the danger there is that they look like they're flip flopping during the biden administration. they said they adhere to political pressure and that they overregulated information on the platform because of political pressure. now they're saying they're removing platforms. they are completely changing their ideas around content moderation shifting to the right. how do i not know that if a democratic administration comes in, you're not going to sway the other way around? i think meta looks a little bit foolish. >> what do you make of of watching all of this just in terms of a legal sense of what this looks like? they were saying that they felt pressured to take stuff down, that he wanted to, to have a place for speech fully within their legal rights. >> i think it's more reputational when they look like they're flip flopping there. they it's an about face on all of these issues. >> yeah. it'll be interesting to see how trump himself responds to this because, i mean, trump has a pretty good antenna for when that is also, you know, happening with people's political convenience. we'll see. sarah fisher, elliot williams, thank you both for being here. thank you all for being here. have a great weekend. cnn news night with abby phillip is up next.

>> this is just heartbreaking. i just don't know where to start. >> everything unfortunately almost looks like what a war zone might look like. >> it's like your heart's been ripped out. >> it's apocalyptic. i don't know what the path to recovery is. >> having lost our community it's almost harder than losing our home. >> this community is. they're strong. >> it's been incredibly inspiring to see the support. you know, life is long, and i think we have that to look forward to amidst all the loss is an abundance of love. >> good evening. i'm abby phillip in new york. we'll get right to what america is talking about tonight, los angeles. there's breaking news as we come on the air. the mayor of that city denies that she's fired her top fire official. that denial follows a torrent of criticism that has been directed at the city,

including by the fire chief herself. in an interview here on cnn. she accused the city of failing her department and the thousands who have lost their homes. it is now 10:00 here on the east coast, 7:00 in l.a. tonight and night there has fallen, but the sky is still lit up by the orange glow of the ongoing natural disaster. look at these blazes in photos. and the scale of the destruction is enough to make you stand still. trees reduced to kindling, houses collapsing under the strain of thousand degree heat. cnn's erin burnett is on the scene in los angeles for us. erin, you've been there all day long. tell us what you've been seeing. and is there a sense now that they are gaining some progress here in terms of dealing with that fire i start with a positive, abbie, because you say, is there a sense of positive? >> they have made some progress against some of the fires, and they've been trying to use a window. you know, you had winds for a bit this morning and then a period of calm. and they have been using that to try to

establish basically a perimeter around as much of these fires as they can. not much progress, but they have been felt that they have made real progress. one firefighter right on the front line of the fire, telling me just a little bit ago, where we're standing in pacific palisades, actually just just up the street from me, i can see we can see live fire flames there, and you can see all the red over the hills. so these fires are still ongoing. and in the house we're in front of, actually, just a couple of hours ago, abbie, they had come if you can. i don't know if you can still see the smoke and i think you can, but they had come and been spraying all this because there's this reigniting of fires, all of that in an incredible sense of loss. and in the beginning of your show there, you know, one of those women, when they had reunited, walking up, looking in their neighborhood, that hug of compassion and just incredible loss. there are lines of people, cars where people sit all day just trying to get access to these areas because they haven't even seen their homes and they're and they still aren't even able to get there. so there's that incredible sense of loss. you walk into a hotel lobby, it is

full of refugees. you walk into a target store. people are trying to buy underwear. i mean, we're just barely starting to scratch the very, very tippy top of the surface of the agony and distress that people are going to go through as these fires are still raging as we speak. fears of these winds rising in the next hour. we went up today. abbie up in a helicopter to get a sense of all of los angeles and just the sheer magnitude of the fires that are out here, as well as when we're here. you're looking at one house. what does it look like? what does devastation look like at a bigger perspective? and we went up in that helicopter just a bit ago. came back down. let me show you what we found. >> so right now we're south of the palisades. and the fire, uh, looking up, you can see this is pch right here. >> pacific coast highway, running right along the pacific ocean. yes. >> and then leading up into malibu. i'm seeing your picture. and once again, i guess you're not hearing. and even here, it's almost impossible to see with all the

