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If he was that confident, that excited about the transcript of phone call, there should be no need to keep expanding outward toward revisiting russia and some of the other things that seem to be on the agenda. hes going to touch litigation depending on separation of powers. >> dana: that can take awhile, right? were in the middle of an election year. if it goes to court, fighting, back and forth. the democrats are saying they want to get this done by the end of the year. that seems unlikely. i d...

With any single one of these things, its not only with the electoral college, is not only with the 26th amendment, is not only with the supreme court, its not only with equal representation of small states in the united states sentiment, the democratic argument is with the constitution of the united states of america. the argument is because the left cannot win, in order to win, they need to change the structure. you heard him say the structural change necessary. they are changing the constituti...

Amendments to our constitution. starting with the 25th amendment, which has been back in the news of late. it deals with presidential fitness, disability and succession. and the 26th amendment, which enshrined our voting age of 18. he also fought a herculean but ultimately losing battle for the equal rights amendment. birch bayh is less well known for what happened on the night of june 19th, 1964. he and his fellow senator ted kennedy had just voted for the civil rights act. they were late for a...

He was the author of title ix, the landmark federal legislation that outlawed gender discrimination in schools receiving federal funds. it changed the face of womens athletics by forcing schools to provide equal resources. he was the only person since our founding fathers to author two amendments to our constitution starting with the 25th amendment, which has been back in the news of late. it deals with presidential fitness, disability and succession. and the 26th amendment, which enshrined our ...

The day before and it made sense. this is a police department that has had some issues. >> i think there are issues with the chicago police department. as the general proposition, whether or not they are alleged to treat people color fairly. whether or not they are capable of doing an investigation without any difficult issues arising. >> laura: now its the chicago police department is corrupt. so jussie smollett is innocent. of i love that one too. >> its more than corrupt. >>e the suggestion i...

The day before and it made sense. this is a police department that has had some issues. >> i think there are issues with the chicago police department. as the general proposition, whether they treated people of color fairly. whether or not they are capable of doing an investigation without any difficult issues arising. >> laura: now its the chicago police department is corrupt. so jussie smollett is innocent. >> its more than corrupt. the suggestion is they are racists. i dont know how that cuts...

Back in august, a federal court found manafort guilty on several counts of financial fraud. manafort entered into a plea deal by participating in interviews providing documents and testifying in court. both cases involved manaforts political consultancy for a previous russian-backed government of ukraine long before he served briefly as donald trumps campaign chairman. lets bring in to start things off here msnbc analyst dan ny cavala. what do you think happened? >> this plea agreement is a cont...

Generation will provide what america needs as we approach our 200th birthday. not just strength and not just wealth but the spirit of 76, a spirit of moral courage, a spirit of high idealism in which we believe in the american dream, but in which we realize that the american dream can never be fulfilled until every american has an equal chance to fulfill it in his own light. >> a spirit of moral courage of high idealism. that changed the voting age brought about in the form of the 26th amendment...

Dream, but in which we realize that the american dream can never be fulfilled until every american has a chance. >> a spirit of moral courage of high idealism. that changed the voting age brought about in the form of the 26th amendment. it passed like a lightning bolt from the time they started the constitutional amendment process until it pasted, it was just over three months. incredibly fast. once the young people put their minds to it, it was a remarkable feat. a big change almost overnight. ...

Let me come to you, professor. young people are making a constitutional argument based on the 26th amendment against this law, the law in north carolina placing restrictions on their ability to vote. do they have a good case here? >> i think it is quite a strong case because many of the provisions especially the ones that tell college students that they cant use their college i.d. to identify themselves but have to get an i.d. from their state residence, its very complicated. cant possibly be ex...