PRESIDENT, DO NOT TESTIFY. IT IS PEETH OR AN ORANGE JUMP
SUIT.
SUIT. IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE THE
PRESIDENT IN AN ORANGE JUMP
SUIT.
SUIT. FOR A LOT OF REASONS SOME OF THE
AESTHETIC, SOME MORE
SUBSTANTIVE.
SUBSTANTIVE. IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT
HAPPENED 28 THE UTTER CHAOS IN
WASHINGTON, BROUGHT ABOUT IN
THAT SENATE COMMITTEE ROOM BY
BOTH PROTESTERS AND SENATE
DEMOCRATS TRYING TO DELAY OR
STOP THIS PARTICULAR PRESIDENT
FROM MAKING A NOMINATION TO THE
SUPREME COURT RIGHT NOW, IT IS
WORTH BEING COGNIZANT OF THE
FACT THIS PRESIDENT IS IN A
LEGAL SITUATION UNLIKE ANY OTHER
PRESIDENT WHO WAS IN THE
POSITION TO BE NOMINATING
SOMEONE TO THE SUPREME COURT.
THE ORANGE JUMP SUIT CONCERN IS
REAL.
REAL. THE PRESIDENT’S OWN LEGAL
JEOPARDY IS BARRELING TOWARD A
FINALE THAT WILL ALMOST
ASSUREDLY ROCKET THROUGH THE
FEDERAL COURTS AND THERE BY
ALMOST ASSUREDLY GET TO THE
SUPREME COURT.
SUPREME COURT. THIS PRESIDENT IS AN UNINDICTED
CO-CONSPIRATOR IN A FEDERAL CASE
THAT HAS BEEN BROUGHT AGAINST
HIS PERSONAL LAWYER AND HAS
ALREADY RESULTED IN EIGHT GUILTY
FELONY PLEAS.
FELONY PLEAS. THAT SAME LONG TIME PERSONAL
LAWYER SWORE IN OPEN COURT UNDER
OATH THAT IT WAS THE PRESIDENT
HIMSELF WHO ORDERED HIM TO
COMMIT MULTIPLE FELONIES DURING
COURSE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL
CAMPAIGN.
CAMPAIGN. THE PRESIDENT’S FIRST NATIONAL
SECURITY ADVISER, HIS DEPUTY
CAMPAIGN CHAIR, A CAMPAIGN
FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER, HAVE ALL
PLED GUILTY ALREADY TO FEDERAL
FELONY CHARGES IN CONJUNCTION
WITH THIS INVESTIGATION.
WE’RE WAITING A SENTENCING AT
THE END OF THIS WEEK FOR THE
CAMPAIGN ADVISER WHO HAS PLED
GUILTY.
GUILTY. THE INJURE SELECTION PROCESS
STARTED TODAY FOR A SECOND
FEDERAL JURY THAT WILL HEAR
ADDITIONAL FELONY CHARGES
AGAINST PRESIDENT’S CAMPAIGN
CHAIR WHO WAS ALREADY JUST FOUND
GUILTY ON EIGHT FELONY COUNTS
AND WHO IS ABOUT TO GO ON TRIAL
FOR ANOTHER SEVEN FELONY COUNTS.
THE PRESIDENT’S WHITE HOUSE
COUNSEL HAS REPORTEDLY GIVEN
OVER 30 HOURS OF INTERVIEWS AND
HE’S JUST ANNOUNCED HE IS
LEAVING THE ADMINISTRATION.
THE CFO OF THE PRESIDENT’S
BUSINESS, AN EXECUTIVE WHO HAS
BEEN WITH THE PRESIDENT FOR
DECADES AND WHO WORKED FOR THE
PRESIDENT’S FATHER BEFORE HIM.
THE EXECUTIVE WHO HAS APPARENTLY
AUTHORIZED EVERY PAYMENT EVER
WENT THROUGH PRESIDENT’S
BUSINESS OR CHARITABLE
FOUNDATION, THE EXECUTIVE WHO
REPORTEDLY FILLED OUT AT LEAST
SOME OF THE PRESIDENT’S TAX
RETURNS, HE HAS BEEN GRANTED
IMMUNITY IN EXCHANGE FOR
COOPERATION.
