and imagine if after all the slavish loyalty to donald trump and all of the red and pink starbusts kevin mccarthy does not become speaker of the house. tonight, we re going to imagine what a sorry state of affairs it would be if he does. we begin tonight with me. in this chair. yes, i am back and very grateful to my dear friends jason johnson and tiffany cross for holding down the bridge of the reidout enterprise for two whole weeks. two weeks i flew away for my writing retreat, and it turns out i can t leave you alone for one day let alone two weeks without all hell breaking lose. there was the fbi searching mar-a-lago on day one, polio in new york on like day three. i mean, apparently, i need to stay here to keep y all out of trouble. real talk, now that i m here and all caught up, i have questions. because it is not, shall we say, normal for a president of the united states to pack up boxes of classified top secret material and ferry them off to his private residence. th
president obama left office in 2017. the agency said that about 30 million pages of unclassified records went to a national archives facility in the chicago area. classified obama presidential records are in a facility in the d.c. area. which leads to this building. this is the future home of the obama presidential library in chicago, illinois. there will be lots of exhibits in this gorgeous building, historic images of our first black first family, plenty on obamacare, aka, the affordable care act, aka a bfd, and displays on daca and on the day our troops got osama bin laden, that kind of thing. you know what won t be in there? classified materials. ditto on the libraries for lyndon johnson and the reagan and bush libraries and the carter library. can i show you this book? you see this book? it s a big thick book, so heavy you could probably hurt a man with this book. this is president obama s memoir. he wrote this humongous book. probably like an army of researchers who could go thro
it sounded like that s what he was trying to do. this whole argument is wildly misleading and i m being polite, the way i m phrasing that. let me explain. in every federal criminal case, the judge has to calculate the sentencing guidelines. it is a big thick book. you have to run the numbers. and then it says here s the sentencing range. it is not mandatory but the judge has to consult it. reality is across the country there is a broad consensus, democrat, republican, liberal, conservative, it tends to be too high in possessory child pornography cases and judges sentence below that recommended range. and we saw that judge jackson in some but not all cases did that. and i think her answer was right on point. she said my job in every case is to consider the case that congress, you all have told me to consider and then to give a just sentence. we know josh hawley will come
in a way the two halves don t quite match up. but it s ambitious and guillermo del toro does hang over like a shadow. you look at this and you think, this is produced by the guy who made the devil s backbone and who made the shape of water and pan s labyrinth. this isn t as good as any of those but it is interesting. do people go and see herjust because it s halloween do you think? absolutely. yes, because everyone likes a good scare. of course they do. best out at the moment? dune. have you seen dune? no, i tried to read the book which is a very big, thick book from 1965? yes. so here s what they ve done, they cut it in half. this is dune part i, not knowing whether they be able to make part two. as of tuesday part two is definitely happening. when you consider how many people have been defeated by the novel of dune, i think they ve done a terrificjob.