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come back here to try to make a difference. i want to congratulate you on the difference you have made. now one of the questions i would ask you is why you re willing to leave a place with so much responsibility and background and capability to be willing to be the secretary of health and human services. thank you, senator. when i think about the mission of the department of health and human services, which is to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of the american people, it s what i ve literally spent my life trying to do. and so to have the opportunity to participate if confirmed, to be to serve as the secretary of health and human services and to try to guide that organization in a direction that would further fulfill that mission, i can t think of anything more exciting for fulfilling. i think you have the background for doing that too, with the wide range of experience you had between the different practices and hospitals and then coming here and going through ....
right behind this. but we have to get through this first. you ll be here every step of the way. ginger, thank you. we re going to turn next tonight to the political storm brewing in washington. the president back at the white house today and back to twitter, taking aim at his own justice department, tweeting about the, quote, deep state. and so, we asked tonight, does the president really believe there is a shadow government out to get him? abc s senior white house correspondent cecilia vega beginning another year at the white house. reporter: president trump kicked off 2018 with a tweet storm today, attacking his own justice department as a deep state secretly working to undermine his presidency. he also lashed out at hillary clinton s long-time aide huma abedin, suggesting she should be punished for her handling of certain government e-mails. the president tweeting, jail. deep state justice department must finally act. also on comey and others. what did the president mean w ....
phil mattingly, thank you so much. dana bash who used to run up and down those halls for years and years and years. phil has talked to folks on both sides of the aisle. confident that the house will get to this and nancy pelosi was so key in brokering this deal why is she standing there now for four-plus hours and saying no? i saw you write that down and because you re you, is why you picked up what you did about nancy pelosi. to people at home, it makes no sense. not at all. because she s getting attention for the issue she s upset is not in there. she understood because she is as sort of seasoned and tough as a legislator as they come, that at the end of the day, we saw what happened in the senate a few weeks ago. they tried to use the immigration issue as leverage for keeping the government open and it didn t work. shut the government down. it didn t work out so politically, at least in the short term, for democrats. nancy pelosi is making using the megaphone ....
Updates of the day s news. directly intersects with the news of the day about there being potentially a second premeeting for the russia trump tower meeting. rick gates is one of the names that rudy guilliani slipped and revealed in the series of interviews yesterday. what is the significance of paul manafort dropping his case against robert mueller. he was trying to have this case dismissed in court, saying that robert mueller s jurisdiction did not extend to what he is actually charging paul manafort with? as i understand, he dropped those charges yesterday. it just seems he is increasingly finding himself to be more cornered and he doesn t have a lot of options to fight back at this point, and this is all getting back to that original goal of trying to squeeze manafort and get as. information as possible out of him as they move closer hopefully to doing an interview of the president himself. that is still very much on the table. also, heidi, why is it that paul manafo ....
1980s and that case, the supreme court instructed federal courts to defer an agency s interpretation of the law if the law is quote ambiguous, unquote. some of your academic writings express skepticism about the chevron doctrine and concern that it allows an ad men straegs to impose its policy preference by avoiding the political process. i can understand why this is appealing to an administration. i also think it s a threat to the separation of powers because it transfers power fro the congress and just dish area to the executive branch. that s why i ve reversed the chevron doctrine. many members of this committee have co-sponsored this ledges london attacks. as someone who has written extensively about the separation of powers, can you tell us why the separation of powers are so important and how it how it helps to protect individual freedom. spiration of powers protects individual lebt because it responds to the concern the framers had that senator klobuchar yesterday t ....