Attack unlike any weve seen in our lives. The managers case straightforward and comments by his violence supporters to show he instigated the attack and plan to rebut the notion a president cannot be tried after leaving office. As for the defense, well, their brief begins with a mistake, a pretty sloppy one at the top of page one as you see there, the lawyers misspelled United States. Those are the ex president s lawyers. From there they argue an ex president cannot be convicted on constitutional grounds. In addition, they make a claim thats easily disproved, reading from their brief quote it is admitted that after the november election, the 45th President exercised his First Amendment right under the constitution to express his belief that the Election Results were suspect. The brief goes on to say quote insufficient evidence exists upon which a reasonable juriest could conclude the 45th President s statements were accurate or not and thereafter denies they were false. Insufficient ev
World. And welcome to hannity. History on Capitol Hill Tonighel ,republican lawmakers joininawg all 208 House Democrats to remove Kevin Mccarthy as house speaker. To the first time in our nations history. And mccarthy will not seeks speakership again. Now, sources telling mt agaie au hour, some House Republicans have been in Contactblican Withd have started an effort to draft former president donal ad to bee the next speaker. N toldi hat pres that President Trump might be open to Helpingid Ort Term the republican party, at least in the short term if necessarys ,if its needed anyway. But heres former Speaker Mccarthy. Earlier tonight. Loo lets take a look. I believe i can continue to fight maybe in a different manner. I will not run for speaker again. Ill have the conference pick wie. Today s i think today was a political decis. Thingshe democratwa and i think that i think the things they have done in the past hurt the institution. And they just started removing ine and theycommitte jus
Juriest who has not only the credentials, the experience, the intellect and the temperament to be on this court. and this is the problem. this is not about her in terms of her qualifications. this is about a wedge in our democracy and using that wedge dixiecrats were all about making sure they were preserving a racial status quo and because we do have to call it. this feels very much like that kind of moment. lindsey graham is the example of this because as he himself said in that clip, he s the one who actually has been the reliable republican to always take institutional prodemocracy stance in these confirmations and he s not doing it now. indeed. as a matter of fact, he s doing worse. this is cut three. i have four quick sound bites. this is number three.
Was clear the fiction was x was. they hoped they could put a republican in the white house and gorsuch chosen by the federal society has gone to the bench and voting lock step on the repub connecticut conservative side and want to fill this vacancy an advantage. let s go to the harry reid decision in 2013 when you decided to scrap it for everything but the supreme court, there were predictions this would be a slippery slope and here we go. in hindsight, mistake? i think at that time harry reid faced an impossible decision. they announced republicans announced they would not fill the d.c. circuit court of appeals, which is a critical court second to the supreme court and importance and facing all of these filibusters day after day, juriest after juriest and harry reid made this decision. he did make an exception which mitch mcconnell swept away.
Know, a defendant like ethan couch does not have to testify, that s his right but during a civil case like this he can indeed become pelled to testify. gary, heart breaking what that family is going through. joining me live, brian weiss, cnn jeffrey toobin and brois watkins, co-founder of your back world.com. brian, you believe the judge in this case did the right thing sentencing ethan couch not to a juvenile justice facility but instead to a top of the line rehab facility that his family is going to pay for in california. why do you think that is appropriate? why is that justice? because, anderson, this is a veteran juriest, probably nobody more respected certainly in tarrant county, maybe in the great state of texas. since 1985, a woman that s done nothing but hear these kinds of