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Court could not review evidence about that. he louisiana on that. when the court asked him if he could provide evidence that there was really a national security benefit of his executive order, he could not produce any evidence. in fact, we produced lots of evidence that actually damages national security. he lost on that. so he lost on multiple of the issues that were before us. i think the important part of this is twofold. number one, it does restore our faith in the checks and balance system, which is so important in this country. and secondly, we have four judges. we had four judges revie...

The argument is well, everything was fine two weeks ago before you started, now there's a significant challenge. let's see how the challenge goes. >> who's on that ninth circuit court of appeals and do we have any inkling how it'll go? >> there's a three panel judge, three judges on the panel basically, carter, obama, and bush appointees. it's either unanimous, 2-1. it's set that way so you get a advantage legally. he said personally he doesn't love the ban, but legally speaking is that what you're hear kpg. >> there's no question that the precedent and the case law here is very strong for pre...

You've exceeded your authority to make such a sweeping change, a. b, you didn't follow the proper procedures for getting this through. there is a time limit where you say to the states hey, what do you think about there? they get to comment and note. >> they give states enough time -- >> enough time. they exceeded their authority. >> is this a conservative appeals court down in new orleans? >> well yb yes, decision was made 2-1 by two conservative justices prior bush appointees. basically to sum up this case in my opinion it is a case of overreach by the president of the united states becaus...

Would force a u.s. senator to have a pro forma session to prevent bush appointees. >> reporter: yes. >> and republicans essentially carried on the practice, right? >> reporter: that's right. and every president has used a recess appointment power since george washington, but only in the sort of latter half of the last century did they start to use them to get around the senate's refusing to act on their nominees. >> very quickly, the supreme court on friday announced they're going to hear a case that has to do with a congressional race, a couple of cycles ago, where the losing democratic candi...

Was shared or given to any other federal agency? >> that would be a violation of law and i do not believe that happened. >> you can assure us there was absolutely no sharing of information? >> i would be shocked, congressman, if that happened, shocked. >> if your earlier answers are any indication we will all read about it in the media. we ought to be getting the truth from you. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> we are all outraged about what occurred under the bush appointees as well as the obama appointees? >> there was no obama appointees. so under mr....