the gop scandal monger in chief finally got called out. it is time for this committee to stop serving as a stage for political theater. people are not interested in lawsuits. they re not going to win with this suit, they just want to smear him. good evening. i am ari melber. lawrence has the night off. the house of representatives has just ten days left before its august recess, not much time to act on the emergency funding request for the border crisis or to legislate before the fall campaign season. yet, republicans spent today wasting their time in a very public way, holding a hearing on their unusual lawsuit against the president. speaker boehner wants to sue the president for something speaker boehner s actually voted for, delays in implementing obamacare, by leading republicans to focus on a frivolous, backward-looking lawsuit instead of crafting legislation or holding votes, boehner s actually feeding into a point the president has pressed recently. that america has tw
this is supposed to be a deliberative body. the gop scandal monger in chief finally got called out. it is time for this committee to stop serving as a stage for political theater. people are not interested in lawsuits. they re not going to win with this suit, they just want to smear him. good evening. i am ari melber. lawrence has the night off. the house of representatives has just ten days left before its august recess, not much time to act on the emergency funding request for the border crisis or to legislate before the fall campaign season. yet, republicans spent today wasting their time in a very public way, holding a hearing on their unusual lawsuit against the president. speaker boehner wants to sue the president for something speaker boehner s actually voted for, delays in implementing obamacare, by leading republicans to focus on a frivolous, backward-looking lawsuit instead of crafting legislation or holding votes, boehner s actually feeding into a point the preside
nation-wide. we have been heavily involved with both federal and state rfra. we provide testimony across the nation to states that are considering rfra or considering amending rfra such as arizona is considering with senate bill so keeping them honest, there s nothing illegal or improper about advocating a position. everybody does that or providing legal guidance and advice or ghost writing services to lawmakers who might not have the expertise or experience in crafting legislation that will stand up to legal scrutiny. the question is why keep it a secret? that s the thing we can t quite understand. more now on fallout with my conversation last night with arizona senator al melvin. we got into religious basis behind the bill from former presidential candidate herman cain linked to it on his face book page. anderson cooper is either completely ignorant about this man s bill and about the teachings of jesus or he is just plain lying. what a disgraceful rant this is.
of christian conservative special interest groups in the case of 1062, an outfit called the center for arizona policy, another called the alliance defending freedom didn t just push for the bill they also helped write for the bill much that s what representatives from both organizations tell us. neither organization would come on the program which is kind of hard to understand why. it s not like they re keeping it a secret. during the testimony surrounding 1062, an adf representative was perfectly open about his organization s push for religious restorations acts nation-wide. we have been heavily involved with both federal and state rfra. we provide testimony across the nation to states that are considering rfra or considering amending rfra such as arizona is considering with senate bill so keeping them honest, there s nothing illegal or improper about advocating a position. everybody does that or providing legal guidance and advice or ghost writing services to lawmakers who migh
legal guidance and advice or ghost writing services to lawmakers who might not have the expertise or experience in crafting legislation that will stand up to legal scrutiny. the question is why keep it a secret? that s the thing we can t quite understand. more now on fallout with my conversation last night with arizona senator al melvin. we got into religious basis behind the bill from former presidential candidate herman cain linked to it on his face book page. anderson cooper is either completely ignorant about this man s bill and about the teachings of jesus or he is just plain lying. what a disgraceful rant this is. you can go there, judge for yourself. as for the role in religion, there are a lot of different interpretations to the bible, many different perspectives. tonight we re joined by a leading cleric in the state of arizona, the most reverend roy mendez of the episcopal church