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Your income tax. later a republican congress took away the penalty and the state sued well, it's just the mandate and that's unconstitutional and the court said without a penalty the mandate doesn't require you to do anything. so you can't show you were harmed by it and it rejected the challenge on the basis that they didn't have the proper legal standing and they didn't survive the threshold test to show that they had some particular injury caused by this law, but in ruling this way, it makes it pretty hard for anybody else to come along and make a similar challenge, if there's nothing left o...

Zephyr, great to see you. talk about what this means. did the original case mean that the litigants didn't have standing and did this court say, yes, you do. >> absolutely. this is a huge deal. this is the first time a federal court of appeals has recognized plaintiffs who can go forward with the emoluments lawsuit against donald trump. it will go back to district court, and there are two other similar lawsuits in -- any time a federal court has looked at whether or not donald trump is violating -- or looked at what the meaning of emoluments is, they say it includes profits and gain that the p...

Thing that donald trump is getting from these foreign governments. and the real issue, the most difficult hurdle in these lawsuits has been the standing question. has been whether or not there are are parties who are in a position to bring a suit. and the second circuit today in a really well reasoned, deep thoughtful opinion said, no, the district court got it wrong. the hotel owner and people involved in the hospitality industry, people working in the restaurant business who have to compete against donald trump for the business of foreign governments and also state and federal governments, t...

Like saudi arabia, russia, china have the ability to hear every conversation that you and i would have on our iphones and can actually pull up every text message ever sent. so a foreign government let's say iran let's say a democrat is attacking mbs. they pick up some personally -- illegally pick up some phone conversations that would be of interest to donald trump and they pass it along to him. according to donald trump that's just fine. >> that's right. and so this is the latest version of what's actually as you well know been a long standing question in american politics of how foreign gove...

Identified chief of staff who can interface with white house counsel and ensure smooth management of everything. the irony here, joe, might be that what ultimately insulates the president from indictment is not his legal team, not his willingness to be forthcoming and make a full confession, but rather this long standing doj policy that says you should not indict a sitting president for a lot of credential reasons that have to do with good government. that doesn't prevent prosecutors in the southern district of new york from preparing an indictment that they clearly have in the works that woul...