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Had a conflicting and contradictory directive from two equal branches. congress has instructed to testify on the president has instructed him not to." he was the staff secretary, he was a member of the administration. therefore is subject to executive privilege even though he does not work here anymore. >> shepard: the president has not claimed executive privilege, has he? >> they said that they did not want him to talk outside of the parameters, at least for lewandowski not to talk out of the p...

Fulbrights, a segregationist. today, you have a whole different reality of the democratic coalition and power coalition has shifted dramatically to people of color and to the left, actually. >> absolutely. what i dont understand, i agree with what everybody has stated including senator boxer, who said democrats need to figure out way to beat up on president trump and not each other. context matters. when you get to the senate, youre 29 years old, theyre segregationist, thats who you have to deal...

The eastlands and the people like that and the mcclellans and fulbrights. lets not forget fulbright. today you have aoc. a different reality of the democratic coalition and the power in the coalition has shifted dramatically to younger people of color, and people to the left, actually. >> its absolutely shifted. and what i dont understand, i agree with everything that everybody has stated tonight, including senator boxer who said democrats need to figure out a way to beat donald trump and not ju...

On the tape. you mean he could have got out of it? >> i think its hard to make a finding without seeing the report. i think its important we not lose sight how far weve come after 22-month vez. 37 indictments. multiple guilty pleas, convictions including people like michael flynn and others. context matters. >> nobody around the president has been indicted ever since this two years began about collusion. nobody. >> i think a couple of folks have raised the paint that we also cant lose sight of t...

And criminals and people. >> on the day that were trying to deal with 49 people massacred for being different and a man in a manifesto says immigrants are the problem and you do this? context matters. does anything get through to be bigger than your own immediate political need? d.lemon is here. so theres two suggestions. the first is he said today i dont think white supremacists, i dont think theyre a big deal. theyre small. theyre not a big deal. >> do your research. do your homework. >> to ma...

Encourages jewish people to leave the democrat party and that republicans are waiting with open arms. the day that we are in mourning a bigot massacring 49 people you spread that mess? of course its a false suggestion that democrats are anti-jewish. do you want to compare how many jews are in the democratic party versus the gop? we shouldnt even be playing this game. then he followed up with this. >> were on track to a million illegal aliens to our border. people hate the word invasion but its a...

Hispanic-american, and asian-american unemployment have all reached their lowest levels ever recorded. >> have all reached, have all reached. thats a tricky statement. last year, in may, june, july, yeah. these were great, great numbers here. but they have slipped since then. and he has not mentioned that, didnt say anything about that. in the past tense, what he said was true. in the present tense, what he said was false. what about some of the industry driving those jobs? >> we have unleashed ...

You dont know what the early vote is all about. for or against something. >> two things. context matters. lets take a look. that was early voting and absentee voting. -- it was early voting, not early and absentee. if you combine them, this time around republicans have 40.1% of the early and absentee votes in florida. the democrats have 40.6%. half a point. but thats only 24,000 votes. two years ago the democrats combined out of the two had a 96,000 vote margin. this time around if they were doi...

Yes. for the most part everything on the van falls understood the category of free speech but i always say every single free speech case is like a snowflake. theres no other one quite like it. context matters. the nature of the speech, how its communicated matters. as a general rule of thumb, since many years ago somebody wore a jacket with the "f" word on it into a california courthouse the free speech rules are pretty relaxed unless you incite an immediate crime and even thats a difficult stan...

In your book you write there seems to be so much violence in the house and senate chambers in the 1830s, 1840s, and 1850s, shoving, punching, bowie knives. congressman brawling in the benches while colleagues stood on chairs to get a good look. and at at least once a gun was fired on the house floor. historically they have been demonstrated, that violence has been demonstrated at our highest levels of governance. >> context matters. the united states in the 1840s and 1850s was a really violent c...