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Everyone. Before 9 11 and, of course, before becoming trumps wing man, a man by the name of Rudy Giuliani made his name from putting mobsters behind bars. He did so, i might add, using the very same laws that are being used against him now. Two decades ago we he actually wrote in his book on leadership, and im quoting, here i dreamed up the tactic of using the federal racketeer influence and corruptions act to prosecute the mafia leadership. Unquote. Otherwise known as rico, for those following along. At the time, the law actually was relatively new. The giuliani, he popularized it making it t...

Welcome back. even though governor john kasich won only one primary, ohio last year, we develop add reputation as a republican who was willing to work with democrats and say what was on his mind. friday he had a column arguing that republicans are trying to repeal and re-write the law without democrats. he joins me now. >> it's not sustainable. if you don't get both parties together, nothing will be sustainable. if they pass this just by themselves, we'll be back at this again. >> in three years whenever democrats take over. >> i was there when we created the chip program, the health program. ...

And the friend who saved her, and i thought how frustrated must he be not to be able to come out and say we have to get these kinds of guns off the streets. one of the things that's amazing is both of these candidates in the past have supported more serious forms of gun control and they feel incapable in the current political environment of doing that. major's colleague, ron brownstein, actually has an interesting column arguing that it would not be at least for the president, political suicide that some people think, that the kinds of voters that are still up for grabs for him, college educat...

United states in part for 9/11 or refuses to renounce hamas. >> look, i don't want to defend his political views. they are not my political views. the stuff i have seen is generic. the core issue about this guy is what does he think about islam? what are his views on terrorisms and women's rights and what are his views on whether the koran should be interpreted liberally or be tolerant of other religions and all those issues, he has time and time again come out squarely in the moderate or liberal camp. >> you have returned to the anti-defamation league in a war they gave you. why did you retur...

Why did you return it? >> well, i'll tell you what happened, anderson. i was going to write a column on this issue, and i was going to write a column arguing that it was wrong for the united states in the united states for us to be discriminating against particular religions, treating these people as second class citizens. it was a violation of our first amendment principles, and i was looking across my office was this award that the idl had given me and it's called the hubert humphry first amendment freedoms award, and i thought it was something so hypocritical about an organization that was ...