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Hes someone who said the president has the potential to be the greatest president we have. like every republican, including jeff flake, basically moved lock step with him from a policy perspective. theres been a question all along about what the binding constraints on this presidency are and whether the institutions of american civil society and rule of law will hold in the face of someone who manifestly has no care for them sitting in the oval office, that being the president. and in the past w...

Will act as if they dont know who he is and try to destroy all pictures of him being anywhere in donald trumps presence. i mean, this one is going to be an awful lot harder to erase from trump campaign history as theyre trying to do with papadopoulos. >> they tried to distance themselves from paul manafort. >> thats right. >> said he was guy who served for a very limited time and a very limited capacity. he was a campaign chair. there is nobody theyve not been willing to try to distance from no ...

Someone who the president is of course going to have a lot of trouble distancing himself from. i guess well wait for tomorrow. surely tomorrow the white house will act as if they dont know who he is and try to destroy all pictures of him being anywhere in donald trumps presence. i mean, this one is going to be an awful lot harder to erase from trump campaign history as theyre trying to do with papadopoulos. >> they tried to distance themselves from paul manafort. >> thats right. >> said he was g...

Eric sni eric schneiderman whose office is joining the aclu with a lawsuit on the ban of freezing refugees. states are another place theres some sort of binding constraint possibly on what the executive does. why are you joining this lawsuit? >> were joining it because the executive order is flagrantly unconstitutional. >> do you think that? you think its obviously unconstitutional? >> not only do i think that but 16 attorneys general representing 130 americans signed on to it saying we believe ...

They might want to bring him back and get that kind of pledge out of him. >> very interesting idea. i think there are some democrats trying to make that happen. john dean, as always, a pleasure, thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you, chris. joining me now in studio in new york state, attorney general eric schneiderman whose office is joining the aclu with a lawsuit on the ban of freezing refugees. states are another place theres some sort of binding constraint possibly on what the executi...