partners to carry astronauts. they ll carry astronauts to the international space station. let s watch. t minus 15. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, mission, engines full power, and lif lift-off. 1 alpha. copy 1 alpha. the vehicle is pitching downrange. stage 1 propulsion. apparent telemetry. stage 1. martin savidge as we watch this takeoff. it s majestic. i could watch it over andover. i m a bit of a space geek. walk through, again, the importance of this mission, and, again, the commander, a native american woman. that s a pretty historic thing. a cosmonaut on an american spacecraft for the first time in 20 years. an important mission and remarkable pictures. it is because of the commitment of the united states and russia despite the tensions that have been introduced into the space program. they need each other. and as a result, the reintegration now of having russians fly an american spacecraft is an important message. and then, of course, for nicole mann.
between people who are willing to use the power of the state to silence their opponent, and those who are unwilling. what s the hill this country together since the civil war? it s not that of a federal code, it s not even the bill of rights come as important is. remember, the soviet union had a bill of rights for guaranteed freedom of speech and equal rights. but in practice the bolsheviks sent their dissidents to the gulags. as he boasted, show me the man, i will show you the crime. now what s kept us functioning through the centuries where the bolsheviks failed is that our constitution separated powers and prevented a unit party. we also had an understanding that state power shall not be used for improper political purposes. the law must be enforced equally, without political considerations. and once you lose that common understanding, it s mutually assured destruction. nobody had any reason to uphold the system, so the system will collapse. the late anthony scalia made th
soviet union, you think of the word constitution it doesn t mean a bill, it means structure. say a person has a sound constitution, they have a sound structure. the real constitution of the soviet union, which is what our framers debated that whole summer in philadelphia in 1787, they didn t talk about the bill of rights. that was an afterthought, wasn t it? that constitution of the soviet union did not prevent the centralization of power, in one person or in one party. and when that happens, the game is over, the bill of rights is just what our framers would call a parchment guarantee. will: the game is over. a parchment guarantee. most americans now, by the way, in both parties believe we are living in a banana republic that was just described by anthony scalia. 79% of americans believe the justice system defends political
democracy, voters get the leaders they deserve and the voters are never wrong in a democracy but now as we turn the chapter into governing, these protocols exist for a reason and the reason is that the world is a dangerous place and miscalculations can have the gravest consequences. nicolle wallace, should the president-elect be allowed to have his son-in-law in the west wing if he s become a valuable and trusted counsel? there is no i think you have to go back to nancy reagan to find an example of a family member having such influence over a president. and there s certainly no precedent for it. the way this operation runs and the way any writtening campaign experiences its victory is that everything must have been great because we won. that doesn t mean it s a sound structure. great point, yea. and that doesn t mean that having steve bannon there who could have just as easily been blamed for the loss if it had gone the other way because he