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Whole thing? >> theyre going for -- theyre going for the whole thing now and as a.b. rightly said its not going to happen. so afterwards you have to focus on what you can get done. i think we could be looking at potential presidential executive orders, other work around to try to deal with what a.b. was talking about and that is what is happening at a lightning pace in the states. that is also not to say that after these bills go down that the senate should not move forth with to get the elector...

Is really fast. is that true? >> absolutely true, rachel. this is lightning pace. this is the, usain bolt, of court calendars. ordinarily and appellate case like this could take up to a year. by the time all the briefing is held, all the or arguments are done, and then the court considers it an issues in opinion and like the supreme court it is only three judges. it is not nine justices. still, they exchange opinions and go back and forth. it can really take many many months, if not a year for a...

Two weeks was up in november. he filed an appeal that was heard before the end of november, and nine days after it was heard, we have this definitive unanimous ruling of the appeals court against him again. i believe as an observer that thats really fast. is that true? >> absolutely true, rachel. this is lightning pace, this is the usain bolt of court calendars. ordinarily an appellate case like this could take up to a year by the time all the briefing was held, all the oral arguments were done ...

President trump filed suit saying i dont want to hand over those documents in mid-october. the first ruling happened before two weeks was up in november. he filed an appeal that was heard before the end of november, and nine days after it was heard, we have this definitive unanimous ruling of the appeals court against him again. i believe as an observer that thats really fast. is that true? >> absolutely true, rachel. this is lightning pace. this is the usain bolt of court calendars. ordinarily ...

Applied to this special visa program set up for people like this. and the u.s. government is saying theyre going to evacuate 2,500 only directly to the u.s. then theyre going to evacuate maybe 4,000 to third countries to get the paperwork settled there in a more safe place. but that leaves a huge question mark for so many other afghans who worked for the u.s. and risked lives >> there is a technical question here in which either to get out or to get your paperwork done a lot of the folks have to...

Likely to become a political refuge. liberals are right to perceive that constitutionalist judging could frustrate progressive designs. thats why some of the confirmations have become so ugly. will this take out activism they have seen and criticized in the last few years? >> maybe. that remains to be seen. i think what will continue are pretty rapid, pretty rapid confirmations. trump is on pace to continue with this. as one of your clips he talked about obama. he suggests obama left these folks...

Quickly here over the last two weeks and at lightning pace over the last 48 hours. but i want to get to what the process is going to be over the next few days and weeks, in your investigation. how is this going to work? how much do you really need to investigate? because you now have the notes from that phone call, if you want to impeach or draft up articles of impeachment for leaning on the president of ukraine, all you have to do is cut and paste from the notes from that conversation. so, what...

On this point, of florida, we talked a bit about forensic profiling based on the evidence and individual. there is also some may call geographic profiling. i was talking about last hour. when you have different data points, so you know how many packages you have. you know geographically how they spread across united states. you also know the timing of when they have been discovered, and you can look back in some cases to when they were processed through postal facilities. you can triangulate tha...

Findings that implicate the president or the people around him? >> well, you know, i remember when he was first named, and it was met with universal acclaim. you know, republicans and democrats were saying that hes just the right guy to be doing this. im not real sure what changed from that point until now, except maybe there are results of that investigation that some people dont like. >> you know, people have said the president and rudy giuliani and others that are years long enough, this has ...

I think he is working at a lightning pace compared to some of the cases that i have seen handled that didnt have this kind of international reach. and so i think it will go on for some time more. but robert mueller does have a reputation as someone who works with urgency. i think he understands there is a cloud that hangs over the administration. and one way or the other it would be useful to complete his investigation. but he wont do it by compromising or cutting any corners. it will take as lo...