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0 christianity, judaism, islam, embraces traditional definition of marriage, correct? >> i am aware that there are various religious faiths that define marriage in a traditional way. >> do you see that when the supreme court makes a dramatic pronouncement about the invalidity of state marriage laws, that it will inevitably sit in conflict between those who ascribe to the supreme court's edict and those who have a firmly held religious belief that marriage is between a man and a woman? woman? >> well, senator, these issues are being litigated, as you know, throughout the courts as people raise ...

0 recommendations, whether they're in congress, they're not the kinds of things that i can opine about. >> so you don't want to opine whether 17 years is too long or too short a sentence for murder? >> senator cotton, the congress has prescribed a number of factors that judges look at when they sentence. it may in many cases not be. i can't answer in the abstract in the way that you -- >> these are very concrete. let's turn to rape. do you know how long the average inmate convicted of rape serves in prison in america? >> well, senator rape is not a crime in the federal system that i'm familiar...

Wrongful death suit against the retail store and dealer who sold the firearm, and also against the gun manufacturer bush master and its parent company remington who argued they were protected from civil responsibility through federal law. plaintiffs lost against those gun manufacturers at the trial level, so they appealed to the connecticut supreme court, which just ruled that families can go forward against the gun manufacturers but on only one thoroug thorough, that marketing of the ar-15 caused or contributed to the deaths of so many. remington tells cnn it is their policy to not comment on...

But it is a grand jury subpoena from d.c., where the mueller grand jury is currently seated. and it's the production of documents from a company that's owned by a foreign government. that's a really interesting distinction. it's not just a privately-owned company. it's a foreign company owned by a foreign government. they've lost at the trial level, the foreign company, and they've lost at the appellate level. the supreme court doesn't have an obligation to rule on it, they can say, we'll take a hard pass, and if that happens, the company has to turn over the documents. >> there are certain co...

Where does that come from? why has the 9th circuit been the subject of this ire for some time? >> i think it's true that lawyers in other parts of the country and judges do sometimes refer to the 9th circuit as a more liberal circuit. if that was ever true, it's certainly no longer true as president trump has in past weeks appointed a number of new judges to the court of appeals. the issue with judge tigar who's a well-respected trial judge, not a member of the 11th circuit be a judge who hears cases at the trial level, he was appointed by obama, but there are judges who were appointed by bush...