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Akeel, lets begin with you. we have a lot going on in this conversation regarding the confirmation process of brett kavanaugh. what are the things that youre looking for this week? >> well, im actually going to be testifying on friday but i dont think ive been fired yet so im not former. im still there. i think your setup piece nicely cataloged a lot of the process and substantive issue that will arise. my own view is the most important part of the record to examine is his record as a judge. its...

In a letter to congress this week. we know of no administrative actions that could and, therefore, we have no plans that would undue the massive damage to our health care system that would be caused by an adverse decision. what does that damage look like? according to a study by the rand corporation, 9.6 million would lose their insurance in states with federal exchanges and premiums in those states would increase by 47%. still with me is congressman gregory meeks and is joined by a senior fello...

>> yeah. before this thing got going akeel wrote an interesting op ed piece and said even law students could give the answer he gave if they were taking a final exam they would give the answer he gave prior to the break. of course they would. they were his students. i wonder if now that the decision has been rendered and his students read the decision their exam answers be the same as they were before the decision was reached? >> as i made clear in a series of op-eds and a piece i wrote a year a...

Whats in your wallet? good morning from new york. im chris hayes here with yvette clark, democrat from new york representing brooklyn where i live. akeel amar from yale university. ezra clain and ovik roy member of mitt romneys policy group and writer for forbes and the national review. we are talking about health care in the wake of the supreme court decision. we had a fascinating argument with one of the architects of the arguments against the bill. we have moved into policy.

Which the president gets his signature legislation and we get the doctrine we asked for im not happy with the outcome. im not trying to sugar coat this thing. as for your question, i dont look to republicans as the font of all constitutional wisdom and the fact that republicans may not have given this much constitutional thought is consistent with the fact that congress simply hardly ever gives what they do constitutional thought, republican or democrat. were supposed to have an independent supr...

Congressman said earlier is about how this was novel. i2ájjz thats right. if you try to do something new and cleverly to avoid taxes which we didnt have the votes for. when it was defended in court it had implications for federal power. >> i want to make two points. >> go back and do the tax power. say you are doing a tax and take the political heat. you might do policy damage. not constitutional damage. one last thing about the nature of this opinion by the chief justice akeel would have never...

Obviously a lot of big issues were going to be talking about this week with brett kavanaugh, executive power, abortion, gun control, those are three of the big key issues. where does he stand? >> its going to be a very difficult process, that we know. we know that the republicans on the senate judiciary committee are arguing that the heart of the debate over these documents is their desire to stall this process, drag this out through the mid-terms. while we do expect the boiler plate questions t...