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This administration has always been caught offguard by one thing or another, whether it is isis or ebola. It is always caught off guard, and we are always reactive. A lot of these problems happen because we have retreated as a world leader, and when we retreat as a world leader world leader , we leave a vacuum. You can be certain that vacuum will be filled by someone much less benevolent than we are. This is the president to calls the isis at the junior varsity, the president who makes all of hi...

3, that since their meeting their recess was still on and lasted more than 3 days, it was a violation of that adjournment clause of the constitution. Now, thats one way to interpret it. Over a long period of time, they have apparently met pro forma on those days. Or we could try to make them mean the same thing, which would mean it was up to the senate. They consider that a meeting, its a meeting. What do we do . Or there is another option, Justice Breyer. Would you write that opinion, saying th...

The executive was by rejecting the notion that the appointment power should reside with the senate. The framers considered that and they rejected it. And the reason they rejected it, as this court noted in its edmund opinion, was to protect the executive against encroachment by the legislature. But the compromise they settled on in moving away from that is that the president will nominate and the senate, if it so chooses, can confirm a nominee. You spoke of the intransigence of the senate. Well,...

And two banks that loaned money to the president s businesses. The other case involving Manhattan District Attorney sy advance. Wants the president s tax records as an investigation into whether or not the president broke any state laws reimbursing Michael Cohen hush money paid to Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign. We have an allstar panel to kick things upoff for us. Kara lee at the white house, indica katie tur and for expert and analysis on all of this, joined by msnbc legal analyst nei...

The u. S. Saw a surge of Coronavirus Infections in the weeks after memorial day and now new cell phone data suggests that more people are hitting or hit the road over the fourth of july weekend. We look at that data and we see there were lots of visitors to ten states seeing some of the highest spikes and, of course, the question is how will those states handle the next wave of infections. At least 26 states are pausing or rolling back reopening plans in an effort to get the virus spread under c...

Like this i have two choices. The first choice is i can sit here, cry, you know . Feel sorry for myself. And just kind of be useless and not do anything. Or i can cry, realize what happened and accept what happened and move on from what happened and do everything in their name and do everything for them from now on. And alan, a member of the Tappan Fire Department for more than four decades fulfilled a dream of opening a model train store in his hometown. A vintage fire truck carried his casket ...

Toll is far, far lower than the officially reported numbers. That constant tension between what the president says and the data is a recurring pandemic headache. Newly released White House Coronavirus task force reports highlight several more examples of his experts sounding alarms, warning states of new red zones even as the president , who we should note skips most task force meetings, offers the public a far more rosy outlook. Constant tension and conflict now making it hard to know whom to t...

News. Trump comes to the defense of an accused killer who also happens to be a supporter. Speaking just moments ago the president almost justifying what Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly did last tuesday night armed on the streets of kenosha, wisconsin with a long rifle, where police say he killed two protesters and injured a third. Do you condemn the actions of vigilantes like Kyle Rittenhouse . We are looking at all of it. That was an interesting situation. You saw the same tape as i saw and he was t...

U. S. Senate. Republican senators david perdue and Kelly Loeffler are facing democratic challengers jon ossoff and the reverend Raphael Warnock respectively. Georgia has not elected a democrat to the senate since 1996. Last month joe biden became the first democrat to win georgia in a president ial race since 92. Now, President Trump spent this evening rallying supporters in valdosta, georgia. He urged the crowd of course to vote for the incumbents, while also saying that the election he just lo...

With three crucial spending bills up in the air right now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york welcome to the week. Today marks four weeks since joe biden was projected as the president elect, and today marks one month until voters in georgia set the tone for the u. S. Senate. Republican senators david perdue and Kelly Loeffler are facing democratic challengers jon ossoff and the reverend Raphael Warnock respectively. Georgia has not elected a democrat to the senate since 1996. Last mon...