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Public, whether that was in the newspapers or nonstop on cable television or on social media. so this is the new norm that you're going to, i think, see with the trump campaign. i'm sorry, with the trump transition, and likely one we'll see going into the administration, which is a public airing of differences, a little bit of chaos between power centers inside the administration, power centers inside trump world. then ultimately the president-elect himself, donald trump, making the decision. >> so scottie, tom price coming out. he's a legit author of different versions of how to do health car...

This is an issue that's gone through the supreme court, right, david? >> it has. it was a split decision. it was one that interestingly split, liberals and conservatives, in an unusual way. justice stevens who is one of the more liberal members the court, opposed flag burning, and said it was something he did not think was protected by the first amendment. justice scalia, one of the most conservative members of the court, said that it was. so it's an issue, as you said, that does have a tremendous emotional resonance for people and it affects people in different ways. yes, this has been throug...

Constitutional law that burning the flag, as much as we might hate it, is defended first amendment speech? >> chris, flag burning is completely ridiculous. i think you know that. i think the vast majority of americans would agree. >> but legal. >> chris, it's completely ridiculous. i don't think there's a big universe of people out there who support flag burning. it's terrible and despicable, but the big news, chris, this morning, you saw this, i know we're going to get to it, dr. tom price to run hhs and seema verma. a big impact on repealing obamacare. >> i want to talk about those. when the...

>> jeffrey. >> yes, ma'am. >> phil laid it out clear. to be clear, where has the court and constitution landed on flag burning? >> well, this has been a settled issue for a long time. in fact, justice scalia, whose vacancy we're talking about a great deal these days, was the deciding vote in favor of protecting flag burning under the first amendment. so i don't know what our job here as a journalist these days. because are we just going to do donald trump's tweet of the day? i mean, this is -- this is clearly something that is prohibited by the constitution. but it is a bright shiny object tha...

On that question -- >> mr. vice president elect, what's on the agendas today? trump's one time he model for a supreme court justice. he once said flag sburng protected free speech. >> if write kii were king, i wo let people burn the american flag. we have a first amendment which says that the right of free speech shall not be abridged and it is addressed, in particular, to speech critical of the government. >> trump spokesmen disagrees. >> i think most americans would agree that flag burning should be illegal. er it is completely despicable. trump is lashing out at the news media saying i thou...