Trump shows disdain for the rule of law as Kavanaugh confirmation hearing begins

The Daily 202's Big Idea

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🗓️ 4 September 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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President Trump’s latest public broadsides against his own attorney general offered a timely reminder of how high the stakes are in the confirmation hearing that starts today for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

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0:00.0	The Daily 202's Big Idea is sponsored by Cleveland Clinic,
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0:15.0	Good morning.
0:18.0	I'm James Holman from the Washington Post
0:20.0	and this is the Daily 202 for Tuesday, September 4th.
0:25.0	In today's news, NFL owners and players are still at an impasse over National Anthem
0:31.3	protests two days before the season starts.
0:34.0	President Trump's rollback of coal regulations could kill more people in West
0:38.2	Virginia than anywhere else. And the New Yorker rescinds an invitation to Steve Bannon.
0:44.0	But first, the big idea.
0:50.0	President Trump attacked Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Justice Department on Monday in connection with the indictments of two GOP congressmen on corruption charges, complaining that that could hurt the Republican Party's chances of holding the House in the midterm elections.
1:06.2	Trump tweeted sarcastically, quote, good job, Jeff.
1:10.0	The tweet was a reference to the indictments this summer of Chris Collins from New York and Duncan Hunter. The President believes that the Justice Department should not be independent, but should be used as a cudgel to target his political enemies and protect his political allies.
1:29.0	Senator Ben Sass, a Republican from Nebraska, criticized the President's tweet, saying, quote,
1:35.0	The United States is not some banana republic with a two-tiered system of justice.
1:39.7	These two men have been charged with crimes because of evidence, not because of who the president was when the
1:44.1	investigations began.
1:46.7	Democrats are even more aghast.
1:48.2	Former Attorney General Eric Holder tweets that what Trump is saying is a fundamental threat to the rule of law.
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