The Stormy Daniels case shows the enormous influence that the former president still has over the Republican Party, as well as the public discourse in the United States. The decision regarding his indictment is expected next week
these days. as if they re very concerned as a party with how they re viewed by african-americans and other minorities and women. i mean, it s not an accident, right? this stuff is happening on purpose. these aren t dumb people. they re doing what they re doing deliberately. the president just nominated the whitest, malest cabinet since reagan. this was the bennetton tableau while the president signed his first abortion restrictions. senate republicans just introduced new legislation to cut in half legal immigration to this country. not illegal immigration, legal immigration, and they really did use an anti-abolitionist arcane senate rule to shut up a woman who was reading the words of martin luther king jr. s widow on the senate floor and last night and today when four male senators read from the same letter they let the guys go ahead and read it and as they
nominees, it was my impression from the outgoing obama administration that the person they were most concerned about was jeff sessions. not because of personal animus against him but because they felt the justice department was something that shouldn t take a very, very hard right turn. and if it does it s something that could hurt the country and be weaponized against the president s opponents. what are you worried about when it comes to jeff sessions? when jeff sessions was passed it turned my stomach. i don t have anything against him personally. it s known we here in that gym together in the morning but to have a man like this with his record on immigration, he s almost certainly the most anti-immigrant senator of the hundred, on civil rights and voting rights he s probably one of the top three or four against these sacred rights, civil rights and voting rights, he doesn t belong there and i think a lot of republicans know it. what s happened on the
that means the judge is putting some distance between himself and president trump. did anything like that happen in your meeting? what s your take on this? i asked judge gorsuch to publicly condemn donald trump s attacks on the judiciary. i said this president shows so little respect for an independent judiciary that the bar is higher and any nominee particularly by the supreme court to this president has to show independence. i said you have an obligation to publicly condemn the actions of president trump. he said, well i m disheartened by them. to whisper to a senator behind closed doors that he s disheartened without condemning or making a public statement is not close to enough and i will tell you having seen kelly ayotte go on television and tout she said it, it s the way of the republicans and the president trying to show independence when none exists. i have to tell you this, rachel,
a party with how they re viewed by african-americans and other minorities and women. i mean, it s not an accident, right? this stuff is happening on purpose. these aren t dumb people. they re doing what they re doing deliberately. the president just nominated the whitest, malest cabinet since reagan. this was the bennetton tableau while the president signed his first abortion restrictions. senate republicans just introduced new legislation to cut in half legal immigration to this country. not illegal immigration, legal immigration, and they really did use an anti-abolitionist arcane senate rule to shut up a woman who was reading the words of martin luther king jr. s widow on the senate floor and last night and today when four male senators read from the same letter they let the guys go ahead and read it and as they approved jeffeon beauregard sessions, iii, to be the next attorney general of the united states we multily learned he has also been give an door prize on his way into the ju