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He's someone who said the president has the potential to be the greatest president we have. like every republican, including jeff flake, basically moved lock step with him from a policy perspective. there's been a question all along about what the binding constraints on this presidency are and whether the institutions of american civil society and rule of law will hold in the face of someone who manifestly has no care for them sitting in the oval office, that being the president. and in the past what has constrained him has been politics, thebo obama care figh. and the courts. the travel ban, ...

Will act as if they don't know who he is and try to destroy all pictures of him being anywhere in donald trump's presence. i mean, this one is going to be an awful lot harder to erase from trump campaign history as they're trying to do with papadopoulos. >> they tried to distance themselves from paul manafort. >> that's right. >> said he was guy who served for a very limited time and a very limited capacity. he was a campaign chair. there is nobody they've not been willing to try to distance from no matter how close into the inner circle. i don't think that the boundary here for the trump camp...

Someone who the president is of course going to have a lot of trouble distancing himself from. i guess we'll wait for tomorrow. surely tomorrow the white house will act as if they don't know who he is and try to destroy all pictures of him being anywhere in donald trump's presence. i mean, this one is going to be an awful lot harder to erase from trump campaign history as they're trying to do with papadopoulos. >> they tried to distance themselves from paul manafort. >> that's right. >> said he was guy who served for a very limited time and a very limited capacity. he was a campaign chair. the...

Eric sni eric schneiderman whose office is joining the aclu with a lawsuit on the ban of freezing refugees. states are another place there's some sort of binding constraint possibly on what the executive does. why are you joining this lawsuit? >> we're joining it because the executive order is flagrantly unconstitutional. >> do you think that? you think it's obviously unconstitutional? >> not only do i think that but 16 attorneys general representing 130 americans signed on to it saying we believe it is constitutional, it will be struck down and we're committing ourselves to protecting innocen...

They might want to bring him back and get that kind of pledge out of him. >> very interesting idea. i think there are some democrats trying to make that happen. john dean, as always, a pleasure, thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you, chris. joining me now in studio in new york state, attorney general eric schneiderman whose office is joining the aclu with a lawsuit on the ban of freezing refugees. states are another place there's some sort of binding constraint possibly on what the executive does. why are you joining this lawsuit? >> we're joining it because the executive order is flagr...