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Your income tax. later a republican congress took away the penalty and the state sued well, its just the mandate and thats unconstitutional and the court said without a penalty the mandate doesnt require you to do anything. so you cant show you were harmed by it and it rejected the challenge on the basis that they didnt have the proper legal standing and they didnt survive the threshold test to show that they had some particular injury caused by this law, but in ruling this way, it makes it pret...

Zephyr, great to see you. talk about what this means. did the original case mean that the litigants didnt have standing and did this court say, yes, you do. >> absolutely. this is a huge deal. this is the first time a federal court of appeals has recognized plaintiffs who can go forward with the emoluments lawsuit against donald trump. it will go back to district court, and there are two other similar lawsuits in -- any time a federal court has looked at whether or not donald trump is violating ...

Thing that donald trump is getting from these foreign governments. and the real issue, the most difficult hurdle in these lawsuits has been the standing question. has been whether or not there are are parties who are in a position to bring a suit. and the second circuit today in a really well reasoned, deep thoughtful opinion said, no, the district court got it wrong. the hotel owner and people involved in the hospitality industry, people working in the restaurant business who have to compete ag...

Like saudi arabia, russia, china have the ability to hear every conversation that you and i would have on our iphones and can actually pull up every text message ever sent. so a foreign government lets say iran lets say a democrat is attacking mbs. they pick up some personally -- illegally pick up some phone conversations that would be of interest to donald trump and they pass it along to him. according to donald trump thats just fine. >> thats right. and so this is the latest version of whats a...

Identified chief of staff who can interface with white house counsel and ensure smooth management of everything. the irony here, joe, might be that what ultimately insulates the president from indictment is not his legal team, not his willingness to be forthcoming and make a full confession, but rather this long standing doj policy that says you should not indict a sitting president for a lot of credential reasons that have to do with good government. that doesnt prevent prosecutors in the south...

>> we think we know a lot of things. >> mueller is not talking, and what comes out of the presidents lawyers mouth, which is usually how we learn about these things mayor may o not be accurate. the wheels of justice turn slow. it was assigned to an appointed judge a few minutes ago. hell assign briefings and orders and it will probably be weeks or months before there will be any definitive answer on whether there is merit to the case or even whether the senators, indeed, have legal standing to a...

May only be slightly better, tucker, than if he had never been born.i >> tucker: thank you. the standing question is, is florida prepared for self-government? we will take that up at some length tomorrow. meanwhile eric eggers conducted a lot of research with the government accountability institute. hes the author of the new book, "fraud, how the left plans to steal the election."rn that book actually contains a section on brenda snipes. the very prescient eric eggers joins us tonight. thanks a ...

Point i would say his chances may only be slightly better, tucker, than if he had never been born. >> tucker: thank you. the standing question is, is florida prepared for self-government? meanwhile eric eggers conducted a lot of research with the government accountability institute. hes the author of the new book, "fraud, how the left plans to steal the election." that book actually contains a section on brenda snipes. the very present eric eggers joins us tonight. so brenda snipes position is s...

New york, suggesting that he was hanging out with michael cohen and michael cohen quickly said, well, i appreciate his kind words. im not talking with him or communicating with him or whatever. so very interesting. i think it seems like tom arnold is trying to get in the fray, but there could be something i dont know. >> and, melanie, is there any clearer sense for what michael cohen will do now? >> this has been a long standing question and mystery in washington. but look, cohen is one of the t...

Court. i have seen this in different context. to have the court be in compliance here. they are going to face a standing question, which simply means what gives new york city, san francisco and philadelphia the right to step guard and assert these claims, because it didnt happen in any of those jurisdictions. but i think they will be okay because they are saying they have to check databases when people go for gun permits in those three days. that is why i say you are not in harm. >> just a few d...