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Your start treaty, fine. but then you have to get behind "dont ask, dont tell." and they put it on the floor and it fails. so he and obama talk and reed said i think i could get the votes, ill put it back up. obama didnt think he could get it done. and reed said ill roll up the dice and hangs up and puts it on the floor and passed it with 63 votes. and i think we make an argument in the book, if you dont repeal "dont ask, dont tell," then you dont get the marriage equality ruling because repeali...

Sort of this bastion of the most forward-thinking and progressive when it comes to lgbtq issues. and it was actually -- he had to -- he was not initially prioritized repealing dont ask, dont tell. who got in his ear? >> in some ways, it was harry reid but he didnt necessarily get in his ear. he just pushed it forward. and now to be clear, the president by the end of 2010 very much wanted "dont ask, dont tell" to be repealed. that is the key question. the question is whether or not there was time...

We have reed hopkins from the national weather center. hes up by you in wilmington, reed, lets talk about whats coming our way in north myrtle beach. im looking at the radar and its showing those yellow bands showing light precipitation. its just not here yet. >> oh, yes, we had the storm moving along what looks like the eye. its got very, very large and weve had significant rain up in our area in southeast south carolina. weve had flash flood issued for the last several hours. and on the backsi...

Court knows any conduct can arguably fit into that statute or a host of other instruction-type federal statutes. >> so wheres that fine line when were talking about the president of the united states? >> the fine line is if you are in a camp thabls that the president can obstruct justice if hes doing so for a corrupt purpose then it still has to be that corrupt purpose. >> you have to prove that. >> exactly. you have to prove what was in the presidents mind. did he do this because -- maybe there...

>> so reed the president has repeatedly called this a witch hunt. is this his way of downplaying the whole thing to voters or does the president truly think theres a deep state out to get him? >> well, the president is well trafficked in conspiracy theories, you mentioned earlier his crazy notation that president obama was not born in the u.s., which of course was false. he has never even apologized or gone back on that particular word. a lot of this is an effort to de la legitimate mize this in...

Were not even at the committee hearing stage of this. and so we have a certain ways to go. and the big question for the trump administration with his approval rating in the low 40s now, with some of these very boisterous town halls on whether there is going to be the kind of vision as well as the work to be able to get in a position where congress is able to tackle obamacare, as well as tax reform. >> interesting, though, you bring up those poll numbers. there are presidents who have been in the...

He overreacted, president-elect trump did, and i would expect if hes going to tweet something he should have come out and tried to justify his numbers. >> okay, since we like perspective on this program, jones does not represent the national u.s. steelworkers union but the local union in indianapolis. hes the quintessential little guy, although he is union, he endorsed bernie sanders and he voted for hillary clinton. still numbers dont lie. president-elect trumps efforts saved 800 jobs. 3 und hf...

Through. analysis showing that prices can go up for those who have pre-existing conditions, certain details within the new trump care bill does give some difficulty for those with pre-existing conditions. some saying it doesnt even cover them at all in fact. >> yeah. that was the number one thing that people were bringing up here. and congressman reed kept insisting, no, the new legislation will cover pre-existing conditions. he says thats the law of the land. thats not going to change. what peo...