with lawrence o donnell. , good evening, lawrence. , good after neil katyal andy litman take us through the latest delay designed court filings, congressman dan goldman will join us. he s going to rush off the house floor where george santos just spoke, just spoke in his own defense against the expulsion resolution introduced by dan goldman. now there has been a second. he has had two expulsion resolutions introduced against him on the same day, today, and he set a record, once again, today. he has been setting records, not for expulsion votes but for other things, and i m eager to hear this discussion, lawrence i m eager eager to know whether george santos had a historic volleyball career. i ll save it for later in the show. and alex, by the time you get home, you ll be able to turn on your tv and see me do something i have not done on tv in many years. are we finally get to see you juggle. i m gonna walk. i haven t gotten out of this desk in many years. we used
that will have to be explained to the american people. i guess the white house tried to explain this by saying this was out of nowhere, that this was a reversal of private conversations. but those conversations were also relayed in the past weeks and months to the american people that things were going well and it turns out that it wasn t. and so the question i don t think is whether manchin has more power here, but he does hold a lot in his cards, and there are other members of the party who do so as well. but as we ve heard from progressives like cori bush, from sanders today, from ilhan omar, all of them have said they knew this was coming, that they have given all their leverage up to be in this position. so this was not so much a surprise but actually a validation of the fact that they were holding out and trying to make sure that one man, one senator, didn t have all the power in his hand. tyler, i want to ask you, the people of west virginia have said that they see the benefit
amendment, didn t decide on that per se yet, but made this preliminary judgment on the fifth amendment, due process, saying to the white house you have to put a process in place. and the white house, the president, sanders today said we re going to put procedures in place which i think is a good idea. will they use the procedures to try to pursue jim acosta again. my hope and i think if rational minds prevail, they will simply say okay these are the rules going forward, by gonz aes are bygones. the judge made clear there is no first amendment right to access the white house. i think that is close to what he said in fairness to sarah sanders. he did say the white house can make rules, there is no absolute access to the white house, but from anybody under any
prosecutor really took off this weekend on bill mar, and he s a republican. sara huk by sanders today said i don t think we re there yet. so legally, are we there yet? well, whether we re there depends on what kind of conflict of interest the justice department substantively thinks exists. so obviously having even friends of jeff sessions a republican say there may be a conflict is important. again, a conflict doesn t mean you have done a bad thing. it means your relations or situation are such that it would be difficult for you to choose between two conflicting interests. that s why a judge cannot pass a judgment on a defendant who is a family member. it is not to say that that judge isn t fair. but rather that s a ridiculous and impossible to put a person in. so does jeff sessions have the requisite independence, given his closeness politically to donald trump, given the central roll of the election, given his alliance and political endorsement of the trump