obama s health care law? with multiple cases winding their way through the appeals court, the supreme court could be asked whether the law is constitutional and if that happens, some members of congress, democrats, say that justice clarence thomas, shouldn t be involved because of his wife s political activities. dozens of house democrats sent a letter to justice thomas asking him to recuse himself if the health care law ends up on the docket. his wife, virginia, is a conservative lobbyist and tea party supporter who has ties to groups that have spoken out against the health care law. should justice thomas recuse himself? i spoke with jeffrey toobin and new york congressman democrat anthony wiener. congressman, justice thomas wife is a well-known conservative political activist in washington. no one should be surprised she s opposed to health care law. why are you calling for justice thomas to recuse himself if a case challenging the law reaches the supreme court? primarily because
in libya, what you are seeing is picture, chanting youturn has come, enough, enough. two states on opposite ends of the arab world, one a u.s. alley, the other an adversary, both with blood on the streets. what you re seeing tonight isn t what it seems to be or isn t happening at all. we have video, reporting and voices from the region. bahrain, of course, is a u.s. ally in the persian gulf, home to the u.s. navy s fifth fleet. the kingdom is claiming their crackdown overnight was a justified police action, not a deadly ambush. we always use force that is proportional, the force was proportional. the minimum possible tear gas was used to be effective enough to disburse the people.
two states on opposite ends of the arab world, one a u.s. alley, the other an adversary, both with blood on the streets. what you re seeing tonight isn t what it seems to be or isn t happening at all. we have video, reporting and voices from the region. bahrain, of course, is a u.s. ally in the persian gulf, home to the u.s. navy s fifth fleet. the kingdom is claiming their crackdown overnight was a justified police action, not a deadly ambush. we always use force that is proportional, the force was proportional. the minimum possible tear gas was used to be effective enough to disburse the people. that s bahrain s special enjoy to the u.s. tonight on the situation room. his government claiming protestors in pearl square were
here is the context for this unusually political list of names for what is a nonpartisan post. tonight isn t just the end of another chaotic week in the presidency of donald trump. tonight the chaos over trump s leadership style is eclipsed by abcs that are actually testing the rule of law. that s a reportable fact that this president is testing the rule of law. largely because of president trump s own statements. there is a fundamental concept in court called an admission against interest, a statement that is automatically considered more likely to be true because the person making the statement is incriminating himself. the idea in the rules of evidence is that people spin to try to look good. but if they cough up something bad about themselves, believe them. it s probably true. and in the three days since trump fired comey, which is of course the first time in history an fbi director has been fired without any internal finding of wrongdoing, don t forget that,
post. tonight isn t just the end of another chaotic week in the presidency of donald trump. tonight the chaos over trump s leadership style is eclipsed by abcs that are actually testing the rule of law. that s a reportable fact that this president is testing the rule of law. largely because of president trump s own statements. there is a fundamental concept in court called an admission against interest, a statement that is automatically considered more likely to be true because the person making the statement is incriminating himself. the idea in the rules of evidence is that people spin to try to look good. but if they cough up something bad about themselves, believe them. it s probably true. and in the three days since trump fired comey, which is of course the first time in history an fbi director has been fired without any internal finding of wrongdoing, don t forget that, in those days trump has made four key admissions against