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Checking, it looks -- okay, there are others down the hall. lots of running around here. thats the nature of the place. but richard blumenthal said he had great concerns about the actions that unfolded last night and it is moving toward a real constitutional question and he has great concerns. in his life prior to coming to the united states senate he was a state attorney general in connecticut and a u.s. attorney and has background on this, as many members of the committee do. so they understan...

Policies. sessions reach extends throughout the white house with his aides and allies accelerating the presidents most dramatic moves, including the ban on refugees and citizens from seven mostly muslim nations that has triggered fear around the globe, end quote. now, if it were just this one article by the post, just one campaign event, just one vote, maybe there would be an open question. but there are many disturbing actions and statements throughout his record. let me name some of them. im a...

Attended harvard how scholaw sc. the second name thats listen floated is thomas hardiman. a participates court judge on the 3rd circuit and appointed by former president george w. bush. these two have another thing in common, chris. they are both conservative judges who are not too controversial in terms of how they might be viewed by democrats. so its likely that if he picks one of these two judges they would get through the confirmation process. but again, and i was just talking to a senior ad...

And lawyers who worked with senator sessions for a long period of time. all of those witnesses who actually know senator sessions said, in evident, the same thing if you are concerned with securing the strong and equal enforcement of our laws, you should look no further than senator sessions to find an attorney general thats up to that task. senator sessions was asked a number of questions about policy positions hes taken as legislator. thats good and well, but the test isnt whether or not you a...

Disruptive but ordinarily, and it was clear things were going to change, and different things -- certainly there was an attack on entitlements and domestic policies as well, and it was done in an ordinarily fashion, and it was known this is going to be long-term permanent change, and some of the chaos in the last week raises the question if this is sustainable. >> i have heard conspiracy theories out there that they are doing this on purpose, creating chaos in order to pass more controversial me...

The average american, who is concerned about the increase in drug prices. and confronting the leaders from pharma. so i think hes breaking with the narrative from republicans and really its a realignment, a political realignment and its a trump coalition, one that really -- its all about economic populous and doing everything to benefit average americans. i think rather than specifics, what i got is a message. hes communicating with the public out there. i think they will respond favorably, stan...

For donald trump and will not uphold the constitutional law. lets listen. >> -- at airports across the country. press reports have stated between 100 and 200 people were detained at american airports and more than 300 were not allowed to board planes to the united states from foreign airports, including my home state of california. in addition, the order effectively bars entry of people ranging from iraqi translators who helped american soldiers for years in iraq to syrian refugees fleeing horri...

They would vote against his nomination even before they submitted a single written question. one consistent thread that ran through all of his answers is this, he will follow the law regardless of whether he would have supported it as a matter of policy as a senator. the written testimony that we heard at his hearing tells the same story, we heard from witnesses concerned that the attorney general must provide full and fair law enforcement. and then we heard from witnesses who have known senator...

One thing the pentagon said is they encountered female comb combata combatants. thats the pentagons line. always tough to report this out when you have the pentagon on one hand and local on the other. >> it begs the question about when you have 14 killed but then you also have a member of s.e.a.l. team 6, a child, whoevers daughter she may be, its a young girl, whether or not its appropriate to call it very successful. >> yeah. >> what would they say, what would the people who were in the middle...

Requirements under the federal highway aid program. there arent perhaps that many people who would find that interesting, but there are a lot of others that would capture immediately the publics interest. whats significant about all of these, though, no matter how broad or narrow the topic, no matter how politically sexy or dull the topic might be, they in many instances almost conclusively resolve a legal question within the executive branch of government. in many instances theyre doing so on t...