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Isntgo that a core function of government? victor davis hanson would know hes a senior fellow at the hoover institution. he joins us tonight. professor, thanks for coming on . soso usght. volunteers to seal the border. >> what is this ? i thinkk its shorthand for in 14 months. its not that they made the borders porous. they blew it up. it doesnt exist anymore. yes. and they have no problem with that, tucker , because theyre ideologues but they do have a problem of losing power because that issue...

In the nfib case the aca case, the supreme court made clear that inactivity is also not covered and not authorized under the commerce clause. >> right. in most of the items i identified in my question, in fact, all of them, i believe, would fall under the category of interstate commerce, airwaves, waterways, networks, things like that. things that depend on their operation interstate such that they couldnt no one could regulate them and preserve their core function unless that was federal. with ...

Covered by commerce clause authority and in the nfiv case the aca case, the supreme court made clear that inactivity is also not covered and not authorized under the commerce clause. >> in most of the items that i identified in my question, in fact all of them, i believe, would fall under the category of channels and instrumentality, airwaves, things like that, depend on the operation interstate such that they couldnt, no one could effectively regulate them and preserve their core function unles...

Our nations second highest court, saying stop this, executive privilege, executive privilege, that court swatted that down like a fly. took them nine days to write this really long 68 page rebuke of that. that is now going to go before the supreme court this week, supreme court is going to decide whether to hear the case, i suspect they wont. because, you know, truth seeking is a core function of the american political system and what trump and his minions is trying to do is block that with ever...

This is the second major city ive worked for in a policing capacity, and weve been asked to do many things that go beyond really the core functions. look, we have to get people to a better place. people call 911 or 311, and we have to respond and help them. but we also have to bring the social services in so the officers arent doing that side of the equation as much as weve been asked to do. >> mm-hmm. >> this city has a lot of services, and i think we are committed to doing a better job to brin...

And i think we are committed to doing a better job to bringing all of this together so our officers can do really our core function. and thats stopping crime, stopping violent crime, stopping open air drug use and sales. weve been pushed beyond that. weve been asked to address the unhoused crisis in our city in a way that goes beyond what were trained to do and what we should be doing. i think this is music to my ears and many of our officers, most of our officers, this is bell come. >> and prob...

Folks, they will be arrested. they will be cited. they will be arrested, and well give people options, but we have to be consistent in upholding the law. thats really difficult to do when youre asked to do too many things. and a lot of those things really distract from our core function. >> i just want to key in on something you said. you said, we have to be consistent, and i want to know what that means. and you said, were trying to do too many things. first what do you mean you have to be more...

But you need support and understafunding and need an infrastructure to do the job the way the public is demanding us to do it. this is a huge step toward making things a little easier for officers to get out and do the enforcement theyve been asked to do and not so much have to worry about the social side of this because we are really enhancing that part of it so our officers have options to get people help and those people that just are insisting on using drugs in the street and some of the thi...

Flourish. if its part of facebooks core function, do they have any interest in actually making their platform safer? >> i mean, i really think a lot of these discussions boil down to exactly that. if people inside of the company -- if the people who know facebooks products the best are saying, look, the way things go viral on this platform can be dangerous to people and we need to tamp those down, and folks tat the top of the compan are either unwilling or unable to rein that in, for whatever re...

To sort of dig up the stories that facebook is not so willing to present, which, you know, has come through in a lot of these documents. does it show everything that they do inside of facebook? no. but does it show a lot of things they dont want people to see? yeah. and i think thats important for the public to know about. >> that was a very judicious way to answer that question. i thought it was a good answer. i really did. in your reporting on these documents, you write how in august 2019, in ...