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Candidate. >> out last the statute of lim taugzs. >> that's not true. thaw could file a sealed indictment so the president wouldn't be hauled into court. and i agree that he can't be ha hauled into court while he's serving. the constitution itself, article one with, section three says even after that, the person, the president or other civil officers shall remain liable to indictment, trul, punishment and conviction >> he looks like he's going to run for reelection. you think he will >> i think he will. >> where can you chip away at him? >> starting in new england and go to the midatlantic. th...

System. and in a way that is system mmpc of a deep crisis. what he's doing is preparing the ground for not only a kind of mass movement outside of the party system, but he's also using whatever leverages he has to try to ramp up and has ramped up the authoritarian character of government and the much more coercive character of the agencies of the government, when we look at agencies like ice and other agencies at the border, he's put military at the border and declared a national emergency against the constitution itself, i think what we have seen is a very dramatic shift to the right and i th...

Farther than what president obama did in terms of using extive power, the kind of executive power republicans harshly criticized him for, some suggesting he should be impeached. now if republicans turn around and allow this unprecedented use of the emergency power to do an end run around congress' article one duty to appropriate funds, that will be a major blow to our republic. that would be an undermining of the constitution. it will really be establishing the republican party as an authoritarian party that's not willing to uphold our democratic norms and the constitution itself, that they're...

With freedom. most people don't want to live in a tyranny, and most people in the long run, we want to have govern themselves on their own terms. >> laura: newt, i wanted to enter a really troubling development, speaking of anti-constitutional norms and trends. this is judicial resistance. it looks a whole lot like activism. jesse ferments at the trump administration proposal to reintroduce citizenship question of the 2020 senses is "unlawful," writing the decision to add a citizenship question, even if it did not violate the constitution itself, was unlawful for a multitude of independent rea...

Breaking with the president on the saudi thing, is not breaking with them on this one. >> and he's claiming that scalia said this -- he's failing to recognize the unique threat this president poses to the constitution itself, to undermining the rule of law, to so many of the things he's doing where he's trying to really take onto himself powers he should not have. >> isn't that one of the prized principles of the party? >> the republican party principles like fighting a deficit and states' rights, like basic integrity in government. what we need is republicans to stand up. >> meanwhile, two ke...