the federal ctext. our next question from cindy sanders asking, is there any offense that cannot be pardoned by a president. the only limit to the offenses are that those in the constitution are, quote, offenses against the u.s. that s pretty broad. the crime committed would be federal, not a state crime. other than that, we don t really see a limit. the final question from anne on twitter. are executive orders automatically the law, or do they have to go through congress? executive orders are just like they sound, executive presidential action. they don t have the force of a law from congress but don t have to go through congress either. it s the president who basically instructs the federal agencies on how to use resources or take other executive actions in his unitary power if it s an appropriate executive order. those are the questions in my inbox. thanks for writing. e-mail me at ari @msnbc or tweet
inculcating our values freedom of expression and pluralism to those immigrants. why is that? do you think we can change? do you think we can effectively assimilate those immigrants. we in the west especially in america, but we in the west in general have become less good at telling our young what it is we stand for, how it is we began, what the meaning of the amendments of the constitution are are. that all sounds dry. but you look at what s happening on the american college campuses. that s right. these are rebellions by kids who don t seem to understand, a, what the first amendment is and why freedom of speech is so important, why the founders didn t make it an after thought but the first amendment to our constitution. they don t seem to have been brought up in a cultural m. where the meaning of america and the special sauce that we have, the special things that have kept us together, they don t seem to be so