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Is that really happening? ron vitiello is the acting deputy commissioner of u.s. customs and border protecti joins us lye today. chief, what is the truth? what is going on on our southern border regarding families. >> what happens is when people cross the border illegally, thats a federal crime. and working with secretary nielsen, the department of justice, the attorney general, he has offered to prosecute anybody that crosses the border illegally. thats whats happening. so, all of these cases a...

Principal that has applications in many contexts. >> shannon: we are back with the panel to talk about this opinion from the supreme court saying this christian baker in colora essentially, justice kennedy, writing this was about the original commissionhen heard the case. he pointed out things they said equating his religious claims to people who supported slavery, he said this guy never got a fair shake. it doesnt sound like my reading of this, that we got the underlying issues, the full merits...

Thanks to both of you for being here. brian, what is the clearest argument against the self-pardon? >> well, there are three parts. the first part is, as paul butler mentioned earlier, a pardon inherently is something you give to someone else. it would be like making a donation to yourself, it doesnt make sense, donations from the same latin root. the second reason is, no one can be a judge in his own case. the courts have said that in other contexts. sometimes they do, sometimes they dont. if t...

Society needs so we can protect people in the workplace, so people can function without having an unsafe work environment. >> so youre saying if bill clinton were president today and those incidents were unfolding today -- >> it would be a very different conversation, exactly. >> well, i disagree with her. i think, you know, you have to really ignore what the context was. but, you know, shes living in a different context and she did it for different reasons, so i -- but i just disagree with her....

She said he should have stepped down after the monica lewinsky scandal. >> the tolerance we had 25 years ago, what was allowed 25 years ago will not be tolerated today, is not allowed today, and that we have to have the kind of o r oversight and accountability society needs so we can protect people in the workplace, so people can function without having an unsafe work environment. >> so youre saying if bill clinton were president today and those incidents were unfolding today -- >> it would be a...

Other contexts, answered that question twice in both u.s. v nixon and clinton j jones and the supreme court has said the president is never too busy to be held accountable. two, they suggest that a lawful act can never be viewed as criminal, because he has a pardon power, because he can fire an fbi director. because he can put a stop to an investigation. those cant possibly be evidence of a crime. the reality is he does have those powers. however, if he exercises them for corrupt purpose, that c...

This was not okay. >> im trying to process this this morning. people scratch their heads and say, wait a minute, how does he get away with a lie like the birther conspiracy? how does he get away with, you know, charlottesville? that there is no real represent cushion for him and yet other people in a second theyre gone. >> i think we reduce whats happening today to a new phenomena when its not that new. in some contexts that threshold is lower.

>> there is no attempted conspiracy. there can be in certain contexts. where do you write this off, david gregory? is this ignorance on the part of don jr. and the people around him who would have said this is a good idea or arrogance? >> i think its both. you had a number of people who didnt have any idea what they were doing. there werent enough experienced people to say you dont do that ever. you dont play footsie and flirt with vladimir putin and think youre the first who thought of this. he...

Sometimes they feel their politicians run and their sometimes their male politicians have, in schneidermans case, he backed the me too movement. said this is something i want to fight against. and you find out that conduct is still being caried out. do you think the democratic as a whole needs to do soul searching. >> the question comes down to do we value women? if we dont, we wont take these cases seriously. we have to hold people accountable and ive been looking on chaning the rolls in all in...

Of these contexts on a bipartisan basis for many years. >> hillary clinton, obviously, failed to crack the glass ceiling first in 2008 and then in 2016, do you think a woman could get elected in 2020? >> without a doubt. i think what hillary clinton accomplished inspired women worldwide to say i can run for the toughest job and ask women and girls to strive for their ambition and the leaderships and opportunities they should take. >> my thanks to senator kirsten gillibrand for that conversation....