The man who didnt get it, charles hughes, Supreme Court justice, all but won the election in 1915. In fact, when president Woodrow Wilson went to bed the night Election Night, he thought he was beaten. If he would have been elected how American History goes in several different directions, on suffrage for women, civil rights. What does he do on Foreign Policy . Germany baited us into war. Hes the one you could write novels about. Charles evans hughes who is on the Supreme Court and then left the Supreme Court when he ran for president and then went back on the Supreme Court. One of the finest minds on the court. Fellow justice called Charles Evans hughes, the greatest in our great line of chief justices. Why hughes . Robert jackson provided part of the answer when he was attorney general. Jackson said that hughes, quote, looks like god and talks like god, end quote. 1916 footage of charles hughes, that years president ial nominee campaigned soon after the Republican National convention
All right. Welcome to hannity. Vacant tonight, as your mentally vacant president shuffles through the halls of the white house in his maximum stability sneakers, lawyers, bureaucrats in the democratic party, theyre hard at work. You setic e, determined to get donald trump by any means necessars y and are using americas system of justice as a political weapon. Now, this is as well, oliver stonwe, e, the new warfare, which is called lawfare in atlanta, where the bogus case against trump is now in limbo. Gracef well, disgraced Fulton County d. A. Fani willis just appearedul on conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Rachel Maddow show en masse dnc y to blast trump supporters. Orters a and congressman jim jordan. Im sure that Fani Willigressmas no political bias or ulterior motives. She just wants justice to be served. Right. Okay, chairman jordan, he will jud tonight, straightt, ahead. Meanwhile, in florida, where the biden doahead. J is waging in lawfare war campaign down there agains lt trum
And the books, from democracy to freedom. Watch the coverage of the 2017 baltimore book festival saturday at noon eastern on cspan2s booktv. Host congressman jerry conley, gerry connolly. The collapse of the Senate Republican Leadership Health care bill yesterday, and the loss of the Senate Republican leadership backed candidate and the chump backed candidate. The definition of insanity is you keep on repeating something that does not work. Repeal theto Affordable Care act has gotten tobad that they managed persuade the public so now we are pulling a majority of republicans favoring the program and a very small minority favoring the repeal. Thatyou see numbers like and you see the reaction back home in terms of the prospective loss, find some other line of work. To persist in that effort really was mad at us and does great and to the republican brand to the seriousness of their endeavor. I am glad a collapsed and i hope they will finally work with democrats to fix that which is broken
Top of this hour of 360, the highest ranking Law Enforcement official in the land is, sally yates, an obama holdover, adding her official voice to the protest unfolding around the country and the world. In columbus, ohio, watching for the last hour. President trump firing back tonight, tweeting, the democrats are delaying my cabinet picks for purely political reasons. They have nothing going but to obstruct. Now have an obama ag. What he has not done is fire her. And we are joined now. The order from acting attorney general to department of justice, what are your sources telling you . Well, anderson, were told that sally yates, acting attorney general struggled with this over the weekend. She didnt learn about this executive order until friday when everybody else saw it. And it is something that the white house should have consulted with her, if you expected that, the Justice Department and the lawyers that work under her were going to have to defend this in court. So thats something s
Congressman outside of this theatre and even in the theatre, the focus is on that big question, will he run to become the next u. S. President. We know hes been pretty quiet on social media over the last week, but he has been pretty active in terms of emailing his supporters. He had sent out a plan for what he believed the immigration system how it should work. He has sent out a plan for what he would like to see when it comes to criminals, the justice system, and even today he sent out an email. His team sent out an email sort of teasing this announcement, saying, get on a list and youll be the first to learn what his decision is. Now, that said, our sources are telling us that this is a matter of any day now he will make this announcement and share it with everyone. Remember last week he said he had made the decision. I tracked him down after the fact and asked him when it would come, and he said it will be soon. Perhaps were in the soon zone. Well have to wait and see what that deci