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And we should never allow those groups to manipulate the religious structure and the ethnic structure of the region, making terrorism as a pretext or an excuse. those who are willing to turn the chaos in syria, iraq, yemen and libya are bound to lose eventually. they will never be able to turn that chaos in that part of the world into an opportunity and the terrorist organizations with blood in their hands are bound to fail. and as i have previously done so, i have been very frankly

Situation from coramatsu. i dont think theyve pointed to a single case either under mandel that says we have a law that isnt religious gerry mandering. set aside what we believe the subjective motivations of the president or advisers who adopted and crafted the policy. thats a really remarkable holding, judge paez. >> is the bad faith determination under den the same thing as a purpose determination under lemon? >> i think its a little different in the sense, judge hawkins. look, its one sentenc...

Where they question what would happen if they put forward no justification at all. when the counselor officer either gives you no reason or gives you a reason thats obviously untrue on its face, pretext sort of finding, i think thats a little different from purpose. to say that the president and three members of his cabinet acted in bad faith pretextually and adopting an order and saying its for national security purposes when its not -- to go down that road you would need the strongest and clea...

Information than he otherwise would have been. so his testimony as to what happened in that conversation with trump, will be very important. >> and how about rod rosenstein? hes scheduled to speak this week. what do you want to hear from him? i mean he has a long-standing career of getting bipartisan support. what do you want to hear from him? >> well, i want to hear first of all exactly how this whole thing went down. as we know, of course, they tried to pin the entire firing on rosenstein. but...

Who now has the authority to appoint a special prosecutor. if sessions has recused himself and there are questions surrounding his involvement in the firing if he recused himself that leaves it to rod rosenstein. many of us would like to see rod rosenstein, in fact, appoint or designate that authority to the senior career official at the justice department, but either way, the decision now with respect to the hiring of a special prosecutor is in rod rosensteins hands and thats why its really imp...

Integrity is just pretext for a road toward increased voter suppression. and its incredibly unfortunate that people are trying to lay the blame of this past election at the feet of african-american voters who have consistently tried to turn out to vote time and time again and, of course, were thwarted this election because of the loss of the voting rights act. many people dont realize that the democracy weve enjoyed for the past 50 years has now been taken away. and we see that states and locali...

Continues to do its work despite trumps efforts to decapitate it and while the independent council is named by the deputy attorney general now serving as right under jeff sessions begins to do his or her work and while the senate and house intelligence committees continue with their work. letting him exercise power when he is now demonstrated that when push comes to shove he will try to push through all of our checks and balances is just not a safe thing for this country to do. and thats what im...

An independent prosecutor. >> and jeff sessions supposedly recused himself from all matters involving the russian investigation. how is he recusing himself if hes firing the guy in charge of that investigation? sessions himself has to be investigated into the obstruction of justice which is going on and then rod rosenstein. i mean, basically anybody who comes into trumps orbit is humiliated and stripped of all integrity. this guy who was a career prosecutor, sterling record, liked by all sides h...

But why would you prepare that if you didnt think the president was going to use it as a pretext for what we saw last bike. >> except that reportedly he was upset that he was the unwitting fall guy.webike. >> except that reportedly he was upset that he was the unwitting fall guy.ebike. >> except that reportedly he was upset that he was the unwitting fall guy.ike. >> except that reportedly he was upset that he was the unwitting fall guy.ke. >> except that reportedly he was upset that he was the u...

And they deserve to have someone in charge thats looking out for them. many of them truly like james comey. and so when i heard the first part of your show, who else is the president going to fire next, there are a lot of people working on these investigations that cannot be fired that will not be fired, and that are going to get to the bottom of this. >> senator, you were just describing the presidents explanation for why he fired james comey. he is admitting it was his decision that the rosens...