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Providing a remedy to congress should the executive attempt to subvert or violate the constitution of the united states. we are not yet at the stage where any judgments can be made one way or the other, but i remind my colleagues today that if the day should come when we are called upon to carry out our constitutional duty, history will judge whether we did so faithfully or not. history will judge if each of us act as a solemn juror of democracy who placed fidelity to the constitution and our system of government above the narrow considerations of partisan politics. now, on another issue not d...

Overreaching executive, economic regulations, which conservatives don't like. you have something that scientists and environmentalists support, which conservatives are not happy about. so it could rip up the republican base and republicans are encouraging this. mitch mcconnell is going on the floor every day hammering the president over this. even some democrats in red states are not in favor of this regulation. so the real question is whether, in the next 3 1/2 months, nobody saw at this point that obamacare would lead to a shut dourn. the question is what happens in the next 3 1/2 months. if...

This has all the elements that we saw with the shutdown last year. >> you mentioned obamacare. i see that the -- you got some of these republicans threatening it, and some of them are in leadership. but if this didn't work for them for obamacare, why would climate, epa, carbon emissions, aka boring stuff, why would that work for them here in a place where their main beef with obama didn't? >> that's the thing, ari. conservatives don't view this as boring, they view this as a war by president obama on red america, that's the narrative put out there. you have all the elements, the overreaching e...

Nothing to do with the debt. is this extortion? >> this is not about the debt limit. this is about funding government. if he wants to talk about unprecedented matters in american constitutional history it's this. this program with the unprecedented cost rammed through congress without anyone having read it, without a single bipartisan vote, that's unprecedented. rewriting the law five times is unprecedented. >> let me be clear. you will pay our debts, obligations, fund the military, fund every department. you will fund medicare, social security. everything will be funded but you are saying don...

Nothing to do with the debt. is this extortion? >> this is not about the debt limit. this is about funding government. if he wants to talk about unprecedented matters in american constitutional history it's this. this program with the unprecedented cost rammed through congress without anyone having read it, without a single bipartisan vote, that's unprecedented. rewriting the law five times is unprecedented. >> let me be clear. you will pay our debts, obligations, fund the military, fund every department. you will fund medicare, social security. everything will be funded but you are saying don...