classified documents. the special counsel found evidence that president biden, quote, willfully retaineds classified materials found no reason to press criminal charges. drew distinction between the criminal probe of handling of documents and his findings regarding president biden. the long standing justice department priniple that you cannot indict a sitting president does not apply and would not bring charges even if joe biden were no longer president. we ll have more on that later in the program. we begin with a hearing at the nation s highest court. an historic hearing for some very big questions about the constitution. the future of our democracy and at the heart of the case, a request from voters for some accountability for an unprecedented insurrection. first up, jonathan mitchell, the attorney for donald trump, argued among other things, that january 6th was not an insurrection. it was a riot. he also argued that the president is not technically an officer of the unit
arrive at a very specific outcome, the very outcome he outcome, the very outcome he the system itself is illegitimate. itwe control the system. a we have a moral right i we have a moral right i therefore, if we losconte contrl of the system, the systemlong itself can no longer exist.er thisa dramatic misreadingt.er of what american democracyic is in american democracy. an democ the people who control the system only have a right to control that system. to to the extent the public grants throug them that right through voting.c what bidenri is describing is te soviet version of democracy where elections exist to ratify the status quoth, to bolster the cabal already in power. that s effectively whatective the democratic party is saying out loud.ly cratic party is barack obama.ndt i understanand that democraci might not seemgh like a top priority right now, but we havet seen throughout history and we see right now around the worldpn what happens when you give upyo
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for democraci for democracies. this is a feature, not a bug of this presidency. you can say it about this. this is what donald trump actually thinks, the way he views the world. it s a zero-sum game, someone is winning, someone is losing and he believes people who often do terrible things to their own people are strong. and winning by default. and winning by default. ashley parker, a question for you on the leak question from the serious policy side of it. do you get the sense this is simply the typical staff infightii infighting? i will say there is a very wide universe of people who are involved in managing the fallout
real core national security risk and concern. we can predict that the russians were going to replenish their spy ranks. of course they re going to do that. it s not just the russians. every country is spying all the time. every sun and hacking all the every country is hacking all the time as much as they can. russia took it one step further by releasing information and combining it with a massive propaganda campaign that favored one candidate over the other. that s horrendous. overall, it s not just about confronting russia. it s about building a system, a resilience, a defense, perhaps even an offense in the united states that can prevent this from happening again. if we don t do that, it will happen again. that will have grave consequences for our systems, institutions, and our democraci. yeah. let s acknowledge that the president is never going to be as tough on russia in this regard as most of us would want him to be. at the same time, it would be great, imperative, for the u