ted olson it's my understanding said he would have nothing to do with representing donald trump. he's since appeared on this network saying there's too much chaos for this to be good for anyone. but it just illustrates the schizophrenia to have talked to joe digenova one day and ted olson the next, and to be incapable of recruiting either man onto his team, speaks to the ongoing problem of the president really having a one-man legal operation. >> yeah, and the president's going to need some legal heft here. if he tries to oppose bob mueller's request for an interview, bob mueller could go to the grand jury and get a subpoena for the president to testify. i think what would ensue would be essentially a legal battle between the department of justice and the special counsel and the president's legal team over when and where the president will be required to give testimony. of course in the clinton ken starr investigation, they ended up doing it in the white house, there was closed circuit television. i think this would be a running gun battle, a legal battle between the jay sekulows

ted olson declined.ay morning another early morning attack on bob mueller fox news contributor alan dershowitz said, quote, i was opposed to the special counsel robert mueller being appointed. a friend and colleague describing him as, quote, fed up with trump's bleep luna si and he'd like to meet with mueller for an interview. this is' not all. he also fired his national security advisor, challenged joe biden to a fist fight, slapped tariffs on china and sent markets plummeting. joining me at the table, elise stokols, now an msnbc analyst, and philip bump, reporter for the washington post. since your paper had the scoop, let's start with you. i always find it -- and you coined this term, presidential tells. there is always an explanation after the fact for the biggest presidential tantrums and this seems to be that explanation for, by all accounts, a more unhinged than average week for the president, this week that he apparently learned he was the subject of the mueller probe. >> i think it's probably tr

floyd abrams, representing the new york times against the nixon administration and ted olson, a former u.s. solicitor general under george w. bush. watch landmark cases tonight at 9:00 eastern on c-span. join the conversation at landmark cases. follow us at c-span. backgroundources for on each case. a link to the national and thetion center's, landmark cases podcast at c-span.org/landmark cases. >> now from the republican national lawyers association, a discussion on the rule of law and the lungren attorneys general from oklahoma and arkansas. >> good morning. good morning. smarter with carter. words that resonated throughout one of the bluest cities in the country during the 2016 election. the person behind this was ashley carter. the highest elected public in washington, who notwithstanding a sea of v

thisuest to discuss landmark case are two top litigators including floyd abrams and ted olson, a former u.s. solicitor general under president george h.w. bush. watch landmark cases tonight at 9:00 eastern on c-span and join the discussion. our #is landmark cases and follow us at c-span. we are resources on our website for background. the landmark cases continuum book. a link to the national constitution center's interact with constitution and the podcast on c-span.org/landmark cases. on his first official trip abroad, secretary of state mike on pale made a stop in israel where he met with prime minister netanyahu in tel aviv. they made a joint statement before the news media focusing on u.s.-israel relations and the iran nuclear agreement. prime minister netanyahu: secretary pompeo, it's wonderful to welcome you. this is your first visit to israel as secretary of state. i think it's significant that you chose, as did the president, to include israel on this important itinerary. i think it's symbolic of our friendship, which

, floyd abrams representing the new york times in the case against the nixon administration, and ted olson, a solicitor general under president george w. bush. atch landmark cases monday 9:00 eastern on c-span. join the conversation. tag is #landmark cases. we have a book, a link to the constitution's centers interactive constitution, and the len marquesas podcast at www.c-span.org/landmarkcases. >> the republican national lawyers association recently held its annual policy conference in washington dc. among the speakers was former attorney general michael mukasey who served under the george w. bush administration. this is 30 minutes. >> i'm honored to introduce michael mukasey to discuss restoring the rule of law to the department of justice. judgment casey was appointed by president ronald reagan to serve on the new york bench in the southern district of new york. he served as a district court judge from 1988-2006 and from 2000-2006, he served as the chief justice of the southern district. justice of the southen district leaving that corporate a footnote he was succeeded as chief justice

york times" and ted olson, former u.s. solicitor general under george w. bush. watch landmark cases tonight on c-span. follow us at c-span. websiteresources on our for background on each case. a link to the national constitution center's interactive constitution and the landmark cases podcast at www.c-span.org. on wednesday, the senate rules committee approved a measure that would change procedures for considering certain nominations. the legislation advanced on a partyline vote would reduced postclosure debate for nominations. not including most cabinet level and senior judicial nominees. it is unclear when the bill might make it to a full vote on the senate floor. this is 40 minutes. >> the committee on rules and administration come to order. pleased to see my colleagues here. this is the second time i have had a chance to chair this committee and i am glad to return. i am particularly fortunate to have my ranking member. she and i worked on a lot of things together feared some of those things will come before this committee. the pleased to welcome senator to

