so if they fail to show up, the american people will know that he has something to hide and this process is so new and so overtly political as opposed to criminal that republicans will control it in its entirety. they won t let anything happene president. and i actually agree with barbara. high point is that chief justice roberts doesn t want to be in that position. it is not goabout whether peopld take an people directly to the supreme court in impeachment. it is that there are other cases parallel to this in which executive privilege and some of the other privileges that donald trump is asserting in a blanket way will come to the supreme court. he does not want to be in the position of saying here is my position on these questions that will come before us as a court. so let me go to another issue here in terms of what we ll see in this trial. because as people need to
aligned with president trump. typically prosecutors only put withouts on the stand where they have a shot at knowing what they are like i to say. they have been in the grand jury, the old adage of not asking a question to which you do not know the answer. if you put a witness up there that you ve never talked to before, it is very high risk. they could shade their testimony to protect their interests. so we ve put joyce here in the middle and we ll make you decide who is right on this. what is your ruling. could the chief justice of the supreme court rule on the bench? because it is i m not sure that i ve ever heard impeachment trials being appealable to the supreme court. but could he be in a position to say if mulvaney is called, if bolton is called, they got to show up? you know, i think both barb
testimony of bolton, mulvaney and others because he could literally rule on the bench in the senate hearing. that is a fascinating outcome. does it possible? no. i mean, it is fascinating by the way, not that theoretically you couldn t imagine a possibility. so not to denigrate the argument. it is just not realistic in any way. and here is one reason. it suggests that a sitting supreme court justice, in this case the chief justice, is essentially signaling to the land how the supreme court would rule on these types of evidentiary questions that it has not yet ruled on and with cases coming up through the pine line. i don t see the chief justice essentially saying here is my position, i ll give to you in this impeachment hearing.
mccormick, mulvaney, and his senior adviser rob blair. ambassador taylor, ambassador volker, a lot of senior officials, everyone was in the loop. and that sounds like a witness list. and the question is whether or not the house will try to call these witnesses who seem like the logical people about to want to talk to next. right? and they will all probably say no. but here is an interesting piece. there is a way that in the actual impeachment trial in the senate there might be a way to get them to talk. and it says here if the house were to go to the district court, any ruling would eventually be appealed to the stre supreme court. but chief justice roberts would preside over the impeachment hearing. he d be the judge. he could in theory make rulings there on the bench on the evidence and the power of the senate to compel systtestimony essentially moving directly to impeachment the house would get its best chance ever winning the
will there has been a supreme court ruling that found an individual s right to bear arms in the constitution, something that scholars had wondered about almost since the beginning of the bill of rights. where do you see this debate going and being a practical person what kinds of changes will your group and groups like yours lobby for? we re looking for common sense steps in the middle. the stre supreme court said that right was not unlimited and could you have restrictions on who gets guns, how they re cared aried a what types of guns those are. so in the middle a what we re working for. we ought to immediately do the restrictions on high capacity clips and i would hope that fellow republicans i m a republican. republicans need step up to the plate. this is a law and order issue.