paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. we given this week with begin this weeking with a supreme court showdown. the justices set to hear oral arguments on thursday in a case that could upsend the 2024 presidential race as they consider whether donald trump can be removed from the my mare primary ballot in colorado. that state s court ruled the president president is ingel under section three of the 14th amendment which prohibits an officer of the united states who took an oath to support the constitution and then engaged in insurrection from holding office again. let s bring in former attorney general of the united states michael mukasey is. judge, welcome back to the show. good to have you here. you ve written, for us in fact, hat president of the united states is not covered by the disqualification claus. why not? right. first of all, the presidency is not an office a under the united states. s it is, it has an independent source of power. i
just five days ago. including an 83 million dollar defamation judgment against the republican front runner. and as the general election campaign has basically begun. standing by to talk about have a gun and take on trump and offer his reaction to e. jean carroll s massive victory against him. plus, from my department store in the 90s to her day in court this week, andrew weissmann and katie phang are going to join me for a deep dive into how carol s case against trump got to this point. and what comes next? also, could nikki haley be doing joe biden a favor by calling trump confused? and what are the factors the haley team is weighing as they decide how much to turn up the heat? and later, there is some big civil war energy coming out of texas, as greg abbott taunts the federal government with his actions on the border. i ll talk to about just how crazy things are getting, in his home state. as we come on the air today, we re getting some breaking news out of th
a lot of us have been since the new hampshire primary just five days ago, including an 83 million dollar defamation judgment against the republican front runner. and as the primary plugs forward, the general election campaign has basically begun. biden campaign co-chair is standing nearby talking about how they re going to take on trump, and offered his reaction to e. jean carroll s massive victory against him. plus, from a department store in the 90s to her day in court this week, andrew weissmann and katie phang are going to join me for a deep dive into how curls case against trump got to this point. and what comes next? also, could nikki haley be doing joe biden a favor by calling trump confused? and what are the factors that halle team is weighing as they decide how much to turn up the heat? and later, there is some big civil war energy coming out of texas, as greg abbott taunts the federal government with his actions on the border. i ll talk to about just how crazy t
it is a sad day for our country in so many sad day. and as predicted, hunter biden was just a get out of jail free card by his own by his own father s doj. nothing but a sweetheart deal only other americans could dream of. oh, what a shocdk. now, after a five year investigation and mountains of materialr investmountain of evid on top of each other, we had whistleblower s eyewitness accounts. hunter was ever so gently t slapped on the wrist with two misdemeanor tax violationshe for a missing an irs deadline. by the wayor a, we re talking at $3 million in taxes he didn txee pa dy and deferred gun charge. that will be dismissed if hunter s a really good boy for the next few years. now, formeryears. president i actually called it a traffic ticket when in reality thickets is a plea deal. it is little more than a political stunit it fromt froa a weaponized doj and nothing but pathetic attempt to merely f seem fair when they are anything but. now, keep in mind there s no fara
20 beats your 5. i m sorry, sir. well, i won t lie to you. cards are not my bag, baby. jesse: joe biden has been on a lucky streak his whole career. at 29 he slid into the senate with a help of a few union run printing machines that buckled just before they were going to print attacks on joe. when his career was going another nowhere and obama needed a white guy with foreign policy credit, obama, joe was vp. nothing says luck like running for president from your basement. joe was supposed to be a one-term deal, a bridge to the next generation. but that bridge collapsed when we got a look at kamala. so joe s rolling the dice and running again. and he held his first re-election campaign event this weekend. and john fetterman opened him up and called him a collapsed bridge. now, i m standing next to the president again, next to a collapsed bridge here. and he is here to commit to work with the governor and the delegation to make sure we get this fixed quick, fast. this is