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Haunt them. theyve got conflicted, an appearance of conflicts and possibly the reality of conflicts in everything theyre doing there and theyre in over their heads on foreign policy. >> let me pick up on one thing you said and ask phil rucker. this question of sharing intelligence, not understanding what u.s. intelligence is, this is something donald trump has done. he shared with the russian foreign minister sensitive intelligence. i believe it was israeli intelligence. but there are questions ...

Right to clear their name, too? i think thats where i want to have that balance. >> well, joe manchin represents west virginia. donald trump won it by 42 points. a lot of people say its a political decision but i know him pretty well. if he were a senator from california and you give me this fact pattern and what happened, i would say joe manchin would be yes all along. i never doubted he would be yes ultimately. i do think -- i got this bracelet, which is wwwjmd, what would john mccain do. im g...

Light -- >> or witnesses. >> and well that is part of the fact pattern, witnesses. and it is essentially to say, were going to say that were giving you an opportunity but were actually setting you up. and all that were setting you up for is our ability to have plausible deniability about whether we were just trying to ram through our political nominee, rather than giving full fair hearing to whether or not something awful happened here. >> and jason, it does feel like the rush is the other story...

Professional investigators talk to her and to judge kavanaugh or to have the fbi do an independent investigation. i know that the president has said that he doesnt want that. but i think that before you have sort of the show, i think it would seem to me what were seeing develop here is some sense of before that happens, lets investigate the facts. >> david, what do you make of what is happening or not happening? >> yeah, i dont think that the senate judiciary committee seems all that equipped es...

Skill about it. one of the presidents strengths is hes a survivor. one of the keys to him being a survivor is that he lives in his own reality distortion field. hes almost impervious to advice and a fact pattern. when it comes to november, i think hes going to be looking away from that and blame it on the gop, on paul ryan, on the party, on mitch mcconnell, he wont take any responsibility for whatever results in november. when it comes to hurricane relief, this is something that should reside ri...

They are one of the reasons we have the system of precedent so that people can rely on the decisions. precedent also reinforces the impartiality and independence of the judiciary. the people need to know in this country that the judges are independent and that were not making decisions based on policy views. part of that is to understand were following a system of precedent, of what has been done before. the court every time someone gets on, it is not just bouncing around to what do i think is b...

Or how can i apply this first amendment precedent to this fact pattern that comes before me. so precedent is the foundation of our system, it is part of the stability. it is ensuring predictability and it is foundational to the constitution is article 3 and federalist 78 make clear. >> youll be asked by other members what precedent you like and dont like, but you know it is inappropriate for a nominee to answer those questions. and this refers to justice ginsburg, she said a judge sworn to decid...

Precedent to this fact pattern that comes before me? so precedent is the foundation of our system. it is part of the stability. it is insuring predictability and it is just foundational to the constitution as article 3 and federalist 78 make clear. [yelling in the back of the room] >> youll be asked which precedent you like or dont like. it is inappropriate for a nominee to answer those questions. this refers to justice ginsburg. she said, quote, a judge sworn to decide impartiality can offer no...

Donald trump is in serious legal jeopardy. >> and you really believe that. but as a law maker, what action can the democrats take without the republicans? because theres a deaf engsilence on the hill? >> those are civil fines. thats what happened with obama campaign. but when we look at this fact pattern, rice and i, we wrote letters to fbi. we thought this looks like a felony and we asked the fbi to investigate. they did. life comes at people fast and now you have michael cohen essentially plea...

Lawmaker, do you have any resource, what actions can the democrats take without the republicans acting? because theres a deafening silence coming from republicans on capitol hill now. >> most campaign finance violations are handled by the fec, those are civil fines. thats what happened with obama campaign, thats a case donald trump referred to, but when we look at this fact pattern, congresswoman kathleen rice and i, we wrote a letter to the fbi, because as former prosecutors, we thought, this l...