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There are two legal issues raised by that tweet. the first is the supreme court in 1989 and 1990 has said that burning the flag is a political act protected by the first amendment. so you can't be thrown in jail for burning the flag. the second point is the supreme court also said the law may not punish anyone with removal of your citizenship. you can be thrown in jail. you can be executed. you can lose the right to vote, but citizenship is not something that can be removed from someone for committing a crime. >> bryan, i want to play a clip of your friend who is signing a key vote about flag ...

Fraud, which is false. and then, of course, what he did yesterday, as well, with flag burning, as well. he is not the candidate that we're -- >> you don't want to mistake not having a direct opponent for a change in tone. he's just coming at the media right now as an opponent, specifically us, because he doesn't have a clinton standing right in front of them. but the man does like a pageant. david, look at what is going on with secretary of state. is it that big of deal who becomes secretary of state and yet he makes it into a pageant and all the dramas follows. >> well, i think in this partic...

Thank you so much for coming on. jeffrey, flag burning a very emotional issue. i think we probably discussed it before but i'm going to read donald trump's tweet early this morning. he said nobody should be allowed to burn the american flag. if they do, there must be consequences. perhaps loss of citizenship or a year in jail. so give us a brief recap on this flag burning in the constitution. >> there are two legal issues raised by that tweet. the first is the supreme court in 1989 and 1990 has said that burning the flag is a political act protected by the first amendment. the second point is ...

People are free to express themselves that way, but i do not approve of it and i think there's other ways for people to express their views rather than burn a flag that so many americans fought and died for. >> even said lose citizenship over it. he said people should lose citizenship. >> i'm not going to comment on mr. trump's comments. i have not and will not. >> so he's commenting without commenting. bryan, what do you make of that? >> well, in 1989, justice kennedy in agreeing with the prohibition of any ban on flag burning, justice kennedy said the american flag protects even those who ho...

Human services secretary. in the meantime, trump tower here in new york has become quite the place to see the once and future leaders of american politics and the republican today they included former vice president dan quayle who paused to speak with reporters. this morning, a few minutes after a fox news segment on flag burning, donald trump tweeted about flag burning. allowed to burn the american flag. consequences, perhaps loss of citizenship or a year in jail. more on this topic later, but for the record, that will be unconstitutional and revoking citizenship for descent would be the stuf...