good representative from florida he joins us in washington during this compromise bill went down it provided for a wall you provided for the citizenship for the doctors why don't you get beat david truly because there is no universal consensus within the republican party separation of families but there are just enough republicans in the caucus who want to see a pathway to legal status or even a pathway to citizenship for the dreamers for those who came in under dhaka and the reality is democrats were able to just sit on the sideline and watch republicans continue to implode through a comedy of errors in the last week or two on immigration you also have to look at larry the inconsistency of the president ited states who one week ago said don't waste your time on immigration and then just ahead of this final vote said let's pass it this is a party that is somewhat listless on immigration but probably happy to go into november with it on resolved because it it remains a very powerful issue for their base voters. a path to

citizenship for the doctors who are all here not of their own volition but have stayed and been pretty good citizens. you know in in raw politics it's because they sell a message of fear that's very powerful fear often sells better than hope when it comes to an electoral base but there also are questions of whether or not we are going to create a pathway for those who came here illegally those who came here without going through the normal process while we still have those here on legal status who do not have a similar pathway you know we have several visa programs for families who came here illegally have been here for ten or twenty years their kids age out under the current system and are told they have to return the moment they close a business they are told they have to return the reality is we need a dramatic reform of our immigration laws including legal immigration laws but at the same time you know i often say we can be a nation of laws but also

a nation that is a loving and caring nation that embraces those who are seeking a better life seeking freedom here in the united states i believe the majority of our party is wrong on this issue we need to do better and you're seeing thirty to forty members of the house try to move the party in that direction but they're doing so very unsuccessful it. seems confusing to a lot of people he's what is he i thought he was in favor of the doctors having a path to citizenship was long as the war was in. so why couldn't it was swayed his party since they follow him in every area to go vote for this bill you know that is a great question larry the present united states has this bully pulpit leadership within the party and most of the time the hard line conservatives will follow him whether or not he truly has a conviction about a pathway for dreamers are or not but we do know is he does continue to peddle in some of these darker themes of immigration and we saw

a few years ago republicans talk about the threat of syrian refugees when actually there was not a rational threat it was just one that created political currency we're seeing that now with the issue at the border there is not a rational crisis at the border there are families who are coming across who are seeking a better life but the republican party particularly under donald trump is happy to use that as a political issue because it works republicans are looking at a november where they are very vulnerable the tax bill is not convincing voters that the obama care repeal is not convincing voters a regulatory reform is not convincing voters but they know the politics of immigration will energize their base and i believe trump will go into november speaking about immigration and very dark tones. what do you make of those several shockers in tuesday's elections the biggest being joe probably the moderate the middle of the road democrat in new york being beaten by a democratic socialist. the you think that party's in trouble but i think both

parties are having a hard family conversation right now about what's the direction of the party what are the themes of the ideology of each party if you will you know just last week or two weeks ago we saw mark sanford a very conservative member in a very conservative district lose his primary to a newcomer just like we saw crowley lose to a newcomer and his more progressive district at the same time we've seen moderates in places like pennsylvania moderate democrats come forward i think each district has the opportunity to elect somebody that best reflects their district the harder question for each party but obviously the democrats now going into a two thousand and twenty presidential race is you have to choose a path you have to decide what are the overwhelming themes that you're going to present to voters and at that point that diversity of bits of opinion gets very difficult to manage for a national party we saw it play out with trunk taking over the republican party we are coming up on a chapter where democrats have to make a decision for themselves as well and now joining our conversation is old friend

richard painter for sense of law at the university of minnesota he was the chief white house ethics lawyer during the administration of george w. bush and he's currently running for the u.s. senate in minnesota and he joins us from minneapolis welcome aboard richard well if i could wear big news this week supreme court justice anthony kennedy announces his retirement whenever you see the vote was five to four he was the five most of the times conservative i would say was ninety percent conservative ten percent liberal what does it mean richard. well a president will seek to nominate someone to the court the question is how the senate judiciary committee should respond and i have called on the house and the senate judiciary committee for quite some time now to convene

a hearings to investigate this president and his administration and their abuse of power and their violations of the constitution we may very well have a situation that involves high crimes and misdemeanors. offenses were way past the point where we were in one thousand nine hundred seventy three with respect to president nixon and to me it be quite shocking to see the senate judiciary committee proceed with yet another supreme court nomination for someone with a lifetime tenure when they haven't been doing their job which is to investigate what's going on in this administration as i say once again we are well past where we were in one thousand nine hundred three with respect to becks and when the senate as well as the house had judiciary committee hearings and this president his legitimacy as a president is very much in question given his conduct while in office and his conduct before the election. of investigating are you saying that's going to happen

