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Morality, interpretation, its absurd and should have just admitted it. >> you said three things. what other two things? >> he said no difference between the rules regarding precedent and circuit court judge and supreme court justice, just plain wrong. and third he looked us in the eye and said he would have walked into the room if the president had asked him to reverse roe versus wade. wouldnt have walked out of the room but would have said to the president, thats inappropriate question and if y...

Be independent from president trump. im going to rule against him if needs be but im also not going to answer, you know, questions on precedent. im not going to talk about rowe v. wade. >> he does have some rulings that democrats should never be in line with but they didnt get to the heart of the rulings. but they he are chosen for a meeting. president trump knew exactly what he was getting and the democrats had their moment and their nuclear option last year and they decided not to go down that...

Other than al franken who asked hard questions. >> switch gears. talk about your conversation in mar-a-largo, president struck up the conversation. give us the details. >> he came over and started smoozing. we talked about the travel ban, wiretapping, leaks, gorsuch, ninth circuit, range of issues. then he left and went and have dinner and came back to say goodbye and stayed another ten minutes and kept smuzing and talking to me, values my opinion. i told him i didnt vote for him. oh, youre one ...

Trying to hold on to the idea that donald trump wasnt actually elected and wont be the president-elect. its why we see celebrities trying to sway the electoral college. politically for democrats, this is a huge mistake. theyre looking quite foolish, especially when you then have stories coming out about hillarys team in michigan having no ground game, no persuasion effort whatsoever to reach voters while brooklyn is sitting in a bubble. they want to blame this on the russians because they cant b...

Administration has been considering new efforts since before the election to shore up parts of the iran nuclear deal. bob, could mattis potentially oversee the undoing of this deal? and what are the potential dangers in doing so? >> well, general mattis, i agree. hes a good choice. in fact, hes a great choice. i want to see a four-star general in there who has combat experience, understands the middle east. hes not going to go into a confrontation lightly with iran. he knows what hes up against....

Type of thing, and you had to kind of switch gears and still be in your profession to do what youve been called to do. >> understood. you had a job to do. thats precisely what you did. but, charles, if you had the president in front of you and especially listening to his entire message to really all of us what would you have said to him? >> i would say, mr. president, i thank you for the words of encouragement that you have given this city this state, this nation and to the world, reminding us a...

Of the sacrifice and all of the money that weve put forward is not in vain. what we want to be able to do is as we have a smaller, tighter presence at a base inside afghanistan, that we also, though, have the resolve to go out and do whats necessary. i think if we show that leadership, we can get others to follow and thats exactly what needs to happen. >> okay. i want to talk about this. switch gears. the senate intelligence committee, they released a report about the e.i.t.s that are used by th...

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That can be a potent political message. youre going to see more real americans, regular americans, come forward and say, you know, my life was saved by the affordable care act, because i had insurance, i went and got early detection of my cancer, and therefore my life was safed. when they say that in television ads and saying that the republican has voted essentially against a program that saved that poor womans life, then youll see the shoe possibly on the other foot. in some other states where...

Along very rapidly. >> pete, lets switch gears for a second on another issue. the obama administration has just issued new rules that are intended to ease the concerns of banks who want to deal with businesses that legally sell marijuana. what can you tell us about that? >> the banks have been reluctant to do this. the same federal government that regulates banks also says marijuana is against the law. so the banks havent wanted to touch it, the marijuana dealers have been cash businesses. that ...