Tennessee. Its great to have you here. I should have my passport stamped. Were about to see the biggest contrast you can a imagine, the president last night in montana, on his way to north dakota, and then of course barack obama in illinois, where he launched it all well, not that far from springfield, illinois, at least. What do we expect to hear from president obama . This is going to be a remarkable split screen, andrea, one that democrats and republicans have been anticipating, some of them dreaming about. What will we hear from former president obama . Were told no one is going to come away from his Speech Thinking that he held his punching. This is going to be a sharp, pointed speech about the state of democracy. He is going to be calling on democrats to get into the fray. I spoke with one of his advisers, who said, look, part of his message will be that democrats dont get engaged
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develop recommendations that we will deliver a year from now that i hope and belief will be implementable and gain support among the american people. this group is, by the way, not limited to just lawyers. lawyers don t have a corner and a monopoly on wisdom. there are a number of just basic patriotic americans who want to help us out. jeh, this is claire, good morning to you judge, i m hopeful that in this process there will be some effort to look at the lawyers who have violated their oath to the law, and to the constitution by embracing the big lie and the fraud. i know there have been some lawyers who have had disciplinary hearings a few that have been disbarred in a few jurisdictions. do you all plan on looking on how well are lawyers policing
that s why he was boxed in, and they had to do something, they being the defense team to clean that up. but would you have? that s what i want to know. would you have put him on the stand? you know what it is? no attorney has a monopoly on wisdom. i can tell you as a defense team if everyone went in the room and all of us were lawyers, we would have such a disagreement. eventually the majority would win, but they took their shot. remember, inning doing that, t, he was a very skilled attorney. he was a person that got millions of dollars. as to him being theatrical and convincing in the courtroom, they felt they could use that in order to persuade. ultimately, the lie, the lies that hi e told caught up with h. when the prosecutor confronted him, they said you took a quadriplegic s money that you settled for him, you took a teenager s money, children and everyone else s money and you looked at them in the eye too just like you looked at the jury in the eye. so they made they being
it s completely irrational. so you ve got i mean, unless the lay of the land is different than i perceive it, you ve got one guy to convince and he doesn t seem to be on board. well, he s not on board. and that guy is my colleague, joe manchin. we have a difference of opinion about this. but you know, no one in the senate has a monopoly on wisdom. i think it is very clear in other countries that have a child allowance like the child tax credit, the workforce participation rates are actually higher because it s easier for people to stay at work when they ve got a benefit like this because they can buy child care, if the car breaks down they can get it fixed. i want to plead with joe manchin, let s give it a chance to actually work. we ve only seen it for six months and early reports are extremely positive. let s let it go and see whether he s right or whether i m wrong and try to come to an agreement on other things that i may not agree with, but i m willing to vote for, in order
discuss now with cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joeg joey jackson. you re an accomplished attorney. would you ever represent yourself? i would not. good to be with you. good afternoon. i would hope there would not be a reason to but should that purpose arise, i think it s a mistake. a lawyer who represents themselves has a fool for the client. there s a reason for that. you need to really, when you re analyzing a case, not look at it from a personal point of view but look at the long view. and sometimes you can t do that when you re in the trenches really trying to fend for yourself. but i think that he is of the view that he can do it better, that he s a lawyer himself, that no one could represent himself better than he could. and, therefore, he s taking the chance. and i think the breakdown relates to being told what to do. listen, every lawyer, ana, does things differently. none of us have a monopoly on wisdom. i might want to approach a problem with respect to ge