president trump on this decision. welcome to the program. glad to have you. great to be here. sean: you and a lot of prominent judicial scholars were asked to look for certain candidates that fit this meaning of a constitutionalist, and originalist. maybe some americans are hearing this term for the first time. how would you best define those terms and differentiate a regionalism from judicial activism? first of all, the way to think about it is a judge has a deep sense of fairness and a sense of impartiality. when he is grounded in text and original meaning of the constitution, she is putting the text and the original meeting ahead of any political predisposition he may have. that s the way a judge cases. fairly and partially without regard to your own predispositions or prejudices. sean: a judicial activist assembly of a liberal put a liberal would want on the court? somebody believes that the constitution is a living and breathing document that they have the right to al
special counsel? eventually can he fire everyone? i mean, it s going to be fascinating tomorrow. we re going to hear every one of those questions. what we don t know is how many answers we re going to hear. yeah. that we re not sure of. yeah. this question of executive privilege and what they re going the call executive privilege and such a i mean that s a difficult legal theory anyway. that s not a cut and dried thing even in the best of circumstances, i think we re going to get into appeals court territory pretty quickly tomorrow. and i have a feeling that jeff sessions isn t going to rely on the feelings pleading that we heard last week from dan coats and the director of nsa. it is my feeling that i shouldn t talk about this. i have discomfort. yeah. yes. i have a gavel. we will seattle. thank you, rachel. thanks. when president nixon fired the special prosecutor investigating him, he did it on a friday night and shocked
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Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. he s absolutely right about that. nobody can be sure of anything. none of us can be sure of what to believe as of now, but how strange is it that that was rudy giuliani s answer to this question. the meeting with the russians, how can you be sure if the president didn t know beforehand. rudy giuliani s answer to that was, nobody can be sure of anything. with defense lawyers like that, who needs prosecutors? so why hasn t donald trump replaced his weak, tv defense lawyer who is doing a terrible job of defending donald trump? well, there are a few real possibilities and rational possibilities for that. one is that donald trump doesn t know what good lawyering looks like and sounds like. after all michael cohen was donald trump s lawyer for years. the same michael cohen who rudy giuliani now
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beforehand. rudy giuliani s answer to that was, nobody can be sure of anything. with defense lawyers like that, who needs prosecutors? so why hasn t donald trump replaced his weak, tv defense lawyer who is doing a terrible job of defending donald trump? well, there are a few real possibilities and rational possibilities for that. one is that donald trump doesn t know what good lawyering looks like and sounds like. after all michael cohen was donald trump s lawyer for years. the same michael cohen who rudy giuliani now describes this way. the way is unethical. is a scum bag. he is a horrible person. will donald trump s next lawyer be describing rudy giuliani that way some day? another reason he has not been fired is that it is actually impossible to do a better job of defending donald trump. that might just be it. it is impossible to do any better than giuliani has done. he goes into t
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