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It allows conversations like this to go forward he needs to go find a bill barr or toughest, smartest lawyer out there and put him on the top of the fifth floor at the department of justice and let him apply the law of the constitution matt whitaker does not have what you need to go through advice and consent. article one is very serious about that but the key thing today is the president cooperated again, he answered the questions and those answers are going to become, thats what muellers porin...

The lawyer, don mcgann, rebuffed the president saying he had no authority to order a prosecution. mr. mcgann said while he could request an investigation, that, too, could prompt accusations of abuse of power to underscore his point, mr. mcgann had white house lawyers write a memo from mr. trump warning if he asked law enforcement to vepgt hinvestiga rivals, he could face a range of consequences including possible impeachment. the article said its unclear whether the president actually read that...

Im sorry, in for chuck -- >> youre fine you will get more on this show when you look at this article and read the first two paragraphs and daytoonald trump wanted to prosecute two of his enemies, which we dont do in this country, were not a banana republic jeff sessions is no longer at the doj, it is matthew whitaker. the guardrails, the people that would push back and say no, you cant do that, so far some of those, at least, are not there any longer and it makes you wonder if he takes out all o...

President should not do. dont get to use the justice department as an apparatus of political opponents, their political enemies. i think we all should find this to be relatively shocking whether or not theres actually -- whether it was committed, i think no president who really has any appreciation of the constitution could ask these questions, let alone this kind of action being appropriate. >> joyce, were having a little bit of a hard time hearing you hopefully you can typed a place with bit s...

Constitutional equities of article one. neither party is going to be successful. >> congressman, i couldnt agree with you more. i wanted to ask you, though, you talked about strengthening the military. are you concerned about a mility readiness, with troops being sent down to the border for what is in effect a political stunt? should those troops be allowed to be home, back at their bases in america, with their sons and daughters, their moms and dads, their families? >> well, i certainly would r...

People both in terms of a stronger economy and stronger international decision from a vote for those republican candidates. even if you do not like particular member of congress, just do it because this president needs backup. feeling chris hahn, obama had ry big rallies in 2010. he still lost a lot of seats. its a tough deal for the party in power historically for only three times have they held seats since the civil war. what do you think of this we expect this dynamic any different? what do y...

By executive order or congress can do certain things, but its -- the president said i dont need to make a constitutional amendment n truth, its not easy to deny people citizenship if theyre born in the united states. >> i dont know where the president is getting advice. in all truth, with respect to my client mrs. trump and her family, the president can only issue an executive order if congress is silent, if there is no authority, or they have ceded authority to the president. here its expressly...

Branch is supposed to be our politics properly understood. were tempted to start with article three but really we need article three as part of the constitution that sets up the judiciary. article one, which is us, what is the legislatures job? these are equal branch, but article one comes first for a reason. that means that this is supposed to be the institution dedicated to political fights. if we see lots and lots of protests in front of the supreme court, thats a pretty good litmus test baro...

When a judge submits an article to the university of minnesota law review. and even more so when that article receives so much national attention. but the article you wrote that im referred to, judge, raises many troubling questions. should a sitting president really never be subject to an investigation? should a sitting president never be questioned by a special counsel? should a president really be given total authority to remove a special counsel? in addition to the article, there are other p...

Colleagues to introduce the legislation that ends lifetime tenure for the judiciary. the people should have power and they shouldnt have lifetime appointments. until you introduce that lex lation, i dont believe you really want the supreme court to be a politicized body, though thats the way we constantly talk about it now. we can and we should doer wi be with this. its predictable, overblown, politicized circus. its because we accepted a new herery how the hearing should work. what it should be...