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Of his office and surround himself with people that are loyalists, that could -- that threatens our democracy and it reminds me of many dictators in latin america which is why i am telling you and i think that a lot of us feel this way, it's not t political. this is about protecting the constitution, the future of our democracy, it's about myfu children and everyone's children in this country. >> thank you so much for joining us this afternoon. >> thank you. coming up, the trump administration making changes to the snap program and hundreds of thousands of americans are about to lose their f...

Congress' impeachment power if you have a president who simply refuses to acquiesce even to lower court rulings and will keep grinding out the clock. this he should have asked turley that and didn't so i agree with that criticism. >> it's my assigned responsibility to thank you but i'm going to offer that to my colleague, stephanie ruhle. >> i love when you have that. on twitter they are like are they fighting? we are never fighting. have at it, biggie. >> charlie savage, always a pleasure to have you here on "velshi & ruhle." an msnbc contributor and author of a great book, i read this book y...

The work requirement rule would save the government $5.5 billion over five years, just for context here the trump administration has authorized $16 billion this year alone to make welfare payments to agri business affected by trump's trade war. it represents just one phase for trump's planned cuts for the $34 million food stamp recipients. the urban institute who studies this sort of thing estimates the measures would cut 3.7 billion from the snap program. critics say this is an attack on the poorest americans and their ability to feed themselves. and joining me now is one of those critics, th...

It is a solvable problem but one that actually has to be solved. and you've come up with what you offer as a solution. >> yeah. you know, we can do better than we're doing right now as a nation. it's a shame that in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, that there's still people who are food insecure. senior citizens. young children that go hungry every day. and so i put out a plan about three days ago to end hunger in the united states. that calls for making investments to expand the snap program. to make sure that every single child can have a free lunch. and also, free breakfas...

There's one estimate out there, one analysis that says that this could cause more than 2 million more people to be food insecure, these changes the trump administration is proposing. we also see out there a growing number of homeless individuals in cities big and in small towns. so this is exactly the wrong direction that our country should be going in. a couple days ago, i released a plan to end hunger in america to make investments in our snap program, in the wic program, these programs that provide the basic necessities for many people throughout this country of all different backgrounds in...