Character Judgment News Today

Hi, everyone, its 4 00 in new york. The expresident today on the verge of snatching jail time from the jaws of civil liability. Donald trump taking The Stand Today in His Civil Fraud Trial in new york after being ordered by the judge to testify about comments he made regarding a court clerk. Now, you all know this. We dont normally air his remarks for fear of amplifying them, particularly when they are so clearly tied to threats of violence and intimidation. Were going to play them for you right...

Mr. winds character judgment or ominously long three and a half years left in his presidency. ainsley: did he all of that called extraordinary success. evacuations couldnt have gone more smoothly and he blamed president trump. here is rob oneill, retired navy seal on the presidents lack of leadership one of the things can you tell when a leader says the buck stops here and the next word is but. they are not a leader. i dont know now executive orders this president signed the first few weeks of o...

Vote. >> i am not going to give any character judgment other than to say it is the constitutional role of the senate. once the impeachment articles are received to hold a trial. trials have witnesses and trials have documents. you can probably surmise this will be a party line vote and with mcconnell already forecasting that the president will be acquitted. there is no way theyll get 20 republican senators to come over when you have not a single republican defection in the house. the bigger poin...

It forbids individual character judgment. its shirts and skins. tribalist. >> this is the breaking news on friday. the impeachment. the house judiciary committee voting thursday to define the parameters of the impeachment investigation into the president. committees hope to recommend articling of impeachment by the end of the year. do you think its a realistic time line? >> i dont know. this is a huge gamble. we have been talking about this. its inching closer. this is a huge huge political gamb...

Believable that a gay man who could be gay bashed, if you take the celebrity out of this and you dig down into your hate crime numbers, it is even more stark among people who are queer in this punt. they acountry. they are more likely to be assaulted sexually and nonsexually and by everybody including authorities. and they dont have the platform. many of them are astranged fres family. they just dont have the voice. and so the big concern for me is whether or not it impacts those genuine victims...

It is not a legally operative term. jimmy knows this stuff. that is a point of satisfaction. i would like to see more than general probing. this is is why. he doesnt like donald trump. donald trump ruined his career. i have to believe in h his estimation from the way he writes about him in the book. when he says it is possible that this may have happened, i think that is a character judgment he is making about trump. this guy is the kind of guy who i believe is possible. >> i do, too. none of th...

Thats going on now that will abate and people will return. you know, we all have to face our kids and grand kids, and answer the question what did you say. and i do think that theres a cumulative effect of these policies and behaviors that will cause more people to stand up and say weve had enough. >> what does this mean to your vote in the united states senate. and i ask that because you are prioritizing character over some -- look, in some ways you and the president may agree on 70% of these i...

Too long actually happens but i think we can conclude nine months in that its not going to. >> do you think character still counts in politics. >> yes, do i. >> or is this proof that it doesnt, though? >> no, i do. i think overall -- i say there is a fever that i think is going on now that will abate and people will return. and we all have to face our kids and our grandkids and answer the question what did you say? and i do think that theres a kuk cumulative effect of these policies and behavior...

>> go ahead. >> well, i was going to say not just russia but the dysfunction and the questions about whether or not hes trust worthy, whether or not hes honest. thats really going to hurt. that is partly why i think he is not doing as well in those poll numbers, because people give the president some leeway in terms of its been six months. well give him some time, but it just looks chaotic. >> the core stays where the core is, though the numbers suggest that it is dwindling somewhat. >> but only...

Were -- our legal system is that you are innocent until proven guilty but when you have to pick a president in 27 days, the reality is youre making a character judgment about these candidates. i think when someone confesses -- if you put donald trumps statement to billy bush confessing to you can call it sexual aggression, and then half a dozen women coming out describing a very aggressive sexual behavior its hard to call all of them liars. >> when do we reach toxicity? >> we are already there. ...