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You come from an activist background. so you really as you said understand that that is the way sometimes you have to move things. there's this video of chuck schumer, the senate majority leader chuck schumer coming up and hugging you and sort of greeting you. in that conversation, that very brief conversation, did he indicate that there's going to be legislative action? because it looks like these alabama realtors and property owners are probably going to be successful in that right-wing supreme court, meaning that it's only congress that can make this moratorium more permanent. did he commit...

And and i'm saying from my pursesinal capacity, i can't tell people in my official capacity but i come from an activist background and this is the moment senators need hear from people and there's a day of action happening on the day the state of the union was supposed to be, coordinating by activist groups that got us elect said and i would encourage people we need to hear from the people, not the president on that day. sglr >> an immobilization and new congress and getting the fight, the introduction. thank you so much for your time. up next president trump's very public attempt to sidelin...

Thing is going to go on and something will break? >> i would say we're going to always put forward some kind of a plan around our own border security package along with immigration reform and this is saying look, this is what we believe based on evidence based practice, it's not a wall, a 2000-mile long concrete barrier. frankly, it never was going to be here's what we're proposing and at the end of the day we're going to have to see what the final product is and we need to have a place to go and we recognize not everybody is going to be happy. it has to be on the people. mitch mcconnell has b...

And just the viciousness in his voice, the way he was really going up against this young man who doesn't even have a job in the nfl anymore because he had the audacity to protest police violence. he just has this need to racialize everything and to divide us. it is a very bad feeling. >> the thing that i always wondered and maybe it's me because of my activist background, robert, how do you, mr. president, i just wish the press corps had had asked this, how do you demonize colin kaepernick, bennett and those that took a knee and you brag about you're friends with mohammed ali? how do you recon...

Court nominee elena kagan. senator graham, what is your single biggest concern about kagan? what do you need to clear up before you can decide whether or not to vote for her? >> i can accept that she's liberal. she has a liberal activist background politically. she's embraced liberal causes. she has a liberal philosophy when it comes to the law. she's a very qualified person academically well grounded. her hero in the law, the judge that she admires the most is judge barak from israel, who personifies liberal activism. not just except left of center, main stream liberal judicial philosophy, i ...