director, richard grinnell just extensively accused biden of 4 and meddling and turkey. instructing jeff flake to meet with the opposition candidate in the middle of the election was a terrible mistake. the us must strongly advocate for its policies, but must stay away from picking size and elections are due on knows what you do. this will not benefit us interest, so your plan leaders are also now joining this congratulatory choir. but in the run up to the vote, russell's was dangling the notions of a common market with the e u. n. visa liberalization for turkey in the u. in front of the turkish voters like it was some kind of an engagement ring, even though they seem more interested in just stringing and car a long to keep health thing it out with migrants from africa are hosting nato basis for their never ending wars in africa. in the middle east or negotiating the black sea grand deal between russia and ukraine, and a significant chunk of the western press was also explicitly calling in the months before this election for, or the wind to be dropped, kicked from power, and through western me

remember senator jeff flake being chased down the hallways of congress by reporters, and by citizensciary committee on the confirmation of supreme court justice brett kavanaugh? senators are chased down the hallways every day by reporters. the speaker of the house, the most powerful position in congress, the senate in line for the presidency is chased down the hallway every day by reporters, but no supreme court justice has never been subject to a reporter's question on the way in, four out of the building, or on the way to lunch, never. why not? joining us now is dahlia lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for slate and host of the podcast amicus. she is an msnbc law and politics analyst, and the author of lady justice, women, the law, and the battle to save america. dahlia lithwick, i'm always behind you, and in this case, i might be flattering myself, but i feel like i was, i don't know, a day or two behind you on this question of, why don't we cover them the way we cover everybody else? as soon as you asked it, as soon as you put it out there in print, it felt like, oh