Host what motivated your desire to run for president . Marianne i think for a lot of people, once donald trump was elected president , nothing was the same. I dont think im the only person who has thought about what we are going to do with our lives now. Theuch shifted after election of the president. Job, oneterms of the of the most complicated jobs in the world. What makes you prepared for . Thatn it is interesting interesting it is to say that you say it is complicated. What is missing the way the presidency is certainly currently being exercised doesnt have to do with the area where it is complicated but where it should be more simple. Fdr said the primary role of the president s moral leadership. Administrative aspects are secondary. There is a moral equivocation we see too much in politics including the presidency these days. What has prepared me is 35 years working up close and personal with people whose lives are in crisis. I have seen what it takes to move from crisis to trans
Election of the president. Job, oneterms of the of the most complicated jobs in the world. What makes you prepared for . Thatn it is interesting interesting it is to say that you say it is complicated. What is missing the way the presidency is certainly currently being exercised doesnt have to do with the area where it is complicated but where it should be more simple. Fdr said the primary role of the president s moral leadership. Administrative aspects are secondary. There is a moral equivocation we see too much in politics including the presidency these days. What has prepared me is 35 years working up close and personal with people whose lives are in crisis. I have seen what it takes to move from crisis to transformation an opportunity and i have also seen very up close and personal the effect of bad Public Policy on peoples lives. I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of clarity for what has gone wrong. Politicians dont seem to exercise as much moral certitude. I understand people
Law professor. You have gone through this 45 page indictment now. What is your top line take away so far . Guest how much of it is very into with the january 6 committee careful work over many months. We saw the various Public Programs outlining the massive amount of evidence that the january 6 committee developed. Also, they had to report, of course. And we are seeing a Second Branch of government work in tandem with the United States congress to bring some accountability to the white house, frankly. I wrote a piece a while back in Politico Magazine shortly after january 6, in which i did a thought experiment with my students. We went through the various guardrails around the presidency, to make sure president s dont cross boundaries. Effectively, the only thing that was left was a criminal indictment. I see this as an important step in protecting how our democracy states accountable to the people. And too much power does not get out of hand in a way that could destroy the republic mo
Passed two years later. Sunday night at eight eastern on cspans q a, you can listen to all of our podcasts on our free cspan now. Host we are joined this morning by Kimberly Whaley a former u. S. District attorney and university of baltimore law professor. You have gone through this 45 page indictment, what is your top line take away so far . Guest how much of it is very in tune with the january 6 committee and their careful work over many months. We saw the various public tvs programs outlining the massive amounts of evidence that the january 6 committee developed and then also they had the report and we are seeing a Second Branch of government work in tandem with the United States congress to bring some accountability to the white house. I wrote a piece a while back in politico shortly after january 6 in which i did a thought experiment with my students, where we went through the various guardrails around the presidency to make sure president s do not cross boundaries. Effectively, t
America and it was also very sad driving through washington d. C. And seeing the filth and the decay and all of the broken buildings and walls and graffiti. This is not the place that i left. It is a very sad thing to see it. When you look at what is happening, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. This is a persecution of a person leading by very substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading biden by a lot, so if you cannot beat them, you persecute them or prosecute them. We cannot let this happen in america. Thank you very much. [indiscernible] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] washington journal continues. Host we are joined now by Kimberly Whele, a legal contributor for abc news, and a law professor. You have gone through this 45 page indictment now. What is