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Chance to shift the court solidly to the right. >> louis powell unexpectedly announced his retirement in 1987 on the final day of the supreme court's term that year. and his retirement gave president reagan a chance to shift the supreme court solidly to the right. president reagan tried to do that. he nominated an ultra conservative named robert bourke, and famously that did not pan out. bourke didn't get the seat. the seat ultimately went to a more moderate justice named anthony kennedy. not only did anthony kennedy take over louis powell's seat, he also continued the tradition of that seat b...

The route of personal destruction. it will be interesting to hear what robert bourke or clarence tom fast would say about that. howie: steve king very conservative called a radio station. he contributed some of the blame to barack obama. michael: that's to use a trump word, sad. you know, there is way too much of this. and both sides do it at times. and it just didn't happen. howie: a writer at the "huffington post," says in the wake of the shooting what's more harmful, putting millions already on the margins more at risk by draconian policies or shooting a racist lawmaker in

Tell you, i know somebody who told this, you don't mess with the intense communities, because they have ways of getting back to you. it got back to intelligence committees that was then leaked to "the washington post." >> can i answer one question? can bob mueller as special counsel be fired? the answer is yes, by president trump. that's different from the independent counsel law which has since expired and it's a parallel situation to what happened under watergate. which is when president reagan wound up demanding the firing of archibald cox, i'm sorry, nixon. what did i say? >> reagan. >> wh...

And robert bourke came to the rescue of the president. >> he could be fired but that would be a catastrophic decision that would have made the firing of the fbi director look like a small event. >> the president benefitted nothing from the firing of comey, benefitted nothing at all. he got somebody even with more integrity and more investigative resources. so no benefit came. >> if you're sitting in the white house tonight, and you want to talk about self-sabotage and you want to think about the things that donald trump has done to himself, you can talk about the firing of comey, and you can s...

>> and -- how quickly, professor dershowitz, the person now who has been appointed the new acting attorney general, will they immediately then instruct the department of justice attorneys to begin defending the executive order? >> well, remember what happened with the saturday night massacre. that is -- that he fired the attorney general and the two person said no, three person said no, finally robert bourke later to be nominated unsuccessfully to the supreme court said i well do it. i will do it. finally he did it. so it depends on who now succeeds her. what that person's position is going to...