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Quayle went into trump tower? >> yes. >> it was almost ironic, because in 1988, george bush said that campaign -- i think he was talking about veteran of wars was defending dan quayle about the draft ordinance. he said quale didn't burn his draft card and he didn't burn the american flag. george bush went to flag factories to try to get a constitutional amendment against flag burning. that was turned down by the senate 51-48. >> michael, you sent out today on your terrific daily twitter feed the picture of the oval office during a transition of a much different kind after the death of jfk tran...

Say the sense of pay trichl, the only people disagreeing and being upset by it are experts, or highly educated folks who understand what civil liberties mean. >> yeah. go ahead, jeffrey. >> i'm not sure. i actually think i give sort of the american people a little more credit than that. i think people understand that the government shouldn't be deciding what sort of speech is permissive and what's not. i don't think that's necessarily an elite point of view. i do agree that flag burning does bring out the anti-free speech spirit in at lot of people. but i think this is a sufficiently core valu...

To get acclimated to the rather rarefied air of the presidency, and it looks as if we are in for a long acclimation. >> well put, brian. >> that was -- i like that remark. so donald trump has often praised, alan, he's praised justice antonin skacalia and he talking now -- >> he praises justice scalia because he doesn't know anything about justice scalia. he just knows that he was a conservative member of the court and he was pandering to the hard right. what worries me more about donald trump is not the flag burning. most elected politicians would vote to ban flag burning, so that's a close qu...

Republicans tried to pass laws, but democrats blocked it on the hill. >> this is what americans want to see. someone who picks up the phone, sees a problem, and fixes it. >> i don't people care if it's a carrot or a stick, the fact is they're keeping jobs here in america. just ahead, more breaking news. the national parks service says people are to blame for the raging ever withes blazing in eastern tennessee. the death toll now stands at the three. walls of flames, thousands have fled from their homes, some barely in the nick of time. >> oh, shit. why is every cabin on fire?

Flag burning, but if he had a press conference to say, mr. president-elect, did you know about justice scalia's decision? do you agree with it? disagree? do you want it a constitutional amendment? how can you say something that has been judged to be freedom of speech, yet you want to put someone in prison for it. that's the role of press. now, he's bypassing you and just putting out a tweet, so now you're left guessing, what does he mean? does he mean he's going to put a constitutional amendment before the congress? so i think we've got to insist that not every tweet that he puts out is someth...