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sisters, like nuns, of perpetual indulgence. it has outraged and upset christians across the country. some of the top players on the dodgers have been deeply uncomfortable with this honoring of this group. it led to the group being invited and then they were uninvited, and then reinvited as the dodgers shifted around to try to get on the right side of this with backlash on all sides. so heres why theres so much backlash. they call themselves a leading edge order of queer and trans nuns...

so-called red flag laws. enhanced review process for gun buyers under the age of 21. closing the boyfriend loophole. penalties for straw purchases. and clarifying the definition of firearms dealer. eva joins me now. theres a lot to unpack here but the issue is moving forward. it has the potential to become law. >> jim, it is. it could be consequential. we have not seen any real gun safety measures passed in decades in congress. take the boyfriend loophole, for instance. anyone deemed t...

January 6th probe be follow the lies? >> thats a tougher road, actually. theres so many of them. you know, "the new york times" did a piece this morning on the front page of the print edition, anyway, that talked about how it appears like the january 6th committee is trying to push the issue of a prosecution by the department of justice. i dont think thats the case at all. i think theyre doing their investigation. i think the department of justice is full hands on investigating this. and i think...

People, one of the most famous in american history, mark felt better known as deep throat. the fbi informant helped take down the nixon administration divulging crucial information about watergate. in 1971, military analyst daniel elseburg leaked top-secret department of defense information about why the u.s. entered the vietnam war. william vinny and thomas drake were nsa officials who informed the inspector general about government surveillance programs they perceived as invading citizens priv...

Liddy, the two principal guys that would organize watergate and they initially -- and the reason the white house was involved in watergate is because of things they had done when working at the white house, mainly breaking into daniel elseburgs psychiatrists office trying to find out if he was up to more leaks. >> i had forgotten that that was the origin story. the plumbers start because of the white house obsession with stopping leaks. >> thats exactly right and we have now -- we have another p...

The president today talking about "illegal leaks." he has a point in a certain extent they that they probably are violations of the law to the extent people are leaking classified information but there is a parallel in that deep throat mark phelps was an agent in the fbi with his own ax to grind that drove this. >> thats true. and watergate itself was born in leaks. it was the setting up of the so-called plumbers unit that was investigating leaks for nixon that had howard hunt and gordon liddy, ...

Are, maybe find embarrassing things about them, leak them breitbart and soon its on cnn, god forbid msnbc then were talking about a different ball game here. >> so thats -- look, thats where -- thats where the sort of -- the real impeachable offense is for nixon came in. there was a bunch of things he did but, you know, one of the things he did was had this group of folks that broke into watergate and did a lot of other things directed at enemies, they discussed -- they tried to break into a the...

Care about reporting the material independent of the source, but its also obviously an important story to find out who is the story whos hacking all these e-mails, that is a separate story. >> in the case of barstow, youve got the "new york times," so theres three pages of one tax return in 19 # 6, if it was, heres the back and forth with ivanka, about people she doesnt like. thats what we have right now and we have news cycles that are being driven, pretty clearly with the intent to do this. wh...

Dont care if they broke the law, as a journalist, all you care about reporting the material independent of the source, but its also obviously an important story to find out who is the story whos hacking all these e-mails, that is a separate story. >> in the case of barstow, youve got the "new york times," so theres three pages of one tax return in 19 # 6, if it was, heres the back and forth with ivanka, about people she doesnt like. thats what we have right now and we have news cycles that are b...

Odd that they rendered people, kid namd them and put them in changes in guantanamo or that invaded and destroyed a country of 26 million people in iraq and have all sorts of human rights abuses because the idea of asylum is that countries under international law are supposed to protect you from persecution that youre enduring at home, that youre fleeing. he isnt going to venezuela, or ecuador, bolivia, wherever he ends up. hes going there because as daniel elseburg said, this country is no longe...