Page 89 - Assertions News Today

Strikes me again, im not the lawyer, but i can believe anything i want if it is in my interest or claim to believe anything i want if it is in my interest. is that a defense, does that defense, i can claim to be the center fielder for the new york mets, im not, or hold i qualify for that or should be, but in a courtroom, does that stand up? >> well, jim, youre getting to what is known as an advice of counsel defense and it only matters with respect to this one specific area, which is whether or ...

Either way? i cant hear you. lets see if we can get your audio to work. hi there one second. >> hi, joy. >> gotcha. thanks, great question. listen, this is a key discrepancy, chief arredondo gave us an exclusive interview and we asked many tough questions and one was did you try the doors and his account was that the officers had found the lock and were unable to kick them in and when they burst in and had to wait for a master set of keys for that accounts for excruciating delay and the transcri...

Of this pressure campaign but that he was actually behind it and orchestrating it as well? >> i think you have seen in the last two hearings that we do have evidence for the assertions that we make during the hearings and i will let folks tune in to the third hearing to see the evidence and often, that evidence is presented in the words of republican advisers to the president and they are recounting their perspective on this effort to apply pressure to the vice-president, the department of justi...

Now, there would be a difference in perspective among the members. there would be members to challenge the assertions of other members who could then respond. there would be differences of emphasis and the kind of interaction congressional committees are supposed to have which speaks to the issue you are talking about. you have a lot of questions but dont know if you will press them from your office. >> thats right. i go back to the impeachment sham hearings in 2019 focused on president trump an...

Conversations with the president, or obtained information about his phone calls and other ways? >> some of that has been public, as you know. congressman herrera butler, mentioned sometime ago in a time home mealy. the conversation that he had with mccarthy where he relayed the discussion that he had with the president. but there are other questions that we have for him. some of him and which only he can answer. so this is really not the right thing to do. he also, asserted, all kinds of ridicul...

Ukraine. >> reporter: the president added that he does not exact china to invade taiwan, after russia was ostracized for invading ukraine. but, john, between the presidents assertions and the white house walk-back, its still unclear whether the u.s. is truly prepared to engage in a military conflict with the worlds second largest superpower. >> strategic ambiguity, more ambiguous. thank you, nancy. now to the growing concern over the monkeypox virus. the c.d.c. food said there are four more spec...

Said, the data is the data. you can have moral differences about abortion. we all understand it. justice is the sinus and the member opinions of the members of congress did not consider or acknowledge the data that reveals how this will affect women. the data is disturbing. they spent 98 pages of the draft opinion talk about the constitution, they talk about conception and the right to life but theres almost nothing about what this will look like in society other than a very cursory throwaway li...

American communities sometimes, they might say youre not really black. its hard. were the same people. is the same people. is the same strategies. i feel like our polish assertions have been ignoring. its community based, community based, community based. give money to the communities. support the communities. weve been saying the same things for years. its not new. we are the same black people. -- where the same people. >> yeah. i think one of the biggest benefits of democratizing who has a voi...

These nonsense assertions about biological weapons. thats part of his effort to sow chaos, and make it seem like nothing matters, no institutions better, he can do it every once as an aggressor in ukraine. frankly, there are audiences that will listen to that, including some people in the united states. decisively, hes losing the battle for public opinion, at least in the democratic world. >> were bowing to need to do, ben, its tell the truth every darn night. ben rhodes, general barry mccaffrey...

So why now has he reversed course? you speak to activists in georgia as i have, they are very, very disappointed and demoralized by this decision. so it is important to hold republicans feet to the fire on this. this week secretary mayorkas will be back before congress again. republicans will largely characterize undocumented immigrants as a public health threat. there is -- or public safety threat. there is no data to support those assertions. i think this conversation really deserves a lot mor...