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Although they didn't get him dragged in. that goes back to 1798 when there was a senate rule passed saying if people were staying off the senate floor to deny a quorum to people that wanted to do something they didn't like, sergeant-at-arms could send senate police out to actually arrest senators and drag them into the chamber. didn't happen often. but did there. >> that's fascinating. that goes to the idea of legitimacy and whether this should continue this way. the other thing people forget, we know the senate is polarized, it operates on unanimous consent agreements. sometimes one senator c...

Did they fix it? >> april: no. >> john: that's too bad. >> april: everybody got seasick. and started tripping. now that it's even they are all safe and have cocktails so i can get my sea legs back. >> john: oh, really? >> april: yeah. >> anthony: april owns the joint now. taken over for her father, the legendary reggie, a forward-thinking dude if there ever was one. >> april: it was built in 1798. >> anthony: how long in the family? in your family? >> april: over 75 years. my father, during that time, he had billie holiday appeared, he had nina symone, ella fitzgerald, all the big names in jaz...

>> people are trying to get in his way, nullify his elections, throw crock dials in the water, it's not going to happen. people in this country see what he's trying to do for them. >> i get it, he feels bad, he doesn't like criticism. it's a toujob. >> for every one new regulation in -- he feels great isis is in retreat. >> i'm feeling great about myself, i want to shut down people's ability to criticize me. >> what he doesn't feel great about is people lying. are things not being proofed properly. can people say things without impunity? >> there's accountability. that's what a democracy is ab...

Laws and how he wants to beef them up? listen to this. >> our current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace and do not represent american values or american fairness. so is we're going to take a strong look at that. we want fairness. you can't say things that are false, knowingly false. >> john avlon, real? >> that happens to be the current standard of libel law. you can't say something knowingly false. they are values not only in the first amendment but enshrined. is he instructing his attorney general to look at libel laws. yes. so it's both disturbing is and bluster. >> okay. we have to leav...

>> he does feel great about himself. what he doesn't feel great about is people lying, facts not being checked. can people just say things with impunity, and that is problematic. >> there's not impunity. you have every ability to talk back. that's what a democracy is about, a battle of ideas. it's not when you shut it down. we tried that in 1798 with the sedition law. it did not work very well. >> he wasn't talking about that. he wasn't talking about shutting anything down. >> he's been saying it for a long time. and for a man who says as many things that are demonstratively false in a pace th...