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price in serving our country. we can answer that question tomorrow resoundingly yes, absolutely! think about how generations of americans throughout our history have come together to meet the tests of their time, our parents, our grandparents, our great grandparents defended democracy. they built the great american middle class. they marched for civil rights and voting rights for workers rights and women s rights. for lgbt rights an the rights of people with disabilities. and tomorrow we face the test of our time. so remember, it s not just my name or donald trump s name on the ballot, it s the kind of in you believe we need to reform our criminal justice system so everyone is treated fairly, then you have to vote. and if you believe if you believe we should never write discrimination in to our laws [ cheers and applause ] well then, you know, you know, north carolina, you have to vote to get rid of hp-2. now, this is so energizing, we could keep going with a long i ....
president trump on this decision. welcome to the program. glad to have you. great to be here. sean: you and a lot of prominent judicial scholars were asked to look for certain candidates that fit this meaning of a constitutionalist, and originalist. maybe some americans are hearing this term for the first time. how would you best define those terms and differentiate a regionalism from judicial activism? first of all, the way to think about it is a judge has a deep sense of fairness and a sense of impartiality. when he is grounded in text and original meaning of the constitution, she is putting the text and the original meeting ahead of any political predisposition he may have. that s the way a judge cases. fairly and partially without regard to your own predispositions or prejudices. sean: a judicial activist assembly of a liberal put a liberal would want on the court? somebody believes that the constitution is a living and breathing document that they have the right ....
here at the table for the hour, steve schmidt and matt miller. but first, to react for the first time, single threads different threads of a single story. questions about russians and contact with people in the president s inner circle. former cia director john brennan, lucky for us, now a senior national security and intelligence analyst for msnbc and nbc news. i understand now, sitting here today, why donald trump a week or so ago said don t believe what you see, don t believe what you hear on the news channels, because when you take all these events just this week together, they paint a very compromising position for this president on the question of russian influence. i think that s right, nicolle. i think we ve seen over the course of the last two years basically an effort on the part of president trump and others to pry to inoculate public perceptions of what actually happened during the campaign. first, there were no meetings. then there were meetings, but they we ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. our colleague kristen welker there is still a steep hurdle to an interview with robert mueller. it would, quote, raise significant article ii questions going to the heart of presidential authority. it s not just about this president but about the presidency. meanwhile, rudy giuliani spokes with axios. they report, quote, there are two topics the president s lawyers want to rule out in order to agree to a trump sit-down with mueller. one, why trump fired fbi director james comey. two, what trump said to comey about the investigation of former national security adviser michael flynn. tonight, bloomberg has also spoken to giuliani and also reports that those two topics are off limits. according to bloomberg, giuliani said, quote, if asked the president would tell the special counsel that he didn t urge comey to stop investigating flynn and didn t fire comey to cut off his investigation in ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. election, that means the more careful you have to be in how overtly you investigate or charge someone who is going to be on the ballot in that election. first of all, donald trump, as far as i know, is not on the ballot in 2018. so this whole issue about them affecting the election is actually pretty tangential. it s not clear how much it applies. but mueller is so clearly cautious and observant of precedent and law. yes. so he will take it into account. but it s sort of a sliding scale. trump s not on the ballot. so you don t have to be quite as careful as, for example, charging someone like collins who is up for reelection. so there they had to be very, very careful. and also, you know, you have to not you don t have to stop the whole election the whole investigation. can you pause some aspects of it? you just don t want to do something overt. he can keep doing lots o ....