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Leader for now, harry reid, threatened a christmas session if congress doesn't do its job. congressman peter welch is a democrat who sits on the house oversight committee. congressman, would you like to see the government actually shut down so that the republicans could show americans they aren't actually ready to govern? >> you know, that's crazy. >> thank you. good answer. >> but, you know, i think clearly the republican leadership wants to avoid a shutdown. the question is whether they can. there's a lot of rumbling in the republican house about what the president did on immigration and the...

Legislation as poe opposed to t party ideological legislation. and the question is, not whether that's what speaker boehner wants to do, i think it is, it's whether he'll be able to execute given the new crowd that's coming in. >> you mentioned the new crowd and the largest majority since the 1920s. mathematically the republicans are likely to hold this majority for a while, even if they do lose some more seats. do you think there's any glimmer of hope here that given that kind of null republican mussel and the executive order, speaker boehner isn't going down the road they use to do, the shut...

And the question about whether the commission is appropriate response depends on what kind of problem you're trying to solve. if you think have you an unjustified shooting or you think you have manslaughter, no one in any community, anywhere in america, regardless of race, would look at manslaughter or murder and say, i want a commission. they want justice. they want action. professor, i want to bring you in on the discussion of race relations which is important but seems to me to be secondary to the first question we want to answer as a nation here. which is, whether our actual government and...

Without much control by the public. i mean, privacy is a very quickly diminishing object of life. and i think the corporations and even the government have made it even more difficult. >> gavin, i wanted to get your thoughts on the supreme court case that ari was just mentioning, a man who posted threats against his wife on facebook, also threats against an fbi agent and a kindergarten class. essentially the question here is what constitutes a true threat when it happens online. it-s it the intent of the person who posted it or the feeling and sense this was a credible threat by the person who...

Disruptive work? >> i think it's a fair question. and the fear that many journalists feel having witnessed what's happened to julien assange, that if you do open your mouth and say very critical things or have government documents they don't approve of, then suddenly terrible things happen to you and you end up being effectively imprisoned in a little room in an embassy because of threats of extradition and all the rest of it that we know about his case. but it is a very chilling effect on a lot of journalists. so much so, for example, that almost no newspapers here have ever published most of...