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>> right. the president wields tremendous power with his tweets. lets not be misguided by that. the president can do a lot of things with his tweets and including set policy. so to discuss the possibility of an executive order while its just theoretical, at this point, on the one hand, the president has broad executive order power. on the other hand, the census is already laid out. the procedure is already laid out in existing federal law. so i can see a court taking a look at this executive ord...

What happens then? >> i think in this case, just thinking ahead theoretically, because the supreme court has already rendered an opinion on whether or not it can be on the census, i dont think this workaround would work. i could see trump issuing an executive order. it would immediately go to the courts. and it would probably strike it down on the same basis. because it exists outside the traditional legal framework for including a citizenship question on the census. and for that reason, the cou...

Anything other than the war on terror? the obama administration or the trump administration using executive orders when they felt they couldnt get things through congress or wanted to do it more quickly? does the supreme court ruling have any implications going forward? >> beyond immigration i dont think so. this is clearly constitutionally in the presidents basket of powers. i dont think it affects executive order power generally particularly because it was in line with the president. it was a ...

This president does not care about that. he is idealogically dedicated -- emptying the place because he think it is the sin of sins? andrea: he doesnt care what the ramifications are. he will close it for idealogical political science reasons. he doesnt care how many people end up dying. harris: 2009 he tried to put executive order power. that is the first place he tried to flex it was close down guantanamo bay. that is interesting, you were there when there were 600. can you imagine how hardcor...

States a method of overriding it, abuse of the executive order power of the president, all of that is up for grabs. >> all of that is up for grabs, including decisions by the supreme court, karen. >> you would think theyd want to stick by the supreme court, because theyve been good to conservatives so far. but rev, lets talk about what this really is about, because i didnt hear anything about this when george bush was president and lied his way into a war we are still paying for dearly, right, s...

Cara van an hour away up to a safe way distribution plant to talk about mileage standards. later today hes going to do something about streamlining transmission of data required for people to import or export things. he thinks business is going to like that. its all part of his action where he takes a pen and he takes his phone, although hes not calling anybody, to get stuff done. >> recently weve seen executive order thrown out right now for employer mandates when it comes to obamacare. right n...

Things. i want to bring you the headline it has to do with the news of the morning which the president will announce tonight with regard to executive order raising the minimum wage for new federal contractors. heres what the speaker said about that. he said the idea hes going to go it alone, i have to remind him we have a constitution. the congress writes the laws. the presidents job is to execute the laws faithfully. if he tries to ignore this, hes going to run into a brick wall. carol, later i...