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Yesterday that the supreme court is actually going to have to weigh in on what the 14th amendment means. it is a constitutional question, and hes right about that, but he is also right that he can probably bury the nationalization process, and congress can too. i think we need to consider all avenues to end a chain migration, stop the influx of illegal immigrants. absolutely into this country, also to reform. we have an immigration system that does not work for the workers of this country, inclu...

Command is in charge of these active-duty troops. this is a departure from anything that we have seen before. that guard is down there. but now we are seeing active duty military employees directly on the border to work right on the border, not pushing paper, but actually working. i think thats a major departure, and i think the question can be we dont know what is going to happen when they show up. this will be a clash. it will be very dramatic. but we hope it is a sign and a showing of force, ...

Watch. >> can you work with them if the democrats win the house? >> we can certainly try. i am looking to unify, they had a very hard time because they havent been winning, and we will see what happens five days from now. >> sandra: as you are sitting down here, talking about how you have known president trump since the 70s. this is a guy that you know very well. what you make of how he responded to that question? can he unify and work with democrats? >> it really makes me sick the way that a lo...

To the lawyers and i know it would be. but, i think the lawyers would find a way to make it publishable. and that would be the right thing. >> all right. but i got to ask you an ethics question, just and its the last question. this is what im struggling with. if this person is pretty high up, okay, and theyre saying these things, and theyre essentially talking about the 25th amendment and all of this, this is, at what point does "the new york times" have a duty to share this with the public? >> ...

>> does it look like hes engaged in questionable behavior to you? >> i dont think you can get a room for $50 a night. >> republican senator lindsey graham on the ethics question scott pruitepa chief scott pruit is facing, but the president is doubling down on his support for pruitt, tweeting defense of his security spending and epa record and going on to say his rent was about market rate, travel expenses okay. lets bring in former dnc chairman howard dean, and republican strategist susan. front...

Right, jonathan lemire? >> yes, john heilemann. [ laughter ] >> it would have been great if he said no, youre wrong, youre a moron. >> everythings tool, airtight, no problem. >> what we saw yesterday is hope hicks, the presidents -- one of his longest serving aides and one of his closest advisers leave the white house. in a nice moment. the president brought her outside the oval office, there was a hand shake, a kiss on the cheek, hicks has always shied away from publicity, had a moment in the s...

Is accused of is worse. as we go down the road on the issue people are asking questions and wonder about how do you even out the consequences? if politics there havent been as many consequences 37 as franken pointed out moore and trump hanging around politics. >> theyre pretty harsh and swift. >> in the private sector yes. >> kirstin let me ask you this, then. because listen there should be a universal standard. are they all the same? is it all. >> theyre not all the same but they dont need to b...

Aside high pressure i think the republican party should have disowned opheim they havent. when roy moore gets to washington which is not a foregone conclusion is going to face a ethics inquiry. the difference is franken succumbed to political pressure. if a thousand people asked roy to resign would ever do that. the only way to get mor moore out of the senate is to go through the ethics committee process and move to expulsion. >> but there is truth so what he says. most people agree to that whet...

Rules for one and person not the other. and are people getting uneven punishments? how do you compare what franken is accused of versus roy moore -- i happen to think what roy moore has been accused of is far worse. as we go down the road on the issue people are going to start to ask questions and wonder about how do you even out the consequences? in politics there havent been as many consequences. as franken pointed out, roy moore and trump hanging around politics. hes not. in the private secto...

Whats your reaction to al franken calling out president trump and roy moore for their alleged indiscretions? >> clearly he feels like he is punished beyond what other people have been. i agree with him about roy moore. i think roy moore should have stepped aside. i think the republican party should have disowned him. they havent done that. and i think when roy moore if he gets to washington which is not a foregone conclusion-s going to face a senate ethics inquiry just like al franken was. the d...