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In. she talked about private insurance and twisted herself into a pretzel. thats not something that you need to do if you are being very clear about what your positions are. >> its great to see you guys. thank you so much. coming up for us, andrew mccabe gives a new interview and makes more news about the fbis investigation into the president. this time it is about who in congress knew about the probe, when and the reaction. the president cannot act like a king. one states attorney general t...

Doing this plan in order to line the pockets of those that were close to the white house? >> thank you so much for bringing that to us. i really appreciate it. now to the brewing legal battle over the presidents declaration of a national emergency. californias attorney general told us here that lawsuits were coming. 16 states are now suing president trump arguing the presidents emergency declaration violates the constitution by going around congress to get money for a border wall that congress...

Overreach of his executive powers. >> long road there. thats for sure. out front with me now, one of the attornies general signing on this this lawsuit, the democratic attorney general of north carolina. thank you for being here. >> its great to be with you. >> why are you joining this lawsuit? >> new mexico is being harmed because the president cannot act like a king. this is taxpayer money and in new mexico we have vital military dollars going to strategic projects that are vital to national s...

President truman tried to get congress to give him the authority to seize the mills and keep them going. and congress said, no. he did it anyway. and in one of the most famous supreme court opinions of all time, in 1952 the steel seizure case, the supreme court said president truman, you cant do that. that unless the president acts with specific authorization under the constitution, a president cannot act in this way. this is one of the profound issues of how america is governed. congress has th...

Think over the past few years, we have seen what happens in america when you have too many corporations or private interests or lobbyists inflew on -- influencing our policy for instance, the ncra comes to mind you have them strung and cannot act on behalf of constituents because they received payments from lobbyists and large companies. its important for us to not freak out, okay? its still early [ laughter ] >> like calm down, okay? its still early let these people run let them put their ideas...

Organization to confirm that donald trump suborned perjury by telling michael cohen to lie. here is what congressman chris murphy said when he read this news. listen, if mueller does not have mult am -- sorry, listen, if mueller does have multiple sources confirming trump directed cohen to lie to congress, then we need to know this asap. mueller should not end his inquiry but its about time for him to show congress his cards before its too late for us to act. phil, i know you disagree with this ...

News this hour was barbara starrs report. we now know identities of three of the americans killed in syria. one of them was a woman, a female chemical weapons specialist as far as we understand. what do you think should happen in syria? should the president proceed with his plan to withdraw u.s. troops as quickly as possible? does what happened in this tragedy change anything for you? >> well, syria is very dangerous. the way the president went about his announcement on troop withdrawal against ...

Congress, then we need to know this asap. mueller should not end his inquiry, but its about time for him to show congress his cards before its too late for us to act. do you think that theres a wait f way for mueller toe show his cards before the report comes out? >> i dont necessary adisagree with senator murphy if the i think mueller will do this the right way thepy have a great deal of confidence in mr. mueller and how hes doing his vef investigation. i would hope we would get material as qui...

Evidence, but ill be shocked if there really are texts that evidence the president saying, i want you to lie. >> yeah. i mean, i dont think that the president uses texts or e-mails, at least morally historically h. that will be interesting to ask the reporter what the substantiating information is. but what i think youre taking about, michael, is the timeline. people are chomping at the bit, democrats in congress, when you get a bombshell like this, you want to see it right away. you want to see...

House. were going to get those values up. were going to get those jobs coming back, and were going to fill up those factories or rip them down and build brand new ones. >> reporter: gm also profiting from the presidents tax cut, the company saying theyve gotten a benefit of $157 million this year. democrat tim ryan of ohio attacking the president. >> he does nothing but try to divide the country and start culture wars, and behind the scenes, the american worker is getting screwed by a company th...