emergency power on face masks? well, it hasn t been invoked since 1967. it s basically the chief executive has the authority to say it s an emergency, and then if it s an emergency, do anything that she wants in terms of regulation, whether that s censoring people, censoring publications, seizing private property, arresting people, so it is a really sweeping power. this is the first exercise we have seen of it in a long time, but i think hong kongers are very concerned about how this authority may be exercised next. paul: it sounds as if this is going to be exercised as part of a strategy to basically squeeze the protesters, give another rationale for arrest aring them and imposing a pretty harsh sentence. do you see that as a strategy and do you think the protesters will obey? i think it is a strategy but i don t think they will likely obey, though.
he is a straight as the edge of a ruler. this is somebody who has investigated cases for janet reno who i selected to investigate the destruction of the cia tapes who eric holder suggested to investigate the reopened interrogation issues relating to people whodanehy who had a pleasure of selecting to do another investigation. interesting they both out of connecticut. paul: best thing out of connecticut we have heard in a long time. right. paul: is it in this context appropriate for the justice department and these investigators to seek the help, cooperation of foreign governments in this probe, if they have information? absolutely. the justice department interacts with foreign countries to get their cooperation in matters all the time. i did it myself. paul: so the attacks on bill barr here, by some in congress saying this is simply part of this seeking dirt on a foreign
donald trump. well, democrats, the case they are making now is that there is an issue with the ukraine and that is the issue that donald trump is making with biden. it is hard to see him bringing this up without having it thrown back in his face. that s going to make some democrats wonder if he really is the right guy for the job. yeah, i agree with kim. i don t see how you can get to donald trump on ukraine without constantly bringing up hunter biden. common sense, what were the cain ukrainians what were the ukrainians buying? he had no experience on energy. paul: he s buying influence. the polls have gone up in terms of support of impeachment. nadler said about a year ago that before we could impeach, we would need to have the american people, even trump voters paul: right. that s not happened. most of the support has 79% of democrats supporting peach now supporting impeachment now but only 12 1/2% of
they are constantly getting varying information about their dive so i say don t sweat it. just celebrated and order a steak. mary. ahead for timothy johnson of professor at the university of minnesota who is leading a project to digitize the archives of the handwritten documents in the archives of the supreme court justices. the idea is to make these documents more accessible to the public but don t worry paul is not all legal mumbo-jumbo. paul: i love that stuff. justices are passing it back and forth to each other when they were getting bored hearing oral arguments. my favorite is from 1973 which vp agnew just resigned and below it metz two, reds nothing. a big hit to the brave lady on the editorial page virginia walden ford. she read f the fight for d.c. scholarships in washington d.c. a single mom whose son was
administration to get the ukrainians to provide information on paul manafort, which they did, and i don t see anybody being outraged about foreign meddling in a u.s. election, notwithstanding that a ukrainian court found that ukrainian officials had been induced to meddle into the u.s. election and it didn t help ukraine. paul: it would be better for the country if both sides stopped doing it? correct, correct. but so far as it, you know, so far as it being a crime, i don t see it. paul: all right, thank you, attorney general, appreciate it. when we come back, a big week of developments as democrats vow to move quickly on impeachment. our panel is here with a look at what we ve