you know, snl had donald trump on when he was eight republican primary candidate in 2015, well after he had called mexicans a bunch of criminals and rapists, i don t know that we should have super high expectations for the filter of what appears in that program, not to say that the adl is wrong at all but just to say that snl will at times put itself in a position of speaking truth to power and being some kind of dividing line of what s acceptable and not in the entertainment industry but i just don t think they have the record to back that up. maker comedy is not the moral compass necessarily in our society and yet we do have this expectation that comedians are speaking a kind of truth to power in a way that the average person cannot, and yet what the truth is, to your larger point, with the truth is, is what he is being criticized about.
president, if not in crimes, at least as far as his central involvement of both in the actions on that day on the elipse. but also what took later at the capitol. barb, you are our awyer. if you are in a position to clear the president, why wouldn t you sit down and do it under oath? you re absolutely right, stephanie, they know that they have some criminal exposure here, and they are concerned. it may be the charges were never filed, because the justice department was not able to put them together. but anybody can see that there is criminal exposure here, and the person cannot just take the fifth because they don t feel like answering the questions. they want to protect somebody else. you have to have a well grounded fear of criminal prosecution and i think that based on the things that we have seen, there is absolutely the case of that. as you say, there is nobody out
capitol. barb, you are a lawyer. if you are in a position to clear the president, why wouldn t you sit down and do it under oath? you re absolutely right, stephanie, they know that they have some criminal exposure there, and they are concerned. it may be the charges were never filed, because the justice department was not able to put them together. but you can see that there is criminal exposure here, and the person cannot just take the fifth because they don t feel like answering the questions. they want to protect somebody else. you definitely have a well grounded fear of criminal prosecution and i think that based on the things that we have seen, there is absolutely the case of that. as you say, there is nobody out there that they are saying it s all a misunderstanding. a fabrication. none of these things happened. whether they amount to a crime is with the department of justice is putting together. it seems that a strong case can be made and i can agree with you. i don t hear a
david and goliath. it is so funny that he really thought this would work. but what gives me hope is we just watched the cancel or get canceled. so maybe this is a trend. maybe we ll see big corporations one person cannot we are going to say no. in the world didn t end. so i m excited. i m hopeful. greg: that is a great point. spotify showed that they have spotify did not even finish reading neil young s letter when they were like okay, he is done. they didn t even have a meeting. they didn t even let a 24-hour news cycle go by. they knew that, we are going to stick with joe. and neil young, sorry if you want to be on spotify. you can go to pandora where nobody will listen to you. it also remind me of neil young.
david and goliath. it is so funny that he really thought this would work. but what gives me hope is we just watched the cancel or get canceled. so maybe this is a trend. maybe we ll see big corporations one person cannot we are going to say no. in the world didn t end. so i m excited. i m hopeful. greg: that is a great point. spotify showed that they have spotify did not even finish reading neil young s letter when they were like okay, he is done. they didn t even have a meeting. they didn t even let a 24-hour news cycle go by. they knew that, we are going to stick with joe. and neil young, sorry if you want to be on spotify. you can go to pandora where nobody will listen to you.