Of experts to explore this further. In london, a geopolitical analyst and author. He serves as the cofounder of economic partners. And in beirut today but actually based in london at the school of economics. An expert on terrorism and the coauthor of isis the state of terr terror. And peter bergen joins us from washington. He is a Vice President at new america. Peter, let me ask you, does this strike you as terrorists adapting yet again . Because what is interesting about this to me is its in many ways very low tech. A van going into crowds, people brandishing knives and using them as weapons. Of course, guns are very hard to get in britain. Maybe im just trying to look for a Silver Lining here. All of that means theyre
finding it hard to do big bombs at symbolic locations and that kind of thing, and what they are reduced to is driving vans and using knives, which is, of course, terrible and tragic, but you can only kill so many people, particularly if the Police Responds as quickly as
for it that the argument that the president isn t subject to any congressional oversight is spur yurks i want you to listen to trey gowdy. former republican congressman who cnn is reporting will be brought on as an outside impeachment counsel to the president here. this was trey gowdy in 2012 talking about how the executive must respond to congressional investigations. the notion that you can withhold information and documents from congress no matter whether you are the party in power or not in power is wrong. respect for the rule of law must mean something, irrespective of the visisitudes of political cycles. now one wonders when he is officially named later today as a official white house counsel if he ll continue to hold those views. they were very strong then. he felt very passionate and strong then. we can assume he still will today. oh, abby, what you
i m joined by justice coordinator pete williams. what s the deal, does the white house have a legal leg to stand on with the action? the supreme court doesn t say you couldn t do this. what the supreme court ruling stands for is narrow, have you to have a good reason, commerce question, for why you want to put this question on the census form under administrative freedom act, what you gave about voting act is a tall tale, doesn t wash, and that s it. in theory it leaves the door open for some kind of presidential action. the president isn t subject to the administrative procedures act. i would say two things about, this hallie. one is, this doesn t necessarily and doesn t at all violate the supreme court ruling. secondly, it doesn t mean they are going to get a free pass here. whatever the president orders the commerce department to do, as soon as the commerce dependent decides to do it, they will be subject to more litigation, lawsuits. there are a couple of problems for the governm
would be to streamline the actual jurisdiction of the committee s makes more sense of jurisdiction over healthcare, for example, isn t subject to the schema throne process were different committees are commutin competing and then no one has actual responsibility for anything. those are the simplest things i can do. i don t think that will fix everything, i think it s starting point. i favor term limits we talked about campaign-finance reform, but there s a lot of criticism i ve got for this but i would just say to the critics who don t offer an alternative, they are quite literally insane in defending the status quo because the status quo involves doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. a couple things, it s very interesting your focus on the committees. i think that s not widely understood we talk about congress and the laws of the regulation, it s these committees that are so powerful. by the way that s where a lot of the corruption comes in becau
leadership and the third thing would be to streamline the actual jurisdiction of the committee s makes more sense of jurisdiction over healthcare, for example, isn t subject to the schema throne process were different committees are commutin competing and then no one has actual responsibility for anything. those are the simplest things i can do. i don t think that will fix everything, i think it s starting point. i favor term limits we talked about campaign-finance reform, but there s a lot of criticism i ve got for this but i would just say to the critics who don t offer an alternative, they are quite literally insane in defending the status quo because the status quo involves doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. a couple things, it s very interesting your focus on the committees. i think that s not widely understood we talk about congress and the laws of the regulation, it s these committees that are so powerful. by the way that s where a lot o