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Minority president, almost an accidental president, who is advocating in fact a lot of things that go against what he said. so that is why this notion that flag burning is a serious american problem, the only way to explain it is that this is a man who needs to -- he understands he has to begin to change the subject from his inability i believe to deliver on his promises. >> let me ask you about the first question. does anybody believe that you can under any constitution reading of the constitution, any supreme court we can imagine having, and having a statute agreed to by the court that you c...

Welcome back to "hardball." that was newt gingrich saying trump has a little pt barnum in him. trump has controlled the media narrative by tossing out tweets on topics that are red meat for his base, flag burning allegations evof voter fraud. what does it say about how trump will run the country for the next four or eight years? i'm joined by the round table. ruth marcus a columnist i often degree with, jonathan capehart opinion writer, and molly hemingway for the federalist. ruth, what is your gut reason why donald trump -- by the way, he gets up like a nun, like at 5:00 in the morning and i ...

Burnt on the campus of hampshire in 1988, george bush said that campaign -- i think he was 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. senate 51-48.

Hampshire college when someone did just that, trump wrote this on twitter. again, no one should be allowed to burn the american flag. if they do, there must be consequences, perhaps loss of citizenship or a year in jail. the problem there, it would be illegal to punish someone who burns the american flag. the supreme court has weighed in on this before. justice antonin scalia joined the majority to rule on a 5-4 decision back in '89 that flag burning is protected by the constitution as a form of speech. 23 years later, justice scalia explained his opinion. >> if i were king, i would not allow ...

Closely. scalia, obviously taking a different position than the man who greatly admires him, the president-elect. >> that's right. in 1989-1990, the court ruled you couldn't restrict free speech for flag burning saying flag burning is a form of political speech. perhaps the all miultimate form political speech. scalia was historical in terms of purpose and history of the constitution and it's interesting, because donald trump has really cited scalia as his model for the supreme court. but what president-elect trump is suggesting can't be done. he's got to get through not just the supreme court...