santos. republican leaders refused to no matter how many times he s bizarre lies are exposed. and forget gas stoves. even more outrageous nothing burger involves a made-up story about a pregnant batman villain. it was in april 2010 that justice john paul stevens, after serving 34 years on the nation s highest court, announced his intention to retire in a letter to then president barack obama. the news, naturally, set washington into a tizzy, of all things. scotus usually do. overnight, every tom dick and harry had suggestions for who obama should name as a replacement. republicans got in on the action as well. even conservative republicans like the then long serving of utah. he proclaimed he had found the perfect candidate, a, quote, consensus nominee, a small seat conservative, a jurist who would bipartisan support. quote, no question. the man was merrick garland. yes, merrick garland. the same merrick garland who, a few years later, in 2016, would be catapulte
this special counsel. it s not charging donald trump two years and nine days. what s the message to fellow americans? what trump could not have been that bad, because if it was that serious, i know it s not an episode of law in order, you could have enough resources to charge him in a year, a year and a half. two years later, the message to fellow americans is, what trump did in attempting a coup and inciting a terrorist act on our capitol wasn t that big of a deal. that s why merrick garland should go. jen, just returning back to the documents point, unless i m mistaken, when it comes to this documents stir, there is no allegation or a clear evidence of underlying criminality when it comes to joe biden s clearly sloppy handling of classified documents, right? during the trump debacle last august at mar-a-lago, the search by the fbi, we were told again and again that you have to have intent to make a criminal case. there doesn t seem to be intent on biden s part, or even knowledge. o
i think the i think the election held in the united states was still leaves a little bit uncertain was sent a very strong message around the world that the united states is ready to play. the united states is the republicans who survived along with the democrats are of the view that we re going to stay fully engaged in the world and that we, in fact, know what we re about. and so i don t get any sense that there s more or less confrontation. we were very blunt with one another about places where we disagreed or where we were uncertain of each other s position and we agreed we would set up, and we did, mechanisms whereby we would meet in detail with our the key people in each of our administrations to discuss how we could resolve them, or how if they weren t resolved, on what basis were they not resolved.
that. think of what you got involved in with donald trump in the beginning when this started. have you gotten to the point you want to say to hell with it? i don t need this. i am a scientist and my job which i am doing which we have done, to develop vaccines that have saved millions of lives already used to be a scientist and public health official. i certainly don t like the way this has turned out to be so contentious. when a congressman makes a statement, i forgot what it was, if they take the house in 2022 i should become italy investigated, on what basis is he making that comment? you ve got to get realistic about that. we have a confrontation with senator paul because of the inflammatory statements he made but where do you come off about
think about what you got involved with with president trump when all of this started. have you ever gotten to the point where you just want to say the hell with it? i don t need this? no, i m a scientist and my job, which i m doing, which we ve done with the development of the vaccines that saved millions of lives already is to be a scientist and a public health official. i certainly don t like how all of this has turned out to be so contentious. i mean, when a congressman makes a statement i forgot what it was. that they take over the house in 2022:00 should be criminally investigating, on what basis is he making that comment? neil, you ve got to get realistic about that. yes, we have somewhat of a confrontation of senator paul because of the inflammatory statements he made about lying