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. mark: welcome back, senator, we talked about some of the senators. let's talk about the institution of the senate. used to be that the state legislatures chose the senators or the methods by which the senators were chosen and we get the 17th amendment. a progressive era of republicans, the 16th amendment, the federal income tax and the 17th amendment. that all changed. direct election was considered a populist thing to do, and so the states don't have any representation, state legislatures don't have direct representation in the senate or in congress period, what do you make of that? >> ther...

Every time the plan was put before the supreme court and struck down as unconstitutional and another 20 years break until 1894 when they tried another attempt at director contact and within a year and a half, it was struk binomi struck biy -- >> that's 16th amendment. that's what i call the experience gone wile. you end up with the time where the income tax comes into play and first 24 months of the 16 commitments, you have 19 states adopting a statement context on top of the federally loan kan contacts. >> you get into 1930s and we have social security.

And cause harm and many in cases death to our residents, we need to do something about that. we need to take the committed felons out, everybody out who's been here illegally and give them an opportunity if they're legal to come back into the country. >> you're going to remove the 11 million, but what about their children who were born here in the united states? what happens to them? >> i think the scholars on this have been very clear. the 16th amendment is very clear. we don't need to change the constitution. these anchor babies as they're called happen every day. we see it not just from mex...

The education -- the -- >> commerce. >> commerce. and let's see. >> oh, my. >> i can't. the third one, i can't. sorry. oops. >> what about the epa -- >> that oops, a lot of people thought the oops would be the end of rick perry's campaign for president. i mean, he came in as the front-runner. he was supposed to be the guy who was almost a shoo-in to win the nomination, and then, oops. that was not the end of it, though. he didn't drop out. not that long after the oops experience, rick perry told a group of college students in new hampshire that he would appreciate their votes if they were 21 y...

>> washington has abused the constitution. you go back to the -- a decade ago with woodrow wilson. we start, you know, the 16th amendment and allow for the income tax. >> you go -- you go back a decade ago to woodrow -- woodrow? woodrow wilson from president from 1913 to 1921. so if you go back a decade to the presidency -- i don't know. then a little bit more than a week after that, governor perry had a serious conversation with a voter about our wars in afghanistan and in iran. >> about the two next wars. how do you feel about it? >> she asked about iran, afghanistan. and i try not to -- i t...