george h.w bush had 44 and reagan had 78. what is cig about this to you. it is the system working. this is the way the framers wanted the system to unfold. divid divid divided sovereignty. they re for sovereignty, it is a piece of reassurance that the structure works. there is fallout in the numbers because ronald reagan had 78 vetoes because he had the senate for six years and never had the
is drinking beer i m drinking beer too. femi: how can you say if he is drinking beer you are drinking beer? seun: i m a fan of femi: of him or of drinking beer? seun: no, of him. i m a fan of beer too, but if he s drinking beer, i m drinking beer. [ laughter ] anthony: you grew up in your dad s compound and i know at one point he wanted you to become an area boy. that he thought it would be good street cred. femi: that s to put it kind of mild. he just wanted me to be like from the streets. anthony: we ve been running into area boys constantly through this week and i kind of want to know how the structure works. femi: if you wanted to go for election for instance, you needed to see all the area boys. you have to give a lot of money for him to get all his gang members to vote for you. and if you do a good job in dealing with this you probably would win. anthony: that s not quite democracy though, is it? seun: no, it s not. nigeria is not really a
they re saying michael cohen is a hero and they re going to build a statue. not at all. cooperating witnesses are bad people. that s what we say as prosecutors all the time, they re cooperating for a reason, because they re criminals. that s where the jury system kicks in. juries will evaluate the cooperating witnesses and they ll see them and decide do i believe this person, does the other evidence back them up? if not, they acquit. but if they credit the cooperator, as we just saw largely in manafort, they ll convict. but that s the system. elsewhere in the interview he says the justice department, with justice in quotes, which is amazing itself. but all of us who have been federal prosecutors, the whole structure of how federal prosecutions work is based on the idea of working from the bottom up. of getting low-level people to cooperate against people above them and that s why federal law enforcement is so successful and we are we were i mean, i m not there anymore but that s
femi: so you drink beer? seun: i tell you if anthony is drinking beer i m drinking beer too. femi: how can you say if he is drinking beer you are drinking beer? seun: i m a fan of femi: of him or of drinking beer? seun: no, of him. i m a fan of beer too, but if he s drinking beer, i m drinking beer. [ laughter ] anthony: you grew up in your dad s compound and i know at one point he wanted you to become an area boy. that he thought it would be good street cred. femi: that s to put it kind of mild. he just wanted me to be like from the streets. anthony: we ve been running into area boys constantly through this week and i kind of want to know how the structure works. femi: if you wanted to go for election for instance, you needed to see all the area boys. you have to give a lot of money for him to get all his gang members to vote for you. and if you do a good job in
femi: so you drink beer? seun: i tell you if anthony is drinking beer i m drinking beer, too. femi: how can you say if he is drinking beer you are drinking beer? seun: i m a fan of femi: of him or of drinking beer? seun: no, of him. i m a fan of beer too, but if he s drinking beer, i m drinking beer. [ laughter ] anthony: you grew up in your dad s compound and i know at one point he wanted you to become an area boy. that he thought it would be good street cred. femi: that s to put it kind of mild. he just wanted me to be like from the streets. anthony: we ve been running into area boys constantly through this week and i kind of want to know how the structure works. femi: if you wanted to go for election for instance, you needed to see all the area boys. you have to give a lot of money for him to get all his gang members to vote for you. and if you do a good job in dealing with this you probably would win. anthony: that s not quite democracy though is it? seu