in house, in both chambers of congress, the house of representatives, as well as the senate. now that means that every piece of legislation, every nomination, the trump, since the capitol hill, will probably win approval. but there is no guarantee on wednesday, trump nominated congressman. that gets to be attorney general gets was being investigated for sexual misconduct and illicit drug use will not anymore a fact that his res, they republican, i grow or to i bring gulf in berlin. this is the day the, it's a tremendous on the places the conference in a position was such a important sen. rubio, i think largely refract with reflects that the broad republican views about the importance of us role and the world biden and trump should have been treated equally. they weren't. and that is the double standard that i think

a lot of americans are concerned about. mac gates as a fire brand conservative oil is to, is used his seat in congress to reliably defend donald trump's during the course of multiple investigations. also coming up, it will be trump administration for us ukraine to go to the negotiating table with russia. former trump national security advisor h r mcmaster says if that happens, it will in bold in russia to take even more land. you know what this does is mis understand the nature of more obtaining a favorable outcome in more with wires, convincing your enemy that your enemies been defeated or convincing your enemy. in this case, to him that he cannot accomplish as objective to the continued use of force on to our viewers watching on cbs in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with the fast and furious assembly of the 2nd

trump administration, and the president elect is wasting their time and announcing nominations to his cabinet just over a week after the election. and the roster of names is filling up quickly at a speed that we did not see with buys in 4 years ago at this time or with trump 8 years ago at this time. some of the names offered up for a trump cabinet. 2.0. have shocked lawmakers, both democrats and republicans on wednesday, trump, nominated florida. congressman matt gets to be the new attorney general gets his an outspoken trump loyalist with a fire brand reputation. one republican lawmaker said that gets is not a serious candidate, and he's called the choice a joke. so why is no one laughing and gets, is an attorney, but he's never prosecuted the case. he believes the 2020 presidential election was rick and stolen and he has advocated dismantling the f

b. i is nomination to head. the department of justice is seen by critics as confirmation of trump's plans to web. and now he's the us legal system already for more on the president, the legs power to surprise and shock. i'm joined to tonight by the jo constitutional law professor bruce lockerman. professor ackerman has written numerous books on the us legal assistant professor. it's good to have you with this tonight. i'd like to get your reaction 1st just to the nomination of gets the be attorney general. i mean the ethics and criminal accusations notwithstanding, is he qualified to be the boss of the d o j. this is a, uh, a symptom of a larger disease of she's not going to be confirmed. uh, the uh, the, the notions that there are 52 trump wireless in the center.

or is that the majority of in the house? so let's save 3 votes. it means that the trump controls congress is absolutely false. uh the, uh, but let me, the professor act and, and where do you usually? yeah, we're, i mean, so you're saying that we are going to see some republicans who are not going to vote for to confirm to him, but we're, we're, we're, where are you getting that information? why do you think we're not going to see loyalty in the senate to truck? absolutely. cause all of these people have to win election 2 years from now. me see, that's this is absolutely crucial. and the 8 or 9 the of the existing of a republicans in the house and a significant number. ready in the senate are traditional conservatives and they

have devoted their lives to convincing their constituents if they are thoughtful. sure of which uh, uh, the, uh, in fact, last uh, uh, terms of the republicans were punched isley uh, being split into 2 factions. uh, the uh, at the present, at the present time in the future. what we're going to she is, the democrats are going to decide what is going to actually pass in congress by that. what is not going to pass it publish? and all of these senators and congressmen will only one 3rd of the senate, but all of the houses are of thinking. what do i have to do to win the election next time? so this is a guard rail is a new jersey professor, you know,

we keep hearing vanity, it's more like show it's a point like schultz then you imagine, okay, you're going to see your role. there are these fractions, you know, a and a crucial to whip it. if the democrats have been, you know, this i'm, i'm trying to be, know, i'm impartial here. a crucial weapon. that's it, that we're crouch have is precisely that they will not invest a budget. the government shuts down. what is it generates a crisis? is this part of the, of the guard rails promoter? you know, we came here a bit of this is an administration that the 2nd trump administration will be one with no guard rails on it. but if i'm understanding you correctly, it sounds like you're saying that, you know, the fear of not being re elected for example, that, that, that, that part of our system serves as a guard rail duty to keep the behavior in check compared to show compared to

