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Special obligation. conservatives have a special obligation to marginalize the extreme, extreme right and liberals like me have a special obligation to marginalize the extreme, extreme left. i can tell you conservatives are doing a better job of it. when william buckley attacked pat buchanan and said i cant defend you against charges of anti-semitism, it really routed the conservative movement of that particular play. my liberal friends are not doing a good enough job of marginalizing extreme le...

Extreme, extreme right and liberals like me have a special obligation to marginalize the extreme, extreme left. can tell y conservatives are doing a better job of it. when william buckley attacked pat buchanan and said i cant defend you against charges of anti-semitism, it really routed the conservative movement of that particular play. my liberal friends are not doing a good enough job of marginalizing extreme left. move on, code pink, all of those things that are helping to destroy the democra...

Protester, desiree faruoz, a member of code pink. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you so much, joy, for having me. >> desiree, to clear it up, what is it that you were -- what charges were you convicted of? >> i was convicted disruption of congress. >> repeat that one more time because your phone broke up a little bit. >> im sorry. i was convicted of parading and disruption of congress. >> parading and disruption of congress. what would be the penalty -- what are the maximum sort of...

Attacked his character with baseless and tired allegations. but in reality, jeff sessions extensive record of treating all americans equally under the law is clear and well documented. [ laughter ] >> okay. did you hear that? lets play it for you one more time. >> jeff sessions extensive record of treating all americans equally under the law is clear and well documented. [ laughter ] throughout his decade of public service >> that was honestly the clearest audio we had of that laughter, which ma...

Toss the verdict, and the judge sided with the defense saying, quote, the court is concerned about the governments theory. in other words, the judge said to the justice department, you had better not be arguing that that bit of laughter at a confirmation hearing was worth prosecuting this woman for. the judge threw out the jurys verdict and declared a new trial, which brings us to today. nearly eight months later, the case is back in court to see if the parties cant somehow settle this without a...

While painting your toes. on demand laughs during long bubble baths. tv on every screen is awesome. the xfinity stream app. all your tv at home. the most on demand your entire dvr. top networks. and live sports on the go. included with xfinity tv. xfinity, the future of awesome. back in january, president elect donald trump nominated an attorney general as you do. and then the senate judiciary committee held a confirmation hearing for the president elects pick, as you do. the presidents nomine...

Were arresting the woman who had laughed. as she was hauled out of the room she was vocal about it. code pink is a group of activists, mostly women, who protest for peace and social justice, and theyre pretty easy to spot what with the pink shirts and pink crowns. so its not unusual for them to cause disruptions and to be hauled away and arrested. what does seem unusual is that the lawyers who now work for attorney general jeff sessions are not letting this go. nearly eight months later. ryan re...

The jury convicted. the defense asked the judge to toss the verdict, and the judge sided with the defense saying, quote, the court is concerned about the governments theory. in other words, the judge said to the justice department, you had better not be arguing that that bit of laughter at a confirmation hearing was worth prosecuting this woman for. the judge threw out the jurys verdict and declared a new trial, which brings us to today. nearly eight months later, the case is back in court to se...

Bigger in the room because heres what happened a few minutes later. while senator susan collins was introducing the nominee, behind her, capitol police officers were arresting the woman who had laughed. as she was hauled out of the room she was vocal about it. code pink is a group of activists, mostly women, who protest for peace and social justice, and theyre pretty easy to spot what with the pink shirts and pink crowns. so its not unusual for them to cause disruptions and to be hauled away and...

>> eli lake, what do you think of the idea extraordinary circumstances justify extraordinary measures? >> i think that that rob reiner tweet is insanity. and i think people are losing their minds right now. im sorry, but donald trump campaigned and i very vigorously disagreed with him, i wrote a column last week calling the code pink republican, but he campaigned on the idea of resetting relations with russia. his incoming national security advisor had a conversation with the ambassador, we stil...