Someone broke into the house or drunk driving, he would be there in a minute, unquote. Now the president s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani is out there calling Michael Cohen a liar. Do you think Michael Cohen is a liar . Well, listen, theres certainly been a breach in the relationship. So when i said that, i meant that because i had known michael for ten years, known the president for a very long time and my guess was that they were very loyal to each other. When your house gets raided and your apartment and hotel room gets raided and you get jarred by the fbi, maybe that has changed now. The leaking of the tape and i listened to the tape. I think the president is trying to make the point and mayor giuliani is making the point that it seems like the tape was cut off, that there was more e dialogue there and the president thinks it was more favorable to
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orders are crafted, notice that they often exempt the judge, often exempt the prosecutor, but refer to individual citizens who are part who did not choose to be part of this. they literally, by virtue of being having a driver s license, got a letter in the mail are being brought into court and being pulled into e former presint it is se from daers to peopland it also hurts the ems saying jake, yeah, i mean, just look at the way that trump s friends in the sial dia world and also the mediaorld have behaved. and iprevio in previous situations, the whistleblower the white house who you know, i mean, even when told, don t name this person, you re going to put his or her life at risk. they ve named it without getting all histrionic about putting people s lives at risk. this undermines the integrity of the system, whether you like it or not, you are a defendant in this system and are entitled to a fair trial. you re number one getting in the way of your own ability to get a fair trial,
practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of january 6th. we have a criminal justice system, he says, in this country. we have civil litigation and former presidents are not immune. but now trump s legal team is arguing he is immune. saying a president s actions while in office are above the law. that a presint can do anything, any official act, even assassinate a political rival. can president order seal team six to assassinate a political ral? he would have to be and speedily be impeached and convicted before the criminal prosecution. but if he weren t, there uld be no criminal prosecution, no crimina liability for that? i ve sies of hypotheticals about criminal tions that could be taken a presiden and could be
appeal. in oregon, trump s attorneys filed 162 page brief, an incredibly lengthy legal document, arguing these points that insurrection doesn t apply here, that it certainly doesn t apply to him as a former president or acting in the ties of presint at that time. they seem to have woken up to the challenges that this could present to them to not be on the ballots in some or all of the states, you see on the screen right now. there s widespread belief inside trump world and the legal community who has viewed the cases otherwise, it s probably going to have to be the supreme court that makes one decision that applies across the whole patch work of states here who all have slightly different rules here, but incredibly high stakes as we start to turn the corner into the election. incredibly high stakes. mark, i ll ask you this, am i right to say that this is a complicated issue for the supreme court? absolutely. you know, garrett already ran through some of the questions facing the cou
almost every instance that they want abortion to be legal and available. all of these candidates have been sort of talking about what is, in effect, a national ban on abortion. not popular, not going to win, divides voters, and yet they seem to cling to it because that s what the donor class wants. i would love to see if they are going to continue to do that in iowa, because it s really a losing issue. and yet, it s really what you have to do in order to win with the evangelical base in iowa. perfect wedge issue. very much worth watch ing. mike pence has certainly been out front and consistent about where he stands on the issue. also happet the iowa state fair today, we will see nine congressional floridian republicans traveling with the former presint trump and not with the current governor ron desantis. erroll, how do you interpret this? is this just political jabs and