schultz you, she is a vote of no confidence and you have to have a new election, not this time, not in the united states. we have 2 years here of, of 12 of the democrats tried to undermine the republicans in the week. and the republicans tried to undermine the democrats. so this is the really important appointment domestically that perhaps i have, i should turn to a for it because that's really important to the really important appointments r e long must in vivo, the exact rama swami is so called it has no legal customer, triple existence, department of government deficiency and what they are going to try to do is to destroy the civil service of $1000000.00 a civil service, but not only at the top which throughout the country. this would be

a disaster. because if some future republican or feature democrats wants to actually to accomplish something internally. mm hm. they won't be a civil service. do you think that possible? the professor just it just the sheer numbers we're talking about here? is it possible for this, this department of government officials? is it possible to, to really just to shed, you know, that large number of jobs? so queen one, it's again, it's the budget you see the budget there. but what, what trump is going to do is say we're going to save. busy all this money you see by eliminating all the salaries. what a tragedy of what truth, what store and to the uh you're up to because there is a,

there are really 2 different features here. one is like the appointment of the secretary of state road, never a distributor, the just the, the industry of justice, you will never get him for a marco rubio is actually an experienced and we'll let you leave for the for sure. but i don't know. i'm a bit, i mean i am but but this is the. ready here goes, there it is, she really will try be a check on the truck because my truck wants to do is to pull 60 percent or on german. it's important of all that. that's right. yeah. is it that's getting it, it's going to get a lot of attention on this side of the atlantic as well. really good on the proposal? yes, i mean, i'm just going to, unfortunately, we're out of time. i'm just here, my producer. tell us we're out of time, but i want to thank you for taking the time to talk with us. we appreciate your insights. you right. thank you. well, i can't say it's a pleasure,

but it's certainly a terrible moment for us. all of us donald trump, will return to the white house as a convicted felon. there are numerous criminal cases that are still pending against him, but his re election makes prosecuting him much more difficult. here's a look at where the various cases stand. the 1st former president convicted of a felony now with re election the 1st felon to be president with the help of a remarkable series of legal delays and court decisions. donald trump is headed back to the white house. earlier this year, his legal calendar was daunting. he faced 4 separate cases and $91.00 separate charges. they included a federal election interference trial, and a federal case about trump's holding onto classified documents. after he left office, a state level election, the interference praise in georgia and

a new york state hush money business fraud case. the federal election interference case led by special council jack smith seemed to be the biggest of all and could have sent trump to prison for 20 years or more. it covered his efforts to stay in office after he lost the 2020 election, including his encouraging a crowd to march on the capital building on january 6th, 2021. that case seemed to fall apart. when the supreme court ruled in july, the presidents have absolute immunity while performing their constitutional duties . trump has promised to fire jack smith, while his justice department could simply dismiss the case. smith will report at least step down before trump takes office. the federal classified documents case was also brought by jack smith, claiming the trump top classified national security documents with him when he left the white house and then took measures to conceal his actions. as

a federal judge appointed by trump dismissed the case in july, smith appealed, but the trump administration attorney general is likely to drop that appeal. trump can't stop the other 2 cases because they're not federal. the georgia election subversion case was based on accidents. trump, to try to change the results in georgia after the 2020 election, a state he lost the case was thrown. it's a turmoil, however, by revelations of an alleged romantic affair between the lead, prosecutors, and of georgia appeals court froze the case and definitely in june and the new york state hush money case, in which trump was found guilty on $34.00 charges of filing false business records that's based on payments. he made the pornographic phil mattress stormy daniels before the 2016 election, allegedly to buy her silence about an affair to keep that information from hurting

his campaign. the judge in that case has announced he'll make a decision about sentencing as early as next week and could pass a sentence on november. 26th trumps lawyers are likely to argue the presidential. immunity means he can't be sentenced until his term ends. trump could pardon himself for any federal convictions, but with those cases winding down, he very likely won't have to and he can't pardon himself for his new york state hush money. convictions. he could, however, ask new york state's governor, a democrat, for a pardon, the trump and the justice system. the talk about that i'm joined now by barbara perry. she's a professor in presidential studies in co chair of the presidential oral history program at the university of virginia. she has written more than a dozen books on us. presidents professor, it's good to have you with us tonight. donald trump, as you know, is the 1st convicted felon to ever be elected us president. he has these pending

