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>> it was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. >> 14th amendment. >> now theyre saying i can do it just with an executive order. >> that is nonsense. surely he knows it. i hope he knows it. he might like to, but the president cannot do an end run around the 14th amendment to the constitution with just the stroke of a pen. the language is very clear. here it is. all persons born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of th...

>> guess what, now theyre saying i can do it just with an executive order. >> that is nonsense. surely he knows it. i hope he knows it. he might like to, but the president cannot do an end run around the 14th amendment to the constitution with just the stroke of a pen. the language is very clear. here it is. all persons born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the united states of the state wherein they reside. the amendment ratified after ...

>> juan: former senator reid issued an issue statement saying he was wrong then and president trump is wrong now. >> judge jeanine: there are three questions. what is the constitution say? if you are born or naturalized here and subject to the jurisdiction, your citizen. then the question is, have the courts apply this? the courts have only ruled on one case and that involved a guy by the name of juan camp, a legal resident alien. the couple had a baby who was born here. the supreme court said 1...

Is with us as well. let me read the 14th amendment to the constitution. all persons born or naturalized in the united states and subject to the jurisdiction there of are citizens of the united states and of the state where in they resi reside. can the president sign an executive order saying that what has been the rule of the land for so many years, he is going to change it? >> the short answer according to most legal scholars is no. the president cannot unilaterally issue an executive order and...

Get out. >> melissa: in the meantime, the administration announcing the mobilization of 1500 troops to the southern border, calling the effort "operation faithful patriot." as a senior u.s. official saying an additional 2,000 troops are ready to deploy if needed. all this coming, of course, head of the midterms. lawrence, let me start with you. people out in the audience may not realize that this whole idea of birthright citizenship has been a hot legal topic. in academia, for years. the >> lawr...

Or not because it didnt look like a poll tax or doesnt look like were asking how many jelly beans. but theres a spectrum of voter suppression tactics and actually anything that interferes from a persons choice to be able to go freely to vote, that in itself meets the very definition of voter suppression. >> it seems like, judith, there is a -- not just a specter, but theres a line all the way back to the days of when reconstruction, the republican party sold that out in 1876 and went back to jim...

People not working those are racialized code word that fools to have people think its not helping black people. women abused considered a preexisting condition. they would be denied. children would be denied, veterans. you have to go all the way back to 1868 to see this kind of attack on health care when the friedman bill hospitals were killed. and all the way back to franklin delano roosevelt proposing social security. and it was called socialism. and whats sad, the so-called preachers who say ...

>> lets talk a little bit about memorial day. its not just an excuse to take a long weekend and loafed around eating grilled meat. though that does sound delicious. its a day for remembrance for those americans who have died in service of our nation for the first memorial day was held may may 30th, 1868, to honor the civil war dead. originally known as declaration day. memorial day was observed for more than 100 years before it was moved to the final or last monday in may, that happened in 1971....

>> its a great idea to take it down. we are bringing attention to the issue that the native americans have been abused and a near genocide was committed against them. we established treaties with them in 1868, 1869, and then immediately reneged, stolen, stalled and national resources from under them. william mckinley was the last of the presidents to openly steal land from the five civilized tribes. he was on the side of the timber company stealing from the ojibwe in my original home state of mi...

The nays are 212. article iii is adopted. the adoption... >> at 1:22 p.m., by a party-line vote, the house approved articles of impeachment alleging perjury and obstruction of justice against president william jefferson clinton. for the first time since 1868, the president had been impeached. >> when the speaker brought down the gavel on article i with a majority of votes, it was a very quiet moment in the chamber. people were not applauding. people were not clapping. i think we were all very so...