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Him. is there something or some way you feel like his influence is still present in your career? is there a way that you felt, you know, a profound experience there from your clerkship? >> absolutely. his standards were incredibly high. i think that all of us have learned that there is a very high bar that we try to work to achieve. he had an approach to cases that was very much a lawyerly approach. we did not work on cases as if it were a case about, say, criminal justice or abortion or any lar...

How you look at it? >> well, i think it is a new low. there are real, genuine human consequences to what hes done. i mean, a lot of it is contingent on whether everybody can get together and pass something in the next two days thats retroactively operable which means cobra wont lapse for people and theyll get unemployment checks but there are hundreds of thousands of people and a projected 1.2 million people not getting unemployment if they dont get this done by the end of the week. bunning is c...

>> well, i think it is a new low. there are real, genuine human consequences to what hes done. i mean, a lot of it is contingent on whether everybody can get together and pass something in the next two days thats retroactively operable which means cobra wont lapse for people and theyll get unemployment checks but there are hundreds of thousands of people and a projected 1.2 million people not getting unemployment if they dont get this done by the end of the week. bunning is complaining he had to...

Low. there are real, genuine human consequences to what hes done. i mean, a lot of it is contingent on whether everybody can get together and pass something in the next two days thats retroactively operable which means cobra wont lapse for people and theyll get unemployment checks but there are hundreds of thousands of people and a projected 1.2 million people not getting unemployment if they dont get this done by the end of the week. bunning is complaining he had to miss a basketball game. it j...

Future transportation -- high speed railcars, street cars, which are being put in, have been put in, new streetcar systems in 19 cities, what if we could build those things in detroit, and detroit too could benefit from them themselves. >> and what about people who work in detroit have to say about this concept? did you get a chance to talk with folks who have some history in transportation in detroit? >> well, yes, we did. and i think one of the reasons why detroit was such a good setting for t...

Perhaps, perhaps, caring for unaccompanied minors is indeed something to be admired. its nothing controversial really about it, which may be why the secretary prefers to talk about that or blur the distinction because keeping him honest when it actually comes to those thousands of separated kids or the 102 children younger than 5 years old that the administration created the crisis and is not taking responsibility for it. and whatever you might think of the administrations zero tolerance border ...

Devastate prosecut devastate puerto rico that they shouldnt count on the u.s. government for help. in the meantime there are real and immediate consequences, human consequences to his decisions. nothing he has done shows any signs of a winning political strategy for america. why is he doing all of this? lets talk about it in this order. theres a pattern here of maybe met foric delight for him. in other words, he feels strong doing this. but the little -- the regular people of puerto rico didnt d...

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Roundtable today, rick perry accepted. members of local clergy, they will be brainstorming with president on how to handle and control the influx of young children spilling over into the united states, but plenty of lawmakers remain critical about how president obama can make two stops in this, dallas today, austin tomorrow, in the midst of what the white house itself has called a humanitarian crisis yet not even make a trip down to the border. >> we help him get outside the bubble all president...

Personally? >> well, certainly, i know many of the people who own land there and ive been to their house and i was talking with them, and they understood the difficulty of the decision that had to be made. >> was the right decision made? and would you make it again? >> well, thats a good question. and frankly, we havent had the time to go back and look at it. >> thats because huge decisions and their human consequences are now looming in louisiana, where another floodway could soon be opened, fl...