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Night. you can talk about it again. it steers conversation and it takes conversation away from other issues. in fact, this takes conversation away from his last tweets, which were completely factually -- there's no evidence of what he tweeted -- >> false. >> -- about millions of illegal voters voting for hillary clinton. now the discussion switches to this. which is kind of an age-old obvious issue which is going to galvanize a lot of people. >> and a very popular position. jeffrey's right. it's not the law of the land, it's not what the constitution says but most americans abhor flag burning....

He's sort of backed away from it lately. i don't know where it currently stands. but i think it's complicated constitutionally and it may be simply that he doesn't have the right to do what he wants to do. >> bryan, i want to ask you because donald trump has a scotus vacancy to fill. he said he would look for a justice in the mold of scalia. what do you think scalia would say to him about this issue and about the first amendment? >> i think he would say leave the first amendment alone and leave the texas versus johnson decision and i canmkeman, the t decisions the supreme court held flag burni...

Running like a drunken cuomo towards chris cuomo's jets, get your morning started, i don't know what will. >> i thought he was just gisele's husband. enlightening for me. >> let me see the face coy wire would make if tom brady was running on him on the field for a block? >> that's the thing i don't understand, chris. the jets didn't even touch him. when a quarterback is coming at you, you're taught, go get him. >> that's why the jets are where they are in the sewer. thanks, again. >> coy, thank you for that fun this morning. >> you're welcome. so, president-elect trump's tweet about flag bur...

>> okay. even then he should have been probably been boning up on what's going on. so i think it is concerning that he continues to do this. but in terms of the substance of what he said i think that revoking the citizenship part is very concerning. i oppose -- i believe that people should have -- i believe in the constitutional right of free speech, and so i would have a problem with banning flag burning. but i think that -- >> jeffrey lord over here. >> to alice's point, to be fair to him, democrats have supported this and even though it is constitutionally protected there have been repeated...

Always be vigil. i'm of the opinion that all politicians, republican, democrat, we should always be skeptical of them. we need the media to help us to keep an eye on them and to hold them accountable. in the case of donald trump i would say there were a lot of people who were very concerned about his authoritarian tendencies, a sense that he didn't fully respect the rule of law, understand or appreciate the balance of powers. but then he got elected, and i'm starting to see a reemergence, maybe a realization this is very real and that this -- there could be a guy who has these -- this streak, ...