an attempt at a nuanced debate on foreign policy between republican presidential candidates last night in miami, that ultimately may not matter at all, there s a lot to cover from the showdown in miami last night, which was less chaotic with fewer candidates on stage but just like the previous debates, the front-runner was not there and for the most part the other candidates didn t attack the former president who was leading by wide margin miss the polls, they didn t touch him, they didn t talk about the problem of truth versus lies and donald trump. meanwhile, trump s daughter took the stand in new york yesterday in the civil fraud trial against the family s business. we ll go through ivanka trump s testimony. also, the latest on a significant development in the middle east, negotiations are under way to release more hostages being held by hamas. plus, it appears hollywood is ready to get back to work. we ll have an update on the historic actors strike that s been goin
his endorsement for governor back in 2018. so he came and he really wanted i said you can t win. can you headache can win, sir. if you endorse me, i ll win . please please, sir, endorsed me. i said, let s give it a shot, ron. and i endorse him and he became like a rocket ship. within one day, the race was over. asser story, which if you ve been following this, this show here is usually a sign that trump is adding a little something to the to the narrative here. slight embellishment here, but but i think the broader point is that disastrous is kind of getting raked over the coals by conservatives. actually this week about how he s handled this conflict with trump. uh huh. and how he seems to not really have his heart in attacking trump thinking that maybe he can just wait a little bit longer. yeah. i mean, i think this has been sort of the soft preannouncement period where you can sort of soft test different things without being a candidate. the
so look mccarthy had already that things publicly that he had to go down and beg for forgiveness for. and once trump understood, i now have him under my thumb and i can control him and he ll do whatever i want, that s all that really matters. so we re getting reports they had this conversation. we ll have to see what trump says publicly. i can very easily see trump thinking, oh, this is what he thought in his conscience and he overrode it. and that is what i like in people. i like people who override their conscience. so even if he knows the difference between right and wrong, he s willing to put it all aside. i keep thinking about a focus group i did for the new york times in january. it was asking a group of republican vote betters the response after january 6th. and i mentioned that specific quote that mccarthy said publicly. he said i think trump bears
associates, lev parnas, tied the case to the president himself. a lawyer for parnas saying some of the evidence gathered in the investigation could be subject to executive privilege. how significant is that? as a criminal defense attorney you have to raise every possible defense that will or can help your client. that being said, this is a stretch. these are not members of the executive branch, not by a long shot. the mere fact that there may be some co mingled communications between giuliani and the executive branch doesn t fly, either, because giuliani himself is not a member of the executive branch. these folks, these two defendants, cannot claim executive privilege because they are not in the executive garabr. it s a long shot but strategically it might be clever because it brings trump into the fold, it raises the stakes for trump and they man able to get trump thinking, hey a prosecution of these two defendants could implicate me, maybe the enemy of my enemy is
that will be a walk back won t it, if he has to sort of walk back on this 19 page memo and say, oops. on the 19 page memo, i was watching you all and was it a matter of this pundit who doesn t have all the facts and was opining but he was also opining to some very key people at the white house and what does that mean, what s president trump thinking? this is a guy who s saying, you know, it s unimaginable that i would what did he say? unimaginable that mueller would justify a firing, we re good friends, it s not a witch hunt. i am prepared to be wrong as i have been many, many times. i like that caveat. this is a very impressive performance, i think, and someone who appears not to be a political tool. yeah. not to be someone who has a pro-trump agenda going in, i think, if i m donald trump, i m thinking, i m not sure this was