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Sought to protect us. But now along comes a president who actually says he is constitutionally empowered to do whatever he wants. That he can neither be prosecuted or even investigated for any crime. And that he can totally ignore any impeachment proceeding of which he disapproves. These are the claims of a wanna be tyrant who has extowed the virtues of tyrants from manila to moscow. To advance tyranny, he adopts an openborder policy. Inviting foreigners to come into our country and intrude in o...

I fought really hard to get three very, very good people in there and great people and smart people. kayleigh: the new york times said this is set to be the most explosive case of bush v gore and therell be democrat justices saying this is not how the constitution works and this is history and its confederates and saw in michigan it was like five democrat judges that said, look, no, this is not the way were going. its a back hand slap to the nonsense of the state level saying were going to ban t...

Was not a violation of law. thats not how the constitution works. a constitutional violation is a constitutional violation. and thats what the president stands accused of. >> luke, what is the strategy here? lauro has been all over tv. he did a full ginsburg on the sunday shows, and is the point of the strategy from your reporting and from what you understand just to muddy the waters enough to get themselves a hung jury? >> well, we always say unprecedented, but we have never seen a situation li...

Former attorneys for donald trump. what does it say about the conservative legal movement that so many republican lawyers were going to subvert the rule of law, all to help when man stay in power? >> it is remarkable, ayman mohyeldin. these are the people that bill barr used to call the crazies or whatever it is, and these are people have sullied the legal profession and the legal system in the united states. people go to attorneys forget advice, for an understanding of how the law works, and ho...

Classified. whats the first thing that director wray said? he didnt acknowledge whether he had it. he said he wouldnt provide. i explained to him if he doesnt provide it well hold him in contempt. now he said yes, we do have the document but only show it to the chairman and ranking member. thats not how the constitution works. >> after committee raskin and comer were able to view the document they walked away with differing views. with raskin claiming the investigation was actually closed. >> wh...

Chris wray at the fbi. is he going to be held in contempt? >> he will be held in contempt if he doesnt do what he is responsible to do. remember in the commitment to america, republicans said we would go and make sure we had accountability and transparency. we had a whistleblower come before us and say that he had gone to the fbi about hearing of a $5 million bribe from a foreign individual to then vice president biden. and then talked about sending money to lllcs and others. we subpoenaed that ...

Cant actually form stable governments, you know, we have anotherfailed governments, you know, we have another failed government. governments, you know, we have anotherfailed government. they another failed government. they cant anotherfailed government. they cant manage to control the political party and get legislation through then the pressure increases and constitutionally, whether there is a confidence vote or not, the correct sort of income is for a general election because you have to be a...

Doesnt like you, they can go file a petition with the court or with law enforcement, and theres a hearing that youre not allowed to be at, your lawyer cant be present, you cant confront your accusers, youre never charged with a a crime, but they can take your property, your second amendment rights from now. and -- are from you. and you have to go and petition to get that right back, that fundamental liberty that john just talked about. you have to go petition to get that back. thats not how the ...

The constitution works. this will affect new york and it will affect half a dozen other states that have similar laws which you had to show some heightened need beyond just a desire for self-defense to get a concealed carry permit. two questions remain to be answered. the first one is, what areas can cities and states and local governments redline and say, well, you can get a concealed carry permit but you cant carry your gun into these sensitive places. the court recognizes that thats a questio...

All of these -- ilhan omar, all of these progressive members of congress who want to snap their fingers -- they believe rules dont apply to them, i think. and they dont understand the way the constitution works. the reason justices are give given lifetime appointments, you may not like it, but its because theyre supposed to be independent of the whims of politics. thats the department of congress where people like aoc are. and they dont understand that, and so they take a free rein to try to put...