between people who are willing to use the power of the state to silence their opponent, and those who are unwilling. what s the hill this country together since the civil war? it s not that of a federal code, it s not even the bill of rights come as important is. remember, the soviet union had a bill of rights for guaranteed freedom of speech and equal rights. but in practice the bolsheviks sent their dissidents to the gulags. as he boasted, show me the man, i will show you the crime. now what s kept us functioning through the centuries where the bolsheviks failed is that our constitution separated powers and prevented a unit party. we also had an understanding that state power shall not be used for improper political purposes. the law must be enforced equally, without political considerations. and once you lose that common understanding, it s mutually assured destruction. nobody had any reason to uphold the system, so the system will collapse. the late anthony scalia made th
Special counsel. Is he hoping for a pardon from President Trump . Not only is he not hoping for, he would not accept a pardon. We all knew that this was going to be used as a hush money kind of payment from Campaign Finances. You knew at the time . We knew. The conviction of Paul Manafort is another blow to President Trump and a boost for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Mr. Manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts. He is evaluating all of his options at this point. Its a bad day for the president and im sure he understands that. It looks like manafort and cohen only have more to say, only may cooperate more. This could get worse. I dont think he can be indicted while sitting in office, but well just have to see where this all works out. The heart and soul of this is about collusion with the russians and obstruction of justice. First of all, the House Of Representatives draws up articles of impeachment. Think of the hou
The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Its not like somebody former president got to report, somebody gave a little more than the minimum, some pac didnt follow a small regulation. This is a fundamental thing. The nominee at the closing days of the campaign, when he thought his campaign was on the line and a story or two stories potentially threatened his nomination went be and said, i have to make this story go away, according to Michael Cohen and said, go make this go away and pay for it. I think that goes not in a resistance way at all. A much more dramatic and more accurate way of stating what happened there. And, yes, it implicates the president in the commission of a felony, but it also implicates the president in what is now a growing sense that a lot of people have and not just resistance people, that this is one more way in which the 2016 election was facacta. Harry litman, were in dangerous territory here. Two nonlawyers
he didn t spend any days in jail, not one day in jail. he wasn t even disbarred from being an attorney. as for jim comey, the fbi director at the time, well, he bragged about the fbi. you look at this white house now and it s hard to imagine two fbi agents standing up in the state room. how does that happen? i sent them. [laughter] something i probably wouldn t have done or gotten away with in a more organized investigation, more organized administration. i thought as early enough, let s just send a couple guys over. [laughter] and so we placed a call to flynn and said we are sending a couple guys over, hope you will talk to them. he said sure. nobody else was there, they interviewed them in a conference room in the white house situation room and that is what he has now pled guilty to. what did he think they were going over there for?
we ve had giuliani thrown out we like him, do we trust him. there, we ve had roger stone, that s the way they measure most we ve had manafort thrown out there. sorry, michael cohen. candidates for office. and the fact is about 60% of the he s not in there. american people don t like this guy very much and the question who will be pardoned, of trust, you know, 70, 80% say prosecuted, or imprisoned, joyce? i have a little bit of an outlier pick here, joy. they doentn t trust him because my pick is a pardon for doesn t tell the truth. i think it s disconnected to congressman duncan hunter, what s happening in the economy. he s out here by himself, a lot california congressman, of bad behavior and the plern conservative from san diego, one of president trump s first people know it and i think they re kind of worried about supporters in congress. whether they want to give you may remember that hunter was someone like this a second term indicted for abusing campaign notwithstanding what s