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Broad sweeping -- it isnt saying that no one ever has to participate in a wedding ceremony if theyre in this type of business but points back to the commissioner and says if there is obvious religious bias against someone belis you cant base a ous decision on that. there was a very pointed moment where justice kennedy was talking to the attorneys for the couple and said tolerance has to work both ways. im very concerned by what ive seen in this case that tolerance was not extended to mr. jack ph...

Wanted. the president is not capable of obstructing investigations. warns of fighting back if trump is subpoenaed. no need for an interview between trump and mueller. president trump is not available for an interview. the first two there about the president basically being either a monarch or a dictator, that because hes president he can end any investigation that he wants. to your point about this as undermining the american project, can that -- could that stand up legally? could the president ...

Russia thing was a made-up thing. if im a defense attorney i would argue that because he believed there was nothing to the russian investigation or the allegation, it didnt factor into his decision because he thought it was a fiction. the prosecutor in me would rather be on the side of concluding that, you know what? he was driven by the russia investigation. im just playing devils advocate. >> i dont think theres any wiggle room here. as jean luc picard might say there are four lights. trump sa...

To take a knee. and ive spoken to players who now say they want to protest not because of police violence or racial inequity but to show nfl owners that theyre not going to be treated this way. >> ephraim, just hang on a second. president trump obviously supports this new ruling, right? >> of course. >> i want you to listen to what he said about players who still choose to take a knee. take a listen. >> i dont think people should be staying in locker rooms, but still i think its good. you have t...

One would argue there isnt a big smoking gun we expected. thats why you see the poll numbers. for example, consider the fact that at least two of the defendants were indicted for section 1001, making false statements which is arguely -- im just playing devils advocate to nick here. when you have a section 1001 false statement case that was created after the fact. it was created by the mueller investigation. you have the manafort case where hes arguing, look, none of this stuff had anything to do...

Who have pled guilty, a series of indictments that have come out. there is real criminality thats been uncovered. the idea that this is a witch hunt when a series of wizards have been indicted and some pled guilty makes no sense and is part of don the cons pattern of lying. >> can we put it up for a second? michael flynn who was the national security adviser of the united states. he pleaded guilty. george papadopoulos pleaded guilty. paul manafort. have you ever been in a legal case with this ma...

That to me indicated that it was something i should be interested in. the problem with this second approach is it is something discussed at length with the mueller investigation. and because of that, i dont think i should discuss it at length on television but im eager to tell the department of justice because frankly i dont think the mueller investigation is being straight up about it. >> and you just -- to play devils advocate, you told to the investigation in the house and intelligence commit...

Thats exactly what happened. >> trump junior was asked about whether the campaign or there was any discussion in this meeting about the hacks of the e-mails, dnc e-mail hack, and i want to read a little bit of this interaction because donald trump jr. says no, he didnt recall any specific discussion in this meeting about those hacked e-mails. and then later says, i just dont know that if someone had a passing conversation with me and said, hey, what do you think about that? but, no, there was no...

Guarantee it seems this this is not something mueller will get a great deal of leverage over. >> josh, another devils advocate way, is it cleaner or nicer or more sanitary if a guy went to andover with poppy and is charging the same going rate as opposed to a guy from new york who knew donald trump back in the day? >> its a different crew, was very unexpected trump found himself for the white house and big companies were scrambling to find somebody and some of these characters may seem more unsa...

To get a great deal of leverage over. >> josh, another devils advocate way of putting what you just said, is it cleaner or nicer or more sanitary if a guy went to andover with poppy and is charging the same going rate as opposed to a guy from new york who knew donald trump back in the day? >> right. its a different crew as you said earlier, was very unexpected that trump found himself headed for the white house. and big companies were scrambling because some of these companies with literally bil...