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Government control over our lives. and so -- and the tragic thing about this is that the american people have contempt for the united states constitution. contempt and ignorance because any politician who decided to uphold and defend the united states constitution, he would not get elected to office by the american people. that is -- if he says, look, nowhere in the constitution is there authority for the federal government to be involved in education. so if you send me to washington, im not goi...

Thats just beneath contempt. i wish he would stop doing things like that. this week the resiliency and came from the high school students. they are fighting for their right to even have a future. im betting on them. young people have changed america in the past and won. february 1st, 1960, had a very small handful of black students who conducted a single sit in and it broke the color barrier and launched a movement that changed america and ended segregati segregation. and my uncle, chester arthu...

Peddle contempt for president donald trump and today his approval numbers are higher than when he was elected. the generic republican against democrat ballot tightening. some have the gop now within three points of the democrat. the democrats led by double digits two months ago. sure, the country still has problem, drug addiction and violence in baltimore and the spread of ms-13 and now we know the need to improve the school safety but generally things are getting better. theyre getting better f...

Peddle contempt for president donald trump and today his approval numbers are higher than when he was elected. the generic republican against democrat ballot tightening. some have the gop now within three points of the democrat. the democrats led by double digits two months ago. sure, the country still has problem, drug addiction and violence in baltimore and the spread of ms-13 and now we know the need to improve the school safety but generally things are getting better. theyre getting better f...

In separate prisons in two different states. jim mcdougal had cut a deal with ken starr, a shortened prison sentence on bank fraud charges in exchange for cooperating and implicating the clintons. susan mcdougal had refused to cooperate and was being held in criminal contempt. >> susan has got to get the all-time award for loyalty. >> still refusing to talk, susan was constantly shuttled between prisons. >> one of the things they do to weaken the resolve of people who are in for contempt is tmov...

To incarceration. >> right. >> congressional power could lead him to getting perhaps a slap on the wrist or being scorned in the public square. but there is not a whole lot of things that congress can do if they hold him in contempt. they have to rely on the department of justice and a federal judge to be able to make the contempt stick and have a penalty attached. im sure he is far more cooperative with muellers team because there is a criminal penalty attached to that. and frankly the alternat...

Testifying before the committees on the hill. now, whether thats true or not or the extent to which the white house is doing that, i dont know. i think his options are much more limited with the special prosecutor, that he doesnt have much protection there. and that he has to answer legitimate questions. and thats whats going on. >> yes. >> and you know also. >> go ahead, laura. >> to that point, think about it. muellers power could lead him to incarceration. >> right. >> congressional power cou...

Cooperation of the u.s. intelligence community to gather information inside russia. which he will need for -- to prove certain parts of his case. and that to me showed that he does have information coming out of russia in a way thats pretty impressive. and that -- more than i really anticipated. and it raises -- to me, its an interesting question. which agencies are cooperating with mueller, despite trumps attempts to politicize this. >> working with mueller on counter intelligence, talking abou...

The fact that this is a separate but equal branch of government or theres any hope for an independent investigation. quite honestly, the speaker of the house has to step up. it is not going to happen with the chairman of this committee, mr. nunes. weve seen that, a track record there. the only person that can get mr. nunes to step up by his actions and his orders is the speaker of the house. we simply cant let the white house dictate whats taking place here because they want to obstruct this inv...

With special counsel robert mueller. gates is poised to cooperate in the russia investigation. this could be another building block in the potential case against president trump or members of his team. cnn has learned former white house chief strategist steve bannon was questioned by the special counsels investigators over two days this week. bannon is not cooperating with the house intelligence committee investigation. he says the white house instructed him to invoke executive privilege and ref...