smoke yeah. >> flying into this, it is like you're flying into a complete wall of fog. it almost doesn't even look like that. it just looks like an actual wall. like a white wall. >> yeah, that we're flying into. there's a fire bomber just dropped retardant right there. >> all right, so that that red that we're looking at is is fire retardant. there we go. yeah. we're zooming in on it. >> just got there live right now that plane is dropping that there. >> so that is an active area then in the palisades fire. >> yep. that's their way of setting a defense wall for the fire. progressing any further. and when they are referring to containment this is what they're talking about is where have they set up their defense. and 100% containment pretty much means that they've set up set up their defense in a circle around the fire, and the circle is complete. >> and that is really important to understand that containment doesn't mean it's not burning. it means that they've

been able to establish a perimeter, essentially that they can defend. i mean, it's using words like, again, war zone words, right? but that's exactly what it is. you're setting up a line that you're going to you're going to make your front line. >> yeah. you're you're containing the threat. you're not eliminating the threat. my in-laws actually lost their house in the palisades fire. and, you know, it's it's something that's very hard to comprehend because, you know, you started the week just business as normal. and then, you know, by tuesday night, they're wondering if their house is even still standing. and then wednesday, you know, i was able to get up in the air and confirm that it was it was gone. so that's their house right there in the center of the screen. >> that's their house. so this is your in-laws house right here? >> yep. and you know, a lot of memories with our three kids there. and so it's just one of those things that you just got to, you know, pick yourself up

and and rebuild. but you're not alone. you have a whole community that's suffering. and try and, you know, bond together one day at a time. so there's the entrance into the getty. >> all right. that is the getty museum, one of the the getty family and one of the preeminent art museums in the country, certainly in l.a. and they had right in the in the middle of the fire area, but had established a perimeter and were able to save but look right there, right there next to it complete devastation. >> here's the wind. >> total devastation. and then can we swing back over to the getty? there you go. swing right back over to the getty. and you see right there, they were able to. save that. this is the the past. the palisades fire in the distance saw another giant fire retardant plane flying through that. and then as we pan across

you can see the smoke over all of l.a. here. and coming in here, you're going to see it finally. the iconic hollywood, which you can barely see now because of the smoke behind that is the eaton fire. so what we're looking at there, just over the hills and just that, that volume of smoke that is the eaton fire. this image is absolutely incredible. this looks like the aftermath of some sort of a bomb. yeah. and that's just the sun shining back through the palisades. yep. it does though. it looks as if some a bomb had been dropped there. and just, you know, watching that and thinking, you know, what we saw, it is just the sense of you have l.a. in a sense. so many, so many suburban enclaves all put together. and what makes greater los angeles and right

now just all united in the sense of loss. one thing that that josh, the photojournalist, and ryan, our pilot, ryan had looked down and said, oh, that's the hill where i proposed to my wife. they were saying that there is a little piece of everybody in los angeles that has burned inside, and that is the feeling of just complete loss that is so pervasive here right now. when you saw those fire retardants being dropped as we saw them, and also there were, you know, the the scooper planes coming in off the pacific that load up with water and dump it. today, eight defense department c-130 aircrafts have now been activated to assist with the wildfires. and our next guest has been a navigator on these planes during wildfire missions. he's going to be in operational command for these missions. they have. ac1 30 coming in to here to l.a. colonel t.j. gannon joins us now, commander, for the 100 and wyoming air national guard and the 1/53 air expeditionary group. so i appreciate your time, colonel. so when i was in the air, and the air, is it

it's hard to explain it, but, you know what they're dealing with, right? you have lax, you have commercial aircraft, you have helicopters, you have all sorts of fire aircraft coming through at once. and those fire retardant planes, they were coming through. you know, we saw one of them up really close, actually. we could look at it and then just dumping massive amounts of that fire retardant. how exactly does that mission work and how much are they carrying in each mission? >> that's a great question, and thank you for having us here tonight to talk about not only the complexities and the devastation, but the amazing team of professionals that's coming together to help our fellow citizens respond to this, to this emergency. and so, in answer to your question, it is a very complex uh, coordinated effort that involves multiple federal agencies and civilians as well and in that response and so

when we're responding with helicopters and and aerial supervision, it's all in coordination with the incident commander on the ground. so that really we're just there to help reinforce what the firefighters on the ground are doing to try to contain that fire. and for the modular airborne firefighting system, the the dod's contributions to that, we come in alongside the the other air tankers that you've already highlighted, and we're able to speak to the need to surge in that situation. >> and so when when they drop that fire retardant, i think the word containment, when we were discussing there, it doesn't mean that a fire is out. it means that a fire is they believe they can prevent it spreading further. and and the role of the fire retardant essentially looks to be to creating a mass path on that perimeter to create a perimeter. is that essentially

