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Pride in the things we should be proud of. in donald trumps mind it works for him. >> exactly. and i think what he is doing is hes daring democrats and people who oppose him, his critics, to basically criticize what his advisers hope will be a very patriotic speech and a speech that draws on american history. and its basically putting them on the defensive, or at least he hopes to. and thats something weve seen him do again and again. when i talked to white house officials, they kept emphasizing...

The presidents off on his own quixotic campaign. but i suspect whats going to happen at the end, ali, is that the justice department lawyers are going to reassert themselves and say, look, this is what we told the supreme court about june 30th, we said even last week on tuesday in a filing on june 25th. and yeah, two days later the supreme court ruled against us. but boy, it will destroy our credibility with the federal judiciary if we go back on our word now. i mean, when i sat in that chair, t...

Protests in hong kong. the thing that struck him he said publicly was the crowd size there. when kamala harris announced her candidacy for president, the thing he mentioned in an interview with my colleagues and me was her crowd size. its something thats on his mind. so yeah, you can be sure that hell be watching very carefully to see how many people come tomorrow, and he will probably be making comparisons if the crowds are good and if theyre bad then hell be probably finding ways to, you know,...

General, a heavily decorated combat veteran of vietnam and a u.s. ground commander in the gulf war among other distinguished roles. thanks to the three of you for getting us kicked off on a wednesday night. nancy, donald trump has been wanting to have something that feels like a military parade or a military display for more than two years now. something is going to happen tomorrow, but there seems to be a good deal of chaos around the way this is being organized. what are you hearing in terms o...

Attorney for facebook told me one thing and then i read a press release from mark zuckerberg telling me something else, i would be demanding that mark zuckerberg appear in court with you the next time because i would be saying i dont think you speak for your client anymore." back tonight, neal katyal, a veteran of the justice department, a former acting solicitor general during the obama administration who has argued 39 cases before the u.s. supreme court. neal, i dont even know what question to...

In a heated call today u.s. district judge george hazel set a friday deadline on the citizenship question and told the justice department attorney, "if you were facebook and an attorney for facebook told me one thing and then i read a press release from mark zuckerberg telling me something else, i would be demanding that mark zuckerberg appear in court with you the next time because i would be saying i dont think you speak for your client anymore." back tonight, neal katyal, a restaurant of the ...

Mr. sgardner and again -- oh, okay. the judge, no. timing is an issue. timing is an issue and we lost at week at this point. this is not anything against anybody on this call. i have been told different things and its becoming increasingly frustrating. if you were facebook and an attorney for facebook told me one thing and i read a press release from mark zuckerberg telling me something else, i would be demanding mark zuckerberg appear in court with you the next time. i would be saying i dont th...

Hyped this event, talked about it as a campaign event. how does that sort of thing get policed? >> well, after you have a gao investigation and there has been a determination that there is a violation of the law and money shouldnt be spent, then it will have to come from the political sector of his campaign or the republican committee, which it basically have been merged together at this point, but they have to pay that money back. as you know, theres a real tradition on presidential trips, if i...

And now jeff sessions is gone, but jody hunt is still there and he is now a senior justice department official himself and today mr. hunt showed, i think, again, what he learned. in what was just a remarkable turn of events in a federal court today, on july 4th eve, in a hastily-called court conference, in which the judge summoned both sides on very short notice to try to figure out what the heck was going on. because what had been maintained to the court was apparently not happening in the real...

Id rather not. as we head into the holiday, heres something to keep an eye on. the trump white house is now promising that right after the fourth, right after tomorrows holiday, so, some time this holiday weekend, they say they are going to launch nationwide dragnet-style raids targeting immigrant families in large numbers across the country. if that rings a bell, its because massive predawn raids