Events at issue in this case i asked her what trump is going through right now, look, it just really sucks to be in court to be a defendant. It is just one of the stressful things you could possibly go through and of course trump being who he is, everything takes on an extraordinary nature. But for anyone to be in that seat, its one of the worst things you can go through and your entire life david, i think really importantly, we should note here for people who may say, why is this guy testifying and revealing all this information . He has an Immunity Agreement prevent exactly with the government. So hes been involved, if interestingly, going back to about approximately 2017 he has been involved in these investigations into whether this was criminal conduct, these Hush Money Payments. This was first something that was primarily investigated at the federal level or the manhattan district attorney, the state investigation took took a little bit of backseat as they often do when youre deal
Gorsuch when it comes to criminal defendants. is this someone that has the administrative experience that might appeal to someone like a brett kavanaugh or are we going to see a more focused, concentrated liberal bloc that is not going to have the votes, not going to move the court. i think that s what hangs in the balance based on who president biden picks. right. and manu, up on capitol hill, i talked a bit earlier with paul kane about the calculations. do democrats see a big fight here or if biden makes a pick that they think is confirmable, do they want it to go as quickly as possible. they ve still not settled on their strategy yet. minority leader mitch mcconnell, who wants to be majority leader come the fall, has held his cards close when talking about the vacancy yesterday. said he wanted eed to wait to w in. they wanted to see who this person is. undoubtedly what we can expect is whoever is nominated will have a most republicans are
Time as the white house finds an official nominee, but senior administration officials worry there s no one confirmable who wants the job. joining me, julia. good to have you. first off, who is chad wolf? he s someone been with the department of home security for a long time. he started there with the tsa after 9/11. he left to become a lobbiest for 11 years then came back at nielsen s chief of staff, the form rer dhs secretary who left in april when the president was upset about the rising border numbers. he s seen as someone, you and i have found this in talking to sources, who does as he s told and weg liked by steven miller mainly because miller thinks he will carry out the hard line immigration policies he s told to do, but he s not seen as nearly as hard line add ken kuch
acting dhs secretary, acting head of ice. how much do these temporary position dos to drive the president s agenda. is it pro, con? it s not helpful to anybody to have major chunks of the government filled with temporary chiefs. no less than the acting defense secretary as we re on the verge of potential military con flifl with iran. this president made aappointments that have not worked out. his relationships with them haven t worked out. they haven t been confirmable. with patrick shanahan you had
i will say that, you know, getting this story being made public about the shanahan family, you can t be put forward for a senate confirmable important national security position while having a big secret that you don t want to come out that some people know about you that could be used against you. for one. but when people do have secrets or they have things in their family that they cannot allow to become public for family reasons or even the most beneficial of reasons, that s the stuff that comes up in a vetting that means you don t get put up for the job in the first place, and that is the white house s failing here, not shanahan s failing, the white house s failing that they even tried it with him and they re the reason this stuff is out in the open in a way that shanahan s family would rather would rather anything, right? much more to come tonight, including senator chris murphy joining us next. stay with us. i had a heart problem.