late, bill barr, for you to think about your place in history. it is irrevokably tarnished. the cover-up general was his nickname that william sapphire gave him back in the 90s. i think it still applies. i want you to listen to senator mitt romney because there s a thing that s happening among at least some senate republicans. i wonders if it s happening among house republicans where they are doing some reputation laundry. here s mitt romney on cnn about the big lie, talking about the big lie. i do think it s important for each person to speak the truth and to make clear that the big lie is exactly that. this is a bit like wwf, that it s entertaining, but it s not real. i think people recognize that it s a lot of show and bombast but it s going nowhere. that would sound good if he even voted to discuss the for the people act but he voted with all the republicans to bar even
i was wondering at the time where that institutionalist line was coming from, because all you had to do was read the 19-page letter that barr had written to recognize that this was someone who did not belong at the helm of the justice department. where he is now is even a step further of that expansive view of executive power. now he really is out in ethos in space where no other attorney general has gone. we re having to deal with the reality of the policy changes he s making, the abrupt about-faces he s making in supreme court litigation in the here and now. and nothing will change that. or the institutionalists could have just looked at his history. he was called the cover-up general by william sapphire, who is as far right as you could get. the cruelty is not only the point. it seems to be the policy. elie, we now have essentially no civil rights division in the
the second half of his presidency. but we won t know that for sure until we go through the two years. we have a glimpse into how things are going to look on january the 1st, 2020, from david ignatius who wrote about it yesterday. david, look into your crystal ball as you did in the op-ed and tell us what january 1st, 2020, may look like. one of my mentors, william sapphire who passed away at the end of 2009 every year he would do an office pool and he would throw in tidbits of gossip and speculation and i decided i would revive that this year. i had eight questions i put to people and some of them were fanciful and i through around is joe biden going the ask jay johnson to be his running mate
different voices. people forget we hired william sapphire who was richard nixon s speech writer, and didn t we learn from this past election that our goal should be to understand different views? didn t we learn from this past election that our goal should be to surface true debates about the biggest issues? is there anything worse than to squash those kinds of debates? brett, even though he doesn t work for me, is a fine writer who is surfacing important issues, and i think our job as journalists is to surface those issues. from my end, i have ten people devoted to climate change. we ve done the most aggressive work on climate change there is. we ve traveled all over the world but you don t think he undercuts your own reporters? i don t, i don t. i don t at all. first off, he lives on the other side of the house, but secondly, don t we want to surface all ideas? don t we want have we gotten to the point as a country when
wanting to fight for the rights of somebody wanting to come in? we re taking a close look at that. we have no precedent for what mr. trump is doing right now. dan stein, final word? they have to that s a lot of n s. you worked hard on that. so is spiro agney. under the constitution, on question of authority i don t know what authority mr. stein wouldn t give the president on immigration. i ve been studying immigration policy for 40 years. there s no standing. dan stein, agney said it. who wrote it for him? william sapphire. thank you very much to both of you guys. this will continue when you see what happens when it goes to court, we ll bring you back on. thank you, alison. no nattering of negativity