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January 22, 2017
Absolutely no knowledge of any investigation or even basis for such investigation. representatives of these agencies i mentioned also told "the new york times" they were providing the information because they feared that the trump white house would obstruct their efforts. nbcs kelly odonnell joins us from the white house, kelly, it just keeps coming to the president-elect. i just wonder, well, well get to this now. what do you make of all of this? is this something that is going to be a distract...
January 22, 2017
Enforce funding mechanisms to ensure sanctuary cities dont make us less safe. a sanctuary city that is supposed to putnam county makes the residents of putnam county less safe. clayton: its a spillover effect and then this affect surrounding counties. its going to be an interesting four years. it is day two of donald trumps presidency. a busy week ahead of us. we appreciate it. >> clayton, thank you so much. in putnam county, we celebrate naturalization. we celebrate immigrants coming here. grea...
January 21, 2017
And the judge in that case found in favor of the justice department. found against the state of texas in this blistering blunt comprehensive ruling that said, yeah, when the legislature passed this law it was deliberately designed to keep minorities from being able to vote even though they were legally entitled to vote. and then after that ruling, two other three-judge panels, six more judges, also found the law to be unconstitutional and then this past summer the most conservative appeals court...
January 21, 2017
Federal judge absolutely nailed them for how deliberately racist that voter i.d. law was. this was the strictest voter i.d. law in the country. and the federal justice department sued texas to stop it. and the judge in that case found in favor of the justice department. found against the state of texas in this blistering blunt comprehensive ruling that said, yeah, when the legislature passed this law it was deliberately designed to keep minorities from being able to vote even though they were le...
January 21, 2017
Minorities from being able to vote even though they were legally entitled to vote. and then after that ruling, two other three-judge panels, six more judges, also found the law to be unconstitutional and then this past summer the most conservative appeals court in the country also found that the law had a discriminatory affect. but the court said that they werent convinced necessarily that the lawmakers had discriminatory intent, that they meant it to be discriminatory even though it definitely ...
January 21, 2017
It. and the judge in that case found in favor of the justice department. found against the state of texas in this blistering blunt comprehensive ruling that said, yeah, when the legislature passed this law it was deliberately designed to keep minorities from being able to vote even though they were legally entitled to vote. and then after that ruling, two other three-judge panels, six more judges, also found the law to be unconstitutional and then this past summer the most conservative appeals c...
January 19, 2017
Then what has been established but not contested which is that as congressman with a key role in statutory oversight of the medical industry he was individually picking stocks in that industry at the same time hes voting for or drafting legislation that has a direct affect on the companies in that industry. >> and that presents a real challenge at a minimum youre going to have appearance of conflicts. you might have direct conflicts. you may have illegal action. its something a congressman shoul...
January 19, 2017
As congressman with a key role in statutory oversight of the medical industry he was individually picking stocks in that industry at the same time hes voting for or drafting legislation that has a direct affect on the companies in that industry. >> and that presents a real challenge at a minimum youre going to have appearance of conflicts. you might have direct conflicts. you may have illegal action. its something a congressman should avoid. >> senator cardin, thank you for your time tonight. ap...
January 18, 2017
Damage that many had feared. do you think this has any impact on edward snowdens case? >> i this i that the reason that president obama acted was because chelsea manning had actually been convicted, expressed remorse and spent seven years in prison. as opposed to edward snowden he regrets nothing that he did. he, in fact, if he redprets anything is he didnt do it earlier. the american people should have learned about this earlier. so i think its very unlikely that president obama intends to comm...
January 18, 2017
The immediate aftermath, it made it much more difficult, imagine if youre trying to recruit a source to risk their lives and families lives to provide you with information on the ground on a place like afghanistan, thats a tough sell. thats a heavy lift. made much heavier but the fact that we apparently cant keep a secret. they were aware of that. now youre dealing with a potential source who looks at you and says im not going to risk my life because you cant keep this secret. look at this. you ...