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Restaurant, threatens to quit, gets on an airplane, and flies to indonesia. >> it was a very tenuous moment. so his father and brother came up with a compromise to try to lure him back. lachlan and james would be seen as co-equals, running different parts of the company. >> we have a bit of breaking business news now. in our parent company, james murdoch will work with his brother, lachlan, who will become executive chairman. this is a -- >> rupert and lachlan go out of their way to present this...

Correct, jake. but im not familiar with the circumstances around that speaking time. but in terms of the select committee, i have certainly encouraged that we give our gop colleagues ample time to make their views known, to make sure that they speak for republicans who are interested in getting to the truth of which there are millions around the country. so, yes, we want to treat them as co-equals in this process, have respect for their views and make sure that the many millions of republicans t...

With any trepidation, with any fear, concern, that this will be a different u.s. commander in chief than the one who proceeded him? >> i think putins idea of what justifies as fear is different than how we would justify fear. he is very comfortable in this role now as president of russia. as you said, this is his fifth u.s. president. but keep in mind, as president biden said yesterday, hes formidable, hes bright. interestingly enough, thats the same word that putin used to describe donald trump...

Its because democrats sort of played by the old rules. theres -- i agree there are national polls that show relatively high percentage of people who think he should be removed. guess what, republicans in congress dont care about national polls. they care about polls where they live. they care about what republican voters in their districts think. and democrats simply didnt convince the president used his megaphone to beat democrats on this, and thats why they feel no pressure and why they feel l...

President accountable and really in many ways destroying the idea of three forms of coequals in government? i mean, this is deeper than donald trump. were talking about how we govern. >> i think thats exactly it. were getting at the very question of representative democracy, liberal democracy and the rule of law. ive said from the beginning that when we think about donald trumps presidency, its really not always going to be about catastrophes. its going to be about corrosion and the slow but ste...

Jobs right now. absolutely, the outcome of this election is certainly the most important outcome in my lifetime of elections. it couldnt be more crucial. bullet number one in the job description of president of the united states is to protect and defend the people of the democracies and he is failing every part of that front. >> youre looking at a former secretary of state under trump, saying that i wasnt even consulted when jared kushner, his son-in-law, was making diplomatic moves. were not on...

You had congressman cicilline on, that he wasnt at the impeachment point but if they blow through this subpoena from mcgahn again tomorrow then he thinks it is time to step forward on impeachment. do you see that as an outlier or something that house democrats want to do as the next step? >> i think they are certainly moving very quickly in that direction, and i think that when you look at the fact this judge hit the core problem, that i think many are missing this is beyond partisan politics. t...

This is like constitution 101. right? branches of government. you dont get to just ignore the word of the congress. and judges dont get to ignore what is an obvious and an everyday person reading of the statute. but remember that donald trump, not only did he like set us up and set the supreme court up, the supreme court has been bending over backwards to remind americans they are going to work together even though we have the brett kavanaugh hearings, that they are going to see each other as co...

The federal statute that congress passed. this is like constitution 101. right? branches of government. you dont get to just ignore the word of the congress. and judges dont get to ignore what is an obvious and an everyday person reading of the statute. but remember that donald trump, not only did he like set us up and set the supreme court up, the supreme court has been bending over backwards to remind americans they are going to work together even though we have the brett kavanaugh hearings, t...

Americans they are going to work together even though we have the brett kavanaugh hearings, that they are going to see each other as co-equals and peers whose job is to be neutral. they have been bending over backwards in the past weeks for that. we now have a president who has spit on that yet again. this is also a president who has literally said, first time in 65 years, i am going to ignore the american bar association, the non-partisan neutral arbiter of who is qualified to sit on the bench....