and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs free from political influence, and we will not back down from defending democracy. attorney general merrick garland facing a republican party hell bent on doing everything it can to push conspiracy theories and attack the rule of law in the wake of donald trump s felony conviction in new york. plus, president biden making bold and controversial moves today on immigration and on his rhetoric towards israel. but we begin tonight with the rule of law. in our democrat, system it is the principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are supposed to be accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated. in a perfect world, the idea is to protect the rights of all people in our society. it hasn t always worked out perfectly, to say the least, in this country s long and difficult history, but that is the idea. donald trump and his maga
Be the youngest president since napoleon. He was voting in his hometown, rather nice seaside town. He wants to shake up french politics. He wants to bring together he says a Coalition Of The Willing which he said would be able to reform france. And he wants an open facing france at the centre of a much more deeply integrated European Union. He is the favourite but he is up union. He is the favourite but he is up againsta union. He is the favourite but he is up against a woman who needs very little introduction, Marine Le Pen of the Front National, the self proclaimed champion of the forgotten. She was voting in the north where she has been a regional councillor. She has a very different vision. She would restore the borders of france. She would limit immigration, she would bring back the frank, she would give the french people a membership on their European Union membership and she tells people at the rallies that she is the only defender of french workers and french factories against
promises and voted for him. i m thinking about the young latinos in arizona, in nevada, over 10 million u.s. citizens that are part of mixed status families, the dreamers that organized for president biden, perhaps it s a small number, but that s a critical part of that coalition. speaking of that, i m glad you mentioned dreamers. jennifer, let s go back to june of 2012. because president obama, and i believe you were working for him at the time, also faced an immigration crisis that the right was literally dredging up these fears of, you know, border crossings, these fears of caravans. they did all of that at the time, and actually, president obama had initially also gone to the right. deporting people to the point where a lot of latinos were calling him deporter in chief. saying, obama, don t deport my mama. all that stuff. he responded in june with daca, an executive order just like president biden did, but an executive order in the other direction, which created the dreamers, whi
expansion of nato, i mean the sanctions destroying their economy, the freezing of the central bank assets, i mean the amount of punishment that the americans and our allies have leveled against putin after he decided to wage this illegal war has been staggering. and in the context of that, the fact that they have viktor bout to deal some weapons, at a time that the russians don t have enough weapons for their own soldiers, i think that s water under the bridge. i think the important thing is what is happening to russia. let me say this. viktor bout served 15 years, or was in prison, and held in custody for 15 years, which is more than half of his official sentence. the sentence didn t start until 2012. because vapz so needed a win, so needed some propaganda for his own sign, for the things that you mentioned and were not going his way, i wonder if we could have held out for more, and had
trump deciding to celebrate america. even if you disagree with president trump. this should be a day we should all come together. mike: do you think kids on the national mall watching it up close or even watching on fox news may decide hey, i want to be part of that? i want to be part of that american military? i sure hope so. i felt regret for not doing it myself. especially watching the b2 and the other planes flying over. it was incredible thing to witness. and the angels and the streams they left in the sky. every american watched that and she made a great point here which is it is sad to even see it politicized. mike: to political news of the day. congressman justin amash is leaving the republican party and the only g.o.p. member to call for the impeachment proceedings. reaction? well, you know, i don t know what the breaking news is. political parties have been amiss for a while. i left the democrat party in 2012. because of this. this is the reason why trump was able to