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Interference and the bindens wee not u.s. policy. and as well, they have debunked any association that there was anything to the impropriety of the former vice president and the president of ukraine. the president of ukraine met all of the benchmarks and the aid should have been released. there was no need for this president, in essence, to try to make up his own policy. in his own statement of administrative policies, and i ask unanimous consent to have those in the record, this is from the whi...

Policy. as well, they have debunked any association that there was anything to the impropriety of the former vice president and his service as it related to ukraine. i think its important the department of defense and state department have confirmed ukraine met all anticorruption benchmarks and the aid should be released. that is the policy of the united states of america. there was no need for this president to in essence try to make up his own policy. in his own statement of administrative pol...

Interference and the bidens were not u.s. policy and as well they have debunked any association there was anything to the impropriety of the former vice president and his service as related to ukraine. i think it is also important the department of defense and the state department confirm they have met all the anti-corruption benchmarks and the aid should be released. thats the policy of the united states of america. there was no need for this president to, in essence, try to make up his own pol...

Historically relevant? >> thats such a great question, ali. and we can have a whole constitutional law class on that. but the bottom line is in cases involving discrimination against minorities, the court is will being to go -- affecting economic relations, there are laws involving administrative decisions like this. generally courts are pretty deferential to executive agencies, and thats what the conservative justices said. whats significant here is the court was willing to look for evidence of...

Do it? do you do it with a concrete wall mexico was supposed to pay for and now is on the shoulders of the american taxpayer? do you it with technology, manhaar or all of the above? i think the folks here in congress, particularly the senate, want to see common sense applied to this equation, secure the countrys borders but do it in a cost effective way. im not sure a wall is the best way to do that. in fact, i know its not the best way to do it. in some cases the wall is the right reason but ne...

So those agencies are all the traditional humphries executive agencies. the concern i explained goes back to your point about federalist 47. if you have an independent agency that is completely unaccountable to congress or unaccountable to congress or the president and one person in charge, that becomes an extremely powerful position. >> okay. social security has been like that for a long time. so my issue is, when we were talking about executive power, you talk about how congress has to step in...

Had the power but not the right to do it. >> distinguish. >> certainly the deputy director and the director can countermand a decision by opr, but it doesnt happen very often, and in this case it is hard to reach any conclusion other than the decision to reverse oprs decision was itself motivated at least largely by politics. >> well, but they didnt say as a matter of fact dont fire him. they just said, opr, this is what we recommend. then you have the president of the united states tweeting, ju...

Should be going around and telling executive agencies -- executive branch agencies who they should be firing and who they should be retaining. i think thats completely inappropriate for the chief executive of the government to do that. >> but hes in charge of the doj. i mean these people all work for him, at his direction. if he were to call and say, i want to get rid of the attorney general, he gets rid of him. if he says, i dont like christopher wray at the fbi anymore, then hes gone. if he do...

Cant opine on that because it could come before me. but theres precedent for more general questions that you can probe on his views. what is your thoughts about presidential power? what is your view of whether something is good precedent? tell us about -- youve written these things about executive agencies. what were you thinking there? but he will be very well rehearsed, and he will be able to shy away from anything that can be construed as a possible question that could come before the court. ...

Inappropriate. i can understand that rosenstein may have felt he was being mistreated, but that doesnt matter. you have to get over it. congress created the department of justice, this isnt personal. it isversight buss. so no matter how aggrieved you may be, you cant speak to an oversight committee and threaten those staffers with taking something like subpoenas to their doorstep. >> tucker: congress does have oversight over the executive agencies, including the department of justice, correct? i...