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Somebody who was suspected of something, which could just be agitation against the communist party or something, you could understand why the people in hong kong are so repulsed by the idea that they would be dragged over to beijing or someplace like that to be tried. it certainly would not be a jury of their peers as we know it in this country. >> absolutely not. but this is how president xi jinping actually rose to power. it was a massive power struggle and i think many will forgot about it. h...

Thats absurd. >> talking about policy, there is criticism of the medicare for all movement in the democratic party and it comes from a prominent democrat. listen to harry reid. oh, its not a quote, im sorry. he writes, how are you going to get it passed? i think you should focus on improving obamacare and we can do that without bringing something that would be much harder to sell, including obamacare. and people understand that. so he is slamming the idea of the medicare for. >> there are report...

The payroll tax cut is specifically aimed at the middle class so thats why its a very popular idea. another proposal the president is thinking about would largely benefit americans that are heavily invested in the stock market and that is the idea of indexing the capital gains tax. that takes into account how much an investment grows because of inflation versus performance of the company. so investors pay less money and capital gains. and he is with the president said about that yesterday. >> pr...

Air and incur more costs and dont it in a way that isnt supported by how policy is supposed to be made under the law. >> one of the cases that youre involved in is the lawsuits to strike down obamacare as unconstitutional. isnt the whole basis for their legal argument what congress just did is undoing the individual mandate and how do you fight back against that? >> well, really, itsa flimsy l theory that because of the tax bill obamacare goes away. this has been upheld by the supreme court not ...

Lawsuit is successful. so we have stepped up and even though the trump administration has joined up with the plaintiffs to try to attack the affordable care act, were in court defending it because its so important to residents of our states and to americans. >> so we saw over the weekend some civil unrest on the anniversary of the charlottesville events that happened a year ago and while there was only one arrest as we saw, video evidence from the events in charlottesville and washington showed ...

Battle against the trump administration to limit its key initiatives. joining us now is one of the attorney general actively engaged against president trump, democratic attorney general mark herring. lets talk broadly and get involved in the cases youre involved with including obamacare, epa, daca, a long list of them. what specifically prompted you and other democratic attorneys general to enter this fight in this way? >> well as democratic attorneys general, we have a real opportunity, in fact...

Chuck schumer went to the white house to meet with the president. they were afraid they were going to get rolled here. remember what happened in september when schumer and pelosi went down on the interim spending bell. they kept the government open in december with almost no drama. the speaker of the house and mitch mcconnell basically didnt have anything to say about it at the end of the day. but we dont have that deal right now. again, all of these government shutdowns are very organic. we don...

About the institution of the white house itself and what is happening to it right now. in a lot of ways when it comes to tone and tenure of the white house, we really have clawed our way to the bottom. >> let me ask you, president trump had an ambitious legislative agenda coming into office. so far hes been able to deliver on only one major legislative victory, this tax bill, and there have been a string of high-profile failures along the way. the republicans control congress, they control the w...

Base, right to strip out obamacare, and really, you know, just poked a sharp stick in the eye of the democrats. the problem after that is once that happened, the democrats said, you know, why should we want to work with you about thats the way you want to start this presidency? but i dont think we can underestimate the tax bill is a big deal. its a big win for the republicans and for donald trump. you know, they got it done before the end of the year and maybe rushed it through too quickly. mayb...

Sharks stick in the eye of the democrat. so the problem after that, once that happened, we want to work with you if thats the way you want to start this presidency. but i dont think we can underestimate the tax bill, its a big deal. its a big win for republicans and for donald trump. and they got it done before the end of the year and maybe rushed it through too quickly. maybe well see that in the long run, but right now at the end of the year, republicans can say we have relative peace, we have...