Hello again and welcome. Its time to break down the big stories with some smart people today, were asking with Donald Trumps first criminal trial, just two days away low jurors here, more slays than substance. Then the debate debate should News Organizations porch for president ial debates, given trumps pension for lives and fake france, the new social media app giving you all the social media satisfaction without any of the actual social media, the pamelas here and ready to go so sit back, relax and lets talk about up first. Donald trump is about to make history becoming the first former president to sit as a defendant in a criminal trial . Jury selection begins monday in a case involving Hush Money Payments to porn star Stormy Daniels. A trial that could carry Major Political and legal consequences for trump including possible jail time. Election interference by biden, Donald Trumps set to face 34 Felony Counts and a manhattan courtroom. We cannot and will not normalize serious crimi
did nothing wrong he should release the emails and let witnesses testify under oath. kyle lewis is a former u.s. attorney who served with william barr, the doj under george w. bush administration be nice to see you sir, we should appreciate it. this feels like the good old if you didn t do it in your evanescence he might as well give up all your rights argument. it s interesting. i would put it back to senator schumer. do you think it is fair to shift the burden to the accused? a look, i know this is political and not a criminal trial but i prosecuted a lot of cases. could you imagine if i charlie dear and said hey, why don t you bring the evidence in. why don t you bring the witnesses. why do you bring the documents and you can prove your innocence. i don t think that is fair and i don t think it s fundamentally what america is about. you made a great point about whether this is a political process or a criminal process in which rules of the road apply. kimberley strassel writing
you know, it creates deep problems not just for federal agencies but for the economy, as well. my background was in business. you would never see a business function this way,here if there was a management disagreement, they d shut down the business. right. this is not a way to do business. no, it is absolutely not a way to do business. another question for you. you have a background in business but you re also on the interior and environment subcommittee. president trump is moments away from signing a executive order that directs the interior department to review all national monument designations on fasederal public land since 1996 that are 100,000 acres or more in size. there are a couple things they re looking at. it could open up more protected lands for drilling, logging or mining. on the surface, it looks like a state s rights argument. really, it looks like removing federal designation from a couple of sites where there might be fossil fuels underneath. what do you make o
and even the slow moving senate not exactly renowned as a body that s in tune with the times held its first-ever hearing on the issue of marijuana legalization last september. but while there s growing momentum for legalization, what s happening in colorado is still an experiment. and experiments can go wrong. sometimes quickly, sometimes badly. so the question now is where does the movement go from here? and will the politics of pot light up the electorate in 2014 and beyond? ed rendell was the governor of pennsylvania and is an msnbc political analyst. josh greene is a columnist with bloomberg business week and a former coloradan. he attended the pot growing school in california as part of a series that he wrote for the atlantic. hey, governor, let me start with you. i can t wait to see what happens among the republican field headed toward 2016. because on one hand you could make a state s rights argument. possession is still against the law federally. isn t it a state right kind of
today, 58%. it s remarkable when you decide the political makeup of the country. and even the slow moving senate not exactly renowned as a body that s in tune with the times held its first-ever hearing on the issue of marijuana legalization last september. but while there s growing momentum for legalization, what s happening in colorado is still an experiment. and experiments can go wrong. sometimes quickly, sometimes badly. so the question now is where does the movement go from here? and will the politics of pot light up the electorate in 2014 and beyond? ed rendell was the governor of pennsylvania and is an msnbc political analyst. josh greene is a columnist with bloomberg business week and a former coloradan. he attended the pot growing school in california as part of a series that he wrote for the atlantic. hey, governor, let me start with you. i can t wait to see what happens among the republican field headed toward 2016. because on one hand you could make a state s rights argumen