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a live look at the white house, president biden is set to meet with volodymyr zelenskyy as they push for an aid package before the holiday recess. >> sandra: republicans have indicated they will not approve more aid unless the president and democratic lawmakers agree to pair the package with tougher border policies. retired lieutenant general keith kellogg whether the funding battle could be giving the sluggish inflation a critical lifeline. that's coming up. >> and the only change they have made to their code of conduct where they failed to condemn calls for genocide of the jewish p...

But the bottom line of all o it, the main thing i think w need to keep in mind constitutionally in terms of our history in terms of ou american system of governmen and accountability, the bottom line of all of it, for us righ now, is if this new york indictment goes as terribly as it possibly could for former president donald trump - i mean, if he is indicted an it goes to trial and he is convicted and he is then sentenced to prison as a consequence of those convictions, all of those bi ifs after the indictment - even if the worst happens -- it goes to trial, he i convicted, he sends the priso...

Because of the speech or debate clause it's been talked about as a potential protection for him. can you help people understand what that is and how it might protect him? sure the constitution sets out the speech or debate clause, which allows members of congress and some of their staff to have protections against their words being used against them in court. now the vice president wears two hats in american government. he's both the number two to the president but also the chief executive for lack of a better term of the united states senate he provides presides over the united states senate ...

Problematic? >> well, laura i sympathize with the impulse because obviously joe biden and many other older politicians have exhibited signs of mental decay but it's unconstitutional. the constitution sets forth the very few standards required qualifications to be a president of the united states and their age, 35, united states citizen natural born and has lived in the united states 14 years and that's it. and statements attempts to add additional qualifications like california's attempt to add a tax return discloser qualification and many other attempts like that have been struck down by the ...

We don't know exactly which statutes they're looking at. we don't know which statutes he might be charged with or what statutes he might be convicted of. one statute has gotten a lot of attention in the last several days, destruction of government records does have a provision -- not to suggest, it says straightforwardly that it causes removal from office and you shall not be able to enter upon federal office again. that seems straight forward, and scholars have been arguing about it. i think there is a pretty powerful and decent argument that that conflicts with the constitutional requirement...