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Preach partisan politics and that failure to fire her for that would "send a message to all federal employees that they need not abide by the hatch act," the response from the president during a phone interview on fox could not have been more clear. conway he said did nothing wrong, nothing but exercise her first amendment rights. >> i got briefed on it yesterday. it looks to me like they're trying to take away her right of free speech and that's just not fair. it sounds to me like a free speech thing. >> you're not going to fire her? >> no, i'm not going to fire her. i think she's a terrific ...

Was just exercising her first amendment rights, does that hold any water? >> no, it's just utter silliness. the hatch act has been upheld by the supreme court and repeatedly by lower courts. this is a well established restriction and keep in mind she's entitled to speak freely on her own time off of government property but the whole point of the hatch act is to keep her from misusing her government position to advocate for a candidate or against a candidate in an election. >> the law specifically, just to be clear on this, walter, distinguishes between when she's working as, in this case, a se...

Administration the higher the level the official the less the rule of law applies to them. so at least now we have clarity that the trump administration is not even paying lip service to the idea that they care about the rule of law, and i think it shows a particular disdain for laws that lack an effective enforcement mechanism. >> but, jen, what message does this send to other white house employees? what message does it send to future white house employees? >> well, it sends a message that you're above the law. if you're in the white house. and certainly that comes from the current president ...

He's strong on raising your taxes. he's terrible for property owners. i've yet to see presidential timber, i just see a bunch of presidential woodchips, amy klobuchar, change the "a" to "o" and get oh, my. elizabeth warren spent decades appropriating somebody else's heritage and ethnicity. >> she's been lying about it. kirsten gillibrand this weekend in her 50s the first time she's ever eaten fried chicken and waited for the cameras to roll. this is just silly stuff. held to account for the -- >> some of those included statements on the white house lawn. >> uh-huh. >> repeated instances, jen, ...