floyd abrams who represented the "new york times" in its case against the nixon administration and ted olson live monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >>> joshua geltzer, former counterterrorism senior director at the national security council under the obama administration and currently georgetown university law school, the institute of constitutional advocacy and protection where he serves as executive director. good morning. >> good morning. >> the supreme court discusses the president's travel ban tomorrow. could you set up what will be debated but what's at stake? >> sure this has a complicated history, the third attempt by the president to deliver on a campaign promise of this travel ban but the first time it's actually reaching the supreme court on the merits in full. the first two were temporary bans, expired before the case could get to the supreme court. now the third one is indefinite, made it to the court and when it was issued it was called a proclamation, it applied to eight countries, six of them were muslim majority countries and in this third our attempt at a travel ban s

and ted olson, former solicitor general under president george w. bush. watch landmark cases monday at 9:00 eastern on c-span, and join the conversation. our #is landmarkcases. and follow us @c-span. and we have resources on our website for background on each case. the landmark cases companion book, a link to national constitution center's interactive constitution. and the landmark indicates podcast at c-span.org/landmarkcases. >>> on wednesday, french president emmanuel macron held a news conference at the conclusion of his official state visit to washington, d.c. he discussed u.s.-french relations. the bilateral meetings with president trump and his address to a joint meeting of congress. held at george washington university, this is 45 minutes. [ speaking french >> this is the end of the state visit which is the first one organized by president trump. and it's been a great honor for france. and i would like to start this conference by thanking president trump as well as the first lady for their warm welcome, their warm welcome. my spouse and myself and

abrams, who represented "the new york times" and its case against the nixon administration, and ted olson, the former u.s. solicitor general under president gorge w. bush. live monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >> c.i.a. director mike pompeo's nomination to be the next secretary of state cleared the senate foreign relations committee yesterday by a vote

guest floyd abrams represent the "new york times" in its case against the nixon administration and ted olson the form u.s. solicitor general under president george w. bush live monday night at nine eastern on c-span. >> a conversation from heritage foundation on its index of economic freedom. repairing the economy's of wonder 86 different countries, wilbur ross spoke at this event. he talked about the trump administration's traded economic policies. >> good afternoon. welcome to the heritage foundation. our program today will be hosted by ambassador terry miller. we've given copies of the book that he's chief editor of for your future reference as well as for reference during a presentation this morning. he serves heritage as the fellow and economic freedom. the is also director of our center for international trade and economics. prior to joining as he served for 26 years or more as a public servant and in the diplomatic corps. among his appointments with serving as ambassador to united nations economic and social council, appointment by president george george w. bus. also serve before tha

lloyd abrams, who represented the new york times in the case against the nixon administration and ted olson, the former u.s. solicitor general under george w. bush. live monday night at nine eastern on c-span. sunday on q&a -- >> the news starts to spread through more papers around the country. and it seems to be swing voters. there's even a famous editorial heart and that comes out with the baby screaming, mom, mom, where's my pot? >> cunningham hosts the creator of the washington post presidential and constitutional podcast. >> the first few episodes are all kind of hanging around the concept of, we the people. so it was an explanation -- exploration of gender, race, nationality, and ancestry. then we sort of moved into the idea of a more perfect union and there are a couple episodes about justice and defense and it ends sort of with

our guests are two of the nation's top litigators, floyd abrams and ted olson.ses monday at 9:00 eastern and join the conversation. follow us at c-span. we have resources on our website or background on each case, the landmark cases companion book, a link to the interactive constitution and landmark cases podcast at c-span.org/landmarkcases good >> monday night on the communicators. >> there's a lot of net neutrality fatigue. >> one of the reasons this debate generated so much heat and arguably less light, but so much heat, because it was viewed as good guys versus bad guys. google and facebook were good guys and verizon and at&t were the bad guys. the zeitgeist right now is they are all bad guys. >> watch the communicators monday night on c-span2. >> on friday, german chancellor angela merkel met with president trump at the white house, where the two leaders held a joint news conference. they discussed the historic talks between north and south korea, trade relations with europe and the iran nuclear deal. this is 40 minutes.

and ted olson, the former u.s. solicitor general. watch landmark cases next monday at 9:00 eastern on c-span and joint the conversation -- join the conversation and follow us. we have resources on our website for background on each case. a link to the national constitution center's interactive constitution and -- landmark cases podcast at c-span.org/landmarkcases. >> next, a discussion on the impact of james comey's book with maryland democratic congressman and former reagan justice department official victoria toensing. this is just under one hour. now on book tv, a discussion on james comey's book. joining us to dissect what is in this book are two people very experienced inside washington and washington politics. oensing is a high-profile lawyer here in washington. representative jamie raskin is a democrat from maryland and a member of the judiciary committee. before we get into the

my name is ted olson. as a third generation san franciscan, i'm honored to serve on the connectsf and transit center task forces and numerous other citizen advisory committees, so i am familiar with our transit and housing issues, but i speak to you today only as a san franciscan citizen. i urge your support of the connectsf vision report. we approved a similar resolution this week at our market actavia cac. i commend our outreach of stakeholders and the public to understand the multifaceted issues surrounding this effort. however, since this is a 50-year plan with commitment to review and update every five years, i urge that as a matter of civic education during the plan's life, we engage our communities either through sessions at our local libraries or schools to educate our citizens in these multiple issues in the process of scenario planning which could help all planning agencies such as yours in our city. i'm very grateful that our connectsf plan is regionally oriented, and an exemplar of such thinkin

