united states, many of these issues go right back to where we were back to the restart button. and be clear, under the article two powers of the presidency, this president can do a great, great deal. pretty much everything he does now and then some, the key issue is guantanamo. those prisoners, 166 prisoners including 50 hard-core, the president said we don't know what we're going to do with those people. they would be sitting without a legal framework if we pull back from this war powers declaration from 2001. that's a big issue. that's a complex one. >> ron suskind, senior fellow at harvard center or ethics. author of "the 1% doctrine" and many other books. it's great to have you here. appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> if you want to have a further gander of that speech from jay johnston today, we're posting clips at maddowblog.com. you know the shady trickery from this year's election about who would get to vote and how hard certain states were going