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I had a chance to catch with him earlier. as i understand it you believe that trumps message on immigration could add momentum to efforts in congress right now, to tackle the issue of so-called anchor babies and the clause in the 14th amendment that spells out in article one, section nine, that congress shall have the power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization which means theres really no need to amend the 14th amendment, right? >> thats exactly where i am and have been for a long time,...

English. the congress will uniform rule of naturalization. you know what that means, it means the united states congress and guess what sean, in the 1920s, thats exactly what it did. the 14th amendment excludes indians, that is native americans as u.s. citizens because they felt that they had allegiance to their own tribes. okay. great, 1923, congress reversed course and said under the 14th amendment and under this article one, weve decided to the grant citizenship, national citizenship to all n...

Clause 4. heres what that says in plain english. the congress will uniform rule of naturalization. you know what that means, it means the united states congress and guess what sean, in the 1920s, thats exactly what it did. the 14th amendment excludes indians, that is native americans as u.s. citizens because they felt that they had allegiance to their own tribes. okay. great, 1923, congress reversed course and said under the 14th amendment and under this article one, weve decided to the grant ci...

Precisely the ownership that has prevented your fellow senators from embracing your idea? they dont want to own military action. they dont want the responsibility. they would rather have president obama take the heat for it and not have to sully their hands with it. am i being too cynical? >> you are being exactly right. the same congress that shakes their fist at the president and says hes an imperial president that wants to bring lawsuits against them. article one, should be most jealously gua...

Chris? >> mike, thanks for that. weve invited two congressional leaders to debate these issues, which go to the core of our constitution. from virginia, the republican chair of the house judiciary committee, bob goodlatte. and here in washington, the head of the house drk caucus, xavier. president obama dismissed the threat of a lawsuit this week saying house speaker boehner and republicans want to sue him for doing his job. heres what he had to say. >> my message to republicans is join us. get ...

Be willing to touch these things. it included the cpi that was obviously taken out. we have something thats basically dead in the water, something republicans are not even going to look at. >> two things. he did take out cpi because if the republicans arent going to work with it, why give them something. secondly, its dead anyway. the presidents budget should be thrown in the trash. >> it was dead last year with cpi. >> thats exactly right. nobody on the capitol hill. i hate to say this, its cyn...

Implications of our government. do you believe it is really to big, that serious? >> i do, it didnt just start with obama. there are previous properesiden and congresses that have exceeded authority. but this president has gone beyond even what congress has given him and even beyond what previous presidents have done. and it is important we exercise the tools in the constitution to check the power. one of those tools that is not utilized enough is to bring a lawsuit against the administration wh...

We are going to talk in the noon hour about new polls that have came out. people have changed their opinion. >> there was a poll that came out and asked people is this the way its supposed to work or not? the answer is no. they think we all remember civics class where the president proposes article one, section one of the constitution said all authorities wraps with congress. if you believe your civics lessons, and the law is very specific on this. the law says that the employer mandate begins o...

Accept that as a fair deal? >> fair deal. >> if he thinks its a fair deal that, is great. i dont think the president will sign that into law. the truth is that he wont admit in the speech the truth. he kept talking about the nation of laws and i cant do this, there is a lot of confusion the president seems -- but the truth is this. when it comes down to it, the president of the united states has to admit we never said the word were a nation founded on one document. the constitution. article one,...

Accept that as a fair deal? >> fair deal. >> if he thinks its a fair deal that, is great. i dont think the president will sign that into law. the truth is that he wont admit in the speech the truth. he kept talking about the nation of laws and i cant do this, there is a lot of confusion the president seems -- but the truth is this. when it comes down to it, the president of the united states has to admit we never said the word were a nation founded on one document. the constitution. article one,...