Page 65 - Contexts News Today

As milley testified, updating members of the civilian command. our book shows him briefing all these people after making these calls. the contexts so important in reporting, in politics, in life. >> and in our coverage, courtney kube, i raise it because of whats happening today, republicans are likely to use the revelation and testimony against the president about advice about afghanistan. we should point out two things. the person that ran at the top r president was removing all troops soor tha...

Accusations laid on them. the other was afghanistan. i think that was sort of a wash because i think the generals testimony provided ammunition for both critics and supporters of the withdrawal. i thought general milley struck the right balance. strategically its still a failure because this was a government that we had backed for 20 years and collapsed in a matter of weeks. so thats obviously not a success. i thought he was -- general milley and general mckenzie were calling it straight. the mi...

They speak far louder than any arguments can. whenever they show you a large group of people at the border, it is because the images like this are meant to scare you. theyre meant to tell you, you americans sitting at home watching the tv that these people are coming to take what is yours to overrun you, and to stimulate the deepest part of your brain in the brain stem that is scared, of strangers and foreigners, a part of brain we all have. its a very profound and effective form of politics, no...

Letters and requests, they now want to hear from the ceo in a hearing on october 7th. guys? >> all right, julie tsirkin joining us from capitol hill where it will be busy the next week. you le, thank you. plenty of other questions still to be answered with all of this. lets bring in our panel right now. joined by msnbc legal analyst danny zavalas and emily tish. >> what sort of legal battle are we looking at here. we know these four trump aides who got subpoenaed. they dont want to cooperate. ...

Specific messages. i think its an important role this chairman played in telegraphing to the chinese, no, were not going to attack you. there is stability in the united states. and dont miscalculate. after all, so many wars can be sparked from miscalculation. im totally comfortable with what general milley did in this case. moreover,this particular matter because there was such a lunatic in the oval office, someone who was unpredictable, someone who had politicized intelligence, politicized the ...

See in a lot of blue states the similar private enforcement delegation for the enforcement of gun control laws or things like that, or to limit the opportunity for individuals to exercise their second amendment rights. you can imagine this working on a lot of different levels. it doesnt solely have to be about abortion. this idea of private enforcement can apply in a lot of different contexts. i think attorney general garland is exactly right, its a slippery slope. if we go down it here, whats t...

No, this is an overreach, this is something that is weird and wrong, the flu doesnt mutate in ways as quickly as the coronavirus that make it more deadly on a monthly basis at this point. not only yearly. i mean, the number of things wrong with what rickets said there could take up the rest of your program. >> sabrina, i want to pick up on something hayes said in his more expansive analysis, and that was about this sort of my body my choice language were hearing in two very different contexts. a...

Is everyone on this panel knows that. we know this and you know this. and yet here we see. >> i am asking you at the level of whats good for democracy, what do you think of this endless cycle of sham audits. >> well, its a problem. there is a reason why ari and criminal contexts, we are careful of announcing an investigation post to an election, we saw in 2016 how mere existence of investigation have such an impact of that election. just the fact of the investigation can be twisted into somethin...

Torrential rain and the consequences of that. >> mike, as were you speaking, we saw the president put his arm around the man in the plaid shirt. it is a cliche to refer to him as comforter-in-chief. he, time and time again, puts his empathy on display. >> reporter: we talked about this in so many contexts. we have seen this in a span of a week. on friday, he went to louisiana to visit with those affected by ida at the most powerful with the wind speeds. now doing the same in new jersey. one of s...

Finger, without writing an opinion, without hearing oral argument, without having it fully briefed, and there is presently a case on the docket, they could essentially say, you know what? all the hard work is done. and then imagine what would happen in other contexts here. what if another state were to adopt a law that said a private litigant can bring an action for a $10,000 bounty on somebody who owns a gun? well, this is a way to go around and have an end run around things where the constitut...