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Should be penalized. >> when you say penalized, if its obstruction, what do you think a legitimate congress should do about it? >> well, im not ready to decide on impeachment, unless i see evidence of a bipartisan effort. weve been down the road of a partisan effort on impeachment in 1868, which historians have found to be illegitimate. in 1998 and 9 with president clinton. so i need to see republicans stand up to a president that is not only lawless, but they dont seem to have the ability to st...

You with us. that is the operative first question. what are you so concerned about? >> it has nothing to do with whether or not there would be an investigation. i love how the "courier journal" reminds people since 1868 they have had ten pulitzers. ask them the last time they had one. it was the 1980s. the last time they wrote anything that won them a pulitzer prize. they have been a shadow of what they once were. the thing im calling out is not the fact that an investigation of anything is goin...

Hasnt elected a democrat since 1982? because the republican candidate said this. >> if he invited me to a public hanging id be on the front row. >> respected by all. she gets it. hyde-smith said any attempt to paint that comment as negative is ridiculous. keep in mind mississippi had the highest number of lin lynchings in the nation between 1842 and 1868. according to the naacp. hyde-smith is running against a african-american former congressman mike espy. but that public hanging comment was not...

Keep in mind mississippi had the highest number of lynchings in the nation between 1842 and 1868. according to the naacp. hyde-smith is running against a african-american former congressman mike espy. but that public hanging comment was not an isolate incident for cindy hyde-smith. i want you to check out this photo that she posted on facebook in 2014. there she is posing with a confederate hat and rifle. and the caption reads, "mississippi history at its best." she also supported at least two e...

Immigration and illegal immigration and you know, in 1988, his first wife, thats the first time she became an american citizen, in 1988. and before that, she had three children. what would happen to the status of those children if his law was enacted? theres just no thought process. the president of the united states is spreading craziness. its absurd the president would make statements like this. its to divert attention from real issues in this country and cause a divisive atmosphere. thats why...

Think shes absolutely -- and in fact some of these activities weve seen might have the opposite effect of what some of the republicans have intent the, and so hopefully well see people come out in trong numbers. im looking forward to those turnout wedding. voters in the state of florida are deciding whether to automatically restore the votings rights the felons. it would not include anyone convicted of murder or felony sex crimes. how consequential will this be? >> it is huge. there are 1.4 mill...

And one of them said actually these guys even in this time that we live in, they dont really act alone because they think theyre part of a larger army in a war against liberals and democrats or whatever. >> this is week where candidates make their closing statements of their campaigns. what would be your closing statement to american voters? >> 150 years ago today actually my grandfather was born. its my grandfather, 1868, three years after the civil war. i know youre doing the math at home and ...

Where i grew up. but remember he was born in 1868 so the idea of being a republican meant that you were for abolition and you were, you know, against the terrorizing of black people and women should have the vote, it was that kind of republican. today he wouldnt understand any of this. but i do know that by being a citizen of michigan, that he -- if he were alive this week, he would want to make sure that the people did the right and the decent thing. all his canadian values in terms of how you ...

What would be your closing statement to american voters? >> 150 years ago today actually my grandfather was born. its my grandfather, 1868, three years after the civil war. i know youre doing the math at home and thinking you look too young, really to have a 150-year-old grandfather. but were irish, and the women in my family always married late and had babies. im not going to go into it anymore than that. but he moved to united states, he wanted to be a doctor. came to michigan, went to medical...

Sign off on it and an amendment is very tough, its heavy lift. >> shannon: there are other scholars out there conservatives who say this isnt what it seems on its face. over at the daily signal, he writes the fact that they tourist or illegal alien is subject to our laws does not place them within the clinical jurisdiction of the united states, defined by the framers of the 14th amendment. what do you say? >> i think hans and other of my conservative friends are mistaken. that phrase subject to ...