COOPERATION. AS HAS THE HEAD OF THE "NATIONAL
ENQUIRER" WHICH THEY SAID
PARTICIPATED IN THE PRESIDENT’S
ILLEGAL HUSH MONEY SCHEMES WHICH
HAVE NOW BEEN CHARGED AS FEDERAL
CAMPAIGN FINANCE FELONIES.
ALSO GRANTED IMMUNITY, THIS
CONVICTED PEDOPHILE WHO MOST
RECENTLY WAS THE BUSINESS
PARTNER OF A MAJOR TRUMP DONOR
AND A HIGH RANGING REPUBLICAN
PARTY OFFICIAL WHO IS NOW
REPORTEDLY UNDER THE
INVESTIGATION FOR INFLUENCE
PEDDLING.
PEDDLING. A FEDERAL GRAND JURY IN
WASHINGTON THIS WEEK IS
CONTINUING TO HEAR TESTIMONY
THAT APPEARS TO BE CONNECTED TO
THE PRESIDENT’S LONG TIME
POLITICAL CONSULTAN, ROGER
STONE, WHO IS NOW PLEADING
PUBLICLY FOR HELP PAYING HIS
LEGAL BILLS.
LEGAL BILLS. HE SAYS HE’S QUITE SURE THAT HE
IS THE NEXT ONE TO BE INDICTED
AND SOON.
AND SOON. YES, SO IT’S NOT LIKE THE
PRESIDENT HAS ANYTHING TO WORRY
ABOUT.
ABOUT. NO CHANCE ANYTHING RELATED TO
THIS PRESIDENT WILL END UP IN
THE COURTS ANY TIME SOON, RIGHT?
"THE NEW YORK TIMES" REPORTS
THAT THE SPECIAL COUNSEL’S
OFFICE IS NOW NEGOTIATING IN
WRITING WITH THE PRESIDENT’S
CURRENT LEGAL TEAM ABOUT THE
MANNER IN WHICH THEY EXPECT TO
BE TAKING TESTIMONY FROM THE
PRESIDENT HIMSELF IN THIS
SCANDAL.
SCANDAL. AND SO YEAH.
YOU MIGHT EXPECT A LITTLE
CONTROVERSY.
CONTROVERSY. A LITTLE TURBULENCE WHEN A
PRESIDENT PERSONALLY FACING THIS
AMOUNT OF LEGAL JEOPARDY TRIES
TO INSTALL IN THIS CONTEXT A NEW
JUSTICE ON THE SUPREME COURT.
>> I BELIEVE YOU’VE REPEATEDLY
AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY EMBRACED AN
INTERPRETATION OF PRESIDENTIAL
POWER SO EXPANSIVE IT COULD
RESULT IN A DANGEROUSLY
UNACCOUNTABLE PRESIDENT AT THE
VERY TIME WHEN WE ARE MOST IN
NEED OF CHECKS AND BALANCES.
>> YOU ARE THE NOMINEE OF
PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP.
THIS IS A PRESIDENT WHO HAS
SHOWN US CONSISTENTLY THAT HE IS
COULD NOT TEMPTUOUS OF THE RULE
OF LAW AND PITS PRESIDENT WHO
HAS DECIDED THAT YOU ARE HIS
MAN.
MAN. YOU’VE TAKEN THE UNORTHODOX
POSITION THAT PRESIDENTS SHOULD
NOT BE BURDENED WITH A CRIMINAL
OR CIVIL INVESTIGATION WHILE IN
OFFICE.
OFFICE. THIS IS, NOW WE HAVE A PRESIDENT
WHO HAS DECLARED IN THE LAST 24
HOURS THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE SHOULDN’T PROSECUTE
REPUBLICANS.
REPUBLICANS. IT IS ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO IMAGINE
THAT YOUR VIEWS ON THIS SUBJECT
ESCAPED THE ATTENTION OF
PRESIDENT TRUMP WHO SEEMS
INCREASINGLY FIXATED ON HIS OWN
BALLOONING LEGAL JEOPARDY.
>> SENATOR LEAHY IS TALKING
ABOUT WHEN HE SAYS THE
UNORTHODOX POSITIONS OF SUPREME
COURT NOMINEE BRETT KAVANAUGH,
THAT THE SUPREME COURT SHOULDN’T
BE BURDENED WHILE IN OFFICE.
