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Respectable person, a stretch for me. >> bill: nice tie. what is the strategy behind this in the final week do you think, charlie? >> i think obviously the idea of ending birthright citizenship is not for a long time it was not a terribly controversial idea. it was an idea espoused by many democrats as well as republicans. the way its been interpreted you have to do something to change that if you want to end it. and we can debate about what the 14th amendment actually says. but i do think that ...

Are trying to do it legislatively. there are laws across this country aimed at silencing protests which is part of what makes america -- if you want to talk about america being great, that is what makes great is the fact that we do have a right to protest policies that we see as unjust. and policies that are unjust. so i think that this is about that and democrats cannot fall for this trap. >> and it was kid rock there too this week. it all bleed bleed s together. and under this is a kind of sen...

Court. and they are not going to fight for it legislatively. and you want to appeal the affordable care act, you will lose coverage for pre-existing conditions. and this will hit people where it really hurts. >> all right. thank you so much for that chat. more breaking news coming up nenk next, more fallout from the an n nonanonymous op-ed. trd wants jeff sessions to get to the bottom of it. well talk to michael smerconish about that and so many things. also george papadopoulous being sentence...

Conservative or liberal, but is it right or is it wrong in the context of the constitution. mark: but they dont even agree with applying the constitution. we talk about originalism, texturalism, if you have a nominee who says i apply the constitution, no, precedent, they like the activist precedent except when they dont like the activist precedent, they view the court do, they not, as a way to advance agenda? particularly social agenda. seems like the supreme court is cultural and social issues....

It right or is it wrong in the context of the constitution. mark: but they dont even agree with applying the constitution. we talk about originalism, texturalism, if you have a nominee who says i apply the constitution, no, precedent, they like the activist precedent except when they dont like the activist precedent, they view the court do, they not, as a way to advance agenda? particularly social agenda. seems like the supreme court is cultural and social issues. >> interestingly, theyve used t...

Did more different things, this is more limited. in essence, the four pillars that the president talked about that the president negotiated, by the way, with republicans and democrats in the white house. i was there when there was an agreement to deal with these four pillars. so what does this bill do in essence? three major things. number 1, it securing the border in a real substantial no-kidding way. number 2, it provides a permanency and legality to the daca eligible population. the populatio...

He wants. and hes working with hard-line elements in the gop who have grown in numbers over the decades and want to get a bill that cracks down on the border, that builds a wall, and this is leverage. this is his ideas of leverage in legislative negotiations. >> when its which to legislation, there -- when it comes to legislation, there are two bills in the house this week. one, a conservative approach that doesnt appear to have the votes. one, a more compromised bill, backed by paul ryan. its n...

Separation policy. g.o.p. senators and members of your own administration have confirmed. this you could reverse this terrible practice in a few minutes. but you refuse to list a finger. why would be left with 80% coming without their parents. separation wouldnt even apply because out of the 13,000 that have come, over 2,000 have come without parents. how does that solve the problem? steve: clearly chuck schumer just wants the focus on donald trump. heres the thing. if schumer not willing to fix...

Jurisdiction theres, hallie. but what im saying is we can fix it legislatively, we just have to have the political will to do that. i was disappointed to see chuck schumer come out yesterday before he read any bill that says hes not going to deal with this. i mean, thats wrong too. so i have -- i have talked to the administration on a number of occasions over the last 72 hours believing that a more narrowly tailored bill would address this. i think theyre open to that. its just incumbent on cong...

In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. breaking news. just into cnn on the family separations at border and the white house decision to implement the zero-tolerance policy prompting it all. according to a source talking to cnn, the department of homeland security discussed this policy in the early months of the trump administration as a deterrent to illegal immigration but it was bagged over a fear of backlash. the exact same b...