means that every piece of legislation, every nomination to trump, since the capitol hill will probably win approval, but there is no guarantee on wednesday, trump, nominated congress with matt, gets to be attorney general gets was being investigated for sexual misconduct and illicit drug use when not anymore a fact that has raised a republican eyebrow or 2 brink of berlin. this is the day the, it's a tremendous on the present with places, confidence 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 in 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 dates as

a buyer brand conservative oil is who 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 to ukraine and 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, proving that he cannot accomplish his objectives 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 trumpet. this ration of the president elect is wasting no time in 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 point oh, have shots, 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 law maker said that gets is not a serious candidate, and he's called the choice a joke. so why is no one laugh 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 assist. sorry for more on the president, the legs power to surprise and shock. i'm joined to tonight by the jo constitutional law professor bruce argument. 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 of the 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, a, a symptom of a larger disease. so he's not going to be confirmed the, the, the notion that there are $52.00 trump wireless in the senate, or is that the majority of in the house?

so let's say 3 votes. it means that the root, 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 bad 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 when election 2 years from now me see that's this is absolutely crucial. and the 8 or 9 the of the existing of republicans in the house and a significant number 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 the terms of the republicans were punched isley a being split into 2 factions of the, 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, but at 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 thinking, what do i have to do to win the election next time? so this is a guard rail, isn't it? the professor, you know, we keep hearing ability, it's more like shows it's more like shots than you imagine. okay,

you're going to see that the, you're no, there are these fractions. you know, uh and a crucial to whip it with the democrats have, and you know this i'm, i'm trying to be know, i'm impartial here. a crucial weapon method that we're crunch have is precisely that they will not been backed a budget. okay. 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. um, this is an administration that the 2nd trouble 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 to, to keep the behavior in check compared to show compared to shots usually there's

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. ready of 12 of the democrats tried to undermine the republicans and 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 far i because that's really important to the really important appointments r e long must in vivo, the back rama swami is so called it has no legal customer, triple justice department of a 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, 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 just 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 turns, let's turn to the, the you're up to because there's a, there are really 2 different the features here. one is on the light,

the appointment of the secretary of state road, never a structure adjusted to 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 neither here nor 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 airports 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 guess 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 in 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 interference grace 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 k seem 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 to classified national security documents with him when he left the white house and then took measures to conceal his actions. a federal judge appointed by trump dismissed the case in july. smith appealed, but

a 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 elections of version case was based on athens trump to, to try to change the results in georgia after the 2020 election, a state he lost the case was thrown at the turmoil, however, by revelations of an alleged romantic affair between the lead, prosecutors and of georgia appeals court froze the case in 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. trump's 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, the trump and the justice system to talk about that. i'm joined now by barbara perry. she's a professor in presidential studies info, 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 or 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, which we have not. uh and thank you for having me with you. uh, it is the case. the donald trump is uh, as i say, always unprecedented in just about everything that he does. i and this is nadia in front of the client. the same thing 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 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 on the side 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 mind 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 of justice beginning in january? i think we are and the there is a symbol that is in the us supreme court in august. but

a committee in the house of representatives and ethics committee was investigating now 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 to a foreign policy is an area of the trumpet ministration, and that is being closely monitored and trump has gone on record as saying that he could end rushes more 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 our selves. my tour of duty in the white house. documents is time in the white house advising trump on how to navigate foreign policy. you know that experience gives big master insight into how trump could decide to deal with russia and ukraine. the w. eastern europe editor, rome, and gunter ranko spoke to mcmaster. 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 to do about the russians? oregon's too, great. the biggest tool and the european continent since the 2nd world war, i guess this age or mcmaster form a national security advisor to donald trump, advertise lift and in general, admitted to a historian. and now a senior fellow at the hoover institution at stanford university. gentlemen,

the best are welcome to dodge, develop it. hey, it's pleasure to be with you. thanks for harry. 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 great 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 at february 2022. is they tried to reassure to, to away what did we perceive 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 is the bottom, attrition 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 suspected legal assistance to ukraine's. we listed all the things we would not do to support the ukrainians if they came under attack. and then we waited 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 will never know the answer is what which will do and what does that, that have been adequate to deter vladimir putin? 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 put and whatnot of the 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, brian and his buddies in europe including germany, is, will donald trump, try to force your brain to negotiate with russia? now one of the favorable terms, like giving up land. um, oh, really stop sending military h to you. great. which is the key question. what is your of 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 united states 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, putting 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 faithful diplomatic settlement that came out of an unfavorable situation or the grant militarily. what does your major historic distorting what is your major lesson from? this was for your grade for the west financial the major lesson is that that weakness has provocative. it's much cheaper to preventive war than to have to fight one if you're concerned about the prospect of nuclear escalation, vertical escalation of a war debt for vent door to begin with, was capable for position forces. europe is we learned that less than germany has announced the chancellor sholtes announced as lightning vendor, 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 h, i'm

a mazda for one. 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 follow me on 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,

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