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Must notify congress when the special counsels work is done and about any decision that the attorney general countermand. that is special counsel wanted do and attorney general blocked because it would violate justice department regulations. its not going to be the starr report. you know, talking to senior justice department officials about the fact this is not the first special counsel under these new post-ken starr independent counsel rules. the first one was actually john danforth, who did a ...

I mean, thats just beside the point. lets talk about politics and lets talk about candidates in the next election. lets talk about whether youre for candidate a or candidate b, and its backwards. we should be elected to do something. not just get elected to be re-elected. >> senator, im hanging on your every word. i fully agree with you on electing to serve. i think we can all agree on that. but with this president and alleged crisis and a massive russia investigation, id love to talk tax, polit...

Of any sense of coming together, working through problems. its just im on one side, youre on the other side, its defined by party label. >> i know you want to talk about all the groups to the, republicans and democrats, but i do want to ask you about republicans looking ahead to 2020. i mean, you have been candid in how you feel about this current president, senator. im just wondering looking ahead to 2020, would you welcome a republican challenger to president trump? >> i would personally, yes,...

This way. "this great nation can tolerate a president who makes mistakes, but it cannot tolerate one who makes a mistake and then breaks the law to cover it up." as you just heard, the mood among some senate republicans on trumps dealings with michael cohens crimes ranges from dismissal to not caring but for some 44 lawmakers who once roamed those halls of the senate, the view is decidedly different. and in a "washington post" op-ed, the bipartisan group is pleading with their former colleagues ...

That as proof people dont care, which is pretty lousy. >> right. >> if you made it as easy to understand privacy settings on google as you do to make it to use google for search, i think a lot of people would use their privacy set eggs. -- settings or understand whats happening to their data. one of the famous phrases came up today on capitol hill, one of the famous phrases is, we dont sell your data. facebook has been saying that for years. >> sounds great. >> but okay, do they share your data?...

Current future leaders, you need to get back to the tasks of defending americas democracy by focusing less on identical and less on national interests. one of those senators, john danforth, joins me after the break. the heavier i get. and while your pants struggle to support the heavier you, your roof struggles to support the heavier me. crash! and your cut-rate insurance might not pay for this. so get allstate, you could save money and be better protected from mayhem like me. mayhem is everywhe...

In a rare move four u.s. senators penned an op-ed in "the washington post" reminding the senate colleagues that the senate has long stood in defense of democracy and must again. it reads, quote, we are on the eve of the conclusion of special counsel be rot s. muellers investigation and the houses commencement of investigation of the president and his administration. the piece goes on to say, quote, at other critical moments in our history when constitutional crises have threatened our foundation...

Hard edge to them. i believe it started there. but i think its increased over the years, and i think that there are a number of causes to it. i think social media is one thi frankly, the 24-hour news. its just too much. people just inundated by everything. and the point of getting elected is not to work things out, its just to position yourself politically. and all of that is a change. its not that politics in the old days was just as, you know, pure as the driven snow. it wasnt that. it was, yo...

The language brett kavanaugh used at the beginning was word for word the same as clarence thomas, he called it a circus, a national disgrace. those are the exact words clarence thomas used. we saw two nights ago john danforth was on television saying hell have to bring his energy up. president trump wanted him to be more passionate. his theory is deny, deny, deny. he came loaded for bear today. that was not unusual. that was consistent with what happened with clarence thomas. but i will say in s...

Outsourcing the questioning to someone else. i have seen a nominee decide to take the emotional reins of the hearing from a credible woman testifying about sexual misconduct. that was in the clarence thomas hearing. the language brett kavanaugh used at the beginning was word for word the same as clarence thomas, he called it a circus, a national disgrace. those are the exact words clarence thomas used. we saw two nights ago john danforth was on television saying hell have to bring his energy up....