Cares. That itself was an interesting thing to watch at the time. President ial nominee absents himself from the Party Platform process. Interesting. But what was way more interesting than that, what was riveting and bizarre to watch at the time that we Couldnt Make Heads Or Tails of at the time was the Trump Campaigns one exception on the Party Platform. Even hope the they let this other stuff slide, that was very much not in keeping with trump and the campaign, they did decide to get up on their hind legs and fight and intercede aggressively for one specific thing in the platform. One specific part of the republican Party Platform, and that was a thing about russia. There was a proposed plank for the republican Party Platform that said ukraine should get help from the United States up to and including lethal weaponry so ukraine could fight off russian incursions. And you know what, the Trump Campaign let Everything Else in the platform slide. Even stuff that might theoretically have
a little dramatic. but the legal point that he raises, there s a legitimate debate between using laws of war or due process rights is totally fair. that s a real debate in law and politics. he referred to all that. how that attached to her, i couldn t make heads or tails of, because he kept hitting her on, what about this or that? she said, i m not going to announce a new war policy on gitmo or ukraine. that s not my job in the circuit court, as a lawyer, or in the supreme court. and i thought senator hirono made a good point, a lot of good, conservative libertarians said it was good to represent guantanamo detainees, that s what the american system is supposed to be about. that was in a sense a riposte to
0 facts, i m applying the law in as neutral and consistent a manner as i can. because that is the duty and requirement of the judicial oath. i m also very conscious of the limits of judicial authority, of the restrictions that exist in the law to prevent me as a judge from becoming a policymaker. this means that i carefully scrutinize my jurisdiction. it means that i look at the text and focus on the text and the intentions of the legislatures that drafted that provision. or the intention of the framers that put forward that constitutional principle. it means i m looking at precedent if i was fortunate enough to be confirmed to the supreme court, i would be upholding the principles as i consider the precedents, and making sure that the court is putting forward consistent and predictable rulings. you re watching msnbc s live coverage of the confirmation hearing of judge ketanji brown jackson. this is ari melber. we ll continue our live coverage here on the beat. soon we ll be joined
i couldn t make heads or tails. let s listen to it. little plan with covid didn t work because too many people, you kn you know, in the world of the digital warriors or the citizen journalists out there, they are fighting for the truth. so the truth has been exposed about all the covid tyranny we re facing. i think what we re going to see is potentially another type of virus that is imposed on the public and i hope that that s not the case, but i ve seen some indications of that and some of the statements by some of these global elite type of people. somehow he s blaming covid on the global elite and saying the global elite is going to bring forth some new virus there. again, i think the important thing to focus on there, though, maggie, is, you know, michael flynn got into the white house. i m not talking about even his time as national security adviser, he was there after the election. this is a guy who would get a meeting with the then president
beyond what i ve said. he does need help to give that kind of answer. laura: i think people miss this on msnbc earlier today when jim comey. it was kind of a word salad. i couldn t make heads or tails of it. let s watch. concluded there wasn t sufficient evidence to charge somebody with a crime. this is about showing the american people the facts that were found, and the facts that were found, whether or not there are criminal charges, are deeply troubling. if this were a case about someone other than the president, they would ve already been indicted. laura: alan, do you care to take a shot? it creates a terrible president. it means that for every american who is subject to a criminal investigation and the prosecutor decides not to indict, then they can be called in front of congress and say you didn t indict him but tell us how bad he really is. tell us how many terrible things he did. tell us all the things that you were told that maybe you didn t believe.