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If the senate consents and if the full congress passes an exception to the seven-year requirement, i will provide strong civilian leadership of military plans and decisions and the department of defense. i recognize under the constitution it is the congress that raises sustained and supports the armed forces through annual authorizations and appropriations. for many years i have watched you in action and testified before you. i look forward to collaborating closely for the defense of our nation....

Country. >> reporter: and professor gillers points out trump is right in at least one respect. the conflict of interest laws that apply to members of congress and cabinet members specifically exempt the president and vice president. that leaves some people pointing to the little known emolument clause in the constitution, that bars public officials from accepting gifts or compensation from foreign governments except if congress consents. so with republican majorities in both houses and a justice...

The last week, and all the polling, there was one night when all the consents were going on and they were talking about the polls and comey had come out with the second letter and i said maybe were going to are a madam president, but that was the only time i thought maybe his chances were -- had dwindled. >> yeah and i guess i felt pretty much the same way. there was a certain amount of confidence, almost an arrogance that i had. i didnt vote for trump or hillary. i was almost saying look i told...

Team. what a phenomenal job. look at it this way. our house majority is bigger than expected. we won more seats than anyone expected and much of that is thanks to donald trump. donald trump provided the kind of coattails that got a lot of people over the finish line so that we could maintain our strong house and senate majorities. now we have important work to do. many months ago, republicans in the house united around a bold specific agenda for this country. it offers a better way forward for a...

Thats how i see the court and the kind of people that i would be looking to nominate to the court. would be in the great tradition of standing up to the powerful, standing up on behalf of our rights as americans. and i look forward to having that opportunity. i would hope that the senate would do its job and confirm the nominee that president obama has sent to them. thats the way the constitution fundamentally should operate. the president nominates and then the senate advises and consents or no...

My opponent about these issues and others that will be before the supreme court, but i feel that at this point in our countrys history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not reverse roe v. wade, that we stand up against citizens united, we stand up for the rights of people in the workplace, that we stand up and basically say the supreme court should represent all of us. thats how i see the court and the kind of people that i would be looking to nominate to the court ...

Senate advises and consents or not, but they go forward with the process. >> secretary clinton, thank you. mr. trump, same question. where do you want to see the court take the country and how do you believe the constitution should be interpreted? >> first of all its great to be with you and thank you, everybody. the supreme court is what its all about. our country is so, so -- just so imperative we have the right justices. something happened recently, where justice ginsburg made some very, very...

Well, first of all, we have -- lets start with number one. they claim that they were given drugs, and then taken advantage of by mr. cosby. mr. cosby has admitted, he got prescriptions, not for his own use, but to use with other women. quaaludes. controlled substances. a sedative that knocks you out. makes you incapable of consentsing consents i ing to anything. thats number one. number two, he said at least to terrese, one of the seven women i represent, that he had sex with her after he gave h...

And now, the new hot girl group with a message, it just happens to be kim jong uns message. >> reporter: most fans have a leader, this girl band has a great leader, north koreas kim jong un, he is said to hand pick the members and attends their consents, three, two, one, lift off. to honor an actual missile launch, the band played in front of a replay igniting the audience as the missing struck north america. ♪ ♪ [ cheers ] >> reporter: then, when the cheering died down, they launched again....

This is. >> i understand people would find the video jarring. you have the -- woman chomping down a fancy restaurant and drinking wine. one thing that the group that did this spent about at least two years infiltrating organizations did put the transcript online. and the transcript makes it clear that t that only are we talk about the medical research purposes and diabetes and parkinsons, were also talking about something done with the full voluntary consent with the patient. because the patient...