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Learned that the president's supreme court team looked at brett kavanaugh's past comments on indicting a sitting president. i have a quote here. this is what he wrote when he worked with ken starr in his book back in 2009. he said, the indictment and trial of a sitting president moreover would cripple the federal government, rendering it unable to function with credibility and either the international or domestic arenas. so the question is, how much do you think the president's self-interest in terms of his own legal issues played into his selection today? >> it's hard to know. kavanaugh's quo...

Party when he departed so publicly from president bush's decision to pursue the war in iraq. you may remember that he voted against the surge. >> the surge, in particular. >> right. and that mr. brennan, while all the issues you just discussed were very potent in 2008 and 20 2009, we're at sort of a different point in the war that he's had. four years in which he's been running the drone program and, my guess is, that when he actually gets the confirmation hearings, you'll probably be hearing as much about drones as you will about torture issues. >> let's talk about drones. it does feel that t...

I am pad news. i'm not your friend. i'm not going to help you. i'm going to break you. any questions? >> that's a clip from "zero dark thinkerty." which has taken a lot of questions on torture issues. the following motion picture is based on a first hand account of actual events. not so much according to the acting director of the cia. he said the film is inaccurate and creates the strong impression that torture was, quote, the key to fining bin laden. the issue at hand is how the public consumer this movie. most studies have not found concrete of torture's efficacy and a 2006 report from the ...

Is being taken up currently. so that argument doesn't stand. but there are cases you want to bring this to bear and say we are on the dream act and that is a significant issue facing america. you know what? we're going to stay on it for a week and let people air their views on the american people and the american people can weigh in on whether they're bums or heros or whether it's on the administration jobs act or the pay equity act or the disclose act. there are issues where you should have that debate dramatically and publicly before the american people call their attention to it. but it isn...

So that we can proceed to get legislation passed the. >> two key priorities for president obama's second term agenda are immigration and climate changes. the president needs majorities in both houses to join him on those issues. here is the weird thing about washington. that's already happened. the house passed the american clean nr act in june 2009 and democrats believed they had a majority for it in the senate, but it never got a floor vote. that is because republicans silencedly filibustered it and it takes 60 votes to break a filibuster. consider the dream act, which would help the childre...