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Fox news contributor. great piece in the journal today on putin and ukraine, the need for ukraine to win in that confrontation and that war. dan, obviously this is sort of bubbling to the top here. we hope all of these members are healthy and that they get through this without more. your reaction to the way this is being handled. i think back to a big event tomorrow for ketanji brown jackson at the white house outside. very similar to what we saw with amy coney barrett. yeah, it is indeed except that it is not we re not in the same relationship to covid that we were back then. i think this is a fascinating thing that we re going through in washington right now. in some ways washington is serving as a case study of where exactly we america as a oh so ity are right now with covid. it is true that the speaker of the house has contracted it. ....
Ultimately his power became derivative of donald trump s. he was building his audience through breitbart, but once trump and bannon became linked, trump became the thing. he became the big deal. now you have, look, bannon realizes he went from bravado to bootlegging in ten minutes. we heard him on sirius radio about how he loves the president. he was talking about how the only people in washington who wanted roy moore elected were people who want higher taxes. he finally got this come uppance. it was sort of a dramatic contrast reading those excerpts and reading them on the radio ....
I m trying to figure out trump world here. we ve got so many cases where donald trump in the past has trashed somebody and that person years later or months later is back in the inner circle somehow. somebody who s in the inner circle one day is on the outs months later. isn t there a scenario where this all comes around and bannon and trump end up as allies? i agree with susan that this is the washington version of a confirmation by not denying and not running to say, oh, it was off the record. i was a victim of a journal lis stick mishappen. so i do think it is a tacit confirmation. your point is good though, that perhaps this is just another court jester falling out of favor and he could emerge again. the only reason i don t think that s possible is because the attack was so personal and it was about donald trump s family. right. you look at other exiled advisers, it s not like they re going after ivanka trump. they aren t going after his son-in-law or his son, donald ....
Of that exchange? any idea there? no, i mean, i think mcgann has been in difficult situations several times with the president where the president will say or do things that may be outlandish, that mcgann thinks are bad ideas, but mcgann is his lawyer and tries to find a way to do those things but do them in a nuanced and smart way. in the case of this this case here what mcgann did was try and make a nuanced argument to sessions but it didn t work. you make this case, just looking through this, a lot of people at home reading this for the first time too, you have president trump here at one point saying, where s my roy cohn? roy cohn had been his personal lawyer in the 70s and 80s, sort of a notorious in many ways washington lawyer, the mccarthy committee in the 50s, moved up to new york after that. looking for an aggressive protector, seeing the attorney general in that capacity. correct. it s an unusual way of looking at the attorney general. most white houses try and kee ....
The effective immediately that the nsa will need federal surveillance court approval before accessing that bulk phone record database. it s all part of a speech the president and his team are working on into the night for this event that starts in about three hours. more than six months since former nsa contractor edward snowden started leaking the details of the government s massive surveillance programs, president obama is poised to make some changes to the ways washington spies on the world. we can and should take steps to make the activities we engaging in order to help keep america safe and americans safe. more transparent. reporter: the president is expected to weigh in on one of the nation s most controversial surveillance programs the bulk collection of american s phone records a practice a federal judge and even one member of the white house s own nsa review panel have called ....