guilty to unlawfully withholding information from congress, but was like the pot and by president george h bush was back in 1982 abrams and try to mislead says about the l. mazetti masika. remove the 800 people in el salvador by the local us trained and equipped to military. but according to the state department of the us advisory commission on public diplomacy is tossed with appraising government activities in order to understand in full funding, fluid score and public says what is to increase the understands the goals on support. all that set to activities, the goal it's duties also include the assembly and dissemination of information on the issue, wouldn't of reports to the secretary of states, the president and congress sancho like american political on the list. i'm seeing the research of the sofa issue, insight to knows elliot abrams says, he doesn't seem to be the best fit for the position all biden's liberal elect with both sides of the challenge the nomination. you know, i'm concerned that only it's there. he's not the best representative of of good diplomacy. i've interacted with lov

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to unload for late withholding information from congress, but was later paused and by president george h bush and back in 1992 abrams had tried to mislead. so that's about the elements. 13 mazda covers more than 800 people in el salvador, by the local us trained and equipped military. according to the state department of the us advisory commission on public diplomacy as tossed with appraising government activities in order to understand in full and influence foreign publics, as well as to increase the understanding goals on support for such activities. the boats duties also include the assembly and dissemination of information of the issue and go reports to the secretary of states, the president and congress on this side of it, i guess now john, because we like american political analyst on senior research and it's a full issue insight many thanks for joining us on the program. always lovely to see you now. while elliot abrams is certainly a very experienced politician, his diploma reputation is far from impactable. what's your take on his nomination by president? by to, i guess the setup pie

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donald air is a -- former united states deputy attorney general under george h. w. bush. like to have this conversation more as the time goes by. thank you both this morning. still ahead this hour on velshi, trump's list of legal troubles's sprawling and it gets worse by the day. i will break down the criminal and civil case is that the -- former president is facing and how it's going to intersect with his 2024 presidential campaign. and today's meeting at the velshi banned book club is going to examine the late, great maya angeles unparalleled autobiography. i know why the caged bird sings. she was a prolific writer and left an even larger legacy. >> iraq -- a tree hosts the species long since departed marked the masthead on, the dinosaur, who left -- tokens of their soldier in here on our planet. any broad alarm of their hastening doom is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. d ages d ages imagine you're doing something you love. rsv could cut it short. ♪ rsv is a contagious virus that usually causes mild symptoms but can cause more severe infections that may lead to hosp

president and national secured advisor and national secured advisor in the restrictions of president george h. w. bush where he supervised policy in the middle east for the white house. he also has been a trump administration -- he served as special representative for iran and from venezuela. let me just highlight a few key points of our report before we go to for questions. probably a lot of our listeners know where the iranian nuclear program is. in recent months they reached 84% nuclear enrichment and there on the verge of becoming a nuclear threshold state. there is no evident, at least it doesn't seem that the iranians here a u.s. military strike to prevent a nuclear iran. and i think if israel does take military action, it would really represent a failure of over three decades of u.s. policy. every president of the united states have said the united states will act to prevent a nuclear iran that it seems we're getting very close to that very eventuality. also, obviously much of -- that has been a lot of focus with this new israeli government on views of settlements, obviously, as we see today wi

the republican party of today is not the republican party of george h. w. bush.party of w. it's other for the party of reagan. it is the republican party of donald j trump. and, i think that is very important for all of us to remember. that though he knows that his polling in iowa is horrible, that's one of the reasons why he skipped that. he also recognizes that his voice still reign supreme. that's why he's leaning in on turning point usa, where we just saw the leader of the set organization, basically attack all black women in power. from ketanji brown jackson to vice president kamala harris, and everyone in between, about how they are unqualified, an educated, and shouldn't get to where they are based on the fact that he simply assumes they are there because of affirmative action. donald trump is leaning into the anti-dei, the anti-culture wars, the wokeism. because he knows that there is a base for. and sadly, that is the current republican party. >> so, as we're having this conversation, and now we have this collision of ideology and policy experts talking

when david duke was running for governor in 1991, george h. w. bush came out and said, this guy is not one of. us he came within a whisker of endorsing the democrat. you didn't see bush coming on saying, hey, you've got to be careful. you don't want edwin edwards to win the governorship. he came out and he sent the right thing. so, this guy is a clansmen, no one should vote for him. he's not a republican. nobody is doing that now. they're saying, well you, know i know you like trump. i understand why. he will probably lose. you're talking to people who think he won the last time around. they don't think he's a proven loser. and that is the other problem with this. d thher pryou're making an argut people just fundamentally don't believe. i think where we are, back in 2016. you have all these craven, cowardly republicans who say, you know, once trump implodes, i'm going to scoop up the voters. they're going to come home to me. it didn't happen in 2016, it's not going to happen now. if trump somehow implodes in the, primary it would be a great outcome fo

