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Pushing us in this direction. >> exactly. >> so they setup the system to protect the individual, to protect life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness which in many ways meant so you can live your life as an individual, as you wish to live your life, as long as its moral and youre not committing crimes and damaging somebody elses property, this is really unique in human history to setup a government this way this is our founding document and the constitution is the governing document in int...

Ten years later. the republicans took over the house of commons for the first time in 30 years. they beat people like jack brooks who was a very powerful judiciary committee chairman and this idea that guns were toxic politically took hold and it has never really abated. >> theres another big reason that i think gun rights advocates point to which is in the united states, we have a constitution and the nra, the spokesperson tweeted the u.s. isnt new zealand. while they do not have an inalienable...

>> congressman, because that is the opinion of the office -- >> i dont actually care what the doj policy is -- >> im asking a -- >> under both administrations. >> after this hearing, you can spin the constitution all you want as you sit here today -- >> im not spinning the constitution. >> you just have to answer a factual yes or no question. ill make it even easier for you. theres no sentence in the constitution that says, quote, the sitting president of the united states cannot be indicted, un...

>> i dont care what policy is, i am asking about the constitution. >> practice of -- >> mr. whitaker, yes-or-no question. i am asking fact, after this hearing, you can spin the constitution how you want, as you sit here today, answer factual yes-or-no question. i will make it easier for you, no sentence in the constitution says "the sitting president of the united states cannot be indicted," correct? >> congressman -- >> yes or no? >> i would -- >> i have it right here. is that -- >> i have a co...

Production of oil -- >> laura: at every turn, you could see, everything they claim trump is -- >> there is one superseding fact, which is that the russians aided donald trump in the views of every single u.s. intelligence agency! that is undisputed! >> they apparently help barack obama because they were flexible during the election. >> let me tell you who the real russian agent was, barack obama. he was the real russia agent. barack obama was a russian agent. >> laura: one thing is clear after t...

Is it set forth in the constitution? what is the process? >> it is. its found in the second clause of article 5, the first and second clause, which lay out how we can amend our constitution, the great founding document of our nation. basically what it lays out, two ways, congress can propose amendments, two-thirds of each house, and if they do so, those can go out to states for ratification by the states which is 38 states today. the states get together and call for convention of proposing amend...

So what is this process? is it set forth in the constitution? what is the process? >> it is. its found in the second clause of article 5, the first and second clause, which lay out how we can amend our constitution, the great founding document of our nation. basically what it lays out, two ways, congress can propose amendments, two-thirds of each house, and if they do so, those can go out to states for ratification by the states which is 38 states today. the states get together and call for conv...

Adversaries. i think thats what endures. the transitory tweeting and offhand comments come and go. >> the president also, this is related to his accusations of fake news, he sent out a series of tweets today attacking, once again, the u.s. news media. he called the press the enemy of the people. he blamed it for, quote, hatred and dissension in the united states, all this hours before he sits down with russian president putin who has ordered as you know some journalists to be killed over the yea...

Tourism. weve called both the company and the white house to ask more questions about that but have not heard back yet. >> you just told me in the break how much this business is up in florida alone. >> its fascinating. over the last decade, brian, theres been a 90% increase in foreign births in florida. many of those russian. they dont keep those statist statistics, but weve called a number of hospitals. and yeah, a lot of them are russian. >> and what does it conifer upon you as an infant. >> ...

Level playing field, there is a takedown effort of bernie sanders of the sea dnc, they were all in for hillary despite having a neutrality clause, they were not neutral at all. >> you heard james rosens reporting about democrats that have come out and said this is how it went, they are angry about it, one of them from hawaii and james rosen had that in his reporting. if you look at this, this is -- this has to go to the spirit of our elections. >> if you dont want to be neutral, dont say you are...