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suggest that. >> is there any evidence to suggest that the presidency was what they were focused on? >> there is some evidence of that. there were people saying we dont want jefferson davis to be elected president and there was also one of the drafts of section 3 specifically mentioned the presidency and the vice president. >> but it wasnt the final enactment. >> right. it wasnt the final enactment, but it shows there was some concern about some people about confederate insurrectionist...

classified documents. the special counsel found evidence that president biden, quote, willfully retaineds classified materials found no reason to press criminal charges. drew distinction between the criminal probe of handling of documents and his findings regarding president biden. the long standing justice department priniple that you cannot indict a sitting president does not apply and would not bring charges even if joe biden were no longer president. well have more on that later in...

As the chief deputy whip. we have a lot to get to with you. i want to get your quick reaction to those handwritten notes, and what the president told the deputy attorney general and attorney general whos acting attorney general at the time saying to just call the election corrupt, and then the "r" congressmen are going to take care of this. >> i mean, i think we have to keep in mind, these were in the days leading up to the insurrection on january 6th. so its very difficult for me to separate th...

Call didnt happen. what republicans say instead is democrats have wanted to impeach the president from the beginning. whats wrong with that argument? >> because its not true. listen. thats the kind of argument they make about process or any other kind of a distraction or deflection point of view instead of dealing with the substance of it all. ive heard very few republicans throughout the course of all of this actually defend the presidents behavior. in fact, mostly they deny it. and as a conseq...

Prosecution with a pardon or a commutation, the constitution grants him the extraordinary authority in the area but at the same time president needs to let the system work so that people have confidence in the system. as they commander-in-chief they are always trying to balance those two things. >> melissa: but the argument from them is that the system wasnt working. if you look deeper into the ca case, youve done things, and they wouldnt be fitting of the military. >> jessica: i understand that...

>> i want to ask you also, when the president was speaking before he went to kentucky today, he went off on a lot of issues. the 14th amendment passed after the civil war to ensure that black americans had full citizenship rights, grants citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the united states. president trump said, we are looking at birth right citizenship very seriously, its frankly ridiculous. you say what? >> birth right citizenship is enshrined in our constitution, its one of the...

Limits? the constitution grants him extra powers and legal protections. but when do you confront him anyway? because no person is above the law. prosecutors who chose the path of confrontation did so in public, speaking, cajoling, criticizing, even leaking. >> the president repeatedly tried to forward the legal process. >> the president chose deception. >> the white house lawyers filed a motion to file kenneth starr in contempt of court. >> in an interview published in content magazine, starr co...

Misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find the fulfillment of it themselves. their hope is not to live in loneliness, they ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. the constitution grants them that right. justice kennedy, stepping down now. now, i want to bring in cnns chief analyst corey, analyst ryan and kevin russell. good evening to all of you. good to see you. gloria, ...

In lonely hez. the constitution grants them the right to dignity. for more im joined by pete williams, nbc news justice correspondent, charlie sykes from the weekly standard and jonathan turley, university law professor. what a group. pete, weve been talking about thissing about three hours. i want to skip politics for about five minutes. i think the democratic party is loaded for bear on there baby. talk about justice kennedy. youre from california, you went to stanford. understand the nuance o...

Know, an important vote, you could tell that from the oral arguments. it was unknown which way he was going to come down and now he pens the majority opinion, the same personho in 2015 wrote the majority opinion in the same sex marriage case and wrote then, they being gay people, asked for equal dignity in the eyes of the law, the constitution grants them that right, everyone remembers that line from his opinion. and now the fact he wrote this opinion. striking to you? >> it is. we should keep i...