Anderson Cooper discussed Trump’s surreal Fox & Friends interview with annoying Trump defender and law professor Alan Dershowitz, who said
“I think we would go down a very bad road for us to start parsing the president’s words.“
Cooper responded exasperated,
“Don’t you think that it’s kind of surreal that we are in a place now as a county where we’re, like, ‘Oh, don’t listen to the president,’ like he’s a crazy person on a park bench with an onion tied to his belt, just mumbling incoherently?
You’re saying, ‘Don’t parse his words,’ you’re saying, essentially, don’t listen to him, don’t pay attention to the words that come out of his mouth because they really have no meaning.’”
Dershowitz said back,
“I’m making a different point. I’m saying the words of a president have special authority under the Constitution. He is entitled to express views, he’s entitled to speak to the public. We shouldn’t be making crimes, like obstruction of justice, out of his words, unless they’re unambiguous or very clear.“
Cooper then compared Trump’s rants to another president who had legal entanglements,
“It was like listening to the rantings of Richard Nixon on the tapes. Except this is on live television, he’s calling in screaming, yelling into the telephone.“
Watch.
(T/Y Jack)
