defendant which would end the case. she filed a subsequent lawsuit. that s the one that went to trial. but this one has been lingering. what very interesting is the department of justice in these court filings have said they need a little more time to decide if they re going to continue with their position, in part because of the evidence that came out in this first trial. so it really could potentially turn on whether doj still believes that trump is acting within the scope. either way there are some legal issues here for the judge to work out. but it s a case that this judge is looking to put a marker on and get it moving. and carroll of course just recently won the ability to amend that lawsuit to include some of the statements that trump made at the town hall that were repeating statements that the jury found to be defamatory. so she could potentially seek even more punitive damages if she is successful. you really need a spreadsheet to keep track of all the legal issues facing t
what you make of this ruling or this order from judge cannon today. timing is everything in the trump documents case. and this seems to be somewhat speedy. i thought this was a good sign. and one of the concerns about judge cannon will she delay the proceedings in a way that favors former president trump and what he might be seeking here in terms of getting this prolonged into the political season. so i thought the fact that she seemed to seize the bull by the horns and issue an order that was a relatively tight scheduling order was good sign. i also saw it as an indication that she doesn t have any plans to recuse herself, to disqualify herself on the concern of at least the appearance of partiality here. so i think we learned two things. you told me on tv and wrote the op-ed in the new york times, basically not so fast to the critics of judge cannon, and that she should necessarily be called on to recuse herself. why do you feel so strongly about this? well, because there is
this is a large tornado that did quite a bit of damage to very fragile structures. a lot of mobile homes, a lot of aluminum frame houses and things like that. this is the video that we re seeing. this is the stovepipe tornado that was caught on camera. a couple of storm chasers were out there. very brave. they stopped their cars. they helped people right away. they saw how much damage was actually out there and how many people needed help. first responders coming in from all over the northern part of the texas panhandle. now this isn t over. this is the area we re talking about. even though we re getting into nightfall, we still have the energy in the atmosphere. it s hot out there. it s still in the 80s and the 90s out here. that s the energy that these storms will use to make more tornados likely tonight. and if you hear a warning, if you hear a siren, if your alarm goes off, if your phone goes off, make sure you know what to do. make sure you know what to do before it even goes off.
and it was quite surprising to us that it works that well. it is pretty high-tech. they are able to hit extremely accurately. and they say, john, that they are called to these operations because what they do is a lot more accurate than, for instance, artillery. and so for those real high value targets, drones are what the ukrainians are using, john. just to be clear, what was the explosive they were using? it was a found mortar combined with something else? yeah, it was a mortar, a 122 millimeter mortar that they found from the russians when the russians were retreating from kherson. that of course was a battle that took place last year when the russians retreated from there. and the ukrainians were essentially joking and saying look, we re giving them back their ammunition. they used that, and then they basically rigged that with a stabilizer that they 3-d printed and some tubing that they got. and that made it extremely accurate. that was also one of the things that surprised us
that was not that s not realistic. you know, van, one of the things that the former president told ax is that the republican party should acknowledge issues of president obama and racial issues in the country instead of saying now everything is equal and fair. what do you make of that? it s just good to hear his voice again. you don t realize how much you miss hearing sane, balanced, kind, thoughtful commentary until you get the chance to hear from president obama. i really encourage people to listen to the podcast. he talked about a number of things. what i thought was most interesting was when axelrod pushed him and said what about that speech in 2004? all the hope and change stuff. he said listen, that speech was aspirational. it wasn t just a literal description of america. but it was aspirational. and that s a part of the american ethos is holding on to