how it works? >> yes. and again, it's all driven by the incident commander, because they're the professionals that we are there to just support them in their effort to build those those boundary lines that you spoke about earlier and slowing the advance of the fire. >> all right. well, colonel gannon, i appreciate your time, and thank you very much, sir. >> well, thank you, and i appreciate being able to be a part of this. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> go ahead. yes. yes, indeed. i know anybody who can be a part is grateful for that, for that opportunity no matter what your role. and they are for you. so thank you. you know and standing here in in palisades outside another home and life destroyed, you think about the dreams that people had and building a home and what a home means to everybody. samir chaudry lived in pacific palisades and has lived in this area his entire life. but buying a home was a dream, and his father said, you've got to work really, really hard to

ever be able to do that. and he did, and he put everything into it. he bought a home with his wife. they moved in a month ago and finished building their nursery on monday. and his his little little boy is going to be due or is due will be born sometime in the next week or two and it is all gone. that entire house and dream. and samir is with me now here in palisades. and samir, you drove up here with us. and as we know, this is a you're not allowed to come up here, right? we're up here as as media. what is it like to see this? >> i mean, it doesn't feel real. i think everyone watching and everyone here knows that when you turn the corner to your hometown, the place you grew up, no matter where you live now, that's home. driving through that, that those streets, seeing the shops, seeing the restaurants. like that's what home feels like. and it's it's pretty surreal to to drive here and it's gone.

>> and your wife obviously and you are you're going to be going to the hospital in a few days having a baby. and then you don't have anywhere to go. >> i don't know yet exactly where we're going to go. i think one of the hardest things about this time is that while a lot of us are grieving in los angeles, the loss of our homes, the loss of the life that we were living, the loss of the life that we imagined at the same time, there's a rental market now and people are taking opportunities and jacking up the prices for for rentals. and i would ask all angelenos right now that if you have a place to rent, pick a fair price and be a kind human, you talk about the grief. >> and i'm i'm wondering because, of course, you're right now, days away from, you know, what will be and what should be one of the greatest joys of your life. and hopefully looking back, will be. and yet it comes in the context of the home that you built for that baby, the home

that you have spent a decade working to earn, to buy is gone. how are you right now emotionally balancing joy and grief? >> the thing that that is keeping me going is that he doesn't know. he doesn't know that this happened. my son does not know that this happened. he'll only know the world that we show him. and so when he comes out, we have the opportunity to show him a world filled with joy and kindness. a world that's my wife and my smiling faces. that's the world that he'll know. he doesn't know this happened. and it's our job to to protect him from that. >> and, and and just so people understand you. you just had managed to buy this house. you had saved up for it. your parents, you said, had were refugees. >> yeah. my parents experienced the partition in india. in india and pakistan. partition. they got displaced from their homes. my dad came here in the 70s and he found the palisades. because of the self-realization

center on sunset and palisades drive. and he loved it and wanted to live here. he first had a mobile home on tahitian terrace, then made enough money to to buy a home on bienvenida and then in the 80s bought land in the highlands. i was born on bienvenida. i grew up in the highlands. i went to marquez elementary. uh, this has been the only home i've known. um, and it's a really special place to me. and what's what's incredible now is i was sitting with my parents, who are also displaced. um, you know, their goal was to make sure that their kids never experience that what they experienced being displaced from their homes and refugee. yeah. and we were looking at each other and just going, i mean, it was it's a story we've told forever in our family that they were able to route our family here in the palisades, and now you're going through this. >> but thank god together and and with this, yeah, this, this joy of of a rebirth and a restart with your child. yeah. thank you so much, samir.

