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Disingenuous in some of his answers today. for example, when he was, as andrea pointed out, when he was asked about some of the, his memoranda and the torture memo thing and he said i havent seen that. theyve been in the newspapers. clearly his aides, his handlers have that material, so it cant be that he hasnt seen that material. he also said when asked about for example campaign finance law, he said that there was a lot of room to regulate expenditures and there really, i have to say as somebo...

Illegal collection of thousands of americans communication. now many of us felt it was a direct violation of our surveillance laws. the justice department attorney john yew testified about the program. he said the statutes passed by congress cannot infringe that the presidents inherent power under the constitution to conduct national security searches. so do you believe that president bushs warrantless surveillance program is justified because the president had, quote, inherent power to override...

We see under the aca, that the rate of increase -- nobody wants to see increases, but thats the reality of health care, the way it is right now -- is less than it was before the aca. not in florida because you guys didnt embrace the law the way you could have if you expanded medicaid. now youre doubling down on your own problem. right now you get about 61 cents on the dollar reimbursement from the federal government. youre going to cut that. youre going to reduce the number of dollars but say to...

>> absolutely not because his declarative statement was he did not have any communications with the russians. not only did he have it in his capacity as a senator, but also met with the russians using campaign funds of his own at the rnc convention. so he was caught red handed either way. thats why he needs to resign. im on the house judiciary committee. we have oversight over the partment of justice and congress cannot conduct effective oversight if executive bran officials are going to lie to ...

>> youre saying as it stands its not clear whether or not it was perjury, it would have to be litigated, and the answer certainly isnt a home run one way or another. >> right. >> who would actually take the initiative of bringing this case? >> it would have to be the department of justice and of course mr. sessions is at the top of the department of justice. unless he appoints special counsel to investigate not just the russian connection, but whether or not his testimony before congress was per...

The u.s. military is not equipped to deter those threats. >> do you think we have the strong enough military today in order to achieve that goal? >> no, sir. >> the senate and the house armed services committee voted today in favor of granting general matt has a to serve as defense secretary, typically, a civilian position. the full house vote is expected tomorrow. congress cannot expect confirmation until inauguration day. bret. >> bret: jennifer griffin life of the pentagon. jennifer, thank yo...

Taking money from foreign dignitaries -- >> they do have a constitutional problem. >> so yes, thats exactly what you lay out is exactly the type of thing that can happen. we actually had some indian businesspeople who said very clearly they would stay at donald trumps hotel because they think it will be nice when they meet the president to say "im staying at your hotel." this is a small version of the type of problem were going to have. donald trump and sherry dillon, the lawyer, are direct in s...

Some of us might have liked. yeah, it was a pretty good record and when you stack up the millions of jobs that youve seen in the obama administration compared to with what youre getting -- again, we dont know -- donald trumps indicated -- this is a guy who will take credit for the sun coming up tomorrow. we dont know what actually went on. obviously these businesses have great incentive to say that, oh, yeah, of course, were doing this because of donald trump but we dont know. ill point out -- g...

So what the republicans were yelling about with president obama is that he wants to promote solar energy. he wants to promote clean energy, hes picking winners, that was picking industries. donald trump is picking companies. that is much more pernicious. this is when you associate with authoritarian regimes -- and im being polite here -- we dont want to see a gnat rewards individual companies for being nice to him. thats a very, very scary thought. >> i wonder about that. congress cannot legisla...

Simple piece of legislation that would protect innocent americans from harm and give law enforcement a powerful tool to break up foreign gangs on american soil, if congress cannot even do that the usa is in dire trouble. if kates law is not voted on, just kates law then its a disgrace. because if you stand it alone al its going to pass. and if kates law doesnt pass then the world will know which senators and congress people are truly villainous. get the law to president obama and let history rec...