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Prohibit flag burning. the liberals want to amend the first amendment to promibt citizens united and limit fundraising. i don't think anybody should mess with the amendment. prior presidents have tried to. even jefferson. he said before he was president given a choice he would take then he served as president for eight years and said i'll never read another newspaper again. they're full of lies. >> that sets me up for my next question. maybe you can answer it allen. it's not the first time he's attacked the first amendment. he said he wanted to make it easier for journalists who reported negat...

Built for business. the president elect's latest twitter tirade erupting in a political fire storm. suggesting if you burn the american flag, you could lose your citizenship. we have the author of "erectile dysfunction, a guide for voters". good evening to all of you. jeffrey, i'm going to start with you. flag burning an emotional issue. i think we discussed it before. 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 recap on this flag burning in the constitution? >> okay.

>> he's commenting out commenting. bryan, what do you make of that? >> well, in 1989 justice kennedy in agreeing with the prohibition of flag -- any ban of flag burning justice kennedy said the american flag protects even those who hold it in contempt. and that is one of the great ironies here. the flag is a symbol. it means so many things to so many different people, but it fundamentally is about american core values. and it does protect those who hold it in contempt. >> but let's hope it continues to protect them, because he has control over appointments to the supreme court. all he has to d...

Briefing book on isis to be reading last night at 10:00 or 9:00 of 8:00. >> he's turning those away those briefers. >> there is a huge amount of information that for him to be absorbing now and thinking about and the fact that he's watching shows. i appreciate he's watching the show. he zrubt a nielson box. doesn't really help but what is he doing? >> that was true during the campaign -- >> but i get -- >> okay. -- even then he should have been probably been boning up on what's going on. i think it is concerning he continues to do this but in terms of the substance what he said i think they ar...

Going to get his way, and it's going to be free speech for me but not for thee and it's going to come home to hurt him if that ever happened. if he ever eliminated the laws of li bechbel, he's protected b first amendmet. >> what would happen to his twitter account? >> the good news is presidents as powerful as they are don't get to change constitutional law. that's up to the courts. >> that's up to the justices. >> that's certainly true. but i do think that the troubling aspect of this is not his expression -- his opinion about flag burning, which as alan points out a lot of people share, if y...