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>> hi, nicolle. i only ask of you one thing, and we make no predictions. i just ask that you dont go on vacation or stay near your phone or facetime and broadcasting abilities, okay? >> i feel like the whole summer is potentially hazardous for vacation planning. i havent totally broken this until this moment on live tv to my family but i feel like between jack smith and willis its dicey. >> to your family and everyone, we say, thats a little bit of personal breaking news. good to see y...

Evidence of abuse or fraud? call kamala. small business issues. answering that call is an incredibly tall order and even with someone of the undeniable credential of vice president harris. if it were that easy to solve, we would not be we are today. solving our greatest problems it should not be the responsibility of one person. the coordination between three coequal branchs of government all working together. the overwhelming reliance on her speaks volume about the state of our democracy. it sh...

National security adviser. he wanted nothing to do with the drug deal that trump advisers were cooking up in ukraine. and his lawyer teased to house investigators he had important information and knowledge about it. why isnt he talking? >> he has said that hes caught between two coequal branchs of government. conflicts directives. one from the executive branch asserts privilege. dont testify were preventing you. one saying we want to hear what you have to say. he wants it to go before a judge. i...

This will be a government of coequal branchs. coequal. >> what i have in article two i have the right to do whatever i want as president but i dont even talk about that. article two allows me to do whatever i want. im just saying a president under article two is very strong. read it. >> i did. hes wrong. article two lim thts presidency that same time it empowers the holder of the office and in reality the president only has a few overall powers. command troops, negotiate treaties, have cabinet m...

Nancy pelosi have been reluctant to use impeachment powers. which is funny because they were quick to repeat the nixon era, no one is above the law. >> nobody is above the law. not the president of the united states. >> no one is above the law. that includes the president of the united states. >> no one is above the law. including president of the united states. >> nobody is above the law. >> say it with me now. nobody is above the law. lerts unpack that statement. we have three coequal branchs ...

United states. >> nobody is above the law. >> say it with me now. nobody is above the law. well, lets unpack that statement. now, we have three co-equal branchs of government. one makes the law, unenforces the law and one interprets it. the founding fathers envision the system of checks and balances no one branch could rule like a king. when the law making body with the power to impeach a president is -- to the point of paralysis, about how to deal with the president who breaks the law that it m...

So much for coequal branchs. and so much for the symbolic or real power or weight of the impeachment. we dont know what the dni who are complaint is about. we dont know about the instances the complaint identifies. we dont have the transcript of the presidents call with the ukrainian president. heres what we know. congressman a law that required dni to give congress the whistleblower complaint. in this case the doj said feel free to ignore that law. we have congress made a law appropriating fund...

Not fair. >> and then the chief justice today with just this amazing response. you just never see this from a chief justice. we do not have obama judges, bush judges or trump judges or clinton judges. we have judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. that independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for. i dont think i have heard a chief justice rebuking someone this way. theres the impression that the president of the united states seems to ...

Subplot and his choice of words? >> well, this convocation that we saw tonight, brian, the coming together of the three coequal branchs of government, there is a veneer of normalcy to it all. the president went in there as presidents do and addresses the nation. but left unsaid was that this president comes in, the most unpopular president this early in his tenure in the history of polling. somebody who has spent the last year leading a faction in this country, dividing the country. somebody who...

And civics in our country. and learning that he is going to have to work with coequal branchs of government if he wants to be a successful president of the united states. >> so john, is the president learning on the job? >> i think we all expected this result from the 9th court of appeals. if you were to find three people in san francisco that support the travel restrictions that trump instituted, then youre going to have to wait until the arizona diamondbacks played the san francisco giants bec...