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Your view have the -- would he be justified in using emergency powers to build the border wall that he so wants to do? >> absolutely not. it would be a tremendous abuse of authority for the president to declare a national emergency in a situation like this one where there really isnt any emergency. these powers, potent powers, are intended for situations of true crisis, situations that are dramatic departure from the norm and that are unfolding so quickly that congress has no time to act. there ...

The american thing to do. rush limbaugh, if he stood for anything besides audience, he would say lets move on here. this isnt helping. >> john wayne stood for something. he had conviction. he had things he believed in and as weve seen time and time again. >> he really was very positive about what america stands for. a number of republicans accuse president obama of acting outside his legal authority for orders he issued from the oval office. here they go. >> its an unbelievable overreach. a matt...

With terrorism and the soviet union. i think he must have grabbed pieces of history and hes thinking of chechnya or whatever. but this is a truly astonishing, ignorant statement by the president. >> general, it was so scarring, i know you know this is the case, its hard to visit afghanistan and not come face to face with the shards of the old soviet military. youll see a tank track, youll see pieces of artillery. it litters the countryside. >> yeah. it was a disaster for the soviet union. a bunc...

Boys fighting these nationalist, patriotic afghans who were basically responding to communism as an atheistic, you know, affront to islam. so, you know, its hard to imagine what the president was thinking of when he made this assertion. theres certainly no comparability at all between the soviet experience in afghanistan, which was stamped the civilian population into the ground and the attempt by the nato allies, and much of the world community to support putting afghanistan back together. i th...

Know, affront to islam. so, you know, its hard to imagine what the president was thinking of when he made this assertion. theres certainly no comparability at all between the soviet experience in afghanistan, which was stamped the civilian population into the ground and the attempt by the nato allies, and much of the world community to support putting afghanistan back together. i think that must be his purpose, to delegitimize what were now doing in afghanistan, given the fact he tweeted out thi...

Public office. >> can we just be frank and say, i really do not believe that the republican party truly ever really cared about morality and higher moral ground? no -- >> do i. >> i think there was a message that they successfully co-opsed. >> i think bill crystal feels that way and amanda carpenter. >> mitt romney. john mccain. >> im saying that to say, i think the -- something that the right has always done very well is messaging. and i think the right very successfully messaged themselves as ...

Presidential harassment n general, he takes these things with an affront. >> aaron, his attorneys have said and even during the transition they said he separated himself from his business. all good. as david points out, not really. can he still make money. >> and were taking them at their word on a lot of these things. the ethics groups -- its an unprecedented situation where the president has so many tentacles out there in the world, his business is so massive, were taking his word for it. they...

Hes not only trying to dictate the terms -- after we know but what he is, its absurd and ridiculous and its an affront for everybody else who follows the rule of law to the letter every day or they face consequences like going to prison or jail. >> harris: to speak to how important it is that they hear from james comey, there is, in fact, a negotiation going on. the rest of us would not get that. we know that because it is now being reported that perhaps there would be a release of the transcrip...

>> to me, the fact that the director of the cia who has made, as i understand from all published reports, a determination that the crown prince of saudi arabia was involved in the assassination of jamal khashoggi is a critical element and a cover up not to have her there. i dont want to hear a kra characterization by the secretary of state. i want to hear evidence by the person that went to turkey and heard the audio versions of what happened and other evidence that the cia has deduced. it is an...

Being rejected by the president hurts them more than the actual deeds that you recited. remember, obama went after the ap reporters, he went after james rosen at fox. remember he actually said on the campaign trail you should debate, sean hannity, i think he said, youll tear him up. if trump said youll tear somebody up, so for them its something about trump, his speech, his mannerism, has appearance. its not just journalists either. he is an affront to their cultural and social sensitivities of ...