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Carrying, i guess 150 pounds of mare juanny, which i would think is as big as a room anyway. and louie gohmert of texas. both are recognizable members of the clown car of course. theres mo brooks of alabama who once said this on the topic of undocumented immigrants. i will do anything short of shooting them. well, thats kind. and then trent franks of arizona. franks once referred to president obama as an enemy of humanity. and jim bridenstine of oklahoma who made headlines when he refused to cha...

Joining me today. >> thank you, governor, good to be with you and your audience. >> let me first of all get right to the heart of this idea of drone strikes. its one thing, a little troubling, to just take out a person on foreign soil. but should americans be worried that a president might order a drone strike on someone, an american citizen, in america, on american soil? >> well, thats a very different hypothetical than whats going on currently. and i hope we never get to that point, where we n...

Decision would solely be made without any adjudication process. nothing, just a decision made, this person deserves to be killed. what checks and balances should we put in place? >> well, we already know from the obama administration that the process that they use in designating an american citizen as an enemy combatant is one that takes months. so if theyre spending that amount of time in making this decision, then it seems to me that they have sufficient time to provide additional checks and b...

War against the united states. is it an enemy combaitant. and to have that power resides solely with the executive, that is the danger. once there is appropriate determination that the enemy is a combatant. the president can take them out. but as an american citizen you are entitled to certain dew process rights. >> and is there an application where a person who said they are against the united states, even though they are an american citizen they dont give up the rights? >> no, you are allowed ...

Combatant. and waging war and providing support to others engaged in war against the united states. but again, that determination today resides in the executive branch. and if you are talking about the rights of american citizens, what i worry about is where the supreme court comes out on this. i would walk in the oval office and advoiced president bush if someone like a l- lak i was an enemy combaptant and i would be telling him based on my observation since the war on terror, i am not sure fiv...

Someone providing active support, others engage in war against the united states. but, again, that determination, today, resides solely within the executive branch. and if youre talking about the rights of an american citizen, what i would worry about is where the supreme court would come out on this. i would walk into the oval office, and would have walked into the oval office and advised president bush if someone like al lockheed, was, in fact, an enemy combatant. but i would have been cautiou...

Combatant. and waging war and providing support to others engaged in war against the united states. but again, that determination today resides in the executive branch. and if you are talking about the rights of american citizens, what i worry about is where the supreme court comes out on this. i would walk in the oval office and advoiced president bush if someone like a l- lak i was an enemy combaptant and i would be telling him based on my observation since the war on terror, i am not sure fiv...

Combatant. and waging war and providing support to others engaged in war against the united states. but again, that determination today resides in the executive branch. and if you are talking about the rights of american citizens, what i worry about is where the supreme court comes out on this. i would walk in the oval office and advoiced president bush if someone like a l- lak i was an enemy combaptant and i would be telling him based on my observation since the war on terror, i am not sure fiv...

War against the united states. is it an enemy combaitant. and to have that power resides solely with the executive, that is the danger. once there is appropriate determination that the enemy is a combatant. the president can take them out. but as an american citizen you are entitled to certain dew process rights. >> and is there an application where a person who said they are against the united states, even though they are an american citizen they dont give up the rights? >> no, you are allowed ...

Combatant. and waging war and providing support to others engaged in war against the united states. but again, that determination today resides in the executive branch. and if you are talking about the rights of american citizens, what i worry about is where the supreme court comes out on this. i would walk in the oval office and advoiced president bush if someone like a l- lak i was an enemy combaptant and i would be telling him based on my observation since the war on terror, i am not sure fiv...