next president. take a look at these headlines. the atlantic devoting an entire issue to the subject of a second trump term with the words, if trump wins. from the new york times, why a second trump presidency may be more radical than the first. from the guardian, a second trump term will be far more autocratic than the first, he s telling us. the washington post, a trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. the through line is a warning donald trump could transform every institution that comes under the sway of the presidency from the justice department to the federal bureaucracy that makes every government agency tip, to the allianct underpin our foreign pocy. don t assume trump will fall sort of his goals like did so often in his first term. a second-term trump would be different. from the atlantic, i his first term, corruption and brutality were mitigated by lay v llaziness. in a second term, he woul have more willing enablers in tow and a much more
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Conflicting information from weekend to weekend about what the president may or may not do, david. Geoff, thank you very much. Appreciate it as always. Geoff bennett joining us from the white house. I want to turn to my panel. Joyce, let me start with you. Bearing in mind, youre not an expert on election law, but i want to stick with one point that geoff just raised there about the dangers, the legal dangers of taking a meeting with representatives of a foreign country to offer dirt here on an opposing candidate in a u. S. Election. Help us understand the legal consequences of that. Theres a very specific statute that prohibits this kind of conduct. It makes it illegal to accept or to solicit a donation or a contribution related to a u. S. Election from either a foreign citizen or a foreign government. So on its face, that prohibition would seem to apply pretty clearly. If, for instance, while run
on june 5th, 2017. almost three years after conrad roy s death. at the bristol county courthouse in taunton, massachusetts, michelle carter went on trial. miss carter, take the witness stand. please the drama began almost immediately. instead of having the case could be for the jury, michelle at the last minute choose who let a judge to decide her fate. are you doing that of your own free will? yes. in her opening statement, flynn drew a straight line from michel carter s badgering and bullying, to conrad s death in the truck that. night she assisted and devised and advice and planned a suicide. she reasoned him out of his reservations. she told him that once he was dead he would be free and happy. he kept saying to her, i don t want to do this. it would hurt my family. she kept saying, don t worry about them. all the fears that he brought up, she had a reason to go around them and convince him that those things weren t real.
caucus. someone like mark kelly of arizona has not said how he would vote. others like jeanne shaheen and maggie hassan of new hampshire have not said how they would vote. if you unlock manchin, if you unlock sinema, other democrats won t stand in the way. if you re not willing to be out front and vocal in favor of your strong support for a senate procedural tradition, then you probably are not going to stand in the way if the leader of the party decides to call that vote and hit the nuclear button. this is how it s always been in the past, before democrats weakened the filibuster for most nominations in 2013, many members were skeptical. they came around before republicans abolished it for the supreme court in 2017. almost to a person, they were against weakening the filibuster and they came around. the idea is if you convince the two most prominent opponents of the filibuster, that would be the end game. it s not clear if the january 6th filibuster didn t change their minds, what wil
how much this narrative has changed. as geoff mentioned just a moment ago, donald trump jr. was on capitol hill. he testified before the house intelligence committee for six, seven hours about this meeting. how much has this story changed? it s evolved greatly. and i want to take you back to september of 2017. almost a year ago. when donald trump jr. testified in front of the senate judiciary committee. the day after he testified, senator chris coons, who is a senior democrat on that committee, his office sent out the u.s. code statute for giving false statements to congress. he sent it out just basically as a reminder that, hey, you know, a hardy reminder, saying if you lie to congress, that s a crime. and he was in the context of donald trump jr. s interview with the committee. so there has been a healthy dose of skepticism among those on capitol hill who have been greatly involved in this investigation, and questioning the people involved in that meeting for a long time now. and y