i m sure you ve heard the complaints from senator chris murphy who said he was not given ample time to read think it. why do you think he said that? i think we had the exact equal amount of time. i spend my five hours early in the day. by 6:00 that evening, i was completely satisfied, and by the way susan collins was in the room foe almost all of those five hours as well. sir, what about judge kavanaugh s temperament, that when we all saw a week ago on thursday. he wrote the op-ed in wall street journal, quite an extraordinary thing to have done. he admitted that he said some things he should not have said, but he has been exposed. you ve heard the phrase you can t put the toothpaste back in the tube. he says he can be impartial, but introducing and blaming the clintons for his plight, don t you so that big explicitly
justice. they don t seem to be interested in the defense of the united states when it comes to russian influence and information warfare operations. and the only thing that can spell out is that they are in conspiracy with them and they re using every tool of power. they re masters of the universe attitude to make it so that they will not be investigated. which of course could lead to the fall of this government. and that s what s mind blowing. you can t put the toothpaste back in the tube. president trump is the president. how about an investigate and go after russia. i don t actually think president trump s base would mind. malcolm, thank you so much for your thoughts. and scott, again, this is some piece. i recommend everyone get out there and read it. we got to move on now and talk about the storm. clean-up is under way in north carolina. as thousands of residents are now returning to their home. of course, that were pummeled by hurricane florence in the days of post-storm floodi
moment, to use a watergate analogy. is it the moment when john dean testified against nixon before the senate watergate committee or when alexander butterfield revealed the tapes? it will be a while before we know that. but what we do know is that the horse is out of the barn. it is much, much harder to mix a metaphor for donald trump to get that toothpaste back in the tube now. in other words, for him to pardon paul manafort or for him to fire bob mueller is not going to end this investigation. you now have state and local authorities who can bring a case, and they can test even whether they can indict a president in the supreme court. the supreme court has never ruled on that. this could end with manhattan d.a. indicting the president and then having that tested in the supreme court. there is a lot of different ways for this to go. what we do know is that it is
beast and harry lipman is back with us. put this week in historical perspective for us, both the history of the trump presidency and what we know about presidencies that have turned that corner as this one did this week into the discussion of impeachment. well, we don t know that this is definitely an inflection point. that s something that you have to have some historical context and perspective to know, is this a saturday night massacre moment, to use a watergate analogy. is it the moment when john dean testified against nixon before the senate watergate committee or when alexander butterfield revealed the tapes? it will be a while before we know that. but what we do know is that the horse is out of the barn. it is much, much harder to mix a metaphor for donald trump to get that toothpaste back in the tube now. in other words, for him to pardon paul manafort or for him
point in part because the defense made a big deal about the fact that, in effect, paul manafort was selectively prosecuted by the office of special counsel. that this is not the type of case that you would ordinarily see, but for the fact that the office of special counsel was really going after manafort as trump s campaign chairman. that argument was precluded by the judge. in somewhat of a surprise to me, as i sat in there listening to it, thinking to myself as a former prosecutor, object, object, object, the prosecutor did not object to it but, rather, raised the issue after the argument. that allowed the defense to make that whole argument. the judge then issued a curative instruction to say, you should not consider the motives of the prosecution. of course, it is very hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube once it is out. that may have an impact. we really don t know too much about these jurors. the only thing i know from talking to defense counsel is that they are quite happ