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>> really? >> i believe this is bigger than politics. there is no other way to look at what he said. everybody knows what it's about, especially this president, but we are where we are and we'll show you in the numbers why the republicans are so afraid to acknowledge what everybody knows to be true. >> we'll be looking at that in about six minutes from now. john paul stevens was a true voice of moderation and a champion of the law. pamela brown has a look back at a remarkable life and career. >> reporter: john paul stevens was a conservative republican when president gerald ford nominated to t...

>> i firmly believe it's unwise policy, but i think it's a more difficult question as to whether it's a constitutionally permissible punishment. >> reporter: when his view did not carry the day, he crafted powerful dissents. citizens united, a lark 2009 campaign finance case, the majority ruled the government could not ban political spending by corporations. in his dissent, he accused the majority of rejecting the common sense of the american people. he also didn't mince words about the 2000 decision that cleared the way for george w. bush's presidency, writing, quote, the identity of the lose...

Considered protected free speech. he said, quote, sanctioning the public desecration of the flag will tarnish its value both for those who cherish the ideas for which it waves and those who desire to don the robes of martyrdom by burning it. >> i don't think anybody who heard him read that dissent, the passion with which he looked at the flag, could think about the flag the same way. whatever you thought about the legal issue. >> reporter: on the bench he was known as a soft-spoken midwesterner with a searing intellect. >> extreme gentlemanliness with one of the most acute minds that's ever sa...

Antisemitism and presuming after the tree of life massacre that the ambassador speaks for all jewish americans. if he is trying to make this about antisemi-tich. perhaps it's not a good idea for his adviser to have an exchange with a reporter named feinberg. >> what's your ethnicity? >> why is that relevant? >> i'm asking a question. my ancestors are ireland and italy. >> that's not relevant to the question. >> it is. he said originally. originally from. everything he said since. and to have a full conversation -- the president

Commented on that. the president already commented on that. and said a lot -- he put out tweets and made himself available to you yesterday. he has. he's tired. wer sick and tired of this country. of america coming last to people who swore an oath of office the the military being denigrated. and the border protection people i was with who are overwhelmingly hispanic by the way. >> kellyanne conway there asking a reporter his ethnicity. why she did that who knows. she tweeted quote this was meant with no disrespect. we are all from somewhere else originally. i asked the question to answer the q...