WHAT HE IS SAYING IS TRUE ABOUT
BRETT KAVANAUGH.
BRETT KAVANAUGH. REPUBLICANS HAVE TRIED TO CREATE
AN IMAGE OF BRETT KAVANAUGH AS A
GENERIC CONSERVATIVE PICK FOR
THE SUPREME COURT.
BUT HE DOES SWING REALLY, REALLY
WIDE ON, OF COURSE, THE PURELY
HYPOTHETICAL ISSUE OF A
PRESIDENT SOMEDAY, WHO KNOWS,
MAYBE, SOMEHOW, FINDING HIMSELF
OR HERSELF IN LEGAL JEOPARDY.
HE SWINGS REALLY WIDE ON THAT
ISSUE.
ISSUE. HE DOES NOT COME ACROSS AS A
COOKIE CUTTER CONSERVATIVE
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE, ON THAT
ISSUE IN PARTICULAR.
ON THAT ONE, HE’S AN OUTLIER.
EVEN AMONG CONSERVATIVES.
BRETT KAVANAUGH WRITING IN 2009
WE SHOULD NOT BURDEN A SITTING
PRESIDENT WITH CIVIL SUITS,
CRIMINAL CASES OR PROSECUTIONS.
THE PRESIDENT’S JOB IS DIFFICULT
ENOUGH.
ENOUGH. THE COUNTRY LOSES WHEN HE IS
DISTRACTED.
DISTRACTED. QUOTE, EVEN THE LESSER BURDENS
OF A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
INCLUDING PREPARING FOR
QUESTIONING BY CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATORS ARE TIME COULD NOT
SXOOMING DISTRACTING.
SXOOMING DISTRACTING. LIKE CIVIL SUITS, CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATIONS TAKE THE
PRESIDENT’S FOCUS AWAY FROM HIS
OR HER RESPONSIBILITY’S TO THE
PEOPLE AND THE PRESIDENT
CONCERNED ABOUT AN ONGOING
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION IS ALMOST
INEVITABLY GOING TO DO A WORSE
JOB AS PRESIDENT.
THE INDICTMENT AND TRIAL OF A
SITTING PRESIDENT WOULD CRIM THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. SUCH AN OUTCOME WOULD ILL SERVE
THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
YES, IT IS DECISIVE VOTE TO MAKE
ABORTION ILLEGAL.
ABORTION ILLEGAL. AT NORTHEAST LARGE SWATHS OF THE
COUNTRY BY OVERTURNING ROE
VERSUS WADE.
VERSUS WADE. BRETT KAVANAUGH IS EXPECTED TO
REVEAL SECRET MONEY IN POLITICAL
CAMPAIGNS.
CAMPAIGNS. A POTENTIALLY DECISIVE VOTE A
NUMBER OF ISSUES OF RACIAL
JUSTICE INCLUDING HIS
ENTHUSIASTIC HOSTILITY TO
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND I COULD
KEEP GOING.
KEEP GOING. THE BASIC IDEA IS CLEAR AND
REPUBLICANS SEE ALL OF THOSE AS
THE PLUS SIDE FOR BRETT
KAVANAUGH.
KAVANAUGH. THAT’S WHY THEY WANT TO CONFIRM
HIM.
HIM. BUT THERE ARE A MILLION JLS LIKE
THAT THEY COULD HAVE PICKED.
A MILLION JUDGES WHO HAVE ALL
THOSE SAME POSITIONS ON THOSE
ISSUES WHO WOULD ACTUALLY BE
MORE CONFIRMABLE THAN BRETT
KAVANAUGH FOR THIS SEAT ON THE
SUPREME COURT.
SUPREME COURT. A MILLION CONSERVATIVE JUDGES
THROUGHOUT WHO DON’T HAVE
GAZILLIONS OF PAGES OF DOCUMENTS
FROM THEIR FIVE YEARS SERVING IN
THE GEORGE W. BUSH WHITE HOUSE
DEALING WITH THE MOST
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES OF THAT
ADMINISTRATION.