investigations are these cases against him. i'll put all the disagree could in to some type of historical context for somebody. we've never seen anything like truck before have to we have not, and thank you for having me with you. i. it is the case the donald trump is, as i say, always unprecedented in just about everything that he does. i and this is madge in front of the class. i think you can say that we come to this if we put it in historical context would be richard dixon during the watergate scandal. but he was listed as a and an uninvited co conspirators, or i, in that case that involves the watergate break in by his minions of the committee to re elect him. i and so he was never indicted to begin with. therefore, he never came up for trial. and then when he resigned in august of 1974, his vice president, gerald ford,

became president and part is richard dickson for any future possible litigation once he was out in the presidency. but again, that's the closest we can get, but everything that relates to donald trump, including the supreme court decision, granting him immunity, is also a historical and unprecedented that this is uncharted territory. drunk attorneys argue that even these charges against him, these proceedings, they all have to stop while he is in office. i'm wondering do trump's legal boys, do they disappear when he assumes the 2nd presidential term in january? is that black and white to i think it is particularly in the federal cases and you had an excellent report leading up to our conversation. because even if the decisions of course would be to carry on with these federal cases. and i don't think that they will be, and as you said, jack smith,

the special prosecutor in both the federal cases, is already saying that he will resign and step down from that. before trump is inaugurated, i think that those cases will go away even before trump becomes president, if they're still ongoing wiley's president, he will have his justice department presumably led by that gate. i just pushed them aside so those will go away. and i actually think the same will happen. i, in the state cases in new york in georgia as well. i want to pick you up on map, it gets your reading my minds here. i mean, if he becomes the attorney general at the department of justice, he could use his office to seek revenge, which is what has been implied or intimated several times by donald trump. do you think we are looking at dark days for us justice, beginning in january? i think we are and the there's

a symbol that is in the us supreme court and often used for a symbolizing justice in the united states. and it is lady justice, a figure, a symbolic figure holding a scale of justice. the scales are events and she and blindfolded because she is meant not to be of having one bias towards one party and or another. so justice is blind, it is often said in the scale to just refresh our to be even. i think that my case will take the blindfold off of lady justice about it. what about gates himself? you know, he's been facing the us congressional ethics panel, probing to allegations of sex trafficking and illicit drug use against him. sex with a minor i think was the charge. do those probes, do they just go away on the spot? if he becomes attorney general will, of course we should know that the justice department did investigate him and some

of his cronies. but the no charges were brought against that case. but a committee in the house of representatives and ethics committee was investigating about these charges. and that would be ethics charges, professional charges, political charges if you will. i brought against him perhaps to try to take him out of the house. but he resigned yesterday when he was named or nominated to be attorney general. so i think those how i ethics probes will go away too. yeah. well, definitely a lot of new material for a new book about the next president. that is sure, professor barbara harry, we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight. thank you. thank you. a foreign policy is an area of the trumpet ministration, and that is being closely monitored. the trump is gone on record as saying that he could end russia's war against ukraine in just one day. that of course, is raise the question of whether keith could be forced to accept

a peace deal with moscow or former trouble administration. national security advisor h. r mcmaster says that could leave the us in europe a week in the face of russian imperialistic ambitions. mcmaster has a new book called at war with ourselves, my tour of duty in the white house. it documents his time in the white house advising trunk on how to navigate foreign policy. now that experience gives big master insight into how trump could decide to deal with russia and ukraine. the w. eastern europe editor, roman country ranko, spoke to mick master. here's that energy. donald trump is coming back as president of the united states, but the world has changed since he left the office in the early 2021. what will he do about the russians oregon's too great, the biggest will on the european continent. and since the 2nd world war, oh, augustus h r, mcmaster, former national security adviser to donald trump,

