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Provided and available. it doesnt mean its enough choice. we can sit down together and work through that challenge and a number of other challenges. you dont take a sledgehammer to a clock that is running a little slow. what you do is take it to a clock maker who sits down and makes precision fine-tuning so you can improve the overall functioning of the clock. thats what we need to do to the affordable care act. the republicans, frankly, are disingenuous. theyve never been interested in pro prov...

With a clear conscience. >> in this room is the area thats -- where the drugs are actually administered, through this port here. also in this room, obviously, is a red phone. if theres a stay of execution or a change in order whatsoever, then it would be communicated through the red phone. once the executions completed, the body of the inmate is brought through this door here out this door into the sally port where there would be an ambulance waiting to remove the body. >> ive been in prison sin...

Moment. women need the prenatal care. men are involved in the process that requires the prenatal care, fyi. do you think there could be a moment when americans start to say maybe obamacare wasnt that bad? i made this point. we like to complain about what we have then when we stee alternative, things arent that bad. >> i agree with you. i think americans are going to raise up and congress people are going to hear about it. obamacare is not a perfect thing like dodd-frank law is not a perfect thin...

Speaking by phone to americans, those communications might incidentally be picked up. >> if they were speaking to someone at trump tower, which we have no evidence of, youre saying that could be picked up. mike baker, we can hear you now, my friend. your thoughts? >> excellent. look, president trump is doing what hes been doing, speaking in absolutes, speaking with a sledgehammer, no room for nuance, he just throws things out there. i think we probably need to get to a point where we dont read b...

Then do you think it would pass legal muster? >> we obviously have to see the details. everything youve suggested sounds like a real improvement. again, take a step back. whats the problem that theyre actually trying to solve? seems to me they continue to take a sledgehammer to the wrong problem. not a single american has been killed by a refugee or someone coming from one of the original seven countries in the travel order. so thats not where the problem is. where the problem is, when it comes ...

Was saying before, you know, et cetera he a one thing to campaign as an unconventional candidate, as someone who is going to take a sledgehammer to the system and be chaotic and be the bull in the china shop, but as were seeing from what im calling the trump fatigue thats beginning to grow out there, people dont necessarily want that in a commander in chief n a chief executive, in a president of the united states. they -- they want, i think, in addition to the flurry of tweets and the flurry of ...

Them knowing that he is on tv and knowing the kind of scrutiny that is sometimes thrown at you. how has melissa mccarthys skit been in shaping the public opinion of sean spicer? >> people dont really know the press secretary, people watched him a little bit, because he made sort of noise attacking the press. she comes out and it was a big surprise, now she comes out and repeats it. its like pounding him over the head with a sledgehammer. i think he is under duress. i do think its interesting tha...

Is. are you going to kill an ant with a sledgehammer? what specifically, mr. president, are you tying this to, and i think thats going to be the question of the justices moving forward. >> talk to me about how the law and the politics interact here. this court of appeals is considered a liberal court, a majority of judges appointed by democratic presidents, and just earlier, we were speaking to political analyst ron brownstein. he was telling us the democratic states are using this weapon agains...

During that time there was not a single month in which an iraqi refugee did not come to the united states. there was no ban. the program wasnt stopped. it did showdown, but it wasnt stopped. we wanted to make sure that it was as secure as possible. thats exactly what happened. >> do you agree with president trump there do still need to be changes in the vetting process or do you not agree with that? >> look, the problem with what president trump has done is this. first, its the presidents obliga...

These countries. because there are people for example, who have green cards. there are people who are students who are eligible for entry into the united states. i would be far more interested in knowing which isis fighters have made their way from raqqah as well as from mosul and have traveled to europe through turkey and who may have u.s. nationality. you know just for example, most of -- under the obama administration 25,000 people were denied entry into the united states who were stopped at ...