“If you want to name your local post office after your grandmother, you’ve got to have a party-line vote,” says @paulbegala. Why Congress just doesn’t work, on “Checks and Balance” https://t.co/h0niE1qfVv ...

thweekend primetime and economics editor for The Bulwark, Catherine Rampell. Staff writer at The New Yorker, Susan Glasser. MSNOW justice and intelligence correspondent Ken Delanian and senior writer at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern.Catherine, I will start with you. So in that very interesting speech earlier this afternoon. Good euphemism.Yes, you know, I have to have a bunch of those in my back pocket all the time in this day and age. So the president clearly lashing out, angry he lost here. At the same time do ...

Ryan, among President Trump's first words, deeply disappointing. Talk to us about his reaction in the room and what you asked him about. >> Yeah, I think there's a couple of ways to look at this in Clay.First, how emphatic he was hammering the Supreme Court in a very direct and sometimes personal way, going after a group of Supreme Court justices that he appointed, saying at one point that their families should be ashamed over this decision. He stopped short of saying that he regretted appointing them to th ...

There's been bipartisan criticism by parts. >> Excuse me. >> There's several Republicans have said that.>> Yeah. You just work with Congress to come up with a plan. >> I don't have to to push tariffs. >> I have the right to do tariffs and I've always had the right to do tariffs.It has all been approved by Congress. So there's no reason to do it. All we're doing is we're going through a little bit more complicated process.Not complicated very much, but a little more complicated than what we had. We'll be abl ...

And joining us now is Democratic Congressman Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania He's the ranking member of the Budget Committee. Congressman, great to have you here. Give us your initial reaction to this ruling.Well, I certainly cheer this decision by the Supreme Court. It was correct on the merits. The idea that we have 92 different emergencies simultaneously is, of course, just not believable and not practical.Donald Trump himself was his own witness TARIFTS ON SWITZERLAND. HE SAID HE RAISED TARIFFS ON SWITZER ...

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Will you turn to the survivors. This is not about anybody that came before you. It is about you taking responsibility for your Department of Justice and the harm that it has done to the survivors who are standing right behind you and are waiting for you to turn to them and apologize for what your Department of Justice is members members get to ask the questions the witness gets to answer in the way they want to answer that turning job that's not accurate mr.chairman because she doesn't like the answer. So, ...

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