lawyer is testifying in a matter of hush payments in a federal court in west texas behind closed doors, no cameras, no audio recordings. we start there because what happens in this courtroom and this judge decides could ultimately have consequences for every single woman and every single family in america oral arguments took place in a case brought by anti-abortion groups challenges the completely legal, completely safe long-ago approved routine and decades old use of medication for abortion those groups today asked a judge to order a stop to the use of an abortion pill as their case makes its way through the courts it s reported at the hearing the judge, quote, asked government lawyers on wednesday about what he characterized as an accelerated process for approving one of two drugs used in most pregnancy terminations nationwide in response the justice department lawyer said there s tremendous evidence showing this pill as safe, even when a doctor does not administer it it s
before congress. it s also the mueller team anybody that wants to attack my credibility, we understand why you are doing it it s like what i had said to jim jordan during that oversight testimony, i know what you are doing. i know the playbook. because i helped to write it for donald it s not going to work for you truth is the truth truth will always rise i don t know we can top a quote like that. i want to see if i can ask you one final question here. do you believe that there is one set of rules for donald trump and another for you? or do you believe everyone will be held under the same standard based on the rule of law, the federal and state level? unfortunately, we haven t seen donald trump held accountable for any of his dirty deeds. as i have stated on your program and others, i m the only one who has held accountable for
reading this report, that the network of individuals who are still working at cvs, working at construction sites, working in law firms, they are sitting there ploing and planning knowing oh, my gosh, i didn t go on this trip but the next trip to the capitol i am going to be more prepared. carol, i would say the person who went to the hill moore than anybody else after 9/11 was robert mueller, and next to him, james tenet. democrats control the administration, the house and the senate. it is alarming when you read what you as journalists have put together and none of this has been prevented really in jeff sight committees. where is the oversight testimony that establishes some of what you establish in this piece? you know, i m trying to be hopeful that the committee will be it s coming? well, i mean, they have a little bit more power than we do in one respect. they have subpoena power, which we don t. and there are still, honestly, i
ways he could do that. the political consequences would be very severe. but then again, we re dealing with a president who is more than willing to try things and see how they turn out, rather than be concerned about any political controversy. okay. there was something else the president commented on last night, saying he s not worried about his former attorney and fixer, michael cohen s oversight testimony next month, february 7th. and instead, urged prosecutors to investigate his father. take a listen to this. look, i was a client of his, and you know, he s supposed to have lawyer-client privilege, but it doesn t matter because i m a very honest person, frankly, but he s in trouble on some loans and fraud and taxi cabs. in order to get his sentence reduced, he says, i have an idea, i ll give you some information on the president. well, there is no information. but he should give information maybe on his father-in-law, because that s the one that people want to look at. it s pretty