>> thank you. aaron and abby, back to you. >> thanks, aaron. heartbreak after heartbreak for so many families. we've got much more ahead. coming up next, breaking news tonight. governor newsom, he is now calling for an investigation into the water supply issue. while the l.a. fire chief says that their city failed the. department. plus, montel williams will join us to talk about what to make of all of the suffering and what to expect in the rebuilding process from kobe. >> believed in himself at the youngest possible age. >> people who may never even know what a basketball looks like felt his presence. >> he wants the opportunity to make his own mistakes. he's going to end up making them. >> that's when the black mamba was born. >> it's one of the most remarkable stories in sports history. i don't want to be remembered as just a basketball player. kobe. the making of a

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breaking news just in here. we have just received new evacuation orders. as you hear the phone alerts go off, these are for the palisades fire. that is the fire here and now. those evacuation orders are extending to one of l.a .'s busiest freeways, the 405, as well as the getty center, that famous museum, which if you were watching just a few moments ago, we just saw from the air that museum right now untouched, but next to it is complete devastation. governor gavin newsom is also ordering an investigation. so? so we're learning all of that. also, the los angeles mayor, karen bass, who has been under fire for some of the issues, the not no water in the fire hydrants among them, met with the fire chief after the los angeles fire department chief had blamed the city for failing its citizens. and where we are right now, behind me, you see this house, which is completely destroyed, along with everything. the air quality here is particularly bad tonight. it's sort of a it's a vicious, acrid air just up the

street from us, though i can now see two bits of fire and the horizon completely red, which is much, much brighter, much more active fire from what we can actually directly see. i would have the camera turned, but it's actually sort of right on the other side of the street. but there you go. that is also and that's right off in the distance, that is, you can see the kabc shop, but that's what's happening right now. so it's very dynamic. so when we talk about not contained that's what we're talking about. even though these are the hours where they are trying so desperately to get these fires more under control ahead of what they anticipate will be another round of heavy winds coming through this weekend. nick watt has been covering all of this, of course, and also lives here, has been dealing with these evacuation orders yourself. nick. we see this expansion. and also, as i said, at least here in palisades, more active fires here tonight than we saw just a few hours ago. >> yeah. >> and, aaron, i don't know if

you can see it from where you are, but we can just see that orange glow as that fire is pushing into the san fernando valley, by the looks of things. but, you know, when you were talking about the mayor earlier, i mean, the mayor and the fire chief, that meeting must have been quite something, because chief crowley has been on our air today being exceptionally critical of the mayor. i mean, she basically said, yes, the budget cuts that were given that were laid down on the fire department. chief crowley said, yes, they did have an effect on how they handled this fire. and that's a that's a pretty big accusation. um, you know, they were cut by a few million. and the chief says, you know, we don't have enough mechanics, so we've got too many bits of equipment still in the shop, so we don't have enough fire stations, we don't have enough firefighters. and she also and this is the crucial thing, you know, you see this brush all over the place. there's dry brush. that's the fuel that fuels this fire. and the chief

said that because of the budgets, they don't have enough people to go out to check that that brush has been cut back as it should. so, you know, crazy, crazy accusations flying around. and then you've got governor newsom, you know, saying he wants an investigation into why the water shut off here. i mean, they are acting because people are now getting angry. aaron. people are coming back. they're seeing the devastation and they're angry. so the politicians are trying to figure out, you know, who's to blame and pointing fingers, and it's going to get ugly because the damage here is immense. and people are going to get increasingly annoyed. um, and, you know, could more have been done? you know, i've spoken to a lot of wildfire experts who say, you know, with this fire, there's really actually not a lot you could have done. chief crowley herself said even if we'd had 100 more engines, we couldn't have chased down this palisades fire, you know? and water experts say even if there were another 7 million gallons

of water in these tanks above the palisades, they still wouldn't have managed to get a hold on this fire. but you know, the lesson that i think they're all learning is times have changed, the climate's changed, and we all need to change. and cities need to change and preparations need to change. maybe that's the silver lining to this, that this will be a wake up call and stuff will change. erin. >> it certainly can hope so. and you can see those images there. look at that. i mean, it's almost as if you're watching a volcanic eruption there. these are live pictures from a helicopter chopper. kabc is doing those. and just to give everyone a sense of sort of where nick and i are, we're in different parts, of course, of the palisades, but a few moments ago we we could see and we can see here live fires and just the complete redness over the horizon just feet away from where we are. nick can also see as he turns. so that's that's where we are right now. so the when you're the picture that you're looking at in the middle, those the shadow you

