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Described this moment were in as a national security crisis or even a national emergency. and were certainly seeing signs of the country being shaken. were seeing a national were seeing a national freakout, for lack of a better term in response to the presidents behavior with the russian president yesterday. i think of you as the bright light of democrats, democratic foreign policy thinking in congress. certainly in the senate. and i think of you as a pretty sober observer of these things. are p...

Presidents behavior with the russian president yesterday. i think of you as the bright light of democrats, democratic foreign policy thinking in congress. certainly in the senate. and i think of you as a pretty sober observer of these things. are people being too alarmist? are people overstating the gravity of the situation that were in right now? >> no. people arent overstating the gravity of the situation. it is not a national emergency. it is a global emergency. the post world war ii world or...

And therefore, to the orderly operations of the government. and what he did in his law review piece, as i read it, is to say, congress should take a look at this issue and congress should consider, should the president, in light of our history, iran-contra with president reagan, and just go down the list of modern day presidencies, and most have been affected in some significant way by an investigation. so, what hes suggesting is congress take a look at this and consider whether to essentially h...

>> well, you know, the sucker would rather go out than actually face his destiny that way. >> suicide attempt, delaying tactic, whatever it was it didnt work. a day later the judge ordered ralph back to court. >> people versus ralph lee candelario sentencing. >> and ralph, bandaged up, got another day in the spotlight. >> your honor, i have maintained that i have been innocent through this whole process. >> and then a keen observer might almost have heard the jaws drop around the courtroom. >> p...

That is he was told by the intelligence community inspector general investigator frank rucker that they had found an anomaly in the emails going to and from hillary clintons unauthorized private server., it was when they forensically examined the anomaly, they found embedded information, it was a foreign entity, not russia, a foreign entity that was getting every single one -- over 30,000 emails. >> brian: just to stop you there. in hillary clintons emails, they were forwarded to somebodyr else?...

And it was used against him by all the lower courts, wasnt it? >> sir, that is not my area of expertise at all. >> you know very well. you understand this very well, sir. so it was used against him and upheld in all the lower courts until the supreme court. guess what? why is it different for him than you? >> sir -- >> theres no difference here. theres no difference. >> sir, i would argue -- >> the difference between him and you is you put it in black and white. >> sir, the difference between me...

It was used against him by all of the lower courts, wasnt it? >> sir, that is not my area of expertise. >> you know it very well. you understand this very well, sir. it was used against him and upheld in lower courts until the supreme court, and guess what, why is it different for him than you? >> sir -- >> theres no difference here. the difference between him and you, you put it in black and white. >> sir, the difference between me and him, and again, i am not an attorney. >> he is not an attor...

Trump administration went to the court in los angeles -- >> let me read the part, i want to get this because weve talked about the flores decision. this essentially without getting into too much detail, a decades old court settlement thats intertwined in this whole thing. the judge, the judge said that with the government -- the judge said this -- it is apparent that the trump administrations request is a cynical attempt to shift responsibility to the judiciary for over 20 years of congressional...

People, planned parenthood people, center for american progress. i didntoo find that display tonight. im trying to put myself as an outside observer which is hard given my background clerking on the court. but none of that seemed attractive to me. they probably have a garland out there. what are your reactions? >> i -- if i have that i wouldnt be here talking about this tonight. but merrick garland, that all comes back to it, thats what set this up. the left wing of the democratic party and the ...

Planned parenthood. the center for american progress. im trying to put myself as an outside observer which is hard given my background. none of that seemed attractive to me. it seemed for form and it seems like it doesnt matter who the president nominated. he could have nominated merrick garland. they wouldve probably had a resist garland sign. >> if he would have nominated garland, i would hear talking about how great a president donald trump is. but i will say this. merrick garland, it all com...