civilians and not just the civilians from their leaders in the acts of what was once a reality television star in zelenskyy shows a level of resolve that perhaps even vladimir putin was not prepared to engage. and back to your question, rachel, that in the end, i think, is what this is entirely about. vladimir putin s putin individual calculation. i think you are right by the way. i don t think he cares about s is as. i don t think he cares about economic pain. i don t think sanction perhaps would have ever worked because he sees this as well from an ideological or emotional angle of either i can t have nato on my doorstep or i want to reestablish the soviet union. either way, economic pain doesn t factor in. until, here s the big caveat, until there are overwhelming protests on the streets of moscow and st. petersburg and we have seen some of that but we probably haven t seen enough yet to bend the will of vladimir putin. that s where i think we stand this morning.
lenient sentences but if you choose to exercise your constitutional right to go to trial, the government will make it tough. and government s theme in this case, i m a criminal defense attorney, so probably biased but the theme has been probably unnecessarily so about the fact that these detectives are wealthy. and even the sentencing memorandum, the government for felicity huffman says home confinement would not be appropriate because she s got an infinity pool and an a mansion and those are not really the kinds of things that should penalize defendants. but i get what the prosecution is doing, they re very good at what they, do they re painting a picture for the judge, and really what they would probably sponsz respond is saying wealthy people are subject to justice just like poor people and middle class people. and it doesn t factor in. you re saying it doesn t matter how much money she comes from, it is going to be the same sentence either way? i don t know about the same sente
who better to discuss than the chairwoman of the rnc, ronna mcdaniel. great to you on primetime. thanks for having me. thanks so much. i m not going to lawyer you up on this. i m not a lawyer. yes. here s my more general political question. sure. what level of wrongdoing would concern you politically? like, what is it that you could see come out of this situation where you re like, now that s a problem for us? well, i will just tell you i have not seen any level of wrongdoing that has concerned me and i will tell you the voters around the country aren t talking about this. they re talking about the fact that their wages are up for the first time in a decade. they re talking about jobs coming back. they feel better about the economy. that s what they re talking about. they think this is a d.c. story, this is a beltway story and not something that affects their day-to-day lives. they re looking for politicians to come into their states like my state of michigan and say wh
day-to-day lives. they re looking for politicians to come into their states like my state of gn begmichigan and what are you going to do to make my life better? michael cohen doesn t factor if. they want to see the mueller report finished. the democrats, if they use these next two years to just investigate and continue to go after this president and not focus on how do i make lives better for the people i represent, i think it s a mistake. worked for you guys. it got you the 2016 election. not donald trump. donald trump came to michigan when no other republican no question. had and said your wages have been stagnant, you have not had a champion in washington, you do not have lobbyists, you don t have people representing you, you don t have the special interests. it did work, he wasn t the average politician. that s for sure. others said it, they just didn t believe him the way they believed donald trump, that s why he wound up dismissing the field. as a general political
illinois, and california. so the idea that these aren t legitimate, you know, we should put that to rest. now the question is the timing is they cannot make this look political because the president, look, a largely democratic city, it s a democratically elected district attorney. and so certainly, the allegations of partisanship are there. we ve seen that the president can attack the credibility of an institution. as you saw with the special counsel. i think he can do that here if, you know, so as with all prosecutors, look, i face this, all prosecutors do. you need to be taken seriously and you re bringing charges without fear or favor, and if there s that implication, certainly it doesn t bode well for those charges, but they appear to be looking at the indictment. they re righteous charges based on unlawful conduct. usually the state cedes to the fed when it s the same fact they re looking at. the timing on top of it. we need to learn more. they have wood to chop here to convince