what is acceptable from a political candidate in one of america s two political parties when it comes to inciting threats of violence. an urgent plea today from manhattan district attorney alvin bragg to keep in place the gag order against trump. prosecutors asking judge juan merchan to extend much of the gag order imposed on the ex-president in that hush money election interference case. bragg s team argues that merchan no longer needs to enforce the ban on statements about trial witnesses, but they do ask that the gag order remain in place when it comes to jurors, prosecutors, court staff, and their families. they note that trump s request to lift the gag order is filled with what we on this program might describe as nonsense. quote, the people note that defendant s motion once again includes a number of categorically false accusations. for example, the defendant claims that the d.a. is acting in concert with the defendant s electoral opponent and unspecified cast of associ
we always talking about history? if you don t understand the present without talking about lift. the present is the product of the past. and we don t have any problem with that as it pertains to the things we think are virtuous about there country. if we talk about the roots of the constitution and the things the framers were concerned about or why there s a first and second amendment. what the 14th amendment means, all these things we think are the hallmarks of american democracy that can be proudly shown to the rest of the world. in that case, the past is perfect. we can always import that into the present. talking about the ugly legacy of this country, its foundational sin of exploiting africans and nearly exterminating the indigenous population that became the basis of what we call the oldest constitutional democracy in this country who remind ourselves democracy in this country is younger than the
talking about it in great detail. so i can t imagine a greater failure for a congress than to decide to protect it against the usurp participation of its power by the chief executive contemplated in the 1787 constitution that was concerned that a president with a monarch cal bent would do exactly what we re dealing with now and they re not even reading the facts to know about it. that s a shame and disgrace. i don t think there s any other way to put it. maya, the way we ve heard it from the white house as a showed is hey, because it s only going to be based on the mueller report, it is therefore a let down. is that true. that s what they hope. i think we heard from william barr he knows it s not true. that s why he wanted to pour cold water over it, call it a spectacle and also sort of signal to bob mueller hey, we got your back if you don t want to do this. the reality is, they all know as the rest of us do when robert