see on the left that that's us and our setup. so that's what you can see down there. and that that's what's happening right now. and just to show how dynamic it is and how desperately, as i said, they are trying to get it under control in some way before these winds pick up. and they are forecast to pick up big time at some point this weekend. there you can see one of those planes flying over. the sense. it seems so futile when you see them flying over just one drop, one drop. but each of those adds up to something significant. let's bring in the malibu city council member helen is joining us now. helen, conrad and helen, i appreciate your taking the time. we've got these new evacuation orders that nick watt is reporting on extending now to the 405 and over by the getty center. you know, what is the latest that you're learning tonight, as we are seeing over the horizon where we are, images like the ones we're broadcasting on our screen. >> erin, um, this is just this

is devastating. and what i'm looking at is the first time i've sat down and watched tv today because i've been so incredibly busy. um, this looks like hades. this is a disaster. and it's a failure of our government. and i'm. i'm angry. this is inexcusable. what i've learned today is that we have more winds coming, and that the firemen that are on the ground, and all of these ops and the communication people, they amazing. and they're doing such a great job. but this is too much. they don't have the fact that there was no funding. i'm distraught. i was on the phone with the woman who lost her son today in malibu. um, he stayed to fight the fire. and what i'm learning is you guys have to. we have to evacuate. this fire is ruthless. and we knew we. i knew it was coming. something was coming. we just had franklin fire a month ago. we got lucky and fortunate with the winds and the resources we had, the planes. we didn't have

all of these fires. but i said that. i said if we, god forbid, had more fires, we would have been in a different position. and here we are a month later. and what have we learned? what the last anchor was, right. we need to do better. this is if people are going to remain in this state, in the city of malibu and palisades. this has to change, does it? i'm just i'm so angry and i'm so sad and i'm devastated for my for my friends. i have 30 friends plus that have lost their houses. we've lost five people. i've heard in malibu. this is it was avoidable in some ways. sure. i agree these are some raging fires and there's too many of them to be all natural, to be honest. but that's my speculation and the fact that palisades. i just learned that it didn't have water in its reservoirs. how can we live here? um, i'm sorry to hear you talk

about five people in malibu. >> i don't i don't know if we even. we don't know the death toll. i mean, the loss is uncountable. we don't know the death toll. i know that, yeah. >> oh, no, no, no, that's just like what we learned, people. yeah. >> just learning now, i mean, so at this point, one thing that as we're watching these fires and we're up here, i have seen people, you know, just people line up and literally sit in their cars all day long. and i know you know this, and they wait to try to get an escort to maybe be able to have an opportunity to come up and see their house, which has been burned to the ground. um, is there anything that can be done so that people have a chance to understand what happened? and these people are all refugees, you know? yeah. people are just going out and trying to buy underwear. i mean, people left their houses without their passports, without anything. they certainly didn't have underwear. i mean, i know you're literally starting with nothing.

>> no, nothing. nothing. it's happening in at this point. >> what can be done is for people to get. yeah. um hum. >> um, what can be done? it's still a hot spot and it's an active fire. i mean, i, i don't, i don't know, um, what can be done. i don't i'm beyond words right now to know if you're in an active fire zone. these fires are real and they don't have the city here. doesn't know if their house burnt or not. we have no information. people don't have like electricity. we don't have cellular service. some of us, some people running out of propane. there's no gas. and we understand that the gas lines, they're going to be cut for a long time. and this is going to take a long time. but we have to figure this out. um, yeah. yeah, i okay, i'm beyond i'm sorry. >> well, i am sorry, helen, and i appreciate your taking the time, being willing to come on and talk about it. i know that that's hard, but we do appreciate it. thank you very

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kind that you cannot. it's the emotional pain of having decades of memories, your life savings wiped out in mere hours. here with me is montel williams. he's the talk show host and activist. montel. i think some people are realizing that it's not always just material things. when we're talking about someone's home, what is the grief like to lose everything that you've got? >> i just by chance, reached out to a friend of mine yesterday and reached out and said, i hope you and your family are well. and he sent me back a text that still reverberates in me today. it's like montel. i and my wife, karen, we lost everything. 32 years we had this house. it's all gone. and what do i say back? do i say i'm sorry because i do cover for me. i say, our prayers are with you. what good does that do? come from me? the truth of the matter is that there are going to be people suffering from ptsd from this for the next 30 years, for the rest of their

