equal justice or equal opportunity of the law. am i hearing you right? >> you are hearing me right. let me say this. what is today's date? june 8th. june 8th is the day of insurrection, not january 6th. a weaponize to u.s. attorney, a weaponize attorney general of the united states have unleashed the full force of the united states government against a former president, the leading republican nominee, to take on the existing president. we have never seen anything like this in the united states. we saw it under stalin. we have seen it in other autocracies and marxist regimes and fascist regimes in the third world. they have taken the united states of america and they have dragged us into a hellhole. this is embarrassing, humiliating. i will tell you something. there are tens of millions of us. you have crossed the rubicon twice, which has never been
there's a deeper question at play there, though. we've got this radicalized, i would say, largely nihilistic house republican caucus, the majority of whom, let us never forget, in the last congress, voted for donald trump's coup. at the very beginning of this congress, they extracted punishing concessions from kevin mccarthy in the most humiliating election for speaker in over a century. the deal that we have before us is not the deal you would've guessed that group would make. the deal is basically a, quote, unquote, normal, bipartisan budgetary deal. then the question becomes, how did we get to that outcome? and more crucially, what does it tell us about this brand of maggot conservatism at this very moment? to answer that, i think you've got to look back at what has changed since the last time we do this in 2011. when we were in the midst of the same fight. at that time, republicans were working with kind of two disparate groups in the party. they had the base, which was
congress, they extracted punishing concessions from kevin mccarthy in the most humiliating election for speaker in over a century. the deal that we have before us is not the deal you would've guessed that group would make. the deal is basically a, quote, unquote, normal, bipartisan budgetary deal. then the question becomes, how did we get to that outcome? and more crucially, what does it tell us about this brand of maggot conservatism at this very moment? to answer that, i think you've got to look back at what has changed since the last time we do this in 2011. when we were in the midst of the same fight. at that time, republicans were working with kind of two disparate groups in the party. they had the base, which was this reactionary, rage filled base that above all else did not want barack obama as our president. then there were the elected politicians, who sort of fought
this report on the trump right, it underlines the fact that, well, they hate the fbi. they've turned the premier law enforcement organization into a political punching bag that they say they want to defund. they want to defund the people that protect us from terrorists, protect us from gangs, that protect us from the people who are actively trying to kill us every day. it's just absolutely crazy. and this whole report, what was it to do? it was to trash the fbi. it was to investigate the investigators. it went on longer than the underlying investigation. four years, millions and millions of dollars, and nothing to show for it but some really bad, humiliating headlines for pro trump newspapers. >> yeah. nearly twice as long as the mueller investigation. four years almost to the day, almost $7 million spent for this 306-page report. let's remember, in 2019, the
platform like trump, there are going to be penalties for that. i think that's a huge win. e. jean carroll, as i think we've all alluded to, is a life long trailblazer, an incredible hero. i think feminists everywhere are grateful for her bravery. this can be such a humiliating, frustrating, and devastating experience. and that she was brave enough to speak out in court, i think both reflects how far we've come and is an example of what women can do going forward to get justice when they're wronged. >> right, and as you say, the defamation part, which is important against someone who had a lot of power behind him -- i mean he literally at one point was commander in chief, so he's not above the law. the court system does work. and as you say, all lawyers, all people who take this seriously understand due process does mean of course you can engage in the process, you can deny, you can discuss alleged conduct. that's different than, as this
exercise was very painful and embarrassing and humiliating for fox news. and even though tucker was a small part compared to maria bartiromo, lou dobbs and jeanine pirro, his emails showed that he didn't necessarily believe what he was having guests espouse on the air. and that was another problem that just hurt the image of the network. >> i should note all those three individuals you still talk about still have jobs there. tucker's been fired so who knows where things go from here. but what we haven't heard from at this point publicly is tucker carlson, silent. he's been, i understand from your reporting, he's in florida at his home' cording to tabloid photos he's there. what are you hearing about what he thinks about this? >> well, he was really shocked. i mean, this came out of the blue for him. i know the press release says fox and tucker parted ways. but he was told about ten minutes before a press release was going out, susan scott, the
coordination and information they are receiving. many people have registered but have not heard anything apart from an e—mail about applying for visas. many are frustrated with that. some people i have spoken to have taken it upon themselves to do this long and arduous journey to the north of sudan or the red sea coast, or even to the ethiopian border where they can try to find a way out of the madness they are trying to flee. you told me earlier you had heard of people being humiliated by soldiers. also many people have had to leave their houses, soldiers have gone on a spree of looting. so residents in some areas where diplomats and foreigners are living, there are reports of guns being pointed, humiliating women, asking them to grow like dogs to get out. on the
necessary in order to give effect and his decisions, and it says his conduct was bound to be experienced as undermining and humiliating and you must have been aware of thus affect release yet ought to have been. you can find a lot more allowances on our website. —— analysis. wa nt to want to bring in someone to talk about this because we want to know where this leaves the relationship between ministers and civil servants. it's a key relationship for any government. live now to anita boateng, a former special adviser to the uk conservative government. let me ask first of all what you thought when you read about this. what was your reaction having worked in this department? yes. what was your reaction having worked in this department?— in this department? yes, i served as a secial in this department? yes, i served as a special adviser _ in this department? yes, i served as a special adviser in _ in this department? yes, i served as a special adviser in the _ in this department? yes, i served as a special adviser in the ministry - in this department? yes, i served as a special adviser in the ministry of. a special adviser in the ministry of justice alongside dominic raab. he was the court minister at the time.
name of national security. this sounds a whole lot like what we saw with the patriot act. rachel: yes. >> we as the american people need to be smart enough to not fall into this trap again where, ultimately, we have people who took an oath to support and defend our constitution, our civil liberties, our rights, but they are hell bent on taking those rights away. and dangerously in this bill, the restrict act, not even allowing us to challenge their actions through our court system. this is a very serious bill that threatens the very foundation of our democracy and our god given rights that are enshrined in the constitution. and we cannot allow them to do this. rachel: you know what's even more scary? that cosigners like lindsey graham didn't even know that they had cosigned on this bill, these big decisions that are affecting our civil liberties and our freedom are being decided by a bunch of staffers. that was embarrassing and humiliating, and he should be embarrassed about that.