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they are gone. just like a justice system which is a precious jewel of our nation's or the fighting men and women. mostly it men by the way this is very candid very clear this is not pussyfooting around using nuance language this is clear about how we fight and win wars. how we maintain a meritocracy but that is why the left hates it. you've studied the left more than anyone else the left hates the pentagon at the last vestige of a true meritocracy the best and the brightest were able to exact the most lethality on the enemy with the most latitude possible to win wars. and what happened in the story, when you go into this about 20 years ago as her under clinton a little bit. passport under obama in hyperspeed under biden is the left targeted this institution specifically to stay tuned no, no, no we do not want our focus on the highest standards and maximum accountability. we want a social experiment inside this institution. you're going to insert things
come th,this election and everyg going forward. pete hegseth congratulations on a fantastic book. the war on a warriors behind the betrayal of the men who keep us free. you can get this at amazon.com on tuesday, on tuesday go right ahead. why did you write this book? >> mark, thank you. thank you for your love of country, for your commitment to our constitution and its institutions. you have been talking at now cm about our justice system which has two tiers these day and it is very clear it's off the rails as being weaponize. the reason that is important this elite one justice system in america the issue of justice is different than education you can move somewhere else if you do not like the status of your income rate or your local school. the justice department is just like the defense department. we only have one the pentagon. will have one army, one marine corps won 101st airborne. if we lose those institutions,
>> the jury heard five weeks of evidence, five weeks, and after careful deliberation, the jury reached a unanimous verdict. they found donald trump guilty on all 34 felony counts. not only to be given the opportunity as he should to appeal that decision just like everyone else has that opportunity. that's how the american system of justice works, and it's reckless, it's dangerous, it's irresponsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don't like the verdict. >> and joining me now, republican senator from arkansas, tom cotton. senator cotton, welcome back to "meet the press." >> good morning, peter. >> do you accept the verdict that donald trump is guilty of these 34 felonies? >> no, peter, a jury can only act within the constraints a judge puts on it. this case was rigged from the very beginning.
unconstitutional and really anti-balanced behavior in terms of the way the democrats have approached this issue, i think that is definitely going to happen if democrats are able to win back the white house with joe biden and win the senate as well. when you know, ben that is a great point and very rich justice sotomayor is too old but joe biden is not. something i thought we would never do together is listen to a guy from chicago lecture us about ethics. >> justice alito's not paying attention to its responsibility to the court and to the american people. he can't play fast and loose with these political symbols without jeopardizing his own integrity. >> i think the question is, how many idle flags do supreme court justice have to fly until the rest of the court takes it seriously? absolutely. trey: hey, ben, if you keep
he was careful, he was caring, and i think he handled a very difficult trial with a neutral -- with a neutral hand and gave the president every benefit of the doubt that he was entitled to under the law. >> quickly to conclude, donald trump have branded this case a witch hunt. you heard that in particular you have been critical of d.a. and alvin bragg and a key member of his team who was hired directly from the biden justice department. how do you respond to the criticism that this was a political prosecution? >> do you remember when michael cohen was indicted by u.s. attorney barrera in 2015? the president -- incoming president, president trump asked barrera to stay on and that investigation continued. so president trump fired barrera and he brought in a republican u.s. attorney, jeff berman, excellent man, great lawyer. jeff berman continued the investigation into the president, so the president fired him too. so this has really not been -- it's been -- the justice department under a democrat and this president investigated this president's conduct, and the president's response in both
senate democrats a book on powers or the menendez trial because nothing screams ethics quite like robert menendez. but please, by all means, go check on the flags being flown at the alito home. joining us now is fox news contributor, ben domenech. ben, the right doesn't even get it, right? when it is their turn to that, you have john paul stevens, souter, g g.o.p. picks and recently elizabeth warren's beloved customer financial protection bureau was saved by justices appointed by republicans? so really, the world is going to end if another republican justice gets appointed? >> look, all of these people live in this fantasy world where the republican justices who are appointed are somehow abject partisans who can't be counted on to have heterodox opinions
♪. trey: good evening and thank you for joining us i'm trey gowdy it is "sunday night in america". for the first time in history of former president of the united states was found guilty of criminal charges, it happened in the new york state courtroom on all 34 counts. this is one battle in what promises to be a much longer w war. >> remember brad did not want to do the case, he came out he said there's no case everyone tells me this is the easiest case they've overturned but they don't care because they wanted to last until after the election, the only problem so far my poll numbers have gone up. trey: how did we get here prosecutors have more power than any other participant in the committal justice system there would be no judge want where sean presiding if alvin bragg had not brought the case. they brought this case despite a record of being soft on crime, bragg struggles to find cases worthy of his time and resources
except for election leading cases against political opponents, if surprising negative stories during the campaign is really a crime, you better start building more prisons, donald trump will be sentenced to july 11 days before the republican national convention, actual prison time is unlikely because alvin bragg for the most part does not believe in prison but we shall see whether bragg and judge mershon put up first-time defender in a nonviolent case behind bars. joe biden likes the justice system this week. >> as reckless, it is dangerous, it is a responsible for anyone to say this was rigged just because they don't like the verdict, our justice system has endured for 250 years and literally is the cornerstone of america. our justice system the justice
and so ultimately, this race is about where does that spotlight go in october? today at this moment it is on donald trump and his liabilities which i think hurts him. it has, for most of this campaign, been focused on the president himself, joe biden and his liabilities, which we've seen in the polling is not helping him. so where is that spotlight once we get closer to the election? that's where those 20% or so would decide. >> that's why there's a fear about rfk, about kennedy, and a fear about erosion, and people are sitting this one out altogether. joe biden blasted donald trump for calling the justice system rigged, and the biden campaign started to lean into the strategy of calling him a convicted felon. this will not be a central message going forward. what is the sharp strategy here. should this be a key message going forward? >> first i think it's better not to run as a convicted felon, and trump doesn't have that choice.
can convict president trump and you don't have to be unanimous as to which one of those counted is. that violates the due process that violates the sixth amendment, you have to be able to be confronted by the charges so you can defend yourself it could have been four jurors on one count and for another important another that's not how you run the justice system, if president trump is put in jail there is a petition you could go straight to federal court if it goes to federal court could go more quickly and go to the supreme court is either under habeas corpus you process under the sixth amendment if it goes quickly it'll go to the supreme court and i agree and this is on the road to reversal which was all about politics from the beginning it was not about justice it was not about law it was trying to interfere with the election through the courts instead of the ballot box. trey: i was in the courtroom or the overflow room for four days, i was a prosecutor and i know what pro prosecution judges sound like an look like and roll like i've never seen a judge