advertise lift and in general admitted to a historian. and now i see a fellow at the hoover institution at stanford university. gentlemen, the past are welcome to dodge, develop, hey, it's pleasure to be with you. thanks for having me. we are now speaking uh, one week off to the election after we know that donald trump will be again us preston. during the campaign. as many times that russia would not have attacked, you grade if he had been president. so does he have a point? what donald trump would have done differently to prevent that to prevent russia from attacking the wrong level? never know for sure, but it, but i think it's possible that the top who would donovan faded ukraine because truck, if anything, is kind of a predictable. and i think what the, by the administration did in the run up to the, to the massive renovation of ukraine. this is really between august of 2021 and february 2022 is the tried to reassure to to away what did we proceed

with the bible should proceed as his security concerns. and that's a fundamental, this understanding of latitude, which rise vladimir putin is just aspiration to restore russia to national greatness and as ever to reestablish the russian empire or you have to do is read the long essay he's supposedly authored by july or august of, of 20 of 2021. so what does apply ministration? do they met with 2 inches deep? uh, you know, laid out all of their red lines, which you know what this sounds like. the food will have a green light for everything else. and then we pulled our ships out of the black sea. we suspect that legal assistance to ukraine's we listed all of the things we would not do to support the ukrainians if they came under attack. and then we evacuated our embassy. and all of our advisors, i mean, so it looks to me in retrospect roland, like we greenlighted the, the, the,

the offices. so i don't think you have a truck would have done the same thing. well, it is a question open question. well, that's know the answer is what we're trying to do and what is that that have been adequate to deter, flattened or to? of course, i think the question for all of us is, what if, what if we had provided you grades with the range of capabilities they have now before 2022. i think then the, then people would not as a dated like what's important for all of us to recognize is what provokes to and just a perception of weakness. but the question for you in writing and his partners in europe including germany, is, will donald trump try to force your brain to negotiate with russia now on a favorable terms, like giving up land? um, oh, really stop sending military h to you. great. which is the key question, what is your, your house or your expectation?

you know, my hope is that he won't do either one of those. i, i am what i'm worried, as, as i'm sure many, many are in the last agent in your that he will do that. you know, that we've heard this kind of idea that, you know, who your entice russia into negotiations by threatening to provide you. great, you know, with the full range of capabilities, they need a much larger scale. and then he'll the course you create to the big oh, shooting table, but it's ready to withhold assistance. and of course, you know what this does is miss, understand the nature of more obtaining a favorable outcome in more with wires, convincing your enemy that your enemies been defeated or convincing your enemy in this case that he cannot accomplish his objectives to the continued use of force, it also misunderstands that the, with the degree to which you do militarily is integrated with what you're trying to

achieve. politically. there is not a single example in history that i can think of, of a favorable diplomatic settlement that came out of an unfavorable situation on the grant. militarily of what does your major, historic distorted what is your major lesson from? this was for your grade for the west financial. the major lesson is that that weakness is provocative. it's much cheaper to prevent more than the have to fight one. if you're concerned about the prospect of nuclear escalation, vertical escalation of a work that for vent to work to begin with, was capable for position forces. europe is. we learned that lesson in germany as announced. the chancellor schultz announced as light inventor. but he has time to follow up on that now. i mean, we have to stop pretending that these wars can escalate horizontally and vertically. and we need to, you know, go back to the old ronald reagan, say,

a peace through strength, general age. i'm a mazda 41. there's no security advisor to donald trump. thank you very much for your time and your expertise a deal. well, they, it continues online to find us on x, also known as twitter. and on youtube videos, you can tell them, you know, social media went go off t v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll see you then the

to the points. strong opinions, clear position. international perspective. germany's government coalition collapsed the day. donald trump was announced. winter of the us elections until germans voted in february, europe's heavy way to start composing a further problem for you brain. on to the point we ask a german, he's down. can you government turn things around to the point next on d, w country runs the ground breaking

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providing you with free information dw made for mind the germany is government coalition collapsed to the de donald trump was announced winter of the us elections. now germans will have to decide who will rule the country in a snap election in february until then little else will get done. what i've chose has become a lame duck chancellor. at a time when germany needs strong political leadership, more than never, the economy is struggling. society is divided. europe's heavy weight has come to a home, including in foreign policy. that's especially better for ukraine, while it's 2 biggest supporters, the u. s. and germany are stuck in a power vacuum. it's war against.