days earlier that judge cannon set no trial date and, you know, the first thing that jack smith and his team pointed out on page 1, is that that actually violates the law. the speedy trial act which says a defendant once charged, the judge that has the responsibility to set a date certain for the trial to begin, and somehow that escaped team trump when they filed their, you know, pr piece with judge cannon mentioning over and over again, you know, i don t know if you realize this, judge, but, you know, donald trump is running for president and that takes up a whole lot of time and energy, and he doesn t think he s going to be able to fit in a federal criminal trial. i would urge everybody to read these two pleadings. jack smith s reply is really
people into extremist rabbit holes, like you said. they know they could reinforce people s worst tendencies. i think what we have seen from some of these stories is it s especially true in markets where it doesn t make the most money but has huge influence still. cecilia, you have written about this. of course this is bigger than a pr crisis. many people would contend it is a threat to democracy. but on the pr piece of this, why wasn t the company prepared for this kind of reckoning? i think that facebook is accustomed to being under the spotlight, scrutinized by government officials and the media. they didn t expect a whistleblower, a former employee to come out with thousands of pages of documents that show in great detail how the company decided in many cases not to heed the warnings, as you have mentioned, as well as great
his son-in-law was there, his son was there. this adds further corroboration to the idea that he was told about it prior to that meeting and whether or not the republicans or the democrats on the house intel committee were ever able to get to the bottom of that, you can be sure that robt mueller will. stephen, what s your sense of whether or not it s a wasted effort that the republicans didn t do this? we know, for instance, from the senate intel committee, but they re nowhere close to having their work done. they feel there s a lot of stones to cover, more people to interview, more documents to look at. to natasha s point we knew from the beginning the house intel committee wasn t going to work out to give us a lot o information. what s your sense of what we re still to hear? my senses it s even worse than a wasted effort because it s a pr piece, you can tell the tweet from trump an hour
out to give us a lot of information. what s your sense of what we re still to hear? my sense is it s even worse than a wasted effort because it s a pr piece, you can tell the tweet from trump an hour ago, that trump will continue to use to confuse a complex situation. one of the things we lose in digging in deeply in this stuff, which we have to do, of course, is the thread. we forget two years ago in the middle of the campaign all we were hearing from trumps was no contacts with russians, no contacts with russians, no contacts with russians. guess what, cnn reported as of the end of november there were over 50 contacts between the trump campaign and russia, involving 12 different trump people up and down all the way to the very top of that campaign. now it s not no contacts, it s
longer siege. i know there s been speculation about him possibly either trying to repel or base jump out of there. some of that, again, i think, is speculation. i would like to see the police department and the fbi maybe assume this role in the pr piece, tightening up the reports to the press. thank you very much. chris? republican senator bob corker dropping the proverbial hammer on president trump s fit for office. how real is this division within the republican party? general michael hayden joins us with his take next. benefiber®s a clear, taste-free, 100% natural daily fiber. that s clinically proven to help me feel fuller longer. benefiber® healthy shape. this i can do! we are the tv doctors of america, and we may not know much about medicine, but we know a lot about drama. we also know that you can avoid drama by getting an annual check-up. so go, know, and take control of your health. it could save your life. cigna. together, all the way.