lives. yeah, a loss of security and a sense of home security. and that that thought of just being powerless. and when you're talking 100 mile an hour winds, i am frustrated by listening to a lot of people or a lot of people have come on and talked to these pundits who are saying, well, so-and-so is to blame and so-and-so is to blame. excuse me, when did a natural disaster become a political hot potato to start blaming other people? this is a natural disaster that no one could have seen. i was looking at a map and this map shows eight fires. yeah. excuse me. that's the size of manhattan. eight fires. this is a disaster that's ever been heard of one of the other aspects of this disaster is that it's happening in california. >> the palisades is a place where a lot of well-known people live, celebrities and the like. and there are some people who want to check out for that reason because they think, well, these guys can just rebuild their million dollar homes. >> and what they don't understand is that scattered among those celebrities are average joes. there are low

rent or not low rent, but moderate rent apartments in the palisades. there are working class people that have now lost everything. >> and in other in other communities like altadena. yes, working class communities. a lot of people of color live in that community. >> but the palisades, we should not say, oh, because the rich, well, they can deal with it. no, not all those people are rich. i mean, i have a friend of mine who happens to be well-heeled enough that they have a home in las vegas also, and they were able to get out. but that family, the father has had some issues with pneumonia. and in the last couple of months, the air quality there is so bad that i don't care what color you are, how much money you make, you can't buy your way out of that. >> yeah, well, you talked about the blame game, the politicization of all of this, but there is a sense among people in los angeles that a lot of things went wrong. maybe not one thing, maybe not two things, but a lot of things went wrong. and some people want accountability. do you think that that is inevitable and do you think it should happen? >> how about a lot of things

have been going wrong for the last 20 years? how about the fact that they still allow people to build houses and use non fire retardant shingles on their roofs, non fire retardant things on the sides of the house? how about the fact that they still have people who are building houses and putting rose bushes all around their house. excuse me. you live in a fire zone. it's about time that they have to recognize that this is a desert. if you're going to rebuild, build it with desert landscaping so that you don't have to worry about people coming in and dragging out all the underbrush. and this is something that i'm not going to call it. climate change. i'm going to say truth. we've been boomeranging back and forth between deluges of tropical that that the pineapple express going across, jumping a lot of water. what that does is it fuels non-natural grasses and things that pop up. then all of a sudden it hits a drought. they all dry up. that's the fuel that is burning. >> there are so many issues that they're going to have to

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be forgotten about. my next guest worries about what recovery is going to look like for regular people like him. altadena resident michael moore lost his home of 30 years to the fires, and now he is in the process of trying to rebuild his whole life. michael, thank you so much for joining us. you've been there for 30 years in that neighborhood. you've known it for 50 years. it's all gone now. how are you and your family coping with all of this? >> well, we're trying to cope with it the best way we can. my family is all here. my cousins are. everybody is safe. so right now we have to go forward and we're just it's hard. it's hard. we we have so many memories here in this community. and we're devastated. but we have to move forward. i have to keep a positive attitude towards this

to bring my family along with me and the ones that i love, and it's just it's just hard. yeah. we don't know where we're going to, what we're going to do. we we left out of the with this basically the shirt on our, on our backs. that was it. i buying new clothes. it's it's starting from the bottom again. >> it's hard as you start that incredibly daunting process. you've said that your community doesn't have the resources to fight the bureaucracy. i wonder what do you mean by that? can you tell us what you think you're going to be facing well, i don't think that we. >> are official. our representatives or our area. i don't think they really come in contact with us to to see what how we feel. i haven't talked to any, any of my, my

