Senator from florida, i know he and i both know, as i hope does every member of this body, just how precious and fragile the freedom is that we enjoy in this country. As president reagan continued in that speech, if we lose freedom here, theres no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. And this idea that government is beholding to the people, that it has no other source of power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of mans relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for selfgovernment or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan for our lives better than we can plan them ourselves. You and i are increasingly told that we have to choose between a left or right. Well, id like to suggest theres no such thing as left or right. Theres only up or down. Up, mans old age dream, the ultimate and individ
Short lived. After a rough week of russian accusations, this morning President Trump went on a twitter rant accusing his predecessor of wiretapping trump tower and comparing president s obama and nixon. Now attorney general Jeff Sessions who met with the Russian Ambassador despite denying it at his hearing, has recused himself from investigating russian meddling. On monday hell supplement his testimony. The man he met who also called Michael Flynn his job, the New York Times calling the most prominent yet radioactive ambassador in washington. Who is Sergey Kislyak. The nations explainerinchief, New York Times thomas l. Friedman is here with a new book to put it in context. Farewell to legendary coach, mike pettine, senior. Nobody looks down on us. Well respect them all the way till we kick their ass. Allow me to give you some Lessons Learned from the bench. But first, you know my track record when it comes to the president. I was wrong about him ever running, wrong about him filling ou
i agree with that in a battle. when someone is shooting at you, you don t ask for they don t get miranda rights or a trial, you shoot them. when anybody is actively attacking you, you re allowed to repulse that with lethal authority. however, if they re not engaged in combat and if they re in the united states, i don t think that the law of war applies to the united states. the police act differently in the united states than the military acts overseas. there s different rules of engagement. i don t want to give up on the procedural constitutional protection that we have to all of the amendments, particularly the fifth and sixth amendment. jury trial is an important thing. arrest, be charged, determining your guilt, these are important things, we can t leave that up to one politician to decide guilty or innocence. megyn: as now, there s a history in our country of having to make decisions like this. when you first wrote to the attorney general expressing concerns whether we might us