includes our courts, our supervision agencies, grand juries, united states attorneys. again, because we are in the district we are a little different. our court system is not under the purview of the d.c. mayor or accountable to the voters of the district of columbia. it, too, is federal. and we need that system up, in person, and running. all right. and i might add, when we spoke earlier in this interview about statehood you had on the voting rights march, statehood is certainly a central issue. thank you, al. thank you mayor bowser for abouting with us. coming up on politics nation, coronavirus cases are climbing as vaccination rates are flatlining. this is unacceptable. so i am going to tell you how to rise up and fight the pandemic.
he appoints, but we have set this system up, so the attorney general should not be taking direct directions from the president. he should operate that s not america, charles. that is america. what are you talking about? that s a banana republic, where somebody no, it s a banana republic when the president tells tells his own guy? aren t the people in charge? the attorney general works at the pleasure of the president. but the president works at the pleasure of the people. . right, and we had an election and he won. and when they were done, they said, here s your manual. you get to apoint thpoint this this guy, this guy, and this guy. your understanding is that the doj is the president s personal lawyers? no, thabs not what the constitution says. exactly. it says the executive branch enforces the law and the attorney general in the institution is appointed at th pleasure appointed. that doesn t mean he s taking daily orders from the president.
the soldiers on the ground are always going to cooperate like this, and there are syrian special forces, and the special forces who are the critical people protecting the assad regime working with the forces, and the combat search and rescue mission with the helicopter that was destroyed by syrian rebels. that is the important point. that also was destroyed the picture that you showed aom ago, ashleigh, was a u.s. toe missile, and accurate 3,000 meters. and when i saw the video yesterday, i was surprised, because it takes a long time to set that system up, and it is a lucky shot that the helicopter land and shutdown in an area where they could be engaged by that t.o.e. missile, but what you will be seeing is that there is already a coordination of the syrian army under mr. assad and
today i think it s fair to say that the elected officials in south dakota have overwhelmingly indicated that we remain supportive of traditional marriage but we have to respect the rule of law. and part of that respect is to make sure in following that rule of law that we nut place the ability for both the recognition and the licensing of same-sex couples. are you getting reaction from those doing the licensing? i ve talked to a couple register of deeds. we ve only had a handful of requests. to my knowledge we ve had less than half a dozen. traditional marriage again, particularly in the midwest is something that is very important, that is embedded in several of our state constitutions so we have not really experienced what other areas in the united states are experiencing. given that though we have a system up in place and we are issuing marriage licenses. and attorney general jackly, what is your reaction to
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