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Paul: so let me understand this. president obama could, by an executive act and using prosecutorial discretion, they said, as the justification, he could do it, but trump cant rescind it? >> well, thats exactly it -- paul: why not? >> thats one of the many logical inconsistencies in their argument. theyre saying that president obama used his enforcement discretion to shield these 1.7 million dreamers from deportation, and under the law -- or under rules, regulatory dhs rules, they are also allow...

Paul: so let me understand this. president obama could, by an executive act and using prosecutorial discretion, they said, as the justification, he could do it, but trump cant rescind it? >> well, thats exactly it -- paul: why not? >> thats one of the many logical inconsistencies in their argument. theyre saying that president obama used his enforcement discretion to shield these 1.7 million dreamers from deportation, and under the law -- or under rules, regulatory dhs rules, they are also allow...

In gun violence and that is a suburban atlanta district. youve got educated sort of upper middle class voters that we are just losing right and left. and if thats the trend that continues, we will be a minority party for a very long time. >> very interesting. margaret brought up something interesting, executive act. donald trump, no hesitation using that in the past, bump stocks, thats kind of how they acted. if the president would go the route of executive action, do you think that takes the pr...

First the census and the citizenship question about it all. abby phillip is at the white house. shes joining me now. abby, the supreme court blocked the administrations attempt here. its still being fought out in lower courts. what then are you learning about this next move? >> well, kate, this is the culmination of a weeks worth of scrambling on the part of the presidents team and the department of justice to figure ot how they can potentially get the citizenship question onto the 2020 census, ...

>> and hes tied to florida governor rick scott. >> no. >> that is someone else. >> but this is an ideologue who believes in a strong president and would put restraints on mueller because his role is to supervision the investigation. >> could he file mueller. >> in theory, he could. and there is a scarier possibility this ad call -- the act called the vacancy act to allowing the president to put in place anyone confirmed by the senate. so in theory, the president could put ben carson -- there is ...

Shameless plugging really quick around the table. >> great book out on marco rubio. his book is pretty good. but on the rise of marco rubio. >> we are right now running a campaign thanking the president for passing the dream act through the executive act. sign the thank you card. >> im sure. signing the thank you cards. >> keep an eye on new hampshire state rep, florida, senator flores and colorado rep ramirez. >> got them all in there. this is it for this edition of "the lady rundown." chuck wi...