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As gloria was saying. and theyre issues that the conservatives really like. issues of executive power and religious liberty. but there are some controversial ones too. he had a controversial opinion on the affordable care act and another one about some kinds of abortion restrictions. so those are out there, and these hearings are also going to feature george w. bush for his time there. some people wonder really, do they want to relitigate those issues, things that happened during the bush years,...

Change with the new pick. anthony kennedy was the key swing vote on issues like abortion, lgbt rights, affirmative action. now hell be replaced with somebody whos younger and whos more conservative. most of the protesters here are talking about roe v. wade tonight. youve got the opponents of abortions. on the other side, youve got people already chanting "hey ho, brett kavanaughs got to go." way behind me, theres a light on in some of the chambers. i dont know whose chamber it is, but anthony ke...

Ago. >> interesting. all right. thank you very much, ariana. i want you to stand by. i want to bring in everyone else now and get your opinion on the presidents announcement tonight. michael, first of all, i want to turn to you because weve learned that the presidents supreme court team looked at brett kavanaughs past comments on indicting a sitting president. i have a quote here. this is what he wrote when he worked with ken starr in his book back in 2009. he said, the indictment and trial of a...

Also had conservative clerks. neil gorsuch was one of them. brett kavanaugh is one too. keep in mind, this establishment pick, he has over 300 opinions, as gloria was saying. and theyre issues that the conservatives really like. issues of executive power and religious liberty. but there are some controversial ones too. he had a controversial opinion on the affordable care act and another one about some kinds of abortion restrictions. so those are out there, and these hearings are also going to f...

The crossroads of a lot of major issues. not only ken starr but bush v. gore, elian gonzalez, torture issues during the bush administration. so democrats are not going to leave any stone unturned here, and it could require more time than the president really wants to give it. >> according to manu raju, he said chuck grassley said earlier tonight that someone with a long record will take time to go through the full record. this is a quote again from manu. and not commit to holding confirmation he...

Learned that the presidents supreme court team looked at brett kavanaughs past comments on indicting a sitting president. i have a quote here. this is what he wrote when he worked with ken starr in his book back in 2009. he said, the indictment and trial of a sitting president moreover would cripple the federal government, rendering it unable to function with credibility and either the international or domestic arenas. so the question is, how much do you think the presidents self-interest in ter...

Party when he departed so publicly from president bushs decision to pursue the war in iraq. you may remember that he voted against the surge. >> the surge, in particular. >> right. and that mr. brennan, while all the issues you just discussed were very potent in 2008 and 20 2009, were at sort of a different point in the war that hes had. four years in which hes been running the drone program and, my guess is, that when he actually gets the confirmation hearings, youll probably be hearing as much...

I am pad news. im not your friend. im not going to help you. im going to break you. any questions? >> thats a clip from "zero dark thinkerty." which has taken a lot of questions on torture issues. the following motion picture is based on a first hand account of actual events. not so much according to the acting director of the cia. he said the film is inaccurate and creates the strong impression that torture was, quote, the key to fining bin laden. the issue at hand is how the public consumer th...

Is being taken up currently. so that argument doesnt stand. but there are cases you want to bring this to bear and say we are on the dream act and that is a significant issue facing america. you know what? were going to stay on it for a week and let people air their views on the american people and the american people can weigh in on whether theyre bums or heros or whether its on the administration jobs act or the pay equity act or the disclose act. there are issues where you should have that de...

So that we can proceed to get legislation passed the. >> two key priorities for president obamas second term agenda are immigration and climate changes. the president needs majorities in both houses to join him on those issues. here is the weird thing about washington. thats already happened. the house passed the american clean nr act in june 2009 and democrats believed they had a majority for it in the senate, but it never got a floor vote. that is because republicans silencedly filibustered it...