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Full scale war with russia. How far will Vladimir Putin go. Can president obama and the allies get him to back down. Plus a new era on meet the press. A revealing look at chuck todd from those who know him best. Announcer from nbc news in washington, this is meet the press. Good morning. Two Major Military flash points this sunday, both with strong consequences for the u. S. After fierce fighting iraqi troops have reached a town in Northern Iraq that was under siege by isis militants. Overnight u. S. Launched strikes against isis fighters near the town and dropped humanitarian aid. An estimate...

Who framed and ratified the constitution . Because if they had thought about that, theres a real chance the senate may take a twomonth break right. Over christmas. Would there be any reason why they wouldnt have wanted the recess appointment power to apply there as well as at the end of the session . Your honor, our argument does not turn on that because to us it is not a temporal question. Its a procedural one. Back then, the senate had the power not to trigger the recess. Just like today, it has the power not to trigger the recess appointments power. The difference is not in principle. Its i...

One flaw with your argument is t makes the words it may happen superfluous, that the clause would mean exactly what you say it means if you took those words out. And your response, the only one i could see on the reply, your reply brief, page 13, is that those words were put in there to, quote, confine the president to filling vacancies that actually exist at the time of appointment. Now, is that did you really think they put that language in there because they were afraid the president would fill appointments that dont exist . I dont know why they put the language in there, mr. Chief justice,...

The executive was by rejecting the notion that the appointment power should reside with the senate. The framers considered that and they rejected it. And the reason they rejected it, as this court noted in its edmund opinion, was to protect the executive against encroachment by the legislature. But the compromise they settled on in moving away from that is that the president will nominate and the senate, if it so chooses, can confirm a nominee. You spoke of the intransigence of the senate. Well, they have an absolute right not to confirm nominees that the president submits. And it seems to me,...

Said. Then is the president wrong to signal indecision by saying we still dont have a strategy against isis. Well, in that same newspaper, down below mccain oped is one by our secretary of state, john kerry. In that he does, in fact, lay out a strategy which against next week at the nato conference, nato summit talking with our nato allies. The United States taking over the presidency of the Security Council in september and the beginning of a strategy to put together a coalition of the willing, if you will. Its a savage movement. In this case they have money. They have direction. They have mo...