will they be indifferent about authorities seeking to recover classified materials? that s today s poll question, which i ll share in a moment. it may depend upon responses by trump s gop opponents. most weren t quick to weigh in before the indictment was unsealed. ron desantis tweeted, the weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a threat to a free society. mike pence used the same word while calling for the unsealing of the indictment. the american people should be able to judge for themselves whether this is just the latest incident of weaponization and politicization at the justice department, or if it s something different, he said. ditto for tim scott on the weaponization charge. the committing to pardon trump immediately upon his own swearing in. chris christie kept his powder dry initially saying we don t get our news from truth social, trump s account. let s see what the facts are when an indictment is released. asa hutchinson called for trump to withdraw
jean carroll rape and defamation cape. the judge denied it and carroll is back on the stand. tacopina is trying to cast doubt on carroll s motivation. you received lots of love from this trial, people planning watch parties of your case, he said. yes, she said. you wanted more publicity when you book came out. yes, she said, my book wasn t selling. you went back to bergdorf goodman, at least 23 times after you say donald trump raped you, he said, you weren t concerned to go back? no, she said. i ve made that clear that bergdorfs is not a place that i m afraid to enter. you posted a facebook poll in 2012 asking would you have sex with trump for $17,000 if you could give the money to charity or close your eyes and he s not allowed to speak. you joked about having sex with trump for money, you said. yes, she said. in your advice column, you told me who said they were assaulted to go to the police, he said, you didn t go to the police, he said. i didn t call the police after do
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the blame for not raising the debt ceiling or holding it hostage. has it been a president or has it been the members of congress who refused to pass the legislation. remember, it has never happened that the debt ceiling has not ultimately been raised. this tends to be one of the crises we raise right up to the brink, and somebody blinks and it changes. i think the blame depending on where you sit. and in the last major battle over this during the obama administration, i think there s a lot of consternation about the way that republicans handled this. there was this sort of complex negotiations to try to reach a grand bargain, kind of addressing debt and spending and other issues all in one big piece of legislation that fell apart. but, again, this is a political war shack test where each side sees the other as being cynical and holding the country hostage to try to lower spending or if you re a republican, you see democrats as being unreasonable and not willing to use a tool that exi
house, but on the senate floor in a trial format. peter, jake just invoked your name. said you ve written a book on impeachment. kickoff e covered the impeachment of bill clinton. how much though is past president when it comes to donald trump? you wrote he s the the guide post by which people choose their story line. most tell poll stores they don t believe what he said, but a significant minority considers him a truther saying what others won t about a broken system he vows to fix. so donald trump is the war shack test. on, in when impeachment gets brought into it, how do the cards fall? not to mix metaphors. all right. this is the big difference between this impeachment and 20 years ago.