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United states, many of these issues go right back to where we were back to the restart button. and be clear, under the article 2 powers of the presidency, this president can do a great deal. everything he does now and then some. the key issue is guantanamo. those prisoners, 166 prisoners including 50 hard-core, the president said we dont know what were going to do with those people. they would be sitting without a legal framework if we pull back from this war powers declaration from 2001. thats ...

United states, many of these issues go right back to where we were back to the restart button. and be clear, under the article two powers of the presidency, this president can do a great, great deal. pretty much everything he does now and then some, the key issue is guantanamo. those prisoners, 166 prisoners including 50 hard-core, the president said we dont know what were going to do with those people. they would be sitting without a legal framework if we pull back from this war powers declarat...

United states, many of these issues go right back to where we were back to the restart button. and be clear, under the article 2 powers of the presidency, this president can do a great deal. everything he does now and then some. the key issue is guantanamo. those prisoners, 166 prisoners including 50 hard-core, the president said we dont know what were going to do with those people. they would be sitting without a legal framework if we pull back from this war powers declaration from 2001. thats ...

2 powers of the presidency, this president can do a great deal. pretty much everything he does now and then some. the key issue is guantanamo. those prisoners, 166 prisoners including 50 hard-core, the president said we dont know what were going to do with those people. they would be sitting without a legal framework if we pull back from this war powers declaration from 2001. thats a big issue. thats a complex one. >> ron suskind, senior fellow for ethics, thank you. its great to have you here. ...

Change. it swept powers that year in a way they hadnt done in ages. republicans took control of more seats at the state level in that election than at any time since 1928. their sweep in 2010 ushered in two years of republican governance that as much as anything else defined the republican party and what being a republican stood for. so it was two years of rolling back abortion rights and stripping union rights and passing really hard line immigration laws and making it harder for people to vote...

Had prior to 9/11. thats the hope of lots of constitutional scholars. it has not done that up to now. most of the powers granted or obtained by the bush administration have conveyed, if you will, to the obama administration, with some caveats you mentioned. the question is, is this the beginning of this president creating, i guess, a new normal, as johnson says? in which we are not in a state of war and the president is not executing war powers in a consistent and endless way? >> ron, you are a ...

Office, i mean, is that a fantasy? is this something you can imagine this president doing? can you imagine any president doing it? >> you know, if hes going to do it, this constitutional law president, it will be in this term. you know, it might be toward the end of this term. these issue, no matter what happens on some of these sort of legal sort of standards, the issues in a way dont change. small groups of people can get their hands on weapons that were once powerful and reserved for nations....

Powers of this office, i mean, is that a fantasy? is this something you can imagine this president doing? >> you know, if hes going to do it, this constitutional law president, it will be in this term. it might be to the end of the term. the issues, no matter what happens on some of these sort of legal sort of standards, the issues in a way dont change. small groups of people can get their hands on weapons that were once powerful and reserved for nations. that doesnt change. thats carried by tec...

That brought an even bigger change. it swept powers that year in a way they hadnt done in ages. republicans took control of more seats at the state level in that election than at any time since 1928. their sweep in 2010 ushered in two years of republican governance that as much as anything else defined the republican party and what being a republican stood for. so it was two years of rolling back abortion rights and stripping union rights and passing really hard line immigration laws and making ...

Term. certainly shut down guantanamo. there are clear issues here of the presidency hopefully snapping back into the shape it had prior to 9/11. thats the hope of lots of constitutional scholars. it has not done that up to now. most of the powers granted or obtained by the bush administration have conveyed, if you will, to the obama administration. so the question is this the beginning of the president creating a new normal, as johnson says, in which we are not in a state of war and the presiden...