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>> what about historical precedent? >> do we know if any air force members were staying there before this president? >> exactly. >> is that something they could take into consideration? not like do you know whether or not any air force people stayed in trump properties. >> they should absolutely take that into consideration. especially because emoluments clause litigation has almost never happened in our country's history. there are about three precedents and none of them have any relationship to this kind of activity. we're talking about, could president reagan accept his retirement benefits ...

Critical word in the constitution. it is something we should know. >> i'm glad you're helping us with constitutional law. >> i don't want to admit that i knew what emolument was, five years ago, i didn't say that, how dare you. >> thanks for joining us. with that, we switch gears now and bring in nbc meteorologist michelle grossman with a quick update on the weather. turning on the heat in the south. the south is going to be baking today. an area of high pressure pumping in the heat. and the jet stream is so far to the north and the heat will extend up to the northern plains and north of, ...

The constitution 101 on the -- in the powers of the article i branch, which nancy pelosi is putting on a clinic. as you said, she's wielding her power so thoroughly and so efficiently and so publicly in a way that we don't normally see women, you know, do. she's not doing it with the sort of demure way we expect women to do. she's just wielding her power period. keir so used to weak speakers. we're not used to it. donald trump is getting this lesson with the rest of the country. clearly he knows nothing about the constitution. but for the first time, his infliction of misery on people, his lac...

His father has done a lot of evictions. they know from their end of it how that works. and mitch mcconnell is the person who now will be as responsible as donald trump for faye smith getting evicted if she does. >> yeah, and not only doing evictions. if you follow history as tony schwarz and others have laid out, using tactic like not fixing the heat, making the apartment so unlivable that people essentially self-evict and leave in order to redevelop properties into luxury condominium. he's used to inflicting suffering on people that he thinks are disposable in order to get his way. this is th...

This is like constitution 101. right? branches of government. you don't get to just ignore the word of the congress. and judges don't get to ignore what is an obvious and an everyday person reading of the statute. but remember that donald trump, not only did he like set us up and set the supreme court up, the supreme court has been bending over backwards to remind americans they are going to work together even though we have the brett kavanaugh hearings, that they are going to see each other as co-equals and peers whose job is to be neutral. they have been bending over backwards in the past we...