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I'm not a constitutional lawyer, but i did work at the white house. i worked in the state department. one of the first days on the job at the white house, maybe it was the first day, was i was read into what's called the hatch act. and we were told by our legal advisers that you cannot use your public office, you can't even use your nsc email to do anything that has to do with elections. you had to be very careful about that. by the way, chuck, i have the same rules here at stanford. i can't use my stanford email to go out and help a candidate for an election. so maybe the hatch act doesn't ap...

Memorabilia. i don't have any problem with any president doing that for the troops if that makes them happy. this was omitted from cnn's report that previous presidents have done this before. the bias of omission, greg. >> congressman, you have a former assistant white house counsel under barack obama going on a tweet storm saying the president's violating the hatch act. no, the hatch act doesn't apply to the president or the vice-president. besides, these are people giving him hats. what is he supposed to do, say, sorry, i can't touch the hat? >> you are absolutely right. the president of the...

Obama, president obama, candidate obama, july, 2008, went to kuwait, visited american base there, and signed memorabilia. i don't have any problem with that, any president doing that to the troops of that makes them happy. this was omitted from cnn's report, that previous presidents have done this before. the bias of omission. >> gregg: you have a former assistant white house counsel under barack obama going on a tweet storm saying the president is violating the hatch act. no, the hatch act doesn't apply to the president or the vice president. besides, these are people giving him hats. what is...

President obama in july, 2008, went to kuwait and visited an american base there and signed memorabilia. i don't have any problem with any president doing that for the troops if that makes them happy. this was omitted from cnn's report that previous presidents have done this before. the bias of omission, greg. >> congressman, you have a former assistant white house counsel under barack obama going on a tweet storm saying the president's violating the hatch act. no, the hatch act doesn't apply to the president or the vice-president. besides, these are people giving him hats. what is he supposed...