allowed the individual mandate, the order from congress that you had to buy health insurance stay in place. but he acknowledged that by itself the individual mandate, congress cannot compel you to buy anything whether it s a house or a car or insurance. in this case that s what they re doing. bill: you have a court in front of you i believe that s more conservative than you would find perhaps on the coast, east coast, west coast. does it give you a greater chance of getting out of court initially and ultimately is it u.s. supreme court? no, absolutely. when we have a court that actually cares about the constitution we re much more confident. so if we go to court that s looking at this based on the statute and the constitution, we feel very confident it will be struck down and it will likely be appealed to the fifth circuit and ultimately the u.s. supreme court. bill: would you make that same argument before bret kavanaugh was nominated? we filed it a year ago before we knew kav
the table the south koreans in the united states of america stopping their military exercises which is illegal, totally illegitimate under international law exercise. he is asking again for us to exchange legality with our allies in exchange for illegal threats of nuclear war. we just spent another warship to japan which also sent a message to north korea that we are not playing that way and is the same argument they put on the table before so it s good to move forward and understand north korea lies, they mislead but they have more news than we do. sandra: one professor is quoted in this most recent article in the los angeles times that moon will naturally want to avoid any agreement that goes against south korean it interest when he meets with the president right now and they are now behind closed doors. we are going to get comments from them shortly. lawrence: one interesting note that i want to talk about because we are talking about his involvement with congress, he says he
different from the past administration were they had the steel that didn t go through congress. this is going to have to go to the senate and i think the president having a willingness to involve members of congress is going to be better for the steel in the long run. if harris: more transparency. i ve had members of congress say they ve seen some of the side deals. it did any of it ever get repeated? the transparency also for the american people is to have as many eyes on that is possible. katie: also requires that senators and people on the hill are held accountable for their actions rather than being able to criticize something down the road without having any skin in the game. jessica: you could definitely look at that with the iran deal and also obamacare as well. the tension that comes out among people in congress and the american people when they feel like no one is being held accountable for something that was pushed through. i understand democrats voted for but it was no
people to say a special counsel in the first place is a waste of time which a number of republicans have, how can you then be wanting a second one? it s completely hypocritical. harris: from wanting to talk just about kitchen table issues, handling the corruption allegations swirling around the trump administration in the run-up to the midterm election hoping to tap into a successful strategy. he delivered them control of congress pray to chuck schumer, nancy pelosi rolling out the latest blank of their messaging more on the steps of capitol hill. a watch. president trump has embraced the most egregious establishment republican norms and appointed the most conflict of interest rate and cabinet in my lifetime. the swamp has never been more foul or more fetid than under this president paid instead of delivering on his promise to drain the swamp, president trump has become the swamp. we want to republicans and their
with fisa section 702, and you and i have talked about this a lot on the couch. when you don t drill down on this and give that much power to the government, this is what can happen and it doesn t matter which party paid katie: this can go both ways, that s the thing. harris: is making news today and we are all over it. the democrats have a new plan to win back congress. by turning the tables on the president s own plan to drain the swamp. whether this can be a winning strategy. we will talk about it. plus a group of congressional republicans calling for a second special counsel to look into alleged misconduct had the highest levels of the doj and fbi. we ve been talking about this. we will broaden how the with fresh points on the debate. is it necessary? to close. we have at least 19 members of congress who will be introducing today at 12 12 page house resolution detailing misconduct at the highest level