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Mr. Eisenberg, he told me to take my concerns to him. And, theres a period of time in it wasnt that long a period of time, but it was enough time for me to enough time to talk to someone who you want i will assume it is, right . Ive been instructed not to, representative jordan. Hes what im getting. He told you not to talk to any of the people and you interpret that as not talking to your boss. But you talked to your brother, you talked to the lawyers, you talked to secretary kent, and the one g...

With just democratic voters. schumers point is if youre waiting for republicans, youre waiting until youre blue in the face, theyre not going to be for any voting law changes. schumer is gearing up for a necessary defeat, meaning hes going to lose, he understands that. he sees it as a long term policy prerogative that he does this now. i will say one other issue, katy. there is a bipartisan group thats talking about a scaled-back voting package that deals with things on a much narrower scale, th...

Search of taxicabs, were unscathed on that point. they both said that they were, in fact, nonpartisan. and that they were there to serve the country. there was no evidence introduced that would suggest these are people that were out to somehow diminish or, you know, smear the president of the united states. in fact, they back dolomite both said that the policy prerogative belongs to the president exclusively. but its up to the president to make the final call. in addition to that, i think the re...

Handled this moment in the proper way. >> im curious what you think, congressman, costello. you consider yourself a fiscal conservative, leading along with paul ryan at the end of this. i wonder what you think how he leaves the republican parties and does the republican party that you are a part of the fiscal conservatism part of it exist anymore? >> it does. i think the speaker has served admirably. he laid out a vision in so many iterations, and tried to fulfill the vision. >> so why couldnt h...

Was put out in september. >> couldnt he just say well, theres a lot of government waste and a lot of government programs that we dont need and start cutting out federal programs? >> i mean, government waste alone cant get to you those kind of numbers. there are programs that you can take the moral, you know, and policy prerogative and say this is what i would get rid of. he doesnt do this in this document. he doesnt say how he would make that happen. this is familiar territory. weve seen these k...

Really? >> thats always a great question. theres always -- quite a bit of inreand certainly the russians have been involved maybe too much with regard to the internal politics of free ukraine -- ukraine has been a sovereign country. 46 million people. the russian federation has interested. the ukrainian people in their particular elected government should have the policy prerogative, not the russian federation. >> i know -- moving poured, we are going to be watching to see how much the people, h...

Policy prerogative for the president, which is an expense of the executive authority when you look at the way that president obama has talked about executive power. as a senate and candidate and beginning of the first term. >> bret: you referenced this exchange between senator ted cruz of texas. and the attorney general. we cut it down a bit. but it goes back and fourth over the same pressing the attorney general on the issue of drones. >> does the constitution allow a u.s. citizen on u.s. soil ...