there are still six conservative justices nominated by republican presidents. but tell us who biden is considering and just how historic this moment is. it is. even though the ideological balance of the court won t change from the six conservatives and three liberals, presumably, it is that president biden has vowed to put the first african american woman in history on america s top court. and he has several sterling candidates to choose from. many of whom have already been vetted because of other positions they ve had in the federal government and on the bench. i would say leading that group is someone who actually had clerked for justice breyer and that s judge ketanji brown jackson, who is sit go right here on the d.c. circuit court of appeals. a very prominent court and one that has been a stepping stone to the supreme court. she worked, she was a trial judge. now an appellate judge. he s 51 years old and most importantly, for the way you and
committed a crime? is there a chance he could be prosecuted for it? i asked the question because a sitting president could declassify anything he wants. we absolutely could be in criminal territory here. it is a federal crime to intentionally remove or destroy classified information. if it was done, not by accident, but intentionally and knowingly. if these documents were marked classified and anyone who could read would know they were classified. if there was proof after an investigation that it was done intentionally, then you have a crime. yes, a sit go president can declassify documents. no, a former president cannot retroactively declassify. if donald trump did, there would be some witness or some record to reflect that. in the absence of that, we could be in criminal territory. a good point. the archives confirmed that the former president continued on tear up documents after being told not to do so.
and people thought how competent he was over the fact there were potential red flags in his back ground that later came to light. regardless of how he feels with hope hicks, we ve seen with it a number of staffers the. we know it is true of hope hicks. he didn t like her sit go outside the president s office and not having a well defined portfolio. that was one of many staffers that he tried limit down exactly what they were doing. but certainly he was very dismissive of hope hicks, of ivanka trump and jared kushner. certain people very close to the president that he doesn t feel are contribute flagg beneficial way to the order of the west wing, that have been around the president for some time. and there are people who have a great amount of access to the president. i do think john kelly is still a problem. he is still on thin ice with the president. we were reporting that he could be gone any day now. if he is the one reassuring staffers there won t be a big
your show, by the way, sit go next to another incredible director, i want to show a picture. you were so lovely to let me. i walked off the set the other day. excuse me. i need to meet these ladies. that was the moment. that was the face i got before i got that with oprah. 8:00 on sunday, east coast, 5:00 on the west coast. we do an hour with oprah winfrey. van jones, oprah winfrey. and then she comes out. it was church. oprah winfrey from 1996, 1997. she starts dancing, she s preaching, the crowd is going nuts. maybe we ll get five minutes, ten minutes. we got an hour of oprah winfrey the van jones show. totally insane. let s watch a clip. i want to get practical with you. they say she can say that
talked about a legislative band. instead they went to see if bump stocks are loud under current regulation. that i m told, and i ve been told, takes months and months. it could take as long as career and nothing could happen. so what did the president just sign? did he sign a ban? or something endorsing the process? that would go a big difference between what s happening right now. you re right the point that out. i have a minute left. jamie, you ve been sit go with me this whole time. he says he wants to do more to protect our children. i m talking about the folks in parkland, florida. just to follow up on what jim sciutto said, he said he signed a memorandum. and then they re going to look into it. so this was not not different efinitivdefini.