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Court could not review evidence about that. he louisiana on that. when the court asked him if he could provide evidence that there was really a national security benefit of his executive order, he could not produce any evidence. in fact, we produced lots of evidence that actually damages national security. he lost on that. so he lost on multiple of the issues that were before us. i think the important part of this is twofold. number one, it does restore our faith in the checks and balance system...

The argument is well, everything was fine two weeks ago before you started, now theres a significant challenge. lets see how the challenge goes. >> whos on that ninth circuit court of appeals and do we have any inkling how itll go? >> theres a three panel judge, three judges on the panel basically, carter, obama, and bush appointees. its either unanimous, 2-1. its set that way so you get a advantage legally. he said personally he doesnt love the ban, but legally speaking is that what youre hear ...

Youve exceeded your authority to make such a sweeping change, a. b, you didnt follow the proper procedures for getting this through. there is a time limit where you say to the states hey, what do you think about there? they get to comment and note. >> they give states enough time -- >> enough time. they exceeded their authority. >> is this a conservative appeals court down in new orleans? >> well yb yes, decision was made 2-1 by two conservative justices prior bush appointees. basically to sum...

Would force a u.s. senator to have a pro forma session to prevent bush appointees. >> reporter: yes. >> and republicans essentially carried on the practice, right? >> reporter: thats right. and every president has used a recess appointment power since george washington, but only in the sort of latter half of the last century did they start to use them to get around the senates refusing to act on their nominees. >> very quickly, the supreme court on friday announced theyre going to hear a case th...

Was shared or given to any other federal agency? >> that would be a violation of law and i do not believe that happened. >> you can assure us there was absolutely no sharing of information? >> i would be shocked, congressman, if that happened, shocked. >> if your earlier answers are any indication we will all read about it in the media. we ought to be getting the truth from you. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> we are all outraged about what occurred under...

Recognize this is whats referred to as a one-one, one question from an american reporter, one from a british reporter. >> theres a lot of baroque activity to slow this down. >> we know who was in charge of this, or some unknown character in cincinnati? it could be the head of the irs or head of review coming out of washington or somebody in cincinnati didnt get the word. who are these few employees? >> i think youre right. thats the information theyre trying to gather right now, recognize even t...

Fathers did it. three horses. constitution designed that the judicial branch should be the horse that pulls in the other direction. marbury versus madison was specifically put in place to make sure rules passed by congress dont impede the constitution. i think the president doesnt have a leg to stand on. he knows it. he is welcoming a full line-up from the court. the only thing standing between university healthcare and the american people are bush appointees. that the direction it will go in. >...

Eyal, we were just talking about whistle blowing and some of these cases that have been brought under the espionage act. >> i wanted to weigh in and say if were going to talk about hypocrisy and whistle-blowers and how theyre treated, we should hardly limit the discussion to barack obama. president bush signed the sarbanes-oxley act which was supposed to guarantee protections for workers who blew the whistle on financial fraud and abuse. this was after the enron worldcom scandals, everybody appl...

They have ideas for jobs. are they credible? >> no. they are literally doing the opposite of what virtually every economist except for a handful on the right think, which is at this point you should not be further retrenching government spending. yes, over the long term we want to reduce the deficit and i have way toss do it, theyre opposed, for instance, by ending the war in afghanistan, they want to keep going, but the near term, one example. in every month for the last year, the private secto...

Memo in which a lawyer writes the following: nowhere do i see that we can show that either the party or malik shabazz suggested, counseled or endorsed the bringing or brandishing of weapons. robert, that is not true because shabazz went on national television immediately after the election and defended the actions thus an enforcement right there. at the very least -- >> after the fact. >> isnt that pretty strong evidence that you were encouraging and endorsing before the fact? >> look, the justi...