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Administration have a larger concern about solitary confinement being used for people who havent been convicted outside of paul manafort? >> secretary sanders: i am not aware of a specific policy position, certainly the president has been clear that he think paul manafort has been treated unfairly. >> reporter: can you confirm if the president has accepted to be the special guest next year? >> secretary sanders: i know the invitation has been extended, i dont believe a final decision has been ma...

Administration have a larger concern about solitary confinement being used for people who havent been convicted outside of paul manafort? >> i am not aware of a specific policy position that the administration holds on that front. certainly the presidents been clear. he thinks paul manafort has been treated unfairly. steve. >> reporter: ill take it. two questions. can you confirm if the president has accepted the invitation from the prime minister to be the special guest? >> i know that the invi...

No nuclear missile tests in north korea. these are all things we cover, as well. why would he want to muddy the waters when it comes to the truth? >> again, because he said this in the context of the tariffs issue, he wants to muddy the waters because hes getting a lot of heat from some of his biggest supporters that dont agree with his policy position. hes now had a sort of double-whammy of non-conservative policy on this, both implementing the tariffs to begin with, and then now offering up a ...

A policy position of lifting sanctions, and again, you know, i was part of the obama campaign in 2008. we were always very careful to always say, one president at a time, and theres certain things you just shouldnt discuss in terms of foreign policy. whether thats criminal or not, thats not for me to judge. whether it was inappropriate, i think it was highly inappropriate for mr. page or anybody else to do that. and let me just underscore one other thing. on one of his trips, he was the graduati...

What i think kavanaugh did is hes opened the door where he has to discuss his views on morrison v olson in his confirmation hearings and whether he thinks not just independent counsels, but special counsels like bob mueller are unconstitutional as paul manafort has said, as donald trump has said. he has to talk about his views about whether a president should be investigated, not just whether a president can be indicted but whether its appropriate a president is investigated while in office. hes...

One, united states versus nixon where the supreme court ruled presidents were subject to criminal subpoenas. does he believe that case was correct? and, two, clinton versus jones, when the supreme court ruled that presidents could be subject to civil suits. does he believe that case was correctly decided? if he isnt willing to speak to those cases, i think it gives an indication its not just his policy position about whether a president can be indicted or whether a president can be investigated ...

>> it is about policy, people right now, if you look at the polls, you do not -- i do not care what you are called, if you go with legalizing marijuana, 64% of americans are in favor. if you go with bringing our troops home from foreign wars, you are getting close to 70%. i do not care if you call yourself the whigs, the socialist, whatever, if you are running for policies that most americans agree with according to the polls, you will probably get your people to the polls and you will win. >> p...

Not taken this position than have. but you are right to note it is growing. and a lot of this, of course, grows out of that congressional primary in new york last weekend where it got sort of super charged as an issue because alexandria ocasio cortez who defeated john crowley, this is one of her policy position. this is something that has been building in the progressive community, the immigration form advocates that are part of the fuel of the democratic base energy right now. so thats why i th...

>> theres people here that want to stay here and they can get in line and become u.s. citizens. is there a technology that you can do to make it stronger? yes. unfortunately what the president is doing is creating a dynamic of black versus white. 100% versus nothing. build a big beautiful wall and mexico will pay for it that wont happen. >> dana: should we swallow that argument and pay for it? >> we definitely should. the different from him being a practical democrat, hes not running for office....

In the doma case there was a constitutional question where the country was moving in a direction that was inconsistent with the statute. there was a huge constitutional values question that was being presented here. here, and nick just said the catch phrase. the department has a duty to defend as long as theres a non-frivolous argument. here the arguments are thin. their duty is clear to enforce the law, defend the law. doma was a very different type of case. >> you know, maya, it strikes me one...