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>> first of all, she had a lawyer. she had a lawyer negotiating a contract. so if michael cohen was speaking to the other lawyer and said, okay, you know, your client is going to be liable for damages, a million dollars per breach, i dont know where this guy is from. i dont know -- thats not a threat. thats something thats enforcement of a damages. >> one other question thats a material fact for people. the $130,000 is an odd number. people keep saying, she and karen mcdougal, the numbers arent ...

Would be home in arizona tonight recovering from cancer treatment. he will not be voting on the tax bill tonight. that means since this past weekend we have known the full range of mathematical possibilities for what could happen in this big washington vote tonight. we know all the democrats are a no, thats for sure. with all the democrats voting for it and all the democrats against, that vote would be 51-48, the republicans would win. if one republican votes no, that vote would be 50-49 and the...

The margin is in the house and what do they believe the margin is in the senate for passage? >> it will be really tight in the senate, bill. with only 99 senators at the most voting because john mccain is home in arizona recovering from treatment -- side effects from the treatment of his brain cancer. republicans can only afford one defection and right now they only have one lawmaker who is up in the air. it is jeff flake. >> were still looking at the bill, still reading the bill. still working ...

Im not just not a fox news contributor. im the spouse of a member of congress. we have congressmen now escorted by police that are afraid for their safety. we saw the violence at berkeley, the lessons that these students are being taught by their professors. the funding going on by radical group. these are the movements of radicals that end up in violence. dont forget, when my husband was elected in 2010, two weeks later, a deranged marxist shot gabby gifford. the last thing we need is violence....

Could that work long term? >> you know, theres a reason why theres an odd number of justices, because they disagree about a lot of things and 4-4 cases, i think there were four or five of those cases last term, but most cases are decided, justice breyer always likes to see the bright side, he never likes to say the court is in trouble. hes got his cheerful demeanor. there is a reason why there are nine justices on the supreme court. yes, the court will continue to function but it will not functi...

For years. and on top of all of that, john barry was also the lawyer that is freaking out the party right now. new jersey is one of those states that holds its statewide elections in off years. their race was not in 2012. it was in 2013. the next one will be in the fall of 2017. they hold their statewide elections in odd number of years. new jersey has been that way for a long time. virginia is the same way. there arent many states who do that. one of the consequences of being an off-year electi...

>> the reason there are nine justices, an odd number of justices, sometimes historically its been seven as opposed to nine, but the reason you have an odd number of justices is so that you dont get a tie. and there have been a number of ties recently where the supreme court has not been able to make a decision because its lacking that ninth justice. and thats not good for anybody. its not good for litigants, its not good for the rule of law, its not good for this country. and i think this is ver...

And the state, of course, has to be dispositive. doesnt matter if one candidate has 350 electoral, one state. but what made florida so important in 2000 was that it held the balance of the 270 electoral votes. the supreme court gets the case. whatever the lower court decision was supporting one side or the other would be affirmed, 4-4, if thats how the courts split. >> sounds like a not good result. for anyone involved. >> i mean, this is why the supreme court has an odd number of seats on it. >...

Merrick garland has been nominated. what are your thoughts? >> the reason there are nine justices, an odd number of justices, sometimes historically its been seven as opposed to nine, but the reason you have an odd number of justices is so that you dont get a tie. and there have been a number of ties recently where the supreme court has not been able to make a decision because its lacking that ninth justice. and thats not good for anybody. its not good for litigants, its not good for the rule of...

>> team clinton called it sexist, offensive. kantd clinton sees a deliberate pattern. >> nothing surprises me any more. i dont know that he has any boundaries at all. and his bigotry, his bluster, his bullying have become his campaign. >> the question then as we go from the odd number year into the election year, donald trump broke most of the rules of politics in 2015. the question is, does that work actually when we go looking at national polls where hes the leader and we go state by state whe...