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Honored that recusal with regard to matters pending the Department Of Justice, but i just want to comment on what may have been on anybody elses mind or offer any opinion about that because its not for me to make those decisions. Well, it is exactly, i think, why Senator Schatz asked a whole series of questions about the scope of recusal, because i am a lawyer. Senator schatz may not be. He asked better questions than i did, but i also am having real difficulty understanding the scope of the recusal, its contours in definition, and i have an unresolved question about whether or not thats why t...

Chosen a side in this. it has clearly chosen russia's side in terms of its description, including the readout you mentioned and all readout of calls with various counterparts. it says this primarily as an expansion issue and refuses to call it an invasion instead using it as moscow's language to describe it as a special military operation and continues to abstain at the un. the first point i would make, it is clear what ageing is trying to both support russia all the while trying to mitigate some of the damage now that the invasion that putin has lodged has gone catastrophically wrong. haifa t...

As they have. are you comfortable with the process being secretive in the senate? >> yeah. i mean, i don't know if it's secretive. they've got a committee of 13 people that represent the people, and then they represent the senators, hopefully, a broad base of the senate. and so, yeah, they're being strategic in the short run before they lay out their bullet points and see how that floats with the public. and so, right now in the short run, i don't see a problem. >> one of the big issues, of course, has been the medicaid expansion issue and about to phase that out. i remember that with a huge p...

The supreme court as far as i can conclude reading this very voluminous desist, this is a tax, and congress can tax. huge win for the obama administration. bigger win for the lawyers, they sat back while the politicians said this wasn't a tax. it was the lawyers that went in and said this is a tax enabling the court here to agree with them and say it's a tax. bill: we went through four questions posed to the court one hour ago. one of them on severability, greta apparently was never even addressed and did not have to be addressed because the mandate was upheld. >> that's right. bill: the item ...

>> shannon: you also argue the medicaid expansion issue which a lot of folks aren't familiar with but the law changes the amount of followings that would have to be on medicaid rolls. the states say they can't afford it and it is an overreach of federal power. what is your best argument there? >> point to the supreme court own cases that said there is a limit to what congress can do under the spending power. it can't just, without limit, coerce the states into doing whatever the federal government wants it to do. if there is no limit on what the federal government can make the states do they c...