americans would never have to answer for their opinions, politics or religious beliefs. just up the road is the town of ridgefield where general daniel wooster and 21 young patriots died in april of 1777 so americans would be spared ever living under a capricious and arbitrary power. mr. speaker, there are moments for careful calculation, for weighing political expediency and conflicting interests. and there are moments for clarity and conviction. this is that moment. continuing our discussion now is democratic congressman jim hines of connecticut. he s a member of the house intelligence committee and the house financial services committee. congressman hines, who did you alert that you were going to make this announcement? did you talk to the speaker about it? did you talk to the chairman of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff? well, you know, this was obviously a decision taken in my
i think he just decided after nearly 31 years, it was time to step down. let me, jonathan, let me ask you how his politics worked. it s implicit in what pete was saying. somehow he managed to be a libertarian on court. he s he has fought for the right to avoid any undue burden for a woman choosing abortion, for the essential liberty of this country when it came to sexual orientation and gender and sex, the whole thing. he seemed to understand that that it was wronging to have sod dommy laws. nobody had any hostility towards him. like scalia dumping on him, sometimes scalia did question him. he would say he was what s the right word? capricious. what do you make of how he was able to bib as a conservative without being the kind of conservative that mike pence
long time donors call and say what s wrong with you guys? what happened to you? we have had to explain that it s really just a label. it s a label that they use to try to see you lens your viewpoint. it s nothing more than the old fashioned ad homonym attack that you learn in debated tactics that if you don t want to deal with ideas, you shut them up by calling them names and because of what you said a minute ago, it s worked simply because the media, the mainstream media in the main has not called them out on their own capricious and fallacious definition of what constitutes hate. tucker: without explaining it. pretty handy test for those at home. if you are trying to determine whether the media outlet you are reading and watch something legitimate. if they repeat propaganda by the southern poverty law center that is by definition propaganda. do you wake up and find out you are part of a hate group? that s exactly right.
certainly not as unpopular some people with like you to believe, but the execution was so arbitrary, capricious, and that s where nobody was willing to fight on that ground. you will note that donald trump said that they would see you in court, and instead we are just getting a complete pullback and a rerelease. that s actually smart and prudent and totally different than the rhetoric we saw. he is starting to listen to secretary kelly, homeland security, says who said at the munich security conference over the weekend, we re going to roll it out. the way they did this today, these memos go out not only to federal law enforcement agencies, but to state and local people too saying if you come into contact with an undocumented and setting new standards for what sometimes is just the catch and release. you catch them and document it and let them go. in this case now unless you can prove you ve been here for two years, these new guidelines say they re going to move towards deportation.
i don t know what i m talking about. they can pair up with each other. has that ever happened to you? they re all undesirable. it s getting awkward for him. what have you fallen into? he ll probably be on some tv network at that point, right? i m sure he s going to try to do his own kind of programming, absolutely. get in and the numbers are huge for these debates. don t miss an opportunity to reach an audience, to sell yourself. to engage the voters, we ve seen people be in the early debate. they jump to the main stage quickly at the next event. we ve seen it with carly, with christie. there s a lot of interplay. it s a crucial time now with iowa coming up quick-the heels. new hampshire, everything in play now. make it or break it. should he sit this one out or i m trying to imagine what his strategy is and i think what his strategy is, his dad s strategy. his dad s strategy was to say this is arbitrary, capricious.