before a new nominee is picked. i would think it should remember that we were told by mitch mcconnell in the last year of the obama administration the president the united states should not be allowed to nominate a supreme court justice in his last year in office and he refused to hold hearings for america garland well the way president trump has been behaving is making it very clear that he wants this to be his last year in office because at a sensible house and senate judiciary committee would be investigating what's going on we have violations of the amal humans clause that's the foreign profits and benefits close of the constitution we have violations of first amendment freedom of religion the united states house and senate might have a different interpretation of the first the members who are specter this travel miami than the united states supreme court and under our constitution they are free to apply that interpretation we have had threats to the freedom of the process also

a violation of the first amendment we have had violations of due process under the fifth amendment most recently what's been going on at the border with kids being locked up in cages to basically to intimidate immigrants a cruel and unusual punishment quite frankly a violation of the eighth amendment the list goes on and on and congress isn't doing anything and i haven't even mentioned the obstruction of justice and the various matters that robert muller is a vast gating that back in the next days the house and senate judiciary committee were investigating too they did just sit around and wait for the special prosecutor to fetishize work. david in your mind how big a story is that with time and event than a kennedy it is it is very significant i think you're going to see the senate move quickly the president will move quickly to nominate the senate will move quickly to confirm probably by the first monday in october when the court convenes they will do so to reduce the risk of what might happen should the senate flip to democrats

they want to get this done you said kennedy was about ninety percent conservative ten percent liberal that's right listen he is a reliable conservative justice but he has been one that's and braced matters of equality and women women's rights and affirmative action and so forth but make no mistake he's a conservative justice but his successor will be more conservative i think what what this really does it puts the spotlight for the next two years on the likes of say ruth bader ginsburg because we already know this will be a deeply conservative court but still probably five four but if ruth bader ginsburg who is really now the oldest member of the court for some reason were to step down now you're talking about a dramatic generational historical shift in the court should that happen does the new justice. i think that that will take fifty vaults that's the problem that they votes because vice

president pats can cast the tie breaking vote and they will force it through. and that's the way they're going to do it they're going to try to do it the democrats are drown. fit they want to forty nine and that's why it's critically important the democrats want to have a prayer here that they have people who are fighting and fighting all fronds around people want to sit around and you know drink coffee at a donuts and you know run around playing local politics this is a very very serious situation. for the democrats and quite frankly a lot of moderate to liberal republicans who have left the party as i happened. to david us saying there will be a new supreme court justices before the november elections they're going to try to move very quickly on this the president's already indicated that and frankly mitch mcconnell has as well the only real piece the republicans have to navigate understand now they have blown up the the filibuster rule that would have required

sixty votes to at least get to a confirmation vote so it is it is as richard said fifty votes but there are in particular two republican senators both women one from maine one from alaska who are pro-choice republicans and if this president pushes a very hard nominee it will be interesting what those two do despite your objections was she do you agree with david that there will be a supreme court justice a new justice before the november midterms. i don't know about that we're going to say what happens we're going to say whether the democrats are willing to actually call for an investigation of this president a lot of the democrats are really being very very. you know shy about that and not going to be aggressive but i think they're going to learn the hard way that if they don't fight back they're going to get beaten up on so we'll see how the democrats respond will also say you were kind of nominee president

trump trust advance. of course that he's very conservative but he's not identified with the pro-life movement he actually belongs to a mainline protestant church that is pro-choice so i don't think he was as controversial. as someone would be who was a lot scalia a very clearly identified with the anti-abortion movement and once again we're talking about case law it's forty five years old and try to reverse a forty five year old. given women the right to choose an abortion is going to be extremely controversial david and richard thanks for your time today owes great having you with this is here with us more politicking in anger brick.

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a project and things profit from projects and things people will happen to us it's it's extremely profitable because football in general is very profitable but of cause it's required future investment on the government side they do is that this will help development of football culture in nations. about politicking you know omar epps from his long list of credits on television and theaters he's presently the costar of the t.v. series shooter which is in its third season on the usa network and he's the author of the new memoir from father list of fatherhood i talk to omar about shooter and his new book and a lot of politics as well here's that interview watch. her.

family what's your reaction to what's happening on the u.s. mexican border i think you say honestly. is obviously much better ways to handle situations like that you know at the end of the day you know we need to have a greater conversation as a country. get back to who we are you know where legal what happen i don't know i think that there were factions of people that felt disenfranchised and they felt that their voice voices weren't being heard and it seems to have caused some sort