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Be concerned about. on the one side, theres the concern about whether we really are a sovereign state, whether we can run elections by ourselves, or whether a foreign country has undue influence. on the other side, theres the problem we have the leader whos trying to get around the normal ways of making laws and policies and changes. instead thinking about a national emergency, about an essentially phoney issue. thats a classic way that democracies become authoritarian regimes. so we should be c...

Touch anything if the president hasnt signalled he will sign it. >> the package presented by the house leaders yesterday can only be seen as a time wasting act of political posturing. making laws takes a signature. this shouldnt be taken lightly and viewed as an opportunity with the new house democratic majority to prioritize political performance as an art form ahead of the public interest. >> as for the democrats, they are not willing to move an inch either. nancy pelosi is coming to todays me...

Is entirely inconsistent with the constitutional powers that we have. article i of the constitution is dealing with the congress for a reason. its thought to be closest to the people, most representative and its most powerful in terms of making a budget, in terms of making laws. we have been marginalized by the white house over a couple of decades. im just simply saying, its time for house democratic majority members to reassert their authority as individual members in the committee. i did hear ...

Branch is supposed to be our politics properly understood. were tempted to start with article three but really we need article three as part of the constitution that sets up the judiciary. article one, which is us, what is the legislatures job? these are equal branch, but article one comes first for a reason. that means that this is supposed to be the institution dedicated to political fights. if we see lots and lots of protests in front of the supreme court, thats a pretty good litmus test baro...

>> lisa: thats interesting. >> harris: the way that people may look at this is conservative versus liberal but what youre saying is. >> andrew: is the living constitution crowd versus the dead constitution crowd. >> melissa: magic tricks to the constitution to make it say something it doesnt. because you dont want people legislating from the bench. they were not elected. only people who have been elected by the people should be making laws. >> harris: will quickly before we move on, different va...

Process. judges should be chosen because they understand what the constitution is and they should apply it, not make it up. >> melissa: they are not elected so they are not to be making laws. >> exactly. some people on the left believe in what they call the living constitution. that the judges should change the constitution according to what they think, current morays and the culture suggests. that is what politicians are supposed to do. allow should be something that is defined that doesnt chan...

Living with this fear? >> i would tell them that they should think what they are doing, because they are making laws, but they dont feel the pain that we are feeling. and i think that it is wrong what they are doing because they are not getting hurt, but we are getting hurt, and we make up the america and we should all be united and then that is why the united states is called the unit united states, and i feel like we should all be united in that sense. >> angelica, there is a lot of talk of wh...

Done for years, which they had done. they have cutback on that rather significantly over the past two years. they gave this data away, but then they didnt monitor it. they signed agreements with the people they gave the data to, but there was no enforcement, its like making laws and having no police. right now one of the interesting things is i asked him, can you go back and get that data for people who abuse the system? because one of their new things is theyre going to look at suspect third-pa...

Ex-boyfriends. the question is, will people change their behavior? or will regulation finally step in? >> cara, for a lay audience, what happened here? did facebook users get used as much as facebook, the platform, and its creator got used? >> oh, you know -- facebook released a statement saying they were outraged. was outraged by their outrage. what they did is they gave this group data which theyve done for years, which theyve cut back on that rather significantly the last two years. they gave...

In? >> cara, for a lay audience, what happened here? did facebook users get used as much as facebook, the platform, and its creator got used? >> oh, you know -- facebook released a statement saying they were outraged. was outraged by their outrage. what they did is they gave this group data which theyve done for years, which theyve cut back on that rather significantly the last two years. they gave this data away, then they didnt monitor it. they signed agreements with the people they gave the d...