that the attorney general william barr recused himself from the current prosecution because the firm he later joined had at one point been one of the firms involved in this defense. it seems as if he s going out of his way to recuse himself because he was not even a member of the firm at the time the firm was representing epstein if i have the chronology correct. you and i have talked a lot. there are many reasons to be concerned and suspicious of the attorney general s behavior and this was not one of them. this was the right call. what we want is when attorneys, they or their law firms have conflicts perceived or actual to step out. this was what sunk jeff sessions. i was going to say. doing the right thing and stepping out of a case. one more point, piggybacking on julie s point. let s not forget the senate confirmed acosta 60-38. a lot of people, all this
this country, if you were a person of color and those same charges were levied against you, think about where you would be today. and it s not just mr. epstein and it s how we dealt with the wall street bailout, wall street firms were billed billions. somehow or another, it ended up no ceo went to jail for their crimes which destroyed the american economy. this speaks to the need to have real criminal justice in this country. equal justice under the law, whether you re a billionaire or whether you re poor. at this stage, do you think he should resign or the president should fire him? there s a lot on the record already. i think so. look, i do think so. i mean, i think he should be asked to resign because of his role in the process with epstein. but above and beyond that, i find it amazing that trump talks about acosta being a great
show. sanders want to replace the current private insurance system with a national government-run insurance program. many of his fellow candidates also support some version of this idea. another signature issue was his plan to abolish tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities. sanders also wants to cut student loan rates in half and allow americans to refinance student loans at lower interest rates. he s also proposed paying for that by enacting a transaction tax on large wall street firms. sanders also wants to raise federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. that s more than double the current rate of $7.25. now, a number of states and cities have already approved a minimum wage increase with some as high or soon to be as high as $15 an hour, and many companies have given credit to bernie sanders s push for a higher minimum wage. sanders also wants into crease the number of americans subject to the estate tax. he s proposed a progressive tax structure for estates value
more rhetoric and feels like i m not so sure. do you think that she will work with wall street or is she going to go to war with wall street? first off, i have to say i went to the same high school as ocasio, cortez. i want to throw that out there. charles: 30 years ago. she is going toll will will will relationship with big wall street firms and banks. she is not going to go after them totally in a sort of broad sweeping way. she is going to pick her spot on stuff that matters politically. the two banks i hear crosshairs wells fargo for one and obvious reasons. california bank. she doesn t believe they served her district very well in minority and poor communities through lending and banking activities branch building in these communities. she represents as you know south central l.a. the other bank i hear that s in her crosshairs firmly and this may nit what she said about looking at
subpoena. he would have to do it or have to quit. michael avenatti your reaction to that? i hope everybody on the other side of this case has their big boy pants on, lawrence, because we re not going anywhere. that s my reaction to that. jonathan alter, rudy giuliani is describing what would have been perceived as obstruction of justice during the nixon era. yeah, i mean it s big boy pants on fire. you know, liar, liar pants on fire. he s pretty much everything that he s saying is at odds not only with what he used to be when he would take people out in handcuffs out of wall street firms when he was a prosecutor and signed off on many, many home invasions, as he calls it, by stormtroopers that happened to be working for him then. but when he starts to make an argument that it s only ten-year-old information that they were using, that they were somehow breaking the law by just engaging in normal law enforcement activities, totally