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Charges. none of that is true in the united states. they can deport illegal aliens who are detrimental to economic or national interest. or who are not physically or mentally healthy or lack the need to sustain themselves. are those humane laws? >> u.s. has laws like that. they are undocumented people. not illegal aliens. >> tucker: federal -- federal law describes them, the irs for example describes people as illegal aliens. it is not some racist term i am throwing around. determine an obama administration used for eight years. >> people were called three fifths of a human being, people chang...

It's over. >> oh, gosh. >> that's one of the new years of 2016. i think it should say good-bye. here's the big question. we have eight people in the supreme court right now. looks like we're going to have eight people in the supreme court for a while because it takes 60 votes in the u.s. senate, three-fifths of the senate has to agree on one person. it ain't going to happen because the conservative republicans will never allow a moderate nominee, and the democrats will probably vote against anybody. so how are we going to get a u.s. supreme court with nine people on it so that a tie can be bro...

College, there are actually a lot of the same reasons the democratic party used to justify its support for faithless electors including i'm assuming maybe you guys did a couple weeks ago when you were pushing for the electors to switch their votes. you can't conflate two things. are there racist institutions in our country, is the three-fifth compromise something that should be discussed in racial terms? yeah. i don't think it's fair to conflate the two. >> do you understand, before you respond, do you understand part of the impetus for the electoral college was so people who were slave owners...

Clip from 1968 or apartheid south africa. one, this is one of the few quotes when i saw it yesterday when you actually listen to it in context, context is is actually worse when you get the full context of his actual quote. that's first. and second, it's "a," historical, and it's just, you know, this whole concept of white supremacy, this whole concept of this white nationalist rhetoric, i'm astounded to actually hear it out of bill o'reilly's mouth, a very highly rated late-night tv show. and this is just not the conversation we need to be having. >> angela? >> so i think that we have to have...

Area of the country. >> just to be clear, historically speaking, the electoral college was founded based on a couple of things. one was to make sure in some cases that slave holding states did have as much representation as the northern states which did not hold slaves. the other issue which ironically now was that alexander hamilton and others wanted this body to be a buffer. >> you used to have to own land, too, to vote. >> then slaves counted as three-fifths. do you think at this point the electoral college should go away? >> it's not functioning as it was designed to function. one thing we...