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Thing is being too fast tracked to be fair. your thoughts? >> well, theyre also saying the president, president trump, not president bush, has sort of invoked executive privilege without formally doing it and they dont know what the explanation is for why. the democrats have complaints, some of them are valid. the fact is they have a -- they are a one vote minority in the senate and they dont have the votes to do almost anything even if they were to stay unified. some people have said well they ...

A battle with brain cancer. a referendum on measures against corruption has failed to reach a quorum in colombia not despite it being a hot topic in the country where graft is estimated to cost about five percent of g.d.p. but the measures including cutting lawmakers salaries were heavily supported by those who did vote. the womens rights organization estimates that as many as sixty five thousand women living in germany have been subjected to female genital you middle age. now that figure is twe...

Sensitive search warrant from his office e-mail account to his personal e-mail account. that was concerning. look, i think that on top of all of that i think that the bureau felt that it had to send a message that there was going to be a zero-tolerance policy for this kind of behavior and let down in the quorum in the bureau. i feel bad for him and his family, too, but i think this was probably the right decision. >> renato, i want to get to the presidents attorney, yoouj who is contradicting hi...

Admittedly there was a difference between what the op recommended and what the action was. but there were very serious issues involved here. and to put a fine point on it, peter strzok provided the principle canon fodder for a relentless attack on the fbi, the department of justice, and the special counsels investigation. additionally, you know, he said to have this difficulty involving his having transferred sensitive search warrant from his office e-mail account to his personal e-mail account....

Russia. he said that he had extended and implied after the helsinki meeting, an invitation to the u.s. president to a summit in moskow and repeated his assertion that he was prepared to go to washington but there was a bundle of preparation that would be needed before such a meeting could be held. and also reiterating the russian position that therell be opportunities for further meetings between now and a future summit, for example, in the fringes of the g-20 and other international quorum. so ...

Centrists and if they back it, they lose the left? >> thats the dilemma they face. to take up the gentlemans point, some say lets not show up and not have a quorum. they could perhaps delay the process for a time. it may also send a different message to more moderate independent voter in these red states and thats something that the democratic leadership has to think through. what do you do in this hot summer, take all the procedural means possible or do you make a case against the nominee and, ...

As somebody said, denying a quorum woks for a while. its hard to see anybody sustaining that. frankly, i think it would be harder on people like hide camp and mansion to deny a quorum. denying the quorum, you get in the hit for tat of mayor garland. >> its hard to imagine democrats sustaining that for very long. they tried this previously. >> i played this sound for you in the last hour, katokaton, i to play it again. this is leonard leo who made the list for the supreme court picks: this was hi...

Think the democrats need to take a hard look at quorum busting. they have to have a quorum for the nomination to go through and if all 47 and two independents in the senate refuse to show up for the confirmation hearings there cannot be any senate business on this issue. >> and i interviewed -- i was filling in -- no it might have been last week on this show we interviewed the gentleman who wrote a piece on that, the professor who wrote about quorum busting and he seemed to think it wouldnt work...

Each faction of the party seems to have a different strategy and there is very little time to figure it all out. joining me is california democratic congressman ted lieu, so what should the democrats do about this? >> thank you, chris, for your question. i think we just should be consistent. i agree with what senate leader mitch mcconnell said during the merrick garland nomination. he stated that the american people should have a voice in the selection of the next supreme court justice. then he ...

What its not good for that technique, its not good for blocking the the supreme court nomination because there are things the majority party can do in response. they can instruct the sergeant at arms to force absent senators to come to the senate chamber and once they are there they probably have to use some procedural shenanigans but they can count people in the chamber towards a quorum if they are willing to break the press dense of the senate. >> but professor, they dont have to do that. sena...