justice samuel alito - and no one else there s no other birthdays o that day [laughter thank, you my friend thank you and thank you at-home for joining us this. our i m happy to have you here i know it is weird to have m here on a thursday, like i was last night, and now and friday as i am tonight. i know that is unusual but your usual host at thi hour, the great alex wagner, i off on a family vacation thi week great week to choose, alex wagner and because she is a way, yo are stuck with me. i apologize, alex wagner we ll be back next week. but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. - believe you and i have all received copies of the statement that i read to the court, in open court as i said in that statement, the reason that i have changed my decision to fight thi matter is because i now believ it would be against th national interest and have a brutalizing effect on my family, that s had a long two-year struggle concerning this matte
tonight. but your usual host at thi hour would be alex wagner s of on a family vacation this week great week to choose, alex and because she is a way you are stuck with me. i apologize. alex we ll be back next week but tonight, because you are stuck with me, you are als stuck with this. gentlemen, i believe you ve all received copies of the prepared statement that i read to the court in open court as i said in that statement, the reason i changed m decision to fight this matte is because i do not believe it would be against the nationa interest and we have a brutalizing effect of my famil and is gone a through two-year struggle concerning this matter. you also may be aware that wha i said in open court, that i categorically and flatly den the assertions that were mad by the private prosecutors wit regard to their contentions of bribery and extortion on m part i will have nothing more to sa at this point. i will make an address to th nation within a few days and so the cri
where governor ron desantis ha pledged not to assist with - that s what s called a pus pole question was raised how you ar supposed to answer it s no surprise to see that the result of this online push poll, the answer, stay i florida, don t turn yourself i is winning, like, 2 to 1 the whole point of a push poll like this is to encourage th idea, to try to normalize th idea that trump actually has the option to not turn himself in, that he has the option t defy law enforcement, to defin new york authorities and hideout in florida he does not have that righ under the law. but that is what thi influential republican congressman is pushing for and that is what florida s republican governor saying h will facilitate. one of the things we learned from reporting over the last 3 years ago is the near district attorney actually wanted trump to turn himself in today, no
earlier this year himsel narrowly ever to the crimina indictment in a federal se trafficking probe congressman gaetz last wee started calling on florida s republican governor to pledg to block any attempted extradition of donald trum from florida to new york he said, quote, florid governor ron desantis should b standing in the reach. that was matt gaetz last week. yesterday, governor ro desantis of florida complied with that and in fact said that florid will not assist in any extradition request. today, hard right congressma thomas massie of kentucky pu out this poll on twitter tha says, quote, should trump go t new york and submit to a bogus indictment or should he stay in florida where governor ron desantis ha pledged not to assist with extradiction to new york that s what s called a pus pole question was raised how you ar supposed to answer it s no surprise to see that the result of this online push poll, the answer, stay i florida, don t turn yourself i