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Enforcements of the subpoenas involving the attorney general and the former white house counsel. republicans say that is unlikely because they do not believe democrats can prevail in a civil proceeding, number 1. talking about grand jury material. a very high bar for that to be shared. we have the executive privilege issues. so they should communications with the president. so even if you go to court, its a month-long process and could take you up to 2020. just as a foot note, two other types of...

Former vice president joe biden is facing new plagiarism allegations tonight. new from the ones that we brought you last night. "the washington post" is reporting the biden public education platform copied without attribution an entire sentence from an education policy document. the campaign later updated their material to give the source and foot note that passage. yesterday we told you several items in bidens new climate change platform were copied and pasted from other material without giving...

Is you have to go back a little bit and look at the history of this. my father francis schaefer in the 1970s and 80s and me with his nep tiftic side started the pro-life movement with the series called whatever happened to the human race and to the present time i think the evangelical voter has become two things, first of all, driven mad by the issue of abortion and so much of an obsession, that they would do anything, including sanctifying a guy like roy moore, an alleged pedophile and an alleg...

At least where an overbroad ruling may resolve things that people who are affected by it may have thought, well, i kind -- i was president part of that case. why am i now affected in a particular way? one of the things i can say about how ive tried to write my opinions, the 300 opinions, im always concerned about -- [protesting in background]. im always concerned about unintended consequences. thats why i work through my drafts. even a sloppy foot note or an ambiguous word or opinion, its true w...

President can continue to ignore a law even after a court upholds it like you said in seven sky? >> ignore is not the concept there as i think we discussed when we met. when had a good back and forth on that. the concept is prosecutorial discretion. thats the concept that i referred to in aiken county opinion to explain the foot note youre referencing. in prosecutorial discretion is firmly rooted in the united states versus richard nixon case says the executive branch has the exclusive authority...

Theres a confirmation process underway. i do want to ask judge andrew napolitano here before i go to others in the cue. we talked about george w. bush nominating judge roberts and sam alito. president obama did have his mark on the court with justice sotomayor and kagan. its not that he didnt have a chance to have a legacy of supreme court justices. >> the merrick garland nomination, which will unfortunately be relegated to a foot note, was captivating. he was truly the most conservative nominat...

That the president did reimburse and pay his long-term lawyer michael cohen more than $100,000, perhaps reimbursing him for the hush money paid to stormy daniels. what are the legal implications of that? >> they are significant. the general -- and then there are specific implications. on a general level, does anyone tell the truth. the reality is that we heard the president speak to this issue. we heard the president deny the issue. we heard cohen speak to the issue and heard him deny it. it is ...

Frustrated, as well. >> if you were giving someone counsel on how to -- >> it has nothing to do with what is happening to him. you might say that should also get attention but doesnt change the math of what he is facing and how he is handling it. >> i disagree. >> tell me how im wrong. how am i wrong that speculation about the democrats and the dossier is irrelevant to what the president is doing? >> this is all part of this investigation which is they show no type of coordination -- >> its not ...

Could have -- cough orted with others. and raj joins us. to the comey memos republicans were pressing the justice department to release and is there anything in the memos that the president disputes? >> well, jake, thanks for having me on. i will say right out of the gate when it comes to the memos, in one of them james comey put in a foot note that these should be marked secret. that is a level of classification that involves -- you need a security clearance to now he sought it fit to give memo...

The e.c. defendant and trump want to arbitrate this case. but they got to actually ask for it first. and technically speaking, they havent asked for arbitration yet. so avenatti is now allowed yet to ask for discovery. so it is a technical denial of the motion, not on the merits, they will absolutely rebring this motion once the e.c. defendants asked for arbitration and i promise you, they will ask for arbitration. >> you have the presidents team saying this is an order without merit and michael...