College Civil War Institute summer Conference Live this weekend on American History tv on cspan3. Wehner,at thus is peter thats with us is peter wehner, with us is peter wehner, out with a new book. Ae cover of your book is picture of a freed flag. Frayed flag. Fraying of think the politics in our country started . Guest i argue in the book that a lot of these trends that are troublesome in politics, the polarization, anger, acrimony, deathmatch mindset predates donald trump. I do fault him for having accelerated all of the worst friends. Most of the worst trends in american politics all of the worst trends. Most of the worst trends in american politics have occurred in the last 30 years, and i do not recall a time with this much antipathy when the temperature has been as high as it has been. Host you wrote in the book that day one, you were opposed to donald trump as president is a veteran republican. When did you come to the conclusion that politics are dead, and what do you mean by
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good morning and welcome to the saturday edition of morning joe weekend. it was a really busy week. let s get to some of the conversations you may have missed. gag order in donald trump s hush money case is an effect, but his attorney said, they will keep fighting to get it thrown out. that comes after new york s top court declined to hear trump s appeal of the matter earlier this week. the state court appealed trump s thing, there was no constitutional grounds for the appeal. that leaves the gag order imposed by judge juan mershon in place meaning, he could still face penalties in place for violating it. the order bars trump from going after witnesses, jurors, and others who were involved in the case. following his felony conviction last month, the sentencing is scheduled for july 11th. so, i guess first of all, do you expect this gag order to be put back before the sentencing? i don t, but maybe there is reason for it. and then, what do you expect for the sentencing?
Week, what it means as far as that Campaign Going forward in the Alabama Senate race, and if you think those comments from the president were appropriate. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. Alabama residents and voters, if you want to give your specific perception, 2027488003 is the number to call. You can always post on our twitter feed, cspanwj and on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. Well take you back to just before the thanksgiving break at the white house. President trump addressing reporters before he took off for florida, was asked about the Roy Moore Campaign and the allegations against roy moore. Heres the president s response. President trump i can tell you i can tell you one thing for sure. We dont need a liberal person in there, a democrat. Jones, ive looked at his record, its terrible on crime. Its terrible on the border. Its terrible in the military. I can tell you for a fact, we do not need somebody thats going to
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