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That was not a partisan filibuster. both parties supported that filibuster. other than that one example, there has never been a successful filibuster of a supreme court nominee. and its unfortunate to see us potentially moving toward that kind of outcome now. it really does reflect much more on the senate than it does on judge gorsuch. >> well, last night i cut my hand on a piece of sheet metal, had to get five stitches. now that ranks as the second most painful thing i have experienced this wee...

Introducing policies that are in line with the constitution. >> what about his advisers? what about what they said? >> well, then you had his surrogates who were also talking about how the policy was designed in order to be able to disguise a muslim ban instead of pretext under neutral language. and then of course two weeks ago president trump himself as the president spoke on national tv. and we all heard him. he said this is just a watered down version of the first version. and if i had my way...

If that doesnt sound like pretext than nothing else does. thats exactly what he was trying to accomplish. >> i will ask you a question i asked our justice reporter laura jared how long before you think this is resolved. what do you think for a time line? >> i have the impression that were already in talks with the government so i have impression that were going to be seeing an appeal fairly soon and of course as you mentioned theres the 4th circuit appeal going on. i think they will have to appe...

Then made is i refuse to be politically correct. were not actually criticizing him for being politically incorrect but for being constitutionally incorrect. hes not making statements or policy in line with the constitution of the u.s. >> you made a statement you said you talked about what the president said during the election what about what his advisors said. >> then you have his surr orksu who were talking about how the policy was designed to disguise a muslim ban on pretext of the language a...

President trump made that his predecessor had wiretapped he and his associates at trump tower. >> this supposedly neutral travel ban thats in his executive order is really just a pretext to discriminate. >> an unprecedented judicial overreach. i think we ought to go back to the first one and go all the way, which is what i wanted to do in the first place. >> folks who voted for the president are getting exactly what they voted for. >> the bottom line is the investigation by the house and the sen...

Executive order is a pretext to discriminate against people tr their religion. >> federal law i read out gives the president. the authority. this is what we argued in the first one. for a judge to talk about tweets or interpreting something that happened during the campaign trail is not in keeping with how they are supposed to interpret the law. we tailored that second executive order to comply with the judges order. i think so to go back and say base ued on how the first order was conceived mak...

Version of the first one. this is a watered-down version and let me tell you something. i think we ought to go back to the first one and go all the way which is what i wanted to do in the first place. >> that is just one more statement that president trump has made that will support the fact that really this supposedly neutral travel ban that is in his executive order is really just a pretext to discriminate against people based upon their nation of origin or against their religion. >> federal l...

>> how can they look their constituents in the eye when they say to them, 24 million people of you are no longer going to have coverage. >> what i have here is a copy of donald trumps tax returns. he paid $38 million, looks like $38 million in taxes, took a big writedown of $103 million. >> did you ever have a chance to brief the president on investigations related to the campaigns or did you ever give him any reason to believe that he was wiretapped by the previous administration? >> uhm -- loo...

At what the intent was of the president. and they cite repeatedly what donald trump said on the campaign about how he wanted a muslim ban, how during the campaign that became a regional instead of muslim ban but that the president kept saying that the muslim ban was in essence the guiding principle here and that his subordinates and surrogates have delivered much the same message. they said that the argument in the executive order, that its necessary to protect national security by limiting the ...

Donald trump railed about this decision to block the new travel ban last night. i got to play it back for you again. >> an unprecedented judicial overreach. this ruling makes us look weak, which by the way, we no longer are, believe me. this is a watered down version of the first one. this is a watered down version. and let me tell you something, i think we ought to go back to the first one and go all the way, which is what i wanted to do in the first place. >> going all the way. he talks about ...