start your future and apply today at contracosta.edu/free hello again. and welcome. it s time to get together with some smart people to break down the big stories in our own way. today, we re asking, why is it so hard for some on the left to condemn objectively horrible things like anti-semitism and sexual violence? amid the outrage on donald trump only on day one admission this week, is he really a dictator in waiting? or just playing one? i ve got a hot take why time magazine picked taylor swift as its person of the year and these guys can t wait to tell me why i m wrong. the gang as you can see is all here and ready to go. so sit back, relax and let s talk about it. first, the heated debate on the israel-hamas war ripping apart liberal america. take a look at this. an airplane carrying the words harvard hates jews, flying over the school s campus. the plane hire bade group of jewish students to condemn what they call rampant anti-semitism at harvard. it is part of
translator: because they told me i would not be reunited with my son. if i wanted to be reunited, they would have deported me. you thought the only options were to be reunited and deported or you would be deported and he stays here. you thought that s the better option. yes. so the aclu said they were forced into signing these documents. because of that attorney, he was able to undo the process and now maybe he can be reunited. there are hundreds of parents who have been deported already and are not as lucky. you talk about how long they ll stay in detention, the trump administration is doing everything in its power to make it harder to get asylum status. these are not people crossing illegally. this is legal under domestic and international law, to come and apply for refugee stat us and both are being ratcheted way down. that s right.
there are hundreds of parents who have been deported already and are not as lucky. you talk about how long they ll stay in detention, the trump administration is doing everything in its power to make it harder to get asylum status. these are not people crossing illegally. this is legal under domestic and international law, to come and apply for refugee stat us and both are being ratcheted way down. that s right. and one of the questions i got was, does this just apply to people crossing illegally? this applies to both. either people who present, they can be held in detention while they wait for the asylum process to play out. and we know about the attorney general has put out new rules that are supposed to say to judges and to asylum officers that things like gang violence and domestic violence are no
hard drives seize from his home and office which are being poured through to determine what might be subject to president trump s attorney/client privilege with michael cohen. here s the stat us. more than 250 items are subject to the privilege according to lawyers for trump and cohen. but more than 1 million files from three of cohen s cell phones three of them contain no privileged information and will be turned over to the government. there is still a trove of data to sort through including those shredded files. legal analyst nick akerman there eli nos tal join me now. let s start with you, elly, on the significance of the evidentiary hearing today. yeah, so it struck me as you that they are going to the mattresses by putting together shredded documents like they didn t do that for enron. so they re going for it with him on that. a second thing that they said and this is really this has been a conservative talking point all day. the judge set a timeline and
right now, federal investigators are piecing together the contents of a paper shredder from michael cohen s office. that s what a u.s. attorney told a federal judge today in a court hearing regarding the boxes of documents and cell phones and hard drives seize from his home and office which are being poured through to determine what might be subject to president trump s attorney/client privilege with michael cohen. here s the stat us. more than 250 items are subject to the privilege according to lawyers for trump and cohen. but more than 1 million files from three of cohen s cell phones three of them contain no privileged information and will be turned over to the government. there is still a trove of data to sort through including those shredded files. legal analyst nick akerman and elie mystal join me now.