do you hear me? that is not the normal kind of thing a judge has to say in any criminal trial let alone one connected this closely to the president of the united states. so lots to get to tonight. these are crazy times. but things have been crazy for a while now as you know. and that brings us to this scoop that we ve got tonight. it was more than a year ago now, september 5th of last year when an op-ed was published in the new york times. the headline was i am part of the resistance, inside the trump administration. i worked for the president but like minded colleagues and i have vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations. that op-ed published in the new york times last september, the author anonymous. before you got to the actual op-ed there was this paragraph of explanation from the new york times exexplaining why the
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grapple with it. they will write that his advisers came to find him unfit for the job. he couldn t focus on governing and he was prone to abuses of power from ill conceived schemes to punish his political rivals to propensity for undermining vital american institutions. the president still lacks the guiding principles needed to govern our nation and fails to display the rudimentary qualities of leadership we should expect of any commander in chief. in the times op-ed i wrote of a quiet resistance of trump appointees at the highest levels trying to manage his rash impulses. we wanted the administration to succeed and supported significant components of the president s agenda. but we were alarmed by his unstable behavior in public and in private. those who tried to steer him away from self-destructive impulses were not the so-called deep state, i wrote, but the steady state. this idea was assailed by the president. but the notion his team is working to protect him from himself has sinc
politically motivated investigations. answer, quote, the investigations that were being suggested were the ones that rudy giuliani had been tweeting about, meaning biden, burisma, and 2016. that s from the transcript of the testimony from deputy assistant secretary of state george kent. that deposition transcript was released today. george kent will be on the stand at the first public impeachment hearing of the president which will be wednesday of next week. that s all today. a lot going on. we re also going to be talking tonight about the fact that the judge in the ongoing criminal trial of the president s oldest political advisor, today the judge in that case had to tell the jury in that case that they are not allowed to download and watch any of the godfather movies when they go home from jury duty tonight. no watching the godfather, you guys, even though we know it s all relevant to this case.