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he later elaborated on this on msnbcpejorati. he said, this court is not normal. what you mean? what i meant by that is just one more to unravel. basic and basic decisions inha any court rulings. every history.t and that s what i meant by not normal devin. when a case has been decided in an unconstitutional manner, un held thatutional manner, precedent does not stand that it would make no sense. tha and we ve seen that. and time and again in the left has been d happy when precedent has been overturned, but not in this casbut e. , actu yeah, no, actually, one of the things i think is really interestini thg in these cases e i really haven t heard much talk about today tal is that the court had the opportunity to overturn on the harvard and you and see admissions processec s title six, which ise civil rights law and that veryy says that schools that receive federal funding cannot in
let s play what he once said about people who do that. you see the mob takes the fifth. if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? so barbara, what do you think he ll do? you know, the fifth amendment is kind of tricky. i don t know about civil cases how all of that works, and in a crimical case, of course he s going to take the fifth amendment because anything he says that is truthful will, in fact, incriminate him. as far as this attitude about only the mob takes the fifth, i mean, you know, it s his projection. it s what he always does. i would never do something when actually that is what he s doing. cynthia, the legal question we kind of set you up there, first of all, would this be a risky strategy to plead the fifth? how could it come back to potentially bite him and how significant would it be for a former president to plead the ifivity? in the scope of history t seems shocking a president would
divided the country is right now that someone like mccain who will be when he passes will be one of the most celebrated united states senators in history. and that one of his last wishes is that he didn t want the president of the united states at his funeral. and i cannot think of a historical example. maybe go back to the 19th century when things were particularly ugly, but you can t think of a modern example where a sitting united states senator in advance of his death is letting it be known that he doesn t want the president there. he has such a low opinion of this man. of his own party. such low morality and ethics. this is a military man. would have been his commander in chief if he were still in the milita military. he doesn t want him there. of history t, himself i m not criticizing mccain for a second over this. i think you re right about the family. he forgave the vietnamese who tortured him two years. he went to vietnam, befriended people who tried to kill him