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and ted olson, the former u.s. solicitor general with guests under president gorge w. bush. -- george w. bush. live monday night on c-span. >> the u.s. supreme court is beginning oral argument at this hour in a case "the new york times" says challenges president trump's latest effort to limit travel from countries said to pose a threat to the nation's security. the case a major task of presidential power will require the justices to decide whether mr. trump's campaign promise to impose a quote, muslim man, were reflected in executive orders from muslim nations. challenges issued a presidential proclamation in september and said it was tainted by religious animus and not adequately justified by national security concerns. a decision is expected by late june. ad more of this article at nytimes.com. we'll have it airing tonight here on c-span at 9:00 p.m. eastern. more about the case from today's "washington journal." washington journal continues. los angeles times supreme court reporter joins us on the last day of arguments of the current term of the supreme court. set t

abrams, who represented "the new york times" and its case against the nixon administration, and ted olson, the former u.s. solicitor general under president gorge w. bush. live monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >> c.i.a. director mike pompeo's nomination to be the next secretary of state cleared the senate foreign relations ommittee yesterday by a vote of 11-9. kentucky's rand paul changed his vote to yes after speaking with president trump. and delaware democrat chris coons agreed to change his vote from of 11-9. no to present in order for the nomination to leave the committee without a negative recommendation. here's a look at that hour-long meeting. >> the foreign relations committee will come to order. we pride ourselves on starting meetings exactly on time. we have had few entrepreneurial things happen over the last few inutes and therefore we're discussing a way forward for his. discussing a way forward for his. the committee will be in order. today we're going to discuss the nomination of mike pompeo to be the next secretary of state. we're also going to consider two other no

ted olson said no. he went after another lawyer. no. the president needs a good stable team of legal advisers around this russia investigation. this investigation is going to uncover more things than the president realized. let's be very honest, we have got to put every card on the table. the russians, meddled it had an impact on the 2016 election. i'm happy that the president -- i'm going to say something nice. it's easter. >> don't go crazy. >> don't worry. i'm pleased he expelled those russian spies and closed the consulate in seattle. i'm pleased there's money in the omnibus to help state and local government, but he needs good legal advisement. he cannot keep shooting from the hip. >> it's hard to believe that president trump who has flouted his way to business success, that robert mueller is not going to dig up something in trump's complicated financial history. it's hard to believe when republicans lose the house in 2018 maybe by 30 or 40 seats. that that house is maybe not going to impeach him. it's also hard to believe the u.s.

. >> ted olson, somebody they tried to get to join the team absolutely wouldn't do it.he, it falls under the category of larry kudlow joining as economic advisor. he does, to ashley's point, likes people he sees on tv. >> he does like people he sees tv. i imagine he likes what he's going to get from rudy giuliani when it comes to the tv portion of his job. somebody who is loutd, loud, critical of robert mueller, someone who will not be hard to find when reporters are trying to get quotes. but in terms of what he's going to do legally for him, i'm with ashley. i have no idea what the qualifications are -- if he can fill those qualifications in the way that the president needs him to because at pbs we've had the same reporting everyone else has, which is that we've talked to lawyers who have turned down the president, which is a remarkable thing to say. i think a pretty remarkable, like everybody else can tune in. you're the president, you can't get a lawyer, that's kind of remarkable to me. >> yeah, let's talk a little about the president's other lawyer perhaps, maybe th

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he would like a ted olson and a caliber attorney representing him. this does not show him to be a particularly disciplined client. >> he had john dowd, a long-time washington lawyer, someone who had investigated pete rose, done a lot of things. john dowd concluded he could not get the president to listen to him. a very simple thing. he said, i can't continue to do this. this is a terrible place to be as a lawyer. and then the president went almost a month or so with just one lawyer as a personal lawyer, still looking for more. >> so, the behavior is one thing and as someone who covers him it's great to hear him, you know, i just imagine him in his pjs calling into his favor show, riffing on everything. but as a person dealing with more than a few legal battles, he seemed to undermine the case that his lawyers were in court today arguing, that some of those materials seized in the cohen raid were privileged. something the president was very upset about. he called it an act of war when cohen's home and offices were seized. today he seemed to say, well,

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watch landmark cases with olson, thes and ted former u.s. general under president bush. >> jeff sessions today testified at a senate hearing on the justice department's annual budget. senators took the opportunity to ask the attorney general about a variety of law enforcement issues with including immigration, presidential pardons, and special counsel investigation. moran chairs this two hour 20 minutes appropriation of subcommittee hearings. [no audio] >> good afternoon, i called the -- mr. attorney general, welcome to the committee. we're here to examine the department of justice's fiscal year 2019 budget request. i'm pleased to welcome you to the subcommittee. my colleagues and i are very much interested in hearing from you and your hearing your testimony considering your testimony today. your input is not only helpful but necessary, as we review the president's spending priorities for the justice department. while this hearing is about the department's fy 2019 budget request, i would suspect that you will hear about a number of other iss