obviously, he was reprimanded strongly by his former boss, president trump, for writing in a book that donald trump had tested positive for covid before that debate and then attended an event for a supreme court justice, for gold star families, a rally for his supporters, and backed away from giving this deposition. the committee says if you don t want to talk about the stuff you claim has executive privilege, we have a whole bunch of other questions that land outside of that. come talk about that. yet, he still won t show up. yeah. it s tough to do justice to how bizarre this whole thing is. mark meadows is willing to incur legal costs, potentially significant legal costs, to not talk about stuff that he put in his own book. it doesn t really make sense, except for the fact that mark meadows feels a compulsion to be nice to donald trump. i read the book. i did. how d that go? and did trump do a blurb for it?
the department of justice, the committee does and the doj does if he doesn t show up, right? yes, but then what the courts do. something is going to happen. i ll tell you what it is. bannon won t show up, and barb s 100% right about the law, it does belong to the sitting president but the point is are they able to roll the same slow game that they did with the impeachment. bannon is a very good example. he has a very weak claim, as you say, it s been years since he was even in the department. if he goes to court, we have this terrible disconnect between the natural time line of a case, 18 months to two years, and the natural time line of an investigation. so what matters now are not the few days of the claim but if they can get away with slow rolling it in the courts. that s the question. what i was saying before about clark is he has less reason to do it, more incentive, maybe, to come forward, but the issue is not who has privilege. the issue is can they get into a
federal government is unwilling or unable to act. then the states are just going to have to step up. steve: is he going to send members of the florida highway patrol. florida law enforcement. wild wife. sheriff county brevard county, escambia, hillsborough, holmes, oak loose is a, pass co, santa rosa and walton county. they are awful going to send law enforcement a thousand miles to the west to help secure their border. ainsley: very nice to help them another state it helps our entire country. these immigrants are being ships to over other state. increase of fentanyl that the at the border enough to kill 21 million americans. brian: let s see what they will have the jurisdiction to do. it is the federal government s job. what embarrassment it is to have a vice president in charge and won t show up. henry cuellar wrote a letter
backlash. but they do have to be concerned that people won t show up. it s almost like what happened to hilary clinton in 2016. her the die-hard democrats did not show up. they had issues with her. for whatever reason, they just decided to sit this one out. donald trump has to be petrified of that. steven, what do you think? does he have a reason to be petrified? do you think there s anything that could cause evangelicals to leave this president? no. you and susan have seen the same polls i have. evangelicals are happy with trump to the tune of about 90%. but i think what all people, all evangelicals, all of us who analyze political trends, and certainly the president ought to pay attention to is that there is a generational issue going on here. even though mr. galley, the editor of christianity today is older and, in fact, retiring in january. i listened to the podcast of christianity today and the voices are younger. the reporters are younger. and as we all know, millennial
schiff is not he is not an asset for pelosi. but he is in charge of the committee. the goal for democrats is to move it off of to get it out of behind closed doors, get these hearings going that we ll see here in the next couple of weeks. biggest advantage that pelosi has going for her, the republicans can t get a talking point of their own. mick mulvaney was closest to having one for them get over it. it is not impeachable. moving on they are still fighting over it is it perfect or not. what s the definition of perfection? the republicans need to figure out what they re going to say. bill: ken starr was with sandra 45 minutes ago. the witnesses today won t show up. here is ken starr. the drama will move down the street to the federal courthouse. judges will probably become involved now in terms of the enforcement.