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He sent a letter to the judge saying he was pressured to do a, b, and c and it eventually led to the resignation of president nixon. in this case, carter page is coming forward with a lawsuit which he has said tonight hes going to definitely pursue, if you think as a number of republicans do, that there is a conspiracy, was a conspiracy of the obama administration to look into this -- >> part of carter pages lawsuit is that he is claiming hate crimes against him saying that the hillary clinton c...

Programs that edward snowden made clear and revealed to the american public and i wonder what you think of the action in the senate and the action in the courts, the fact that the state secrets privilege may not be invoked to the degree that it has been thus far, that it may not be the prop that the government stands on from come to go light. are you satisfied with whats going on and where are you most optimistic in terms of change happening? is it the courts that we can look to for the biggest ...

Go down in history as the president who looked into the abyss and stepped back, rather than leaping forward into it. i would advise he personally call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous state secrets privilege, and upon preparing to leave office begin a tradition for all presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years in office for any wrongdoing. there can...

Gop senators say they want to see kagans memos from her time as domestic policy adviser to clinton. since her public record is, as they put it, so thin. lets turn to msnbc political analyst, huffington post contributor lawrence odonnell, who supports the kagan nomination. lawrence, good evening. >> good to be here. >> lets bring in thomas jefferson school law professor marjorie cohen, who opposes the nomination. good evening to you. >> good evening, keith. >> the kind of executive power expanded...

Self-description by the senator. gop senators say they want to see kagans memos from her time as domestic policy adviser to clinton. lets turn to msnbc political analyst lawrence odonnell who supports the kagan nomination. lawrence, good evening. >> good to be here. >> lets bring in thomas jefferson school law professor marjorie cohen who opposed the nomination. good evening to you. >> good evening, keith. >> the kind of executive power expanded under the bush administration, some continued unde...

>> first part sounded like a self-description by the senator. gop senators say they want to see kagans memos from her time as domestic policy adviser to clinton. lets turn to msnbc political analyst lawrence odonnell who supports the kagan nomination. lawrence, good evening. >> good to be here. >> lets bring in thomas jefferson school law professor marjorie cohen who opposed the nomination. good evening to you. >> good evening, keith. >> the kind of executive power expanded under the bush admini...

Interest groups can get their names considered but not picked but maybe they have veto power. >> number one it depends on the interest group. i think their power is relatively weak. theres only one guy that counts and thats the president. number three, i think the reason youre hearing that about elena kagan, her issues simply are not known. a lot of the more liberal interest groups dont like the position the obama administration is taking in some of the terrorism issues theyve inherited from the...

Obama administration really wants to fight that battle. theyve argued this more narrowly on the state secrets privilege, and theyve never tried to defend the bush administration on the actual nsa program. >> they also did something interesting here, which also gives context to this, it may be a little bit different. the holder justice department broke with the alberto gonzales justice department and gave the judge this classified description of why the case should be dismissed, and the judge sti...

By declaring it criminal -- that the program was a crime, that you could not make a further -- you know, demand a further criminal investigation of what the bush administration did. and its unclear whether the obama administration really wants to fight that battle. theyve argued this more narrowly on the state secrets privilege, and theyve never tried to defend the bush administration on the actual nsa program. >> they also did something interesting here, which also gives context to this, it may...

Nothing about this lawsuit can be heard and litigated at all because it involves state secrets, national security, therefore the lawsuit should be tossed out on those grounds alone. in this case, judge vonn walker the judge in san francisco rejected the bush and obama administration claims of state secrets and found the program illegal. now its up to eric holder and the justice department to decide whether to appeal that ruling. >> michael, what has the president said on record regarding this? >...