ADMINISTRATION. DOCUMENTS WHICH REPUBLICANS WILL
HAVE TO BEND OVER BACKWARDS TO
CONCEAL FROM SCRUTINY.
THUS BREAKING ALL THEIR OWN
PRECEDENTS.
PRECEDENTS. THE TOP REPUBLICAN IN THE
SENATE, MITCH McCONNELL, IS SAID
TO HAVE WARNED THE WHITE HOUSE
SPECIFICALLY AGAINST PICKING
KAVANAUGH BECAUSE HE MIGHT BE
DIFFICULT ON CONFIRM,
SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE OF HIS
SUPER LONG PAPER TRAIL THAT
REPUBLICANS DIDN’T KNOW HOW THEY
WOULD CONTEND WITH.
KAVANAUGH IS NOT THE EASIEST
PICK FOR THEM.
HE WAS FIRST NOMINATED FOR A
FEDERAL JUDGESHIP IN 2003.
IT TOOK THREE YEARS TO CONFIRM
HIM BECAUSE HE WAS SEEN AS SO
CONTROVERSIAL AND SO PARTISAN.
WHEN HE WAS FINALLY CONFIRMED,
THERE IS STRONG EVIDENCE THAT HE
MISLED THE SENATE AT HIS
CONFIRMATION HEARINGS AND TOLD
THEM SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT TRUE
WHEN THEY WERE TRYING CONFIRM
HIM FOR THAT LAST JOB.
REPUBLICANS COULD HAVE CHOSEN A
BUNCH OF DIFFERENT JUDGES WHEN
IT COMES TO, HE WILL VOTE AS A
RIGHT WING JUSTICE.
BUT OUT OF ALL THE JUDGES THIS
PRESIDENT COULD HAVE PICKED,
THIS PRESIDENT PICKED THE ONE,
THE ONLY JUDGE WE KNOW OF TO
HAVE BEEN ON THE PRESIDENT’S
SUPPOSED LIST OF CONTEND HERE’S
HAD GONE OUT OF HIS WAY IN A
PUBLIC SETTING TO SAY THE
SUPREME COURT’S UNANIMOUS RULING
IN U.S. V. NIXON MIGHT HAVE BEEN
WRONGLY DECIDED.
WRONGLY DECIDED. THE ONLY NOMINEE WHO HAS
SKETCHED OUT A TRULY UNIQUE EVEN
TO THE POINT OF BEING STRANGE
VIEW OF A PRESIDENT’S
SUSCEPTIBLE TO SERIOUS CRIMINAL
INVESTIGATIONS.
INVESTIGATIONS. BRETT KAVANAUGH IS THE ONLY ONE
OUT THERE THAT WE KNOW OF THAT
SAYS A PRESIDENT SHOULDN’T EVEN
BE QUESTIONED, LET ALONE
INDICTED OR PROSECUTED.
SO YES, IT IS A LITTLE ON THE
NOSE THAT THIS PARTICULAR
NOMINEE WAS CHOSEN BY A
PRESIDENT WHO IS HIMSELF THE
SUBT OF SERIOUS INVESTIGATION
RIGHT NOW WHILE KAVANAUGH’S
PROCEEDINGS ARE UNDERWAY.
AND NOW THE SENATORS FROM THE
PRESIDENT’S PARTY APPEAR READY
TO PULL OUT ALL THE STOPS TO GET
THIS CONFIRMED BEFORE THE
MID-TERM ELECTIONS IN NOVEMBER
THAT WILL DECIDE THE CONTROL OF
CONGRESS.
CONGRESS. THE PRESIDENT SIGNALED IN AN
INTERVIEW WITH BLOOMBERG NEWS,
AS SOON AS THE ELECTIONS ARE
OVER, HE WILL MOVE TO FIRE THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL JEFF SESSIONS.
