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That der, the judiciary chairman is appealing to her to let him go forward anyway. what can you tell us about the latest in the state of play there? >> the way its been characterized to us, the top committee chairs -- you have people with long relationships, a lot of time on capitol hill, and theyre trying to divide up the lanes of power, and how to move forward. and were told it was not a contentious meeting, but there are differences of opinion on how to go forward at the same time publicly. n...

>> no, i dont. >> the state elections board refused to certify the elections and yet republican mark harris, the man who hired a felon on his campaign a guy with a notorious reputation for these tricks, mark harris is demanding to be seated in congress and claiming he has trumps support. strangely he wasnt too keen to talk to reporters monday. instead he fled through an emergency exit, tripping an alrm in his rush to avoid the media and its questions. and subsequently did a round of interviews, ...

And subsequently did a round of interviews, calling his escape a quote rookie mistake. investigations into those absentee ballots are still ongoing. but its worth noting for all the republican hand ringing over wide-spread election fraud, theres only one clear instance where it looks like it happened and thats in north carolina on behalf of the republican candidate. - i think the best companys succeed as a team

Was -- nobody knew how to play him. >> meanwhile -- >> this cant be the way to play him. >> hes getting no reinforcements because pence is sitting there like lurch on the adams family. >> youre supposed to talk over the president? good luck with that. >> he was right in the middle of the shot. is now he had to sneak out of the room and, of course, that wasnt going to happen. he was stuck there like a mannequin. >> all of the hand ringing about how this is terrible for democracy, i dont agree wit...

Its hard to get into peoples heads, but someone like this left a trail and that would be something the fbi wants to collect. >> may i add something? the statute that is principally used here, the section 247 of title 18, its name is the church arson protection act. it was passed in 1996 by the congress at bill clintons behest because of a lot of church bombings, especially african-american churches, but he convened a church arson action task force on the wake of these things and they issued a re...

And number two, it took him three tries to get it right, three iterations of this so-called ban. and the supreme court chose to look only at the last one. a lot of hand ringing, disapproving, head shaking. if an employer said women are bad workers, and im going to fire bad workers who are women, and then he fired five women, not all the women who worked for them. and maybe he fired a man too, it would not be okay. the president here has not included all muslims in the ban and he included north k...

Needs to believe not in this press core or any other but in the first amendment, in the right to say and think what you believe. the idea of finding a comic who is going to say acceptable jokes what a nightmare. lets cancel the dinner rather than do that search. but i think mika has it right. this is a period when we need to do our jobs and be seen to do that. the country says, boy, im glad theyre out there doing the tough work. im glad theyre telling me the things i need to know. >> by the way,...

Nikki haley looks at the u.n. security council where she thinks it is a failure by the u.n. to stop these attacks. the russians have vetoed u.n. security council resolution against the syrian regime and so the u.s. and france and britain veto this resolution. the u.n. security council have not been able to act, it is a forum for people to kind of gripe at one another and nothing stops. i think you will hear nikki haley talks about the horrible situation and why the international community felt i...

Administration continues to enforce this. if the administration does that, the chinese are going to continue to yield. >>do you think that president trump is the one calling the shots in asia right now? >> absolutely. everyone says the chinese own the 21st century. they cant even deal with the north koreans. right now at the united states. people are starting to notice that and they say to beijing, "if youre such a super power, how come you cant deal with kim jong-un." >>theres been a lot of han...

Out, and the absence of a bench makes it all the more difficult to find the right candidate that can win in those states. >> steve, i want to put up the numbers again. guys, can you put up the numbers of 2010 and 2014? there were two just massive republican years 76 house seats. 76 house seats lost. 13 senate seats. as weave been saying, steve radner, also, the governorships are at an all-time low tied with 1922. dan is exactly right. their bench has been absolutely decimated. >> yeah. look, i s...