he did at one point trying to get the justice department lawyer to clarify his questions because the witness would say, i don t quite understand what you re getting at here and judge leon would say, i don t either. rephrase the question and that s never a good look. that s also a good tell. this is a bench trial which means, you know, the judge is also the jury in effect. so, brian, from a policy consideration, this keeps coming up. the idea of well, this the future this way versus, no, no, this is the worst thing for the future is having these kinds of mergers. how does that breakdown plus minus? there s a sense in the business community that there s an inevitability that these mergers will keep happening in order to keep pace with technology giants. you heard the ceo reference this on the stand yesterday. the facebook and google are getting bigger and bigger and the time warner and at&t of the world need to be able to
history of policy. david chalian, remind me the last time when asked well in advance of the next election, members of a political party said, i don t know if i support the president who is the standard bearer of my party? i m not sure that question always gets asked. i think this presidency begs that question in a way that some of his predecessors did not, chris. what s important to note here of what s the difference. you got to remember past presidents, they would not even be running technically for re-election at this stage of the game. we re probably a little less than a year away from when past presidents would open up their campaign accounts and start doing their fund-raising gearing up for their re-election campaign. donald trump did that inauguration weekend of his first term. so he is a fully declared presidential candidate. he s got an open campaign account. he is running for re-election again in the very literal term which to me makes this question
it yesterday. we all now after speaking with her, she is a very vocal advocate on gun rights and the second amendment. we have a tweet from a democratic congress woman saying this. i m just going to say it. nra and dana lash are becoming domestic security threats under president trump. we can t ignore that. dana had a response of her own saying rephrase an elected government official just labeled me and millions of others domestic security threats. wow. your response? that s over the top. what an embarrassment. she s a former prosecutor. citizens in her county died in the tragedy september 11. for her to equate nra members to being domestic security threats is really troubling. what we need in this country is a lot less vitrial and politics in our public discourse and she
welcome back to the broadcast. day 194 of the administration. and amid the russia headlines, the staff shakeups, the perpetuatial breaking news from the west whipping we thought we d bring in a veteran to tell us where things stand in his view. james carville long time democratic strategist former bill clinton campaign manager. joins from us the west coast. thank you. i was going to ask you how bad does it look for trump. but i ll rephrase. what upset you the most welcome back to the broadcast good to see. you i don t have a week. no, i mean, look i think the big story you covered it very well i listened to it but it s the investigation. the what s interesting about the investigation it seems that the people at mueller s hiring are really experts in financial
james carville long time democratic strategist former bill clinton campaign manager. joins from us the west coast. thank you. i was going to ask you how bad does it look for trump. but i ll rephrase. what upset you the most welcome back to the broadcast good to see. you i don t have a week. no, i mean, look i think the big story you covered it very well i listened to it but it s the investigation. the what s interesting about the investigation it seems that the people at mueller s hiring are really experts in financial crimes and financial transactions. that tips me off that s the direction this is going in more than any other. i think that s the underlying story that this organization you know when i came to washington in 1992 people thought i was colorful. but i m not anything compared to the mooch. every day you turn around it is something new a different story. i think that the investigation is the looming over the white house for a long time. what do you do with the