AFTER THE MID-TERM ELECTION WE
KNOW FROM A TAPE WE OBTAINED OF
DEVIN NUNEZ, AND KATHY McMORRIS
RODGERS, WE KNOW FROM THE TAPE
WE OBTAINED OF THEM SPEAKING AT
A FUND-RAISER, THAT THE HOUSE
REPUBLICAN PLAN AFTER THE
MID-TERM ELECTIONS IS ALSO TO
IMPEACH AND TRY TO REMOVE FROM
OFFICE THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY
GENERAL ROD ROSENSTEIN WHO
OVERSEES THE MUELLER
INVESTIGATION AND HE WILL
CONTINUE TO OVERSEE IT UNLESS
AND UNTIL JEFF SESSIONS IS
REPLACED IN OFFICE WHICH THE
PRESIDENT SAYS WILL HAPPEN RIGHT
AFTER THE MID-TERMS.
IN ORDER TO RUSH THROUGH
KAVANAUGH’S NOMINATION BEFORE
THE MID-TERM ELECTIONS, BEFORE
THE MID-TERM ELECTIONS TAKE
PLACE AND THE WHITE HOUSE AND
CONGRESS, THE REPUBLICANS IN THE
SENATE ARE TRYING TO RAM THROUGH
THIS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
AND PART OF REASON, PART OF THE
WAY THEY’RE DOING IS IT BY NOT
ALLOWING A REVIEW OF KAVANAUGH’S
RECORD.
RECORD. IF YOU SAW THE HEARING TODAY,
YOU SAW DEMOCRATS COMPLAINING
ABOUT NOT HAVING THE PAPERWORK.
IT IS BEING HELD FROM THE
PUBLIC.
PUBLIC. IT IS AN UNPRECEDENT WAY.
TO NOT HAVE RECORDS OF THE TIME
IN PUBLIC SERVICE, REVEALED AND
MADE AVAILABLE TO THE SXHOO HE
THE PUBLIC SO THEY CAN STRET
NOMINATION.
NOMINATION. RATHER THAN ALLOWING THEM TO
RELEASE THE RECORDS, REPUBLICANS
INSTEAD, THEY’RE REALLY TRYING
TO GET AWAY WITH THIS BRAND NEW
SYSTEM.
SYSTEM. THEY HAVE McGYVER’d UP FOR
CONSIDERING THE PAPER TRAIL AS
FAST AS POSSIBLE.
BUT DEFINITELY BEFORE THE
ELECTION.
ELECTION. THIS THING THAT THEY HAVE
INVENTED.
INVENTED. THIS SYSTEM THEY HAVE INVENTED,
THE REPUBLICAN PLAN WHICH IS WHY
DEMOCRATS WENT SO NUTS TODAY.
THE RECORDS WILL BE REVIEWED BY
AN OLD FRIEND OF HIS.
FELLOW REPUBLICAN ACTIVIST
LAWYER FROM THE BUSH
ADMINISTRATION.
ADMINISTRATION. A MAN NAMED BILL BURKE.
WHO AT THE SAME TIME IS
REPRESENTING STEVE BANNON,
FORMER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF
STAFF REINCE PRIEBUS AND DON
McGAHN IN THE INVESTIGATION.
SO BILL BURCK IS REST
REPRESENTING THREE OF THEM AND
ASSESS GATE KEEP ORDER WHAT
DOCUMENTS FROM BRETT KAVANAUGH’S
PAST WILL BE ALLOWED TO BE SEEN
BY THE COMMITTEE BEFORE
KAVANAUGH IS PUT ON THE SUPREME
COURT.
COURT. SO NO.
SO NO. THINGS DID NOT LOOK NORMAL TODAY
AT THIS COMMITTEE HEARING IN
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. AND 70 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED AT
THIS HEARING TODAY.
AND THEY COULDN’T GET 30 SECONDS
BOO THE HEARING TODAY BEFORE IT
ALL STARTED THE FALL APART AND
IT WAS HOURS DELAYED AND WE’VE
NEVER SEEN CONFIRMATION HEARING
QUITE LIKE THIS.
BUT THERE’S A REASON FOR THAT.
WE’VE NEVER HAD A NOMINEE LIKE.
THIS IT IS CLEAR THEY WENT OUT
OF THEIR WAY TO FIND THIS
PARTICULAR NOMINEE AND HE IS
TRYING, AND THE PRESIDENT IS
ATTEMPTING TO PUT HIM ON THE
COURT AT A TIME THE PRESIDENT’S
OWN LEGAL JEOPARDY SETS HIM
APART FROM ANYONE ELSE.
SO THERE’S A REASON WHY THINGS