly decades in the making. this was an undertaking that goes back to the sort of revolution that we are going to lose everything else, but if we take the court. we will ultimately win and in a deep deep way. i think when donald trump took office saying, i will do one thing right for all the things i do wrong, and that is transform the courts. i think we should ve believed him because this was all happening in plain sight. nobody should be surprised.
what do you make of his role in all this. should we be hearing more about him? absolutely. i said, after the sixth, very publicly, that there should be an ethics investigation of cruz and josh hawley and those who were going to deny certification, basically what they were trying to do is, basically, i guess do what eastman wanted the vice president to do, which is to throw this back to the states. that s what their intention was. and absolutely, we should be seeing who he is in contact with. it s interesting because you brought up the question, was he in contact with eastman? i guess his office today released to the best of his recollection. [laughs] he didn t even have it from him, to the best of my recollection. it was his office saying, it s to the best of his recollection, he doesn t that s pretty suspicious. and ted is