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Candidate. >> out last the statute of lim taugzs. >> thats not true. thaw could file a sealed indictment so the president wouldnt be hauled into court. and i agree that he cant be ha hauled into court while hes serving. the constitution itself, article one with, section three says even after that, the person, the president or other civil officers shall remain liable to indictment, trul, punishment and conviction >> he looks like hes going to run for reelection. you think he will >> i think he wi...

System. and in a way that is system mmpc of a deep crisis. what hes doing is preparing the ground for not only a kind of mass movement outside of the party system, but hes also using whatever leverages he has to try to ramp up and has ramped up the authoritarian character of government and the much more coercive character of the agencies of the government, when we look at agencies like ice and other agencies at the border, hes put military at the border and declared a national emergency against ...

Farther than what president obama did in terms of using extive power, the kind of executive power republicans harshly criticized him for, some suggesting he should be impeached. now if republicans turn around and allow this unprecedented use of the emergency power to do an end run around congress article one duty to appropriate funds, that will be a major blow to our republic. that would be an undermining of the constitution. it will really be establishing the republican party as an authoritaria...

With freedom. most people dont want to live in a tyranny, and most people in the long run, we want to have govern themselves on their own terms. >> laura: newt, i wanted to enter a really troubling development, speaking of anti-constitutional norms and trends. this is judicial resistance. it looks a whole lot like activism. jesse ferments at the trump administration proposal to reintroduce citizenship question of the 2020 senses is "unlawful," writing the decision to add a citizenship question, ...

Breaking with the president on the saudi thing, is not breaking with them on this one. >> and hes claiming that scalia said this -- hes failing to recognize the unique threat this president poses to the constitution itself, to undermining the rule of law, to so many of the things hes doing where hes trying to really take onto himself powers he should not have. >> isnt that one of the prized principles of the party? >> the republican party principles like fighting a deficit and states rights, lik...

Constitution itself, look to the president of law to make their decisions. not there party or not even their particular relationship with the executive leadership. >> well, thats what they have to do. they have to follow the law. roberts is a perfect example of that because he has come down 4, and he has come down against trump. for republicans, he has come down against republicans. he is clearly -- neil gorsuch is the same way. he has not been 100% with republican thought process, with republic...

Culture war of american politics. i was born the year of watergate. bork 15 years later, clinton ten years later, kavanaugh and trump, you know, we are just -- has this just been one long -- it seems to be, thats the argument, were in one long war here. >> chuck, i was born 30 years earlier, long before the culture war and it was great. the -- let me say that the carings that weve had, especially the first part of the hearings, where we actually talked about substance, rather than sex, what were...

Complicit in evil if you have anything to do with judge kavanaugh. it could get crazy. they have forwarded the 911 records for his house hoping to find something. they found his car had been stolen a few years ago. theyre going low. on the other hand, i think that judge kavanaugh is someone that is so articulate, so even-handed. so thoughtful in his opinions. im looking forward to the american people get to see him for who he is and getting him to have the opportunity to talk about his dozen yea...

>> the question of the constitution itself, should it be interpreted strictly? >> there are different methods of interpreting the constitution. i think whats important is a judge takes that responsibility seriously. and understands that what shes doing is interpreting the constitution and the laws and not imposing her own personal preferences on the law. and judge barrett, for example, in her seventh circuit confirmation hearing, was very clear that whatever her personal beliefs are, dont have a...

Me. >> let me get that on the other side. richard blumenthal who was a prosecutor and is now a senator from connecticut was making your point. i want to see if your point is the same as his. lets play it from earlier this morning here on this network. -- we dont have that? okay. well, basically, he did argue -- he argued that this absolutely could happen. that -- and he also made the argument that the reason not to indict is based to an precedent thats 45 years old and could perhaps be looked at...