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I would say so. >> and you didnt get the feeling that the president was going to take this on in a very big way yesterday? >> i wouldnt say that. i mean, im an optimist. most people when youre up -- becoming a governor, you have to be somewhat of an optimist. and im hopeful. he said very clearly he was going to get rid of bump stocks. he could do that without having to go through congress and just do it through his executive powers. my goodness, i hope he does that immediately. that makes a lot ...

Obstruction of justice around trump tweeting he fired michael flynn because he lied to the fbi. and then later we know he wanted to fire james comey. yesterday, john dowd said trump cant have obstruction of justice. then it sounded last night like ty cobb distanced himself from this. >> it certainly seemed like they were taking a much broader interpretation of executive powers by saying the president cant obstruction justice. before that, the line had been the president hadnt obstructed justice,...

Is just not going to keep america safe or keep the global community safer. in fact, it makes us more at risk. >> do you think his tweets where he is admitting he doesnt like what had been called the new and improved version. he doesnt like it because it is a lesser version than the original one. he is calling it a travel ban. some of his press communications department said it is not a travel ban, but better vetting. what do you think this does when the case goes before the supreme court? >> it ...

Agenda is to try to improve by adjusting trade agreements or withdrawing from some like the tra transpacific partnership. there has been force of executive powers, those executive orders and so forth and certainly from outlining where he wants to go. thats where youd put tax reform and tax cuts, which they unveiled just some bullet points this week, months if not more than a year from any real legislation on that. it will be debated for a long time to come and hell tap into the energy of his sup...

Spree of going through his taxes and just make life miserable for him, well, okay, every candidate haz has kind of had to live through that and most of them have survived it, so why would he not be able to survive it? >> and thats really where advisers to the president have increasingly gone in defending the decision. this audit thing, clearly a political fig leaf for a long time. his 2016 taxes are not under audit, if they havent been filed yet, right? so, thats not an excuse not to release the...

Peoples minds. wait, can judge gorsuch, because he was nominated by president trump, be impartial going forward. judge napalatano does believe he can absolutely be fair going forward. though as a strict constitutionalist he may naturally side with the president over using the executive powers. thats a matter for further down the road. heather? >> heather: thank you, john. for more on this, chris colin, former congressional liaison to the trump transitional team joins me now live. thank you for j...

General who refused to defend it on monday and nominating a supreme court justice on tuesday places executive overreach of executive powers squarely at the center of the battle. >> its going to be testy. these decisions have impacts for 50 and 6 # years oftentimes. i think that the president yesterday gave republicans a lot of cover and said do what you need to do to get him confirmed. go nuclear. there is not uproar from the public and this works on trumps behalf. i think there wont be a uproar...

North carolina has a new governor. roy cooper was sworn into office just after midnight this morning on new years day. former governor known for the controversial bathroom bill did not concede for weeks after the election. he signed a bill right before leaving office stripping cooper of executive powers. its a real tug of war in north carolina. now is the official day. how does this play out? >> this is clearly a highly cont contentious environment. he has taken some of the republican lawmakers ...

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More from conservative critics of donald trump than liberal critics of donald trump. can you imagine this man with his dem pramt and his drive for vengeance having instruments of government at his hands, the irs, et cetera. i wonder if that was a much bigger gaffe than we are making it out to be. >> i think it is. i think its a huge gaffe. republicans talk about the imperial presidency and how barack obama has abused his executive powers. imagine somebody being asked to serve as attorney general...