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Behavior? >> i dont know, wolf. what he did is unacceptable. whether or not it and of itself it exceeds the threshold of violation of house ethics, i think thats a question better left to the members of the ethics committee who spent an awful lot of their time studying these things and evaluating them against our standards. but it was unacceptable in any way, shape or form. >> well check with ted deutch, hes the chairman and well see what, if anything, they decide to do about this and well see w...

Middle class shrinks and we have so many people blueberry and property, if your question is am i going to demand that the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share of taxes, damn right i will. amazon owned by the wealthiest kind of world made $5 billion last year and profits. and you want to know how much they paid in taxes? >> zero. >> thats right. thats where we will begin getting the money. >> sanders spent the majority of the hour criticizing president trump but he did con...

People on top have so much when the middle class shrinks, we have so many people living in poverty, am i going to demand the wealthy and large corporations start paying their fair share, damn right i will. amazon, owned by the wealthiest guy in the world, made $5 billion last year in profits. anyone know how much they paid in taxes? that is where we will begin getting the money. >> reporter: he spent the majority of the hour criticizing donald trump but did complement his intentions in vietnam w...

Born alive is protected as a result. pretty common sense piece of pro-life legislation. well, ultimately it came to a vote and it did not pass. it needed 60 vote threshold here are the list of democrats who ultimately voted against the born alive act. again, an infants born alive should be kept alive. its out premise of this build. kamala harris, amy klobuchar, cory booker. sherrod brown. kristin gillibrand. senator elizabeth warren and bernie sanders it is orthodoxy on the left in the democrati...

To see where are you between 51 and 67? do you start to approach the 67-vote threshold, because that could be really interesting territory. >> jason johnson, this is also being challenged in court, so there could conceiably be an injunction against it somewhere in one of the district courts its being challenged in even before you get to the 18 days in the senate whenever mitch mcconnell brings this up. >> lawrence, legally this is going to be really complicated. remember, president trump himself...

About within the realm of the southern district investigation, theyll know whether he tells the truth and if he lies hell be in much more trouble. >> and as he testified in public, the question of his credibility. lies to congress before and going back in front of congress and lanny davis -- he was his lawyer and now his legal adviser. lanny davis is a political player. he has a political ax to grind here that is obvious. in terms of the credibility, is there an add add threshold that cohen has ...

Like mike lee or from tom cruz -- or from ted cruz who stood up many times and accused obama of usurping legislative authority. where are they going to land on this when they know clearly that this is in excess of executive power. >> adam gentleson, where are they going to land? >> thats a really great question. youll be looking for two things when the senate eventually votes. first, does it have enough votes to pass the senate, which is a majority vote? the rules attached to the special resolut...

Yes. it is sent to the presidents desk. if he vetoes it, it goes to the senate and the house, and then the question is does it get the two-thirds vote. i think it will be interesting to see where are you between 51 and 67? do you start to approach the 67-vote threshold, because that could be really interesting territory. >> jason johnson, this is also being challenged in court, so there could conceivably be an injunction against it somewhere in one of the district courts its being challenged in ...

Think, for the president, thats a great example of where it didnt work so well. but that resolution, there is no reason not to take the vote. whats really interesting to me is the level of hypocrisy that were going to say from people like mike lee or from tom cruz -- or from ted cruz who stood up many times and accused obama of usurping legislative authority. where are they going to land on this when they know clearly that this is in excess of executive power. >> adam gentleson, where are they g...

Call it. hes been very clear that hes not asking so much more denuclearization, hes just happy theres been a pause in testing. hes said that several times. im not in a rush. i just dont want testing. so hes lowered the threshold for concession. not only does chairman kim win when he has a summit with the u.s. president, something hayes own family saw for decades, but -- >> molly: meaning the north koreans have already won this just by the president flying there. >> also the russians and chinese,...