manhattan d.a. alvin bragg taking legal action agains republican jim jordan, and president biden s latest comments on his plans for 2024 let s take a look at some of the week s top stories the manhattan district attorne leading the prosecution of donald trump is now suing a to house republican alvin bragg filed the lawsui against judiciary committe chairman jim jordan yesterda in response to what bragg call a brazen and unconstitutiona attack by members of congres on an ongoing criminal prosecution. bragg has come under increased scrutiny to put it mildly by the ohio republican since it became lightly that the former president would be charged i new york city. calling on the game solved t testify before congress, jorda issued a subpoena last week, ordering a former prosecutor i the case to appear before th judiciary committee. in the new lawsuit, the de asked a court to block tha subpoena, arguing that it coul cause irreparable harm to th case if certain secret materia is dis
we should have been for you in a few minutes. this is the kind of thing that a president, any president, would usually be monitoring while it s in progress from the oval office, from the white house situation room. that was impossible as we learn more about this raid because the president is quarantining. he got covid. this is something that was in progress while he has been isolating. we know that about 30 minutes, because of the covid, he s going to be speaking from the blue room balcony. it s not something we usually see from this president. mrs. oh leader who about a year ago argued limits to what was widely considered at the time a hasty withdrawal from afghanistan. it was never going to be pretty but that the u.s. was going to figure out how to go and kill terrorists without an afghanistan base. this drone strike, if confirmed, as we can for more details, it appears to prove the president correct in that regard but remember. this is a leader, when he was vp, and all som
The race play out. i think, the most interesting thing really right now as far as announcements ha to do with one desantis. is he or isn t he? he s been raising money, he been acting like he s going to run, but still, hasn t made in the announcements. so you have republicans, wit joe biden, i understand th waiting part, but with ron desantis, there s been nothing but doubt in more doubt sort o worked up, and then this voi that he has created on the republican side. yeah, if you look at this travel a few weeks ago, goin to all of the early primar states, rolling out this boo on this book tour, all of th signs that yes, for sure, he was going to jump into the race, but it has been interesting to see his margin since he starte flirting with it, and says donald trump turned hi attention almost exclusively t ron desantis his margins have gotten much worse against donald trump and we ve seen the last couple of weeks with the indictment
I ve obviously he knows that part of the world really. well i think that he enjoys being unpredictable, i think he probably enjoys having tweaked us for the last number of days, thinking that something big was going to come, and then watching us get all worked up, and then showing oh i didn t do what you thought i was gonna do, i m not so easily categorized. that doesn t mean that something big can t happen, or doesn t have to have to happen on victory day for him to decide that he s going to escalate, or in some way make this war even more deadly and devastating and it s already been. so, we get worked out about the holiday, but it s days after the holiday that we should probably be thinking back. ambassador taylor, peter bigger wants to hear, from you and that means so do i. alicia, peter, it s great to be able to talk to you. i think peter s right, i think peter s right. president putin had to pat options, people were debating whether he d choose one of the other, that is doub
Of reality still there in russia. they see the body bags coming home, they hear the stories from their loved ones on the front line, they know it s really going, on at least a lot of them do. i think it will be hard for them to sell a story a victory at a time when there is clearly nothing like that. secondly, i don t think, and i ve obviously he knows that part of the world really. well i think that he enjoys being unpredictable, i think he probably enjoys having tweaked us for the last number of days, thinking that something big was going to come, and then watching us get all worked up, and then showing oh i didn t do what you thought i was gonna do, i m not so easily categorized. that doesn t mean that something big can t happen, or doesn t have to have to happen on victory day for him to decide that he s going to escalate, or in some way make this war even more deadly and devastating and it s already been. so, we get worked out about the holiday, but it s days after the holiday t