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Coates. also with us, mrowka, district attorney of westchester county of new york. former prosecutor. laura, what do you make of this? hes arguing that he has presidential immunity. it would be double jeopardy to church majority because hes already been impeached. and he didnt have enough notice that what he was doing was illegal? >> spaghetti on the wall hoping about one of them will stick out. even with the last part of it here, the idea that he was not unnoticed, that his actions would be cri...

Basically. trying to do our part. we understand the economy is coming to a halt. >> okay, lets start with the mandates that arent working. the covid death rate in romania. with low vaccination numbers and no national response. to mandates. its three times higher than canada. per 100,000 people. as for the economy at a standstill. moving into 2022 economic activity will likely remain robust. above trend growth. expected to lower the unemployment rate further. i guess fact and reality doesnt matte...

The framers of the Constitution were very clear that presidential terms have time limits. Not four years and a day. Not three years and 364 days. Four years.

Executive, and how much power there is in that court that, because it is so -- you two understand it implicitly, because you cover it every day, but for most people its that, its a building. there are some people in robes, and they understand from their civics lessons, but dont really necessarily understand. this is going to change that, for at least this generation, but how powerful the supreme court is. >> dont forget also they are still, to this day, the republicans are so furious about peopl...

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...

If the school really wanted this information, they would have done an anonymous survey. there are fifth amendment issues here. these answers go into the permanent files for the students and the teacher was absolutely right in giving students this civics lessons. >> eric: wayne, i kind of agree with tracy on this. kids need some direction. now maybe they should have done it anonymously, ill agree with that one. >> well, making a kid, giving him direction and saying youre going to violate the cons...

Recalled in this situation. and both sides are agitating for it. there is a real history of successful recall elections in this country. the most famous recent example was governor gray davis of california, which opened the door to arnold schwarzenegger becoming governor there. recall elections are very perilous for incumbent politicians because instead of maybe voting between the lesser of two evils you are simply saying thumbs up or thumbs down on a specific politician. a lot of people on gene...

Rights protected under the first amendment and after the first amendment free food festival, students in classes were asking their professors about the first amendment, what it means and all the other constitutional rights that we have. >> are you guys going to do this again? >> definitely. next year well do it again and well probably have a bigger show up this year. this year was 170 students which was more than we expected and i think next year more. were looking forward to it. >> interesting ...