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Torture, quote, was the position that clients were telling him, end quote, to take. not only did he not answer my question, he raised an additional concern. i strongly believe that when you work for the government, either as a lawyer or a policymaker, its important to commentegalit advice or write. to say i did what they wanted is not enough, particularly if the legality is contradicted by law and treaty. i also believe its important to remember the context. at this point our country was inlved ...

Anything since i have been president is to ensure that there are plenty of dissenters. and there is not a person in this press corps that cannot write what he wants to write, and most of them do write what they want to write. >> what do you see there? >> i remember how strong the press, especially the "new york times" that i knew best, was against johnson and his war. the journalist who won the pulitzer prize in 1994 was loathe within the white house of johnson as well as his predecessor john ke...

Lets check in on my speaking of social media and all things internet. lets check in on my facebook and twitter accounts. smerconish, internet privacy is an oxymoron. simple as that. you know, boomer, you might be rite. when you go online and in some respects and i love it, but you take your life in your hands. another one, kathrine? or are we done with one? thats it? okay. up next, a polarizing figure in american racial politics. in 2015 rachel dolezal was outed as a white woman whod been repres...

Democrat on the committee has also been partisan. there is, i think, a cloud over that investigation. the more dignified senate intelligence committee probe has gotten much higher marks because they actually are try ago little bit harder to be bipartisan. >> one of the points that strassel makes he has been quite transparent. whether or not you like the way he is dealing with it and people with write about it and listeners and viewers can judge based on what they think, as we map out all these s...

Were up for re-election here in a couple of years in states that donald trump won. they would go along with this get neil gores such to 60 votes. thats not quite looking that way and heres one of the data points. heres chuck schumer, the leader of the democrats in the senate today. >> you look at his history. he didnt answer questions. we know that. when you cant answer whether brown v. board was decided right which even judge roberts who is very rite sent didnt, something is really wrong, and y...

To always do whats right for the american people. we know there are a number of improvements that could be made. i have a few in mind rite now. the fact is that weve been facing 60 repeal votes, now this latest thing, if the republicans have suddenly realized they have to work with us, thats a good thing. right now medicare part "d" does not negotiate drug prices. thats something we could work on to bring drug prices down. theres things we could work together on. >> was do you see as fixes for p...

Said the vote was happening tonight. >> he didnt know. >> it had already been canceled. everybody else knew for -- >> if he had been on twitter, he would have known that the vote wasnt happening. but, yeah, it goes to white house staffing. no one slipped him a note to say this wasnt happening. he was just reading from a text. >> i think he wanted the break to get away from capitol hill and, hey, lets go meet with some -- >> there was a point where he was reading something that was written by a v...

Missile test by kim jong-uns regime this year and it came hours after north korea claimed it will accelerate its weapons program and develop pre-emptive strike capabilities. a television legend has died. chuck before a -- barris whose empire included "the dating game" and "the new newlywed game" and "the gong show" passed away of natural causes at his home yesterday in california. he was a best-selling author and songwriter. chuck barris was 87 years old. the cutest moment of the day comes f...

You did write in that case, also, something that i thought showed a fair amount of reflection on the plight of the plaintiff in that case, write, quote, by all accounts, the plaintiff was a good teacher, suffering a wretched year. close quote. indicating that were aware of her plight. this is hardly the kind of statement made by a judge who was unsympathetic. this is in context the kinds of statement made by a judge who understands the deeply human context of every case. and also understands the...

>> something lik >> you were asked questions initially by senator feinstein without the benefit of actually be able to refresh your memory from reading the emails, but i think weve covered that enough, i hope and lay that to rest. i want to talk about the little g guy. in these confirmation hearings sometimes very complicated and complex issues are dealt with in a rather simplistic and misleading sort of way. but first of all, iant to talk to you a little bit about an article that you wrote in t...