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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy is Steve Kornacki still talking about Christie I mean WTF!!!
I mean two days in a row.Look everybody with half a brain knows he's lying his ass off about bridge gate except stupid republicans so why keep talking abour him as if he's a front runner.But Kornacki doesn't say shit on his show about Bernie Sanders run for President or the fact that he has raised close to 2 million.dollars buy the people and not billionaires
rogerashton
(3,920 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)to boot
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)in the way-back, I suppose.
Coverage of Bridgegate went on for weeks. This sort of a cusp for Bridgate, It's either going to flare up and consume Cristie or it's going to burnout and go cold. Why wouldn't Kornacki and his producers want to close the loop on a story which they had been so deeply invested?
I'm not worried Sanders is going away anytime soon. There will be many opportunities to cover Sanders' fund-raising successes.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)for about 20 minutes about how Bill Baroni would never have done anything illegal.
merrily
(45,251 posts)for a long time. MSNBC tried to compete with Fox, but could not, so it went Dem, but only Dem establishment.
I cannot imagine which fat cats are going to be enthused about Bernie.
sailfla
(239 posts)99Forever
(14,524 posts)Steve Kornacki has to Kornacki.
Laxman
(2,419 posts)happens to check in to DU here's a question you might want to ask. Putting aside the questions of Baroni's guilt or innocence, he and Phillip Kwon are both attorneys. (That's Bill "Billy Baloney" Baroni) It is clear they conspired to provide false testimony to the legislative committee, in fact spent a great deal of time concocting a story for the legislative committee regarding the bogus traffic study. Now it wasn't under oath so it doesn't rise to a criminal charge of perjury. However here are two provisions that should require both of their law licenses to be forfeited-permanently.
(a) A lawyer shall not knowingly:
(1) make a false statement of material fact or law to a tribunal;
(2) fail to disclose a material fact to a tribunal when disclosure is necessary to avoid assisting an illegal, criminal or fraudulent act by the client;
(3) fail to disclose to the tribunal legal authority in the controlling jurisdiction known to the lawyer to be directly adverse to the position of the client and not disclosed by opposing counsel;
(4) offer evidence that the lawyer knows to be false. If a lawyer has offered material evidence and comes to know of its falsity, the lawyer shall take reasonable remedial measures; or
(5) fail to disclose to the tribunal a material fact knowing that the omission is reasonably certain to mislead the tribunal, except that it shall not be a breach of this rule if the disclosure is protected by a recognized privilege or is otherwise prohibited by law.
(b) The duties stated in paragraph (a) continue to the conclusion of the proceeding, and apply even if compliance requires disclosure of information otherwise protected by RPC 1.6.
(c) A lawyer may refuse to offer evidence that the lawyer reasonably believes is false.
(d) In an ex parte proceeding, a lawyer shall inform the tribunal of all relevant facts known to the lawyer that should be disclosed to permit the tribunal to make an informed decision, whether or not the facts are adverse.
That's a tribunal, not a court of law, which the legislative committee is. This is by no means the beginning and end of story with Mr. Baroni, but these two need to be removed from the practice of law.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)He is not obligated to talk about any Presidential candidate.
fadedrose
(10,044 posts)Even Rachel had all Christie stuff on for so many days, and I'm not interested in Christie anymore.
I switch channels when the Christie stuff comes on trying CNN or C-Span..
spanone
(135,844 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)MH1
(17,600 posts)Yet I still couldn't seem to avoid that by switching to MSNBC.
Give me coverage of bridgegate fall out any day, over "what are they going to name the precious darling?"
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)Kornacki actually worked for a blog that Wildstein used to own. Christie is toast but will still enter the GOP primary fight