well, if mr. walker were here, i d ask him about this disturbing history of violence that we ve seen from him. and we re not just talking about one woman, but multiple women. he threatened to kill his ex-wife. put a gun to her head. he s threatened other women, and when asked about that, he really hasn t given account for this kind of violence, and i want to know for him why he thinks he s ready to represent the people of georgia and if he s ready to face up to this history of violence. democratic senator rafael warnock going after his republican challenger, herschel walker who was a no show in last night s senate debate in atlanta. walker has claimed not to remember the violence. last night would have been their second meeting in two days. we ll have highlights from friday night s debate which walker did attend. we ll also preview tonight s governor s debate in georgia as early voting gets underway in that state today. plus, the pro trump election denier running for govern
No other president has been indicted like this. Trumps lawyers arguing he should be immune, basically totally immune because he was president during those efforts. That is a new relatively made up claim which they lost unanimously before the respected d. C. Court of appeals. Keep that in mind. That is the recent precedent and context for today, and you may remember that was the now infamous hearing where the trump lawyer openly claimed that as President Trump could have a license to kill american opponents. That was the kind of chilling talk that many, many people across the spectrum rebuked then. That kind of talk was back today with grave questions about murder and coups and trumps lawyer saying its okay or it all depends. Lets say this president , who ordered the military to stage a coup. Orders the military or orders someone to assassinate him, is that within his official acts. I think it would depend on the circumstances. It would depend on the hypothetical. It raises questions. O
lives of people in leadership easy it exists to make their lives miserable. if you are helping them, you re not really fulfilling your mission i guess. maria, with all the squabbling going on inside the gop conference, we see this ever since kevin mccarthy became speaker of the house, shouldn t democrats be able to take advantage of that, and be able to take back the house next year? that is certainly going to be something that they will try to do. the message there, jim, look at what happened when republicans were in power. they didn t focus on what the american people wanted. they didn t focus on what they, themselves promised they would do if given the power to lead congress. also gives us a huge ability to contrast the extremism of the republican party, especially those in power, that frankly extend to donald trump, so, i think this also helps with a general election message, in contrast to democrats who, when
that was damming with faint praise. but were you hearing similar reports on the ground? i saw, even democrats were saying they were surprised herschel walker held his own. he handled himself, he didn t collapse on the debate stage in a sense. that debate on friday night could have easily focused almost entirely on herschel walker s personal baggage, and it didn t. you know, there was only a few questions about abortion, about his past history of violent behavior and erratic behavior, and lies and falsehoods, conspiracy theory, and instead it was mostly focused on other issues. in that sense, it played against senator war knock because it didn t focus on so many of the issues that had been dominating the local and national coverage of this campaign. and look, herschel walker had to basically show his campaign wasn t on the verge of collapse, and also give reason for some of these republicans to back him and his allies, along with democrats feel like, you know,