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To be competitive with the children of japan and south korea and india an china for tomorrows jobs, they better be getting a top-notch education in this country. lets support and welcome parental involvement not use the vast powers of federal law enforcement to target parents as domestic terrorists. >> the gentleman yields back. once again i would remind all members that guidance from the office of attending physicians face-to-face coverings are required for all meetings in encloseed space such ...

Like to play. >> i object. >> i object. reserving my right to object to the video. >> may i inquire as to whether the gentleman has followed the judiciary commit east property call by providing 48 hours notice to the committees clerk that he was going to use a video? >> i provided notice -- there is no 48 hour rule. it is not in the committee rules. second, we did let the committee staff majority know we had a video and gave it to them this morning. >> responding to the request, he did not. he d...

This is a serious request to the white house counsel. can i use the department of justice to not just investigate -- because the request initially was prosecute. >> yeah. >> -- my political opponents. that is what dictators do. that is not what the president of the united states does. and, granted, it is not a written law or even a written rule. it didnt need to be and i think some people, many people are realizing we need to write some of these norms into rules and codify them in some way becau...

Other people have said it, too. this is not surprising maybe because we have heard, as you pointed out, trump say it on twitter and whatever. but it still needs to be shocking. this idea that the president not just in a tweet, we cannot just blow this off as talk by trump and, you know, even just saying his impulses. this is a serious request to the white house counsel. can i use the department of justice to not just investigate -- because the request initially was prosecute. >> yeah. >> -- my p...

Youre seeing them distance themselves from steve king. it may not be a written rule, but if you have to condemn white supremacy, youre losing the debate. the reality is this is a member of congress who has suggested that civilization needed to be restored, and it couldnt be restored with other cultures babies. those are his words but to erics point, this is a narrative that now has been embraced and accepted within a republican party where, look, there are good people within the republican party...

Money together for someone who has a health care condition or suffered a medical accident. thats whats top of mind there, not culture wars that steve king is pedaling. >> david, would the republican congressional campaign committee be giving up on steve king, condemning him if he were ten points ahead in the polls? >> well, either way, i think youre seeing them distance themselves from steve king. it may not be a written rule, but if you have to condemn white supremacy, youre losing the debate. ...

Should stay out of politically charged investigations 60 days within the election? >> this is not a written rule. it is an unwritten rule. it is not a law. theres no punishment. a lot of agencies have administrative rules internally. if you weak them, there could be an internal punishment. its not that fine identity. this is a gentlemans agreement where they say its better to stay out of elections, not have the investigation or indictment come down within 60 days of the election because of the f...

That would be seen as youre afraid to answer questions or this and that. hes casted as the investigation as such a witch hunt and in that sense he can argue that why would he sit in front of an -- for an investigation thats a witch hunt and out to get him. >> dan, i want to quickly touch on the idea that rudy giuliani says theres a department of justice rule that says you cant be doing this to close to an election. theres no written regulation on this. no written policy. theres generalized guida...

Trumps u.s. supreme court nominee. are you concerned that doing away with the filibuster in order to confirm neil gorsuch, the judge, will ultimately lead to the end of the legislative filibuster as well? >> im not, wolf, because theyre very different practices, very different traditions. for 214 years there was never a partisan filibuster of any nominee, for any party of any office until 2003 when chuck schumer convinced democrats to start filibustering judges. always of now were back to where ...

Experience long before the internet that in the course of doing a story, youre going to always have to make changes. if you put a story out, youre going to learn new facts, discover things you didnt get right. youre going to discover new information that may change the story. the ap has been doing this for a hundred years. i reached out to the standards editor of the a.p. i said how do you deal with that? >> what did he say? >> they have very specific rules for dealing with this and i actually b...