it was dismissed in less than six months. practically actually laughed out of court. now the ruling by u.s. district judge donald middlebrooks ordering trump and his attorney to cover the legal costs of the defendants in that suit is one for the ages. it is a stinging rebuke of donald trump the man and of donald trump s lies and his tried and true now legal strategy of jamming and gumming up the courts with lawsuits. it starts off like this, quote, this case never should have been brought. its inadequacy there is that word again as a legal claim was evident from the start. no reasonable lawyer would have filed it. the judge then makes it crystal clear that the ex-president himself bears responsibility for the suit. he goes on, quote, trump is a prolific and sophisticated litigant who is repeatedly using the courts to seek revenge on political adversaries. he is the mastermind of strategic abuse of the judicial process, and he cannot be seen as a litigant blindly following
that we had a witness who had very pertinent information who was in danger, who had already received a great deal pressure to say certain things and not say other thing, all of which she had told us about. an investigation undergoing great scrutiny that would be unlikely to keep that information confidential for very long. and the combination of those things led to the decision to put cassidy hutchinson on in a hearing earlier than anticipated by herself. we always knew she d be important. one of the oldest investigative tools is if witness a doesn t talk to you then you talk to other people who were close to witness a about the things that witness a knows and the things that witness a did and here mark meadows wouldn t talk to us so we talked to mark meadows deputy and she was with him all the time as sarah matthews said
and masks are perfectly a good idea in red states but you re politically pushed away from them by the guys the moment in the blue states. there s a great deal pressure on people to wear masks in public places. it s amazing and one more symptom of our times. and you re right they re confusing messages. the patchwork quilt of requirements and rules will only confuse people going forward. in the endic what you see is the throwing up of the hands. it s a bad precedent but they re no longer really fighting at this point for mandates whether it be masks or vaccines or anything else. they recognize the pandemic is over as a matter of politics and things like masks are going to be a personal decision. i want to talk to you both about something that rattled