on donald trump s verdict. exclusive reporting on how u.s. officials are bracing for north korea to drop and october surprise, possibly at the urging of vladimir putin. two the day after the verdict of donald trump s trial, president biden weighed in and no one was above the law was reaffirmed. that democratic doctrine that the law applies to everyone withstood the first criminal trial of an american president. the days that followed the closing, experts are opined. the system did work. and also according to donald trump, ordered it rigged while leaving the courthouse on thursday in a rambling 33 minute press conference at the trump tower. in a statement, elise stafanik said that today s verdict shows how corrupt and rigged the american justice system has become under joe biden. june jordan called the verdict a try just the charges see. it s easy to dismiss these comments, attempts to delegitimize the jury s decision. it has taken a body blow by donald trump and his syc
mandamus. it s what took place in marbury versus madison. you basically go to the court and say there is a federal officer, a supreme court justice, who is refusing to follow the law. ordering the federal officer to follow the law. this was the and order from the seven justices to alito and thomas to recuse themselves for obvious reasons for the court has said in the williams case, the caperton case, it is an objective test, not subjective. a test whether alito or thomas feels they can be impartial. the question, what a reasonable person would consider looks partial or impartial. if you have a justice who has been likened by chief justice roberts to an umpire, essentially flying the flag to
a precedent. i understand the point you re making about because you do know that since then, both north carolina was found to have targeted minority votes with, quote, surgical precision, which is pretty rough phrase. and texas got after it so frequently that a federal court finally said, look, we think there s a penchant for discrimination here. so if you have got the five judges saying that it s over in these states and then it turns out it really isn t over, that there s actually still surgical precision targeted of minority voters and there s a penchant for discrimination in the texas state government, that ought to be something that might cause some reconsideration of the shelby holding, oughtant it? so three things on that. i think, senator, one, i think the case did not strike down preclearances opposed to saying the formula needed de facto it did. preclearance ended in all those states with that decision.
know, is a precedent of the supreme court, so entitled the respect as a matter of stare decisis. as you know and i would just reiterate, if someone wants to challenge that decision, they one of the things that anyone can raise about any case is that it s based on a mistaken premise or mistaken factual premises, and that s the kind of things courts are open to hearing. my time has expired. i thank the chairman for the indulgence of the extra minute. a couple things. first, i would note i m brooke baldwin. you have been watching another day of this contentious confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh there. we will discuss everything, but first, the president is taking names, making a list, and checking it twice. it wasn t me refrain being repeated over and over as each minute goes by today. from top officials inside the president s own administration denying
that consumed washington for months during the clinton president. 1996, january, primary colors, a fictional political novel, was printed anonymously, but the characters were said to mirror and critique the clinton administration. when the book was adapted into a film, john travolta was cast as that president. so you know what i m going to do? i m fgoing to do something realy outrageous. i m going to tell the truth. i know, i know what you re thinking. you re thinking he must really be desperate to do that, but if you had to swallow enough garbage you can say it. we re x-rated. yeah, me too, if you believe what you read in the paper. now, before the movie, the manhunt to unmask the book s author was relentless. and my next guest cracked the case. he is david cosnet, one of bill clinton s speechwriters named