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Factions. we call them special interest. everything he did in design of the government was an attempt to diminish the ability of factions or alliances of factions to take over the leaders of government. >> the problem with factions, particularly majority faction, if you have a country based on the idea of majority rule is that any passion can almost immediately become law. so madison what he wanted to do was not take away the idea of liberty to make the choices and mistakes even. and think throu...

Science at villanova and author of "james madison: spirit of republican self-government." james best is here, author of "tempest at dawn." before i get to jeanine, let me come to you with this. set the scene of the constitutional convention. it was so important. and at the brink, everything would have been for nothing, the revolutionary war for nothing if this didnt come together. >> right. the nation was disintegrating and this was a do-or-die area, they were going to get something out of here ...

Minority has the power to filibuster. i support that right from an institutional point of view, the question is when do you use it? on friday, the democratic leader made a destructive choice to filibuster or bipartisan deal and to force a shutdown of our federal government. now its the second day of the senate democrat filibuster and the senate democrat shutdown of the federal government. because the president wouldnt solve months of ongoing issues and give the democratic leader everything he wa...

Little bit today, then, its like, here it is. im more than happy to be transparent about it. >> as far as you know, this is all of it. >> this is everything. this is everything. >> no. no, it wasnt everything. this morning, nbc news broke the story, there was another participant in that meeting who trump jr. had failed to mention. someone besides the russian lawyer, that person has been identified as a russian-born american lobbyist. he is the former soviet counter intelligence officer who is su...

Politico, tara palmieri. donald trump jr. says he released his e-mails to be completely transparent. now, the white house has praised his move, but i want to play for you part of the interview donald trump jr. gave to fox news on tuesday as part of this decision to be transparent. >> did you ever meet with any other person from russia that you know? >> i dont even know. i probably met with other people from russia. not in the context of a formalized meeting. >> as far as you know, as far as this...

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Her, the republican poentds and also the question, though, the impact that donald trump will have as they try to woo swi. swing voters may be disaffected by his presidency. >> thank you. for his part president trump sees the georgia result as a victory for the gop and even taking credit for it. take a look at this post-midnight tweet from the president. he says quote despite major outside money fake media support and 11 republican candidates, big r win with runoff in georgia. gad to be of help. ...

Convention. and all the facts are in here so you get everything. but you can read it in novel form. what were they really, what were they dead set for and against? >> they were dead set against any centralized power. they had just come from underneath the british. and they feared concentration of power. we talk about checks and balances today. but we use it as one word. they wanted balance to also go into checks. so if you didnt have enough power, that check wasnt any good. so that is one of the...

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