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President do in response to this getting closer to him? thats the real fear. its always been the fear. we saw what he did with comey. there were signals at certain points to back off session. those signals have changed. the question of how the justice department and the investigation are insulated from the presidents pressure becomes now a primary one. >> right. so he has two different pressures on him. one is, im sure, he would love to get pardons to everybody and make sure nobody can be touche...

And then what happens? what irrational thing will he do? >> okay. so this is why i think, and brian boyler wrote a piece about this, quick spelled that out, elliott, is that the lame duck session is very dangerous for precisely that reason. right now the electoral effects of major actions are enormous. >> yes. >> and i think youre right. he doesnt want to do that. the day after he enters a period in which he is going to have a lame duck majority in both houses, whatever they do, that seems to be...

She knows whether its going to go through or not. if you have a genuine critique about why a broken washington can come together and pass something in the interest of big companies but not regular people, then thats the issue for you. >> brian boyler thank you as always. >> iraq on the brink gone. a leading scientist asking what is u.s. foreign policy now in the middle east? do you know? thats next. new york state is reinventing how we do business by leading the way on tax cuts. we cut the rates...

The new release comes in an interesting time, 2016 candidates debating iraq and supporting claims that the u.s. misled the public about the bin laden raid and didnt get good intel from his compound. brian boyler here to break it down. >> how are you? >> im doing well. given the new allegations that the u.s. might have covered up a pakistani plot to protect bin laden while troops were fighting and dying looking for him, why do you think republicans arent talking about that instead of iraq? >> i t...

Role is she serving? she is a public servant, and those e-mails need to be available to the public and that shows bad judgment. im not qualified to say whether that would be more secure than any other e-mail service. >> did she use an account from a former aide that was hacked. >> he hacked an e-mail she sent to somebody else. and she didnt violate the letter of the law as her spokesperson told the times, but the law on the books now became -- came on the books after she left -- a year and a hal...

Brian, is this a big story? is this something that media should spend a lot of time parsing? >> well i think the media should spend time parsing because it is a practice at the state and apparently at the federal level and not necessarily because hillary clinton is hiding anything in the e-mails that havent been released or did anything untoward by using her private e-mail when she was secretary of state, but hillary clinton has known since probably august of 2008 that she was going to run for p...

"cycle" regular, brian boyler, also not a woman but here to talk about the presidents advice for republicans in the new year. so,as my personal financial psychic, im sure you know what this meeting is about. yes, a raise. im letting you go. i knew that. you see, this is my amerivest managed... balances. no. portfolio. and if doesnt perform well for two consecutive gold. quarters. quarters...yup. then amerivest gives me back their advisory... stocks. fees. fees. fees for those quarters. yeah. so,...

Marco rubio told gq, im not a scientist, man, when asked if the earth was created in seven days. on saturday president obama turned his fire directly on this strategy. >> there are some who also duck the question, they say when they are asked about climate change, im not a scientist. ill translate that for you, what that really means is i know that manmade climate change is happening but if i admit it ill be run out of town that thinks climate science is a liberal plot, im not going to admit it....

Epa aggressively put forward these rules is an ab ro gas station of congresss jurisdiction, despite the fact the supreme court put this in motion. theres an effort to take it away from the epa. how likely is it that they succeed in doing that? >> part of the power that the epa has comes through the clean air act passed by congress in the 70s and the supreme court has basically said you have to apply that to carbon dioxide if they find it endangers public health and well fare. they have to have r...

>> well, they actually will be handling it. part of the reason the wait times were exacerbated is there was a 14-day limit that the health care system could not handle. michael and sam, thank you guys both for your time and thoughts. after the break, senator mitch mcconnell hates obamacare. but he doesnt have a problem with connect? has anyone told him theyre the same thing? jonathan capehart and brian boyler discuss that, next on "now." shoulder pain... ...and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day...