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Earlier this summer there were reports of a government task force to revoke the citizenship of naturalized americans who are accused of cheating on citizenship applications. the u.s. isnt alone in trying to strip citizens of their passports. which nation is poised to strip the citizenship of approximately 4 million people? egypt, india, brazil, or belarus? stay tuned and ill tell you the answer. my book of the week is "fact fullness: ten reasons why you are wrong about the world and things are...

Marc short says they expect kavanaughs confirmation by october 1, less than three months away and you can see there judge kavanaugh has an extensive history inside the beltway. that combined with his extensive paper trail and history working for george w. bush could be the biggest holdup in this nomination fight. there are millions of pages of documents that crossed brett kavanaughs desk when he was staff secretary at the white house for george w. bush at mow m -- momentous times like september ...

Supreme court is no stranger to high-profile work. brett kavanaugh is an appellate judge now. in the past, the 53-year-old served in both bush administrations, and in the 1990s, he worked on the ken starr investigation involving president clinton. saul wisenberg worked with kavanaugh for two years on that investigation. thank you so much for joining me. saul, he was 33 years old when he became a lead author of the starr report. i want to read part of it to you and to our viewers. heres what he s...

Article, that he thought as a policy matter, congress should do that for civil cases and criminal cases. then when the presidents no longer president anymore, he can be indicted or sued or anything you want. >> since you have unique experience, talk to me about the kind of work he did on that report, the starr report. >> you said he was the lead author. im not sure that he was. certainly he played a role in it. he was -- our office was roughly divided into the prosecutors who had a lot of prosec...

Pragmatic. makes him look more like a justice scalia than a justice kennedy. >> luke, interestingly, you clerked for brett kavanaugh but you say you personally lean left politically but dont have concerns about him that he leans politically in his rulings. >> thats right. i think regardless of your political views you can be comfortable with judge kavanaugh being confirmed to the supreme court. steve is right that judge kavanaugh has core commitment he is carries with him across all cases but i ...

>> you are a trained lawyer and you have expert opinions on these things as well as observing them through a political lens. the way i understand judge kavanaughs writing on the subject is not just that he said a president definitively cannot and should not be indicted when in office. but that he said a president shouldnt be subject to criminal prosecution or any civil lawsuits while in office. that a president should be exempt from accountability on either criminal or civil law while in office ...

>> you are a trained lawyer and you have expert opinions on these things as well as observing them through a political lens. the way i understand judge cavanaghs writing on this subject is not just that that he said a president cannot and should not be indicted, but that he said a president shouldnt be subject to criminal prosecution or any civil lawsuits while in office. that a president should be except while if office as a way to ensure that he is able to focus, a president is able to focus e...

Exempt from accountability on either criminal or civil law while in office as a way to ensure that hes able to focus entirely on the business of running the country. thats interesting given his history with the ken starr investigation. i believe he was the lead author of the ken starr report. this would seem to have implications for the presidents potential liability not just for the mueller investigation, but also for any liability that may attend to the trump foundation, or the zervos lawsuit,...

Could skip toxic chemotherapy treatments in the united states. thats a new sign of hope for the 260,000 new breast cancer cases expected just this year. the study was published in the new england journal of medicine. joining me now is the lead author of the study, dr. joseph sparano. thank you for coming in. >> thank you. good morning. >> good morning. for every woman walking into their doctor today, receiving a breast cancer diagnosis, what do they need to know? what do they need to ask? >> wel...

>> yes, he offered his passport tore buzzfeed which i believe put a photo up of every single page in his passport on the internet. but as one former senior law enforcement official told us, this summer while we were pursuing this, there are a lot of ways for somebody to get in to europe if need be. top slip in and out of europe. we again, this is based on sources familiar with the inquiry. and well have to see how far it goes. >> all right. greg gordon, incredible reporting for mcclatchy on this...