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>> so that means that the rule of law and the role of the justice partmentand the texas r.i.d. is another example and the department of justice was a arguing and winning on the set of facts about the intentional discrimination in the set of texas, and they reverse the fact that they have facts where there were no facts, and so this is policy disguised as law, and i get to do what i want, because i have the got the power, and that is what it is. >> absolutely. and it is also bad policy. one of the reasons that congress has not been able to completely dismantle the affordable care act is because...

Discrimination in texas. and then the justice department reverses position as if they found the facts no longer were the facts. it's what maya was saying. this is policy disguised as law. this is i get to do what i want because i've got the power. that's what this is. >> absolutely. it's also bad policy. i mean, one of the reasons congress has not been able to completely dismantle the affordable care act is because it's popular and actually has support. it's popular because people need to see a doctor when they're sick and they couldn't get all of their own party to agree because of their conc...

Goodlap. very similar to the senate bill the president likes. it does not include a path way to citizenship for dreamers. dana. >> dana: all right peter, thank you. and we're back now with chris stirewalt. i'm going to read you wall street journal editorial page. saying president trump may need a refresher course in deal making after the senate. he could start by recalling who's president and stop giving adviser steven miller a policy veto. whatever happened to the art of the deal. if there trump isn't happy with everything in the collins brown bill, why not engage and negotiate? let's not tal...

Lawyers, ron? >> right. but on the other hand, it is one step along a road of what could be a slow motion political crisis, which is, various -- all of the continuum of ways he could resist this investigation and ultimately potentially terminate the investigation and what congressional republicans will do in response to that, yes, you know, lawyers will advise you no the to make blanket commitments at a press conference but if donald trump refuses to meet with the special counsel, there is an element of a constitutional tension if not crisis there, it is refusing to provide the information and...

There's practically a tweet at some criticism that he wages daily. yesterday it was kwanzaa. he used to criticize obama for marking kwanzaa. yesterday he was doing it. good, he should, but on the golf part, i think there's several things. first the ethical implication, then the policy implication, and then the optics. it's not only that he's playing golf, but at his own private golf course, private club. >> hold on, ana. we do have the numbers here. he hayes spent 86 days playing golf, and 111 days spent at his own trump properties. so what's the problem? >> i tell you what the problem is, fir...