and this is a al could you lated decision that trump making. the judges know won t be interested in the political aspect of this. they will be interested in asking questions of both sides of what the actual arts are from the prosecutors on jack smith s team but also trump s legal team. not the political points trump is trying to make. people have to understand that federal court is a somber place. and especially true in the d.c. circuit wildly considered the second most powerful court after the supreme court. i think the danger trump s lawyers have here, if they start performing for that audience of one, that is going to not be received well at all. this is not a place where you engage in theatrics, not a place where you engage in that kind of boisterous trump way of argument at all.
they want. sometimes less, but i think in this case more. and 20 minutes for jack smith s team, a lawyer from his team, and then trump s team will get back up for rebuttal. we won t get a ruling today. and important that you mention it is at random. these three judges are not as if you had to petition to get them in particular. it is kind of the luck of the draw. we know a little bit about the judges who will hear the case. but why is it so important to consider this is a three judge panel, not the full circuit, but these three are who you get? one, i think when you have three judge, you are thinking about a wider range of how to appeal the arguments. if you have one judge, you are thinking about that judge s history, that judge s experience. here you have to be more expansive in how you approach your case. that will be super important here. and what i ll be looking for here is what kind of questions are these judges asking. because that could be the insight into what we get on wha
how does this impact him in the long term and his standing within the republican conference which is one reason his call was to donald trump after this recording broke that these guys were able to obtain because the trump wing of the republican conference and the house is sizable. they re vocal and they can inject them as speaker if donald trump were to round up the votes to prevent him from ascending to the speakership. in talking to republican sources this morning, they feel pretty confident that mccarthy is still in good standing because trump has not come out and said anything to try to bash him, throw him under the bus. mccarthy has been allied with trump ever since the days after january 6th. he s done nothing to anger trump. for mccarthy, the real question will be, how big was house majority? if it s a narrow majority, could be a problem for the trump diehards. if it s bigger, he should be fine. can he keep trump as trump keeps listening to this audio and conversations about i
mandates. which is ridiculous. he staked out a position. as far as the former president goes, there is been a shift where he s looking for credit. we heard him talking about the vaccines and people should get the vccines and he s got the booster himself. he wants to credit credit for that. there is something more here which is not about what anger trump. it s not what desantis had not said whether he gotten a booster, what anger trumps is that he would not run for president in 2024 if trump does. so many other candidates have suggested that hey, if the former president wants in, i will bow out. desantis has poignantly not done that. that s what angers trump as he weighs his possible come back leading towards 2024 run.
party, officials and candidates cannot afford to anger trump, and to avoid trump s wrath, they cannot forcefully drags his lies about the election, reportedly having been stolen. biden has to lead the fight for truth and democracy. losing is not an option. douglas, is there a historical comparison here to a president who is overseeing a crisis like a pandemic. also. like trump and his followers. well with the pandemic, woodrow wilson going into a world war i and sent soldiers a blot, with spanish influenza, pandemic. biden has because how does joe biden get ahead of covid. everybody s angry, flights have been canceled, people aren t sure whether their kids are going virtual or they are in class. can i get my booster? is there another? booster it is so confusing out