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Dispensable as a leader of russia. and we hope someday he faces justice. >> that gets to something i rae wa really wanted to ask, considering your many years of work on war issues. we heard from a member of ukrainian parliament yesterday who noted there is a 90 country coalition in support of ukraine and she simply asked and it stuck with me, if 90 countries in the world cannot do anything to one single bully, and if the tyranny wins and democracy loses, what does that say about the world and wo...

This book details the Irish socialistic tracks pursued by Bernard Shaw and Sean O’Casey, mostly after 1916, that were arguably impacted by the executed James Connolly. The historical context is carefully unearthed, stretching from its 1894 roots via W. B. Yeats’ dream of Shaw as a menacing, yet grinning sewing machine, to Shaw’s and O’Casey’s 1928 masterworks. In the process, Shaw’s War Issues for Irishmen, Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress, The Tragedy of an El...

>> yes, because you needed five votes to lift the injunction that was blocking it, and the five conservatives, led by chief justice john roberts, said yes, and ruth bader ginsberg, sotomayor said no. so you had that fault line there. >> same question on guns. theyre just saying well take the case, but its been nearly ten years since they took a gun control case. is this the conservatives saying, we want another whack at the heller case which is defi defining definitions? >> absolutely. and the c...

During the government shutdown. you look at public polling, and time and again, the public seems to side with the idea of adding some sort of resolution to daca or d.r.e.a.m.er kids. >> guns, transgender issues, so sexual preference issues. the court saying not now. whats it tell us about this court? antoni kennedy is gone. more importantly, john roberts now, does he have the freedom of idealogical balance? >> going to her point about antoni kennedy, they could either go to culturally war issues...

Hillary in 2015 and 2016. none of the candidates are that well known yet besides biden. >> this is an approval rating. joe biden is off the charts because hes well known among african-american voters. then you see cory booker, kamala harris, beto orourke. theyre lower numbers here. is doesnt mean theyll have no appeal to african-american voters, theyre just not well known yet. the party is moving left on issues particularly in criminal justice reform. you have adrian shropshire saying you have b...

That everybody would be competent to come to. im not going to single out any one of them at this point. we need to demonstrate that this party is open, people are welcome to debate it, the issues, and i think that that is good for party, good for the country. >> youre just back from south carolina where i think he said something to you that was, shall we say, a little different. >> yes, mr. clyburn is there with his convention bureau hat on trying to invite everybody down to boost the economy, b...

Two culture issues but they take a pass and say, no, mr. president, were not going to step in for you on immigration. whats the consequence for that? >> it means that 700,000 people that wanted to include protections put in place for the obama administration, they continue. trump isnt taking up appeals at this point, litigation goes on around the country, and it helps hundreds of thousands of people go forward with whats known as daca -- people who came here as children undocumented. >> which me...

Statement invoking president trump. there are no such things as obama judges, clinton judges. unfortunately, the court keeps showing its fault lines, just as i said in the transgender, it did split republican justices versus democratic justices. >> the candidate really was blasted. he was someone who would have split on these issues. >> i assume, right. >> he cast the fifth vote on the gun rights case. antoni scalia who wrote the landmark 308 ruling probably had to navigate around anthony kenned...

Congressman schiff, thank you very much for being with us tonight. >> good to be with you, rachel. >> one of the reasons i wanted to talk to you tonight was not just because what youre calling for in response to this current scandal, but also the way youve responded when a liberal church in your district where an antiwar sermon had been given around the time of the 04 election, they got what they perceived to be a harassing letter from the irs. how did you view that at the time? and what happene...

Antiwar sermon had been given around the time of the 04 election, they got what they perceived to be a harassing letter from the irs. how did you view that at the time? and what happened when you contacted the irs on their behalf? >> well, the concern i had at the time was here was a progressive church that invited a former pastor to give a sermon on war issues and got more than a letter from the irs, go the a full audit, very expensive lengthy audit by the irs. and this was at the same time, ra...