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Repeated very derogatory comments he has made about barack obama, even after assuming the presidency. once again, i think there is a psychological obsession here with obama, a hatred for obama. i don't know what drives it, you know, it could very well be because of president obama's race. but the bottom line is that president trump now when he's there in the cat bird seat, he is going to do whatever he wants because he wants that wall. he's never in his life been told he can't have what he wants, whether it's a woman he wants to grab or whether it's a wall he wants. and congress is telling him...

Can't have the wall, and he is going to insist on getting it anyway he can, whether he tramples on our constitution or not. and it's going to be up to the courts to tell him he can't have it. >> john harris and the always -- yes, john? >> just to make clear, there is a big difference between the executive use of executive powers and president obama and president bush have done and declaring emergency powers. i think those are two very different things. >> john harris, and the always reserved i was going say richard painter. thank you, gentlemen, both for joining us on this holiday night. com...

Attempt to stifle free speech. yours is heading? >> you know when president obama will do something that was very different and he would break the norm, republicans were outraged. then they will come to office and do something similar. you talk about executive privilege or will not let executive orders. an executive use of power. i think we're going to see the same thing. democrats are going to be outraged. intelligence officials will be outraged. arthel: so you say what president obama did using executive orders and what donald trump is doing right now. >> no, they are not similar him saying ...

>> you're akwequating me with a tweet -- thank you you've asked your question, thank you. >> does that not diminish the language that you're using? >> go ahead. >> -- by republicans was his executive use of orders, and the president signed three more today, why isn't that criticism applicable to president trump -- >> when you look at the context -- what those executive orders did, not even democrats i don't believe would -- most have been widely praised by both parties. most was widely praised. the president stretched orders

Them from what is happening in the oval offers now from becoming a power grabber? >> absolutely, we all want to see somebody in the chair who exercises sound judgment. that is the risk we all take when we go to those polls. but at the end of the day, the threshold of executive power and overstepping it. we know there is no bright line rule for that. that is where the judgment becomes imperative, and that is what the checks and balances are for. >> but they're not doing any checking, they're just complaining. well, we would love to know what you think about all of this and the president's execu...