typical witness tampering, trying to influence a witness. there s a different subsection that tedeals with obstruction oa proceeding. that s good context. when you see that you immediately think there s some kind of mob-related. the espionage act isn t always about spying. witness tampering isn t always what you think. there were several legal developments in the president s world yesterday, including ruling the manhattan district attorney s case involving hush money payments to the adult film star stormy daniels, what does that say? we remember alvin bragg, we have a trial date in march. he has indicted donald trump for those hush money payments to stormy daniels. donald trump made an interesting motion. he wanted to walk his case from state court over to the federal court where i used to work. why would you want to make that move if you were donald trump? you would get a different judge. you could have a more favorable jury pool because in federal
weeks. bill taylor told us president trump established an irregular channel process through rudy giuliani and other witnesses told us russia, not ukraine, russia interfered in the 2016 election. heard if from fiona hill and others. several told us this was a quid pro quo. volker, direct quid pro quo by text and the famous phone call july 256th holmes overheard when trump asked about the ukrainian investigations and finally we learned from fiona hill that what donald trump was having all of these people do was what she determined memorably a domestic political around. not in the best interests of the united states. article 2 tedeals with obstructn
years. now, stepping in to help the families of the fallen. what is happening is the pentagon is entering into a contract, a business contract, with the fisher house. the fisher house has stepped forward and said it will pay the funeral expenses, the $100,000 death gratuity benefit, anything the families of the fallen are not getting due to the shutdown. the fisher house will pay under this contract, and the pentagon, the department of defense, once the government opens up, will reimburse them. this is the fix that the white house press secretary jay carney was talking about. what i am also told by a senior official is that now the pentagon feels it s got the fix. it no longer is interested, they say, in having any congressional language to fix the problem. so this is absolutely extraordinary. a number of organizations have come forward. fisher house is one that the military tedeals with all the
won t go into effect sxwoent be enforced. pennsylvania may do the same thing next week. there s interesting polling out there. washington post asked the question should voighter i.d. be required at the polls? 74% said yes. a couple other polls out of pennsylvania showed people in that state supported voter i.d. laws. so how do you jive all of that or gel that with what you re hearing from activists to what people say in the polling? it s spridzing. even on these polls democrat support the edeals. the general idea it seems logical when you re asked in the poll should someone have an i.d. to vote. the answer is yes, in the same way to get on a plane. when you break down the numbers, african-americans and elderly people both black and white and other races as well tend not to have driver s license in a lot of states. you end up finding the people having the hardest time being