justice department. his message was unambiguous. it was time for me, jeffrey berman, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and lifelong republican, it was time for me to take one for the home team. he came into my office and closed the door, quote, you re not going to believe the conversation i just had with o callaghan, before sharing the details. the top leadership at doj wanted me to bring criminal charges against a private attorney who had once been president barack obama s white house counsel and they wanted me to bring those charges before election day. i said, you have got to be f ing kidding me. i wish, he said, but no. doj s rationale for this demand had nothing to do with evidence or law. o callaghan kept reminding him that our office had just prosecuted two high profile trump loyalists, republican congressman chris collins and crump s private attorney, michael cohen. he related that o callaghan told him bluntly, quote, it s time for you guys to ev
been saying. this is an issue that most americans agree on, so why the holdup? as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle, we have breaking news tonight. striking new signs that merrick garland s justice department has intensified its january 6th investigation, in a big way. nbc news has learned that the department of justice has issued about 40 subpoenas over the last week, related to the actions of the former president, his allies, and their efforts to overturn the 2020 election. one source says that has his phone seized as evidence last week. he all but admitted it to our colleague earlier tonight. yes, i was part of the process to make sure there were alternate electors to win the challenges would be heard, and would be successful. a lawyer for ex nypd commissioner, bernard kerik, confirmed that he received a subpoena last week. it s been confirmed that he worked on efforts to but of course, as we all know
a very excited to see that. that s gonna do it for us. alex wagner will be here tomorrow, now is the time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. is it okay if i have david corn on two, to talk about american psychosis? the title of his new, i think as of now, his by sign because of the five minutes you spent on it. listen, i love david cohen. personal disclosure, he s a friend, i think is a great journalist, i love the way he thinks and rights. i am so glad that he s done a super readable modern history the right, we keep talking about these things that they haven t happened before and not exactly right, and we just need smart digestible history about this, particularly as we head into the midterms. this is just perfectly timed. we ve all been thinking about it. i remember thinking about it when donald trump got the nomination in 2016, i kind of work my way back to sarah palin, and then it kept going and kept going. but i never did the full
is if we have a national law. trey: thank you for joining us, i am trey gowdy, it is sunday night in america, president biden trying to salvage of midterms by attacking the supreme court, he is not bee subtle this. saying this in aftermath of the dobbs decision. sounds like he wants the issues on the ballot, isn t that when the dobbs decision did? return to people and the ballot, what is most telling when the president said this: if you believe that mr. president, are the people not also capable of drawing a careful balance on a complex matter? or is it just 9 lawyers that can do that. if you believe a national consensus exists on these issues, why would it not be reflected by the people at the ballot box. there is lies of question. what are your rights? where are your rights to be found? in the constitution. with the 9 in black robes or the ballots. joining us how constitutional law professor josh black man. i think we have to go back to con-law class, there are certai
thereafter, i saw either a correspondent or regular guest, i think on msnbc or cnn, she said to the host, that the constitution does not serve our purposes any more. it was written by a handful ofve white slave owners. this is what you get from the marxist left, the constitution. what is in thear constitution? n?due process. free speech, freedom ofly religion, right to bear arms. all kinds of protections for the individual, what else? limitations on government. limitations on congress. limitations on the presidency, limitations on the o courts. so we don t have a kind of totalitarian regime centralized in one place. which is who the founders fought against, we have all kinds of things in the constitution that promote what we call the civil society. law and order. protecting the individual. these people who wrote the constitution and adopted it were people of faith, and learned, most of them looked back on the various governments that had existed before ours and during their t