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Mcconnell stand up on his hind legs, as if he didn't run a co equal branch of the government. maybe this is a bit of a turning point. you have -- there's the mueller investigation looming. you have the government about to shut down. you have the stock market really dropping dismally in the last five sessions. the government's going to shut down now, maybe -- maybe you'll see republicans on the hill begin a check and a balance on this unchecked and unbalanced president. >> we've never seen a resignation like this this way. >> i share the concerns, i'm an air force brat, i have a tremendous amou...

Taking discretion away. they made a deal between flynn and mueller, by the way, judge, just pat us on the back. judges do not like that. >> this judge asserted himself in a way reminded president trump of the power of the judiciary as well. >> right. a reminder that president trump probably could use from time to time the way he treated the federal judiciary that it is a coequal branch. there is little doubt about having the fact pattern wrong that he was not yet the national security adviser when flynn was violating the foreign agent stuff and his work for turk te. it was during the fall of 2...

Happened, what's been described in the press as what happened to mr. khashoggi. >> senator lindsey graham switched his vote on the bill to end the u.s. involvement in the war in yemen. and i want to show our viewers just what he had to say about this. take a look. >> i changed my mind because i'm pissed. the way the administration's handled the saudi arabia event is not acceptable. i said, listen, it's pretty obvious to me we're a coequal branch. you've made your assessments what the intelligence shows, i'd like it make my own. the only way i can make that assessment is to be briefed. it it is...

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Our national security? >> well, i think the entire purpose of congress is to act as a coequal branch. john mccain always asserted that coequalness. we've seen the congress and the senate giving up that. so john mccain actually was trying to live out his life as a public servant. i think that's one of the reasons why so many people are so touched by john mccain. because you always get the sense that maybe alone among that club of 100, he sensed that his service as a senator was the second most important act of public service he has committed. so you have these people who are walking around impr...