so where do you stand on this, ar snichlt the constitution doesn t explicitly say how much time is needed for a recess appointment to be made. so the president on any solid ground here from your standpoint? no, he s not. that s why this is such a disturb thing that president s done. the problem here is the senate is not in recess. and it was defined as not in recess by its own democratic leader harry reid what harry reid employed this technique to stop president bush making recess appointments. all presidents have done them. president obama has done them. i have not krit sised the president for them. when the senate is in session, the president can nominate appointments. now the president is set for all future presidents to use the get around obama constitution technique. what about that?
around obama constitution technique. what about that? didn t the democrats do the same 1, 2, 3 inning to pr thing to president bush in doesn t they do the same thing? for starters, it was president bush s white house counsel who first said that making an appointments during pro forma sessions would be okay. the notion that it could get bush never did that. the notion it could give any more corrosive or partisan in washington seems hard to believe considering that republicans tried at all points to stop president obama s nominees be it for executive agencies, the courts, be it for anything he tries do. mitch mcconnell considers his number one job to stop the president from being re-elected. this is just one part of that. what about that, ari? there are a lot of democrats that feel that way. surement i remember whining about the same thing when i was the press secretary and democratic senate which is a democratic senate at the beginning of the bush administration under geor
good start. so here s something. the end of the first, just the beginning. anthony s lawyer said that his client did not release the video or upload it. he kept notes she s kept notes for her personal counseli counseling. dr. drew pinsky joins me now. it s really bizarre. what do you make of this? i i feel like you, anderson. it s bizarre. something brought up and put up in october. and one of her sort of, i don t want to call her fans, someone who has followed her case faithfully and doesn t want her to capitalize on her infamy is the person that came akrocross s thing and posted it f this is something as the attorney suggest is use as therapeutic process, it kind of had that feel to it for me.
that s what she says. so where do you stand on this, ar snichlt the constitution doesn t explicitly say how much time is needed for a recess appointment to be made. so the president on any solid ground here from your standpoint? no, he s not. that s why this is such a disturb thing that president s done. the problem here is the senate is not in recess. and it was defined as not in recess by its own democratic leader harry reid what harry reid employed this technique to stop president bush making recess appointments. all presidents have done them. president obama has done them. i have not krit sised the president for them. when the senate is in session, the president can nominate appointments. now the president is set for all future presidents to use the get
were used in the bush administration. secondly, public financing, i mean the public finance system is broken. thirdly, the notion that the president shouldn t be able to do this job because mitch mcconnell doesn t think he should be relekted isn t how the government works. there say guy he ought to put in the job in order to run the consumer financial protection board. he s going to could that. it s his job to protect the american people. there was a way around there this. the problem is the future precedent he is setting. george bush yield it. the senate is in session. now that president obama break this egg, it will not get put back together. you created the precedent. in fairness, george bush cut a deal with members of the senate to allow some appointments to go through. the president had an opportunity