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Im an attorney, there is no question of state law involved in any of this. southern district somehow confuses people. this is all federal. the president can pardon all federal crimes. so right now there is no question of whether or not, well, not for those state crimes. theres no crime first of all, no charge against michael cohen and no state action here. >> no. but what i think the reason people are flagging it is because its outside the mueller investigation. you cant shut this down simply by...

Local authority to govern in those ways. >> wouldnt or couldnt this have been done just as effectively or maybe legally effectively joining the doj or to your point, is this a separate matter? >> yeah, this is a separate matter. its really a different battlefield entirely. the department of justice, their case, if you read it, is largely -- settles on supremacy clause and while huntington beach agrees with the federal government with regard to the supremacy clause, our case is different. it focu...

>> by replying to trump, i can bring all my followers to the discussion he starts on twitter. and its sort of our modern-day town hall. and when he blocks me, i cant be part of that as myself. >> is that silencing his speech? david. >> no, absolutely not. before we get into whether or not thats a public forum, we first have to see if this is state action. and it is not. this is @realdonaldtrump. you have to get power of authority by nation of your position. this is not through the president. thi...

>> by replying to trump, i can bring all my followers to the discussion he starts on twitter. and its sort of our modern-day town hall. and when he blocks me, i cant be part of that as myself. >> is that silencing his speech? david. >> no, absolutely not. before we get into whether or not thats a public forum, we first have to see if this is state action. and it is not. this is @realdonaldtrump. you have to get power of authority by nation of your position. this is not through the president. thi...

Bit more about this because the statement, as you refer to, by the white house warned assad if he, quote, conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price. what exactly does that mean when you say heavy price? >> well, this isnt the obama administration, so we dont give our game play away. whether you are playing poker or you are doing go you politics, you dont show your hand in advance. the fact is very clear. we are there to crush isis. but...

Wear attack is spreading today. thousands of new computer systems have been effected. the attack hit more than 200,000 systems in more than 150 countries including businesses and health care systems. think hospitals around the world. the malware blocks computer access. >> who is behind this attack? have we ruled out that this is a state action? >> we have not ruled it out. attribution is always a bit difficult. we are seeing an attempt to hold this data for ransom. >> lets bring in former execut...

And defined. those reserved to the states are numerous and indefinite. we were supposed to be a different legislative body. our federal government was always intended as a limbed purpose national government, not a general purpose national government, one possessing complete police powers. weve seen a slow but steady drift over the last 80 years away from this principle of federalism, such that powers exercised at the federal level could no longer be described as few and defined, but more appropr...

Pu bush two came to ourself, there was an assault on climate change at that time. we were able to get through that time period by local, state action. were hoping we can do the same now. but this is a national treasure. i would hope everyone in your audience understands that climate science is a treasure for our kids, for our planet and for our future. >> you have colleagues at uc davis who are actually doing this sort of copying of data. to folks that hear that, how under the gun do the people ...

Territories before. but how much could it be the case that a new administration would just say to the department of energy or the epa, yeah, were just going to get rid of all of these parts of the government that do all these readings that produce this, what we believe is a hoax? >> i mean, its certainly hard to quantify exact what that would look like and to the extent that the executive can kind of come in and determine these things, but you know, this isnt without precedent when bush two came...

Adversaries are developing more and more so fistsophisticated capabilities. we have to recognize drones are not going away. theyre going to become instrument of state action and instrument of im afraid of terrorist action in the future. were the dominant country in the world using drones. we need to revisit the question. how are they authorized? when are they appropriate? >> were you referring to alan gross as the u.s. aid worker in a cuban prison? >> yes. im sorry if i didnt use alans name. ala...