not happening the way it would in a regular year. so you ve got sort of a backlog. i ll personally editorialize and say i m glad people weren t evicted during a pandemic, but you have this backlog that ends up creating the situation now. it will be really interesting to see where this goes next. diana olick who has been covering this, thank you so much. thank you. that s all in for this week. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, chris, have a fantastic weekend, my friend, thank you. you too. thanks for joining us this hour. happy friday. very happy to have you here. this is one of those friday nights when the news gods are saying, neenor, neenor, we don t believe in weekends. the fifth circuit u.s. court of appeals sits in louisiana,
to block witnesses from those agencies from testifying when they ve been called to testify before the impeachment committees. for example, the department of defense referred to this crazy white house counsel letter this week when they warned the assistant secretary of defense laura cooper that she shouldn t show up and testify to the impeachment proceedings this week. the pentagon sent a lawyer to her excuse me, sent a letter to her lawyer the night before she was due to testify this letter informs you, the lawyer, and your client, ms. cooper, of the administrationwide direction that executive branch personnel cannot participate in the impeachment inquiry under these circumstances. and then it says, see tab c, and what s at tab c is an attached copy of the crazy-pants white house counsel s letter that says, neener, neenor, neener, don t think this is real. so, this is an odd strategy. i mean, it s all odd strategy. this is the trump white house asserting the impeachment
but mocking him on the syntax. dave: it s so childish, it s twitter, 140 characters, you can t write perfect dpr grammar. clayton: you can t write perfect grammar, dave? throw down there. david axlerod the head of the campaign. head up sen grassley, i think a 6-year-old hijacked your account and sending out foolish tweets just to embarrass u.p. to bring senator grassley neenor, neenor. and you have to look at what the president said about the obamacare, it s a question that s out there. did the president not understand the power of the supreme court? no chance the president didn t know about marbury versus madison 1803.