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>> live at the table robert ray, danny mills and montel is back with us. robert, i don't blame the president elect for being upset. he is entitled to do that. but he did get off with absolutely no penalty whatsoever. um, why not just let this go? >> because an appeal was important, i think, to him. and i think, i hope people accept, you know, to the country as well. um, you know, if look, if it had been me and i had been a supreme court justice, i would have voted to end this thing. but amy coney barrett may be right that under the circumstances, agreeing essentially with judge merchan, the only way for this to be tested on appeal is to have allowed that sentencing to go forward. otherwise, what would have happened is this would have been put off until 2029, at which point there may never have been an appeal and it may have been dropped. you know, there would have been a political cost, i think, also to the supreme court's reputation, if they had decided to intervene here, they can

always intervene later. and the four votes in the dissent suggest that they're going to keep a close eye on this. i think it's in the country's interest to answer your question, that the appeal go forward and that there be a resolution one way or another. and i think he's got a strong argument, as many people have recognized, to test the validity of this conviction on on a number of grounds, that defendants in courtrooms all across the country, once there's a conviction, are entitled to challenge on appeal. and he may or may not be successful. but i think that's the only way for the country to come to accept the result in this case. so i think that's ultimately a good thing. >> the country will, you know, the country, there's going to be half the country that is going to only accept what donald trump tells them to accept. and he's he's never going to accept that. >> but here's the problem with that. so half the country now thinks that because donald trump did not receive a penalty, that he never should have been charged in the beginning, they're saying, oh, he wasn't penalized because he really didn't do anything wrong. and then the other half is saying, well, he did something wrong, but he got away scot free. so what was the point of that? and that's my

issue with judge merchan. what was the you made this an academic exercise by saying, i'm going to ask this jury to evaluate the case. and when they find you guilty, i'm going to say, okay, that's it. nothing happens to you. i believe he should have put in some type of penalty. clearly, it couldn't have been probation or jail time or even community service. but do a fine. so then you can say there is a result to your actions. and i'm telling you, you did something wrong and there's a consequence. that should have been what happened. >> if he had done that. i think, though, the result of the supreme court would have been different. judge merchan chose the only course, really that was available to him. >> if he if he believes he was wrong, he should stay. >> if he had gone any further, if he had gone any further, the supreme court would have stepped in. >> i'm just telling you, just to clarify, you're saying that the supreme court would have come back after the sentencing and weighed in on this. >> they would have accepted the application for a stay, would have granted the stay, the effect of which is that they would have ruled on if he had

not said beforehand that he wasn't going to give him a penalty. >> correct. i see what you're saying. all right. so, i mean, i think now that it's done, let's move on. >> you know. amen to that. i've said this to you a couple of times. i, i'm in the middle of the road. i've always been in the middle of road. i don't lean left. i don't lean right. i lean america and leaning american. now let's make this country move forward. let's figure out a way that we can at least have a discussion about, okay, it's done. let it go. move on. >> but i think that's that's exactly the question. i mean, that could be possible. but there is an appeal. trump is still pursuing his legal rights to try to get rid of the whole thing on his record. >> i don't think that's going to happen. >> well, he's going to try he's going to try to do it. and i think he has the right to everybody has the right to an appeal. but for what? if he's saying he was voted in to be president? he knows there's no penalty that's going to come to him from this. he should acknowledge the credibility of the justice system, not keep pushing against it and saying it doesn't work or it's biased

because he's attacking the the system that he's in charge of. right? he should accept what it is, allow the nation to move on. he's not going to suffer any consequence from this. so why keep it going? i truly believe that he should allow it to move on and then america can move on, just like you're saying. >> i mean, robert, i'm thinking a little bit more about what you're saying about the court. i mean, i think it would would have been i mean, it could have happened, but it would have been extraordinary if the supreme court just stepped in and said, we're going to intervene in this state case. and kind of contravene the will of a jury that put down a ruling here that would look extraordinary. >> i hear that, and i you know, while i said, that's the way i would have voted, you might feel differently about that if you knew that you were the fifth vote, which is the position that amy coney barrett found herself in. and look, the supreme court not taking this case, probably as a smart move. the court has already suffered a fair amount of blows to its

reputation about being perceived to be politically, um, outcome oriented. and i think if they had stepped in, abby, as you suggest, that's the perception that would have taken over. i think it's they can always step in later. >> and that's when they're supposed to step in. you know, the sentencing closes out the conviction. so until your sentence you can't you can't appeal anyway. that's when ordinarily that's right. >> the problem is immunity is a is a special category that allows for an interlocutory appeal. >> special categories here that trump is entitled, that trump is entitled to. >> but the problem here is that the trial has already happened. yeah. so there's really no way to go back. >> i mean, i think again it's time to let's move forward. he's appealing and it's going to make a little bit more noise, but it's going to settle down. in four years from now, there'll be a decision made after he's out of