but one thing we ll try to him about is something i haven t discussed in a full segment on this program but i have suggested from time to time, that i do not see, given that presidents of the united states get lifetime secret service protection, i have not been able to see how a president, former president, can be sentenced to prison. that means a dozen secret service agents. you ve seen how many secret service agents go to court with him. how many have to go to prison with him? how do you do that? in what prison? how is that supposed to work? i have just as i think about it i have thought i thought it to be impossible. eric holder thinks it s possible. as attorney general used to be in charge of the bureau of prisons so finally we have someone who knows more about this than i do, which is pretty easy to find. those are some logistics i would like to hear about, lawrence, so i will be tuning in. finally we re gonna have that discussion. i m eager to do. it at long last.
impossible. eric holder thinks it s possible. as attorney general, he used to be in charge of the bureau of prisons. so finally we have someone who knows more about this than i do, which is pretty easy to find. those are some logistics i would like to hear about, lawrence, so i will be tuning in. finally, we re gonna have that discussion. i m eager to do it. at long last. i will stay tuned. thank you. this day began with the announcement of the emmy nominations, honoring some, but not all, of the very best work done on television in the last year, which makes it a fitting day to consider how much damage television has done in some of the places where we are allowed to point our cameras. i am speaking, of course, about what television has done to the congressional hearing as we approach the 70th year of television coverage of congressional hearings. this hearing has turned into absolute chaos. that happened at 11:39 a.m. today, 69 years after the first televised co
if i am correct in that. yes. by unanimous voice vote. and you are the nominated by republican president donald trump to the fbi director, and again, confirmed by the republican senate for that position. yes, i think they re only five votes against me, and they were all from democrats. can you describe how the search was executed? well, we had the case team follow it s standard procedure. it has sometimes been described as a swat operation. it was not. there was no swat involvement. but beyond that i think i want to be really careful with getting too far into the details now that this case is not only the hands of special counsel but more importantly, in my view, in front of the court. and i learned a long time ago as a line prosecutor and defense lawyer to respect the court process. we re particulars were steps taken to ensure the execution of the search warrant did not
there clearly need to be hearings to determine exactly what has happened here with regard to clarence thomas, with regard to justice alito. there s a need for a code of ethics, which the court for some reasons used to be opposing. i think we need to also think about other kinds of reforms in the court. the supreme court has the lowest approval rating it has ever had and it is not only the function of decisions that they have made their unpopular, it s also because people are losing faith in the court based on the conduct of the justices. i would hope that the people on the judiciary committee in the senate will conduct appropriate hearings, call the witnesses who need to be called, subpoena them if necessary. and lay out for the american people what has happened here so that we can make a better case for that code of ethics. but beyond the systemic reforms, i think we also have to learn
supreme court had confirmation hearings. confirmation hearings were not a thing until television made them a thing. as the televised hearing for supreme court justices aged, it became ever more absurd. a television show that was never a good turned awful and pointless. senate confirmation hearings for supreme supreme court justices are not in pursuit of a truth or examination of the fine points of legal scholarship. they exist entirely because of television. television invented the senate confirmation hearing for supreme court justices, and we are not the better for it. 58 years after joe mccarthy died, a republican politician created by television, who was every bit as stupid as joe mccarthy and is reckless, came along to blow on the embers of