decades now. it s a bipartisan one where supreme court nominees get up and say this precedent or that precedent is settled law. they say it s a precedent of the court that is not a particularly meaningful thing to say because the supreme court overrules its precedents all the time. this is not a court, unlike the lower courts that doesn t have the ability to do that. so it seems perfectly legitimate, it seems perfectly fair for senators to ask and demand that potential supreme court nominees say where they stand on a precedent because they re going to have the opportunity to overrule that democrats have shifted their strategy from initially trying to point out that this goes against majority leader mcconnell s statement of norms and traditions and that sort of thing. wait until after the election. they have shifted their strategy to ukhtaing about the merits, what a conservative majority on the supreme court will do to progressive values like abortion rights, like voting rights, like p
agreement, and it s somewhat unclear as to exactly what the parameters are. did they just pertain to the documents or a broader defense agreement. the reason why that s important and this agreement is important it is means they are sharing attorney-client privilege information, their strategy. they re working together. in they don t have something like that, and they break with something like that, that means that however is breaking it is going off on their own route, and that almost always means cooperation. the bottom line, ali, there are a number of different signs that michael cohen is considering cooperating. and in my experience, when someone gets in the head space where cooperation is something that they re thinking about, they usually cooperate. the people who don t cooperate are the ones who are determined not to from the get-go. and we re not seeing that with michael cohen. so i would expect that at some point in the relatively near future, the prosecutors have to
president, who was his self-described fixer, who is the one who knows figuratively where all the bodies are buried and has a potentially great deal about the president that people might be interested in. we ve already seen the white house now and the president for the last couple of weeks really taking steps to try to distance themselves from michael cohen. it s a strategy that we ve seen the president use repeatedly including with paul manafort, for instance, saying we did a little bit of my legal work. but you know this is something that the president is talking about. it was only a few weeks ago or a few months ago now where the president even tweeted about michael cohen. there was some talk about whether there was concern whether he might decide to flip on the president, decide to work with the fbi as it looks like he might be signaling that he is interested in doing, and you the president saying, no i don t think he s that kind of guy. i don t think it s going to happen. we ll see
giving out some information was they were waiting for some of these court cases to go through with the parents. they can no longer do that. court cases generally take longer than two to four weeks. they re going to have to speed that up or make other accommodations. i don t think they don t want to deal with that. some democrats including kirsten gillibrand of new york are calling for the disbanding or abolishing of i.c.e. on thursday she tweeted i believe we need to protect families who need help, and i.c.e. didn t doing that. it has become a deportation force. well need to separate immigration issues from criminal justice. we need the abolish i.c.e. and start over and build something that actually works. good strategy orris ski strategy for democrats? well, i ve heard some democrats say obviously more democrats are doing that than they were before, supporting this. but have i heard some democrats say that it is risky, because it takes the emphasis and the focus off the presiden
policies are inhumane. that sort of takes it off. and the reason you say takes it off is because i.c.e. isn t sort of central to the discussion for a lot of americans right now, the separation of children at the border, the detention of people, that. exactly. we saw those pictures of tent cities going up and detention facilities and children, and we heard the sounds of screaming children. and some people are worried that if you start talking about this sort of bureaucratic agency, that you sort of take things away from the president. i will say the other thing about this is that i.c.e. actually does two things. it does deal a lot with deportation, no doubt about it. but it also deals with trafficking and smuggling. so i think there is going to be a lot of people bhooem are gowho hesitate on that. actual crimes that need to be addressed in the country. and so the republicans and the president can easily say well, wait, you re going to be soft on crime new on this issue? so that s ki