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Lets go through other aspects of the bill of rights. Lets talk about the due Process Clause in the Fifth Amendment and 14th Amendment applies to New York. It applies to manhattan. Due Process Doubt lets see they dumped 30,000 pages of documents on the defendant three weeks before the trial but they, being the federal government. The judge is insisting on beating a quick timetable to pursue this case for no reason whatsoever. The judge decides the point of trial days on fridays rather than taking...

Of the fbi but for his wifes political ambitions, going back to before donald trump was even elected, i believe, he started singling out and targeting andy mccabe for his wifes career moves. talk about that. >> jill mccabe, andys wife, is a physician, pediatrician, i believe, in northern virginia who decided to run for the virginia state senate. and andy was careful to recuse himself -- first to seek ethics advice at the fbi and recuse himself from any matters that might be implicated from his w...

Install a new chief counsel of the irs as soon as democrats took control of the house and were sworn in. he was sort of rushed through the senate right away in february at the presidents personal insistence. he had previously advised trump businesses on tax matters. he said during his confirmation process hed seek ethics advice whether hed need to be recused from any decision making involving the presidents own taxes once he was at the irs. we havent been able to get any word from the irs as to ...

Blavatnik. leonard blavatnik is a significant shareholder in rusal, which is deripaskas company. that company, once sanctions were first imposed dropped like a stone. once the sanctions were lifted, it increased by some 24% in terms of the stock price. i think very strongly that secretary mnuchin should have recused himself or certainly should have asked the ethics office whether or not he should have been involved in the negotiations on the sanctions relative to deripaska and the lifting of tho...

About the justice department bringing criminal charges against a huge chinese cell phone maker and at the press briefing announcing those charges, acting attorney general matt whitaker was asked about the status of the mueller investigation and again, this is a sensitive subject. he has a long record of public comments criticizing the investigation and appointed to this job by president trump. there is every indication the reason president trump appointed him to this job is because of the long r...

Government shutdown, that is a new twist in those shutdown politics today. today was also the second and final day of the confirmation hearings for william barr, the presidents new nominee to be attorney general. through one lens you might expect this to be the most controversial thing in the world, but sometimes its hard to narrow it down in this administration. william barr does appear to be poised for confirmation. in large part because he can be confirmed with only republican vote, even if n...

Final day of the confirmation hearings for william barr, the presidents new nominee to be attorney general. through one lens you might expect this to be the most controversial thing in the world, but sometimes its hard to narrow it down in this administration. william barr does appear to be poised for confirmation. in large part because he can be confirmed with only republican vote, even if no democrats vote for him. in his confirmation hearings yesterday and today, it should be noted bottom lin...

Why wont you simply follow jeff sessions lead and take and follow t-- the critical portion being follow -- the advice of the foreign policy ethics officials? >> because the regulations and the responsibilities of attorney general is the head of the agency. thats that responsibility in the attorney general. and im not going to surrender the responsibilities of the attorney general to get the title. i dont need the title. if you dont trust me to -- >> excuse me. you have repeated that answer many,...

But he did. so you have it within your power to follow the ethics advice of your own department to come and you are telling us you are not going to. so that at the bottom line. >> no, senator, i think jeff sessions recuse himself because of a different provision, which was the political conflict provision. he played a role in -- >> in the context of all the things you have done, basically, to get the attention of president trump to nominate you, i would say that there is a political context to w...

Us to trust you is not enough. why wont you simply follow jeff sessions lead and take and follow the critical portion being follow, the advice of the departments ethics officials? >> the regulations and responsibilities of the attorney general s, the head of the agency, investments that responsibility in the attorney general. and i am not going to surrender the responsibilities of the attorney general to get the title. i dont need the title. if you dont -- if you dont trust me to -- >> you have ...