Teach civics in school . Americans and lawyers and judges utterly ignorant of the structure of our government and how it functions . I assume everyone knows we have three branches of government and each are equal to the other. The founders took extraordinary measures to prevent too much power by one group. It is based on the longest used constitution. The congress controls the purse and money and executive controls the sword and the judicial watches over and offers opinions as to the constitutional compliance of the other two. And my friend matt and dean in the University School of law points out in a outstanding boc called judicial qu tyranny. The bill of rights is designed to protect the minority against the majority. But our constitutional make up does not give the minority veto over the majority. The major social questions of our day been given to the majority through the legislative process and taking away the right of the majority will ultimately result in rebelian. To take away
Objective which is the right one, which is to enable capable motivated forces on the ground to retake territory from isil and regain syrian territory from the extremism. So we have devised a number of different approaches to that and going forward. And we are covering this story from all angles and the pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr is with us, as well as our Counter Terrorism analyst philip mudd and Kimberly Sanchez and also arwa damon on the ground. And arwa, there is a new approach to the fight, and whth the old approach is not working, and take the new approach. And what is that . Well, it is taking the people out of turkey and jordan and training them, and forget about all of that, and it is to provide munitions gear to a loose areally knit coalition in northern syria, and near the Turkish Border but very much in the area where they have already been fighting eye circumstances and they are looking for additional help in fighting isis. This is a group that the u. S. Believes
Of representatives is looking more like a house of cards. Dana bash reports. Reporter there is congressional chaos, then theres this. A republican meeting to vote for a new speaker ending abruptly after the frontrunner, Kevin Mccarthy shocked everyone. Suddenly dropping out of the race. You were behind him. Are you stunned . Yeah, totally stunned. No idea tf coming. You were just in there, what happened . Kevin mccarthy, just like john boehner did, put the country and the congress and the conference before his own interests. It was a very honorable thing to do. He recognized and shared with the congress that he was afraid his candidacy might further divide the caucus and the party across the country. Behind closed doors thats exactly what Kevin Mccarthy told his colleagues. I think i shocked some of you, huh . A a and. Reporter and what he repeated to reporters after the News Conference got out. If were going to remain united and strong, we need a new face to do that nothing more than
Theyve got all out to do it. We have to be smart to be back it started off with the Election Results with the leasing look at the scale of the republican losses populism has peaked they said. Its just old white men. Hang on. Populism is different to them bigger than the gop. Its about standing up for the victims and here they are. Lets bring up the income chart. Half the country saw their incomes go down with bush and obama. It hurt so people and young people. Positive populism means a pro worker, profamily, prodemocracy agenda to help everyone left behind. Dont let the elites tell you its a narrow negative movement. Took a dark turn with the allegations against roy moore on thursday. Its obvious that this is a political hit job, plain and simple. The idea that this shows up a month after the election after they endorsed a democrat in the race. The idea that its a coincident is laughable. If you read the original piece the reporters admit they were in alabama looking for dirt. If we ar
Our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 518 of the Trump Administration. Few details. Lots of confusion about how to make the president s executive order ending the separation of migrant families an actual reality. The white house would prefer the focus be on these images of the first lady showing compassion, doing some damage control admittedly a day after her husbands policy walkback. Melania trump went to mcallen, texas, today, an unannounced visit to a childrens shelter there that currently houses about 60 Migrant Children. Think of that. Most of them teenager. Her trip a clear contrast to the images and sounds of children in what appear to be cages and crying out for their parents. The same images, same sounds that made this both a humanitarian and publicity crisis. Let me begin to recognize each of you and thanking you for all what you do, for your heroic work that you do every day, and what you do for those children. Id also like to ask you how i can help to these childr