for invoking the separation of power in our system of checks and balances. that would punish, essentially, exercising your own constitutional authority under article one, two and three of the constitution. we have a three-part system of government, equal, coequal branches, separate branches in the courts and the umpires. mark: what i am hearing today from these committees and these professors is we don't have cold equal branches, we want trump out so we have one all-powerful branch, tomorrow maybe we will have equal branches of government, but the fact that ththe president asserts his rigs and he's not the first to do this, he's not defying a court order, he's defying a request, a demand by another branch that saying i'm in a do this out with you and they're saying in peach of offense, there's another