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Be concerned about. on the one side, there's the concern about whether we really are a sovereign state, whether we can run elections by ourselves, or whether a foreign country has undue influence. on the other side, there's the problem we have the leader who's trying to get around the normal ways of making laws and policies and changes. instead thinking about a national emergency, about an essentially phoney issue. that's a classic way that democracies become authoritarian regimes. so we should be concerned. >> about this new "washington post" reporting specifically on the meet wings with puti...

Touch anything if the president hasn't signalled he will sign it. >> the package presented by the house leaders yesterday can only be seen as a time wasting act of political posturing. making laws takes a signature. this shouldn't be taken lightly and viewed as an opportunity with the new house democratic majority to prioritize political performance as an art form ahead of the public interest. >> as for the democrats, they are not willing to move an inch either. nancy pelosi is coming to today's meeting as the newly minted house speaker. >> we are not doing a wall. does anybody have any doubt?...

Is entirely inconsistent with the constitutional powers that we have. article i of the constitution is dealing with the congress for a reason. its thought to be closest to the people, most representative and its most powerful in terms of making a budget, in terms of making laws. we have been marginalized by the white house over a couple of decades. i'm just simply saying, its time for house democratic majority members to reassert their authority as individual members in the committee. i did hear nancy pelosi saying today that that's exactly what she wants to do. keep in mind, she's been in tha...

Branch is supposed to be our politics properly understood. we're tempted to start with article three but really we need article three as part of the constitution that sets up the judiciary. article one, which is us, what is the legislature's job? these are equal branch, but article one comes first for a reason. that means that this is supposed to be the institution dedicated to political fights. if we see lots and lots of protests in front of the supreme court, that's a pretty good litmus test barometer of the fact our republican isn't healthy. because people shouldn't be thinking they -- prot...

>> lisa: that's interesting. >> harris: the way that people may look at this is conservative versus liberal but what you're saying is. >> andrew: is the living constitution crowd versus the dead constitution crowd. >> melissa: magic tricks to the constitution to make it say something it doesn't. because you don't want people legislating from the bench. they were not elected. only people who have been elected by the people should be making laws. >> harris: will quickly before we move on, different values for different sides. people see things differently. if you've got the whole roe vs. wade co...