but he accepted president george h. w. bush'sment to the federal court of appeals in 1990 and then, of course, accepted the same presidents appointment to the supreme court a year later, making him one of the least experienced supreme court nominees of his own lifetime. and so what is a man to do while living on a government salary and wanting to be very, very rich, or at least once having wanted to be very very rich? the desire to be very, very rich evaporate for him? in the same way that the desire to be a priest evaporated for him? or did some piece of that last for wealth remain? enough of it seems to have remained to make clarence thomas the most publicly corrupt supreme court justice in history. as i have noted before that it is possible in the last couple of hundred years we have had a supreme court justice who is secretly more corrupt than clarence thomas, but that never became public. that is possible, but on the public record alone no supreme court justice in history has ever been more financially compromised than the m

former deputy attorney general under george h. w. bush, donald air, he is a u.s.t ronald reagan. it's great to have you with us, donald. first, i want to get your reaction to what was inside that target letter. you have the three federal statutes you -- statutes mentioned, including deprivation of rights under color block, conspiracy to defraud the united states, and tampering with a witness. how does that measure up with what you and your colleagues predicted? >> well, it's pretty similar. it's similar in one major way. that is that we were concerned in our memo that clearly a good successful prosecution is going to have to somehow or other managed to deal with a huge amount of evidence and need to present it in a way that streamlines and simplifies what is being alleged. we suggest three specific statutes be used. two of them are mentioned in the target letter. the third one that's mentioned in the target letter is a little different. one thing that the target letter doesn't mention is the idea of prosecuting donald trump for insurrection. i think it is a little

and just remind everybody, of course, well, when david duke was running for governor in 1991, george h. w. bush came out and said this guy is not one of us. he came within a whisker of actually endorsing the democrat publicly. you didn't see bush coming out and saying you gotta be careful, don't want edwards to win that govern chip. he came out and he said the right thing. this guy is a klansmen, nobody should vote for him, he's not a republican. nobody is doing that, they are saying well, you know, i know you like trump, i understand why, but hill probably lose. you are talking to people who think he won the last time around. they don't think he is a proven loser. and that is the other problem with this, and you are making an argument that people just fundamentally don't believe him. i think where we are is back in 2016 where you have all these cowardly republicans who say, you know, once trump implodes, i'm going to scoop up all of those voters. they are all going to come home to me. that didn't happen in 2016, it's not going to happen now. if trump somehow implodes in the primary, and probab

if you look at history, george h w bush faced -- there was a third-party candidate in 1992, the incumbentng, prospero, certainly siphoned votes away from him. if you look into thousand -- in 2000, with al gore who was certainly like an incumbent, and there was a lack of enthusiasm out there. ralph nader got just enough votes to help george w. bush win. third-party candidates are a concern for major party candidates because they can take away votes, they can destabilize, they can change the dynamic. but the thing a third party has not been able to do and it is not clear no labels is going to do this either is break the grip of the two-party system on american politics, which is what everybody who hates the two-party system like to do, but no one has found a way because of the way the system is set up to break that grip. geoff: let's talk about the money race. we are getting a first full financial look at the 2020 for financial race. i have to put my glasses on to look at the numbers here. on the republican side, look at this number. ron desantis, he raised a strong $20 million. his campaig

this is not the party of ronald reagan and george h. w. bush, and eisenhower.is a radically transformed party, it is driven by a cult of personality, i'm not trying to make too fine a point of that. it is a cult of personality. they're obsessed with trump, and so i want to salute asa and will and chris christie for showing any sort of daylight, for but it's hard to imagine those guys getting more than a dozen votes from immediate family members when it comes to a republican primary. they're going to get destroyed. ron desantis is collapsing. nikki haley and tim scott, they will collapse. lynn youngkin's, the hamlet of the establishment money collapse right now, and he is looking at this and saying i don't have an audience. the audience is committed by trump, he's now at over 50% in iowa, he's now very much over 50% in about ten of the early states, and so none of these guys have a real chance to do this. if they want to make a futile moral stand, welcome to the party pal, we've been doing this since 2015. but god bless you for saying this. but there is no audie

lawyer who worked with george h w bush white house during the confirmation.elebrating thomas's career and attacking his longtime accuser. and a twitter account using the name justice thomas van account. he would have flattering -- commentary. he is intimate in sharing his feelings, laughter and so on. this was not apparent at the time, but the rush of favorable content was part of a coordinated and sophisticated public relations campaign to defend and celebrate thomas according to a washington post examination of internal records and interviews with people. the campaign stretched on for years and it included the creation of -- advertising to boost positive content about him during internet searches. a publication about a book of his life in it was financed with 1.8 million dollars from conservative nonprofit groups. -- we are hearing from you and your view of the u.s. supreme court. the lines are democrats (202) 748-8000, republicans (202) 748-8001, independents (202) 748-8002. john is in boston. independent line. caller: good morning. host: good morning. cal