Is that there s just not a lot of people who can do that job. john bay nor couldn t do the job, paul ryan couldn t do the job. kevin mccarthy is going to try next. the larger issue is trying to govern a caucus that s ungovernable as we get the book, which is out tuesday. this is a party now which is just very difficult to contain, and trump obviously is a huge driver of that. there s also just such a difference between being house speaker, and being a powerful house speaker there s no telling right now whether he is for sure going to be able to continue you know, maintain the support that he seems to have now, become a house speaker eventually if republicans take the house. but there are real questions about what kind of power will he have as the leader of the conference. he s going to be potentially more be-holden to donald trump, than he has been in the past. he might also feel like he owes certain things to members of his own conference. and then i think, not to be, you
For eisenhower in the 1950s. we were still with the black both parties. the big turning point when harrison and bobby kennedy. and that one phone call sent a ripple effect through the black community to rally behind john f. kennedy meaning daddy king started turning for kennedy. many blacks were be holden of the rocket fella for supporting the colleges. so it was a two-party then john f. kennedy did the right thing at the show down of james meredith in 1952. kennedy did kind of green light the march on washington and met
Leave you be-holden to the giver and you don t want your president be-holden to a foreign government so the problem isn t that you used a foreign national to get this information and then paid them because you re not be-holden to them. you ve used them and used their service. the problem is when they give you something for free. then you feel in some way that you owe them something and they did it for a reason. they didn t do it because they thought it was, you know, it was just good government. they did it because they wanted to get in the good graces of president trump and also because they wanted him to win the election. they gave him an illegal foreign contribution and that s the bottom line. i ve got to run, frank, but oppo research, the new locker room talk. indeed. really simply one situation is a foreign government trying to put its thumb on the scale and the other situation is a contract with someone who happens to be a rn to not anything alike. does this mean there wi
Mueller, who is looking at a crime or counterintelligence. it s lying to the american people, it s being be-holden, the stuff of thrillers and the like. and most importantly, it s about congress complicity itself. we ve seen devin nunes and all of these people, you know, engaged in protection of the president for the last two years and all sorts of antics. i mean, they re acting kind of like, you know, a dog, with just what s in front of them and worrying only about that for the last two years. and now, everything has changed. so, there could be potential crimes congress uncovers, but a lot of potential lying and a lot of very damaging stuff to our national security. i mean, it is it does bear repeating. it s possible mueller has no more than what we have already seen. well, he may not have anymore criminal cases. the question of what kind of report he will file, how detailed it will be, what it will talk about, in addition to the cases he will file, is we don t we don t kno
This is a matter about the national security of the united states. there s two points i want to follow up on that. one is about the constitution and the founders. obviously you re somebody who studies the constitution and is arguing cases before the supreme court. the founders were obsessed with foreign dependence, of american officials not being dependent on foreigners, not being dependent on foreign interests. a guy who would later become president having his person calls up the president s office of russia, a hostile foreign power to basically say can you work something out for us? that is dependent on its face. absolutely. the founders put things like the emoluments clause in the constitution, federalist papers are all about this, the dangers of a president being be-holden to a foreign power. they cared about one other thing, popular accountability. look, sometimes every executive is going to have to do things that come up to the line. as long as it s disclosed to the people an