A machine whos been in and out of a lot of stories here. Bernie carrick facing questions about the efforts to capitalize on the big efforts after election day, including a kind of grift and questions of wire fraud. Jack myth also continues to probe the elector fraud scheme. Giuliani an Unindicted Coconspirator there. There are new subpoenas that came out in the last week as they bear down on that plot. Meanwhil there may be other people who tried to steal your vote who could be held to account. Some of that, as journalists a little behind where the probe could be. Next the trial. Jack smith sparring with trumps attorneys over the evidence rule, the protective order which has to do with whether donald trump would use or abuse certain information. Theres a new filing where smith and his team are seeking a case that would try this case in the media rather than the courtroom. The Special Counsel referencing media over the past weekend. You see there, what they call the full ginsberg, the p
hello to you. i am ben thompson. welcome to the programme. even by the standards of american school shootings, it was grim 19 students and two teachers killed by a gunman. but what was also shocking about events at the robb elementary school in uvalde, texas, was the police s failure to take prompt action. in the last couple of hours, we have had the department ofjustice report into that failure. it says officers failed to accurately assess the situation. they say it took more than an hour to confront and kill the gunman despite the presence of dozens of law enforcement officials. the us attorney general merrick garland has been in uvalde, where he saw some of the murals that have been created in memory of those who died. he also met survivors and some of the families of those who lost their lives. afterwards, at a news conference, he had this message for the entire country. the law enforcement response at robb elementary school on may 2a, 2022, and in the hours and days af
impacting this country, that we all love the lives of all of you, the american people. we re going to talk about all of that. i want to talk about the midterm elections. joe biden, is he fit for this office? biden s foreign policy failures when it comes to china and iran and afghanistan? we ll talk about the covid pandemic. taxes, energy, the attacks on president trump s family and much more . i ll also ask him if he has made up his mind on whether he is running in 2020 four. here s a preview. do you worry about putting other people on ? had to go through there and have to go through to worry about putting them back in that situation? in other words, i m going to put it nicely. you re a golfer? no. why don t you just play golf? why? why would you want to give up a great life and go back to that? because i love the country and we were so close. now, unlike the current occupant of the oval office, trump was able to provide candid and detailed answers to dozens of question
certain approach, a certain discipline, but it is weird sometimes the things i hear and how you re supposed to respond. i hear a lot of people out loud with a straight face in person or on tv say, another indictment could be good for the candidate. i don t care who it is, that s bananas. there are good reasons for that even if you don t preconvict anyone who s entitled to their day in court. politically, being indicted, let alone convicted, is very bad for candidates and politicians. we were just talk about john edwards in a different context because he was prosecuted by jack smith. he had a favorability of 48% in january of 08. in 09, reports of conduct and his affair and a related campaign finance inquiry really hurt him. there were hush money payments something we heard
action and that legal action. and people all over commentators all over tv say and you should be arrested, he should be this. and that doesn t seem to faze you. behind closed doors. yesterday, i was given a question from a very smart person, very top brilliant guy ,very successful person who , you know, a little bit through reading about him, he said, do you mind if i ask you, we re talking about something. and then he said, do you mind if i ask you a question? how do you take it? this is a tough guy to i think you take i sort of basically ask, how do you take it? and i said, do i have a choice ? i don t have a choice because what i did and i said, i understand. i never knew they could be this evil because they re very evil people. they re very evil. if i didn t stop them and sign into law the statues that they wanted to rip down, all the statues in this country, including the jefferson memorial, the lincoln memorial, i mean, it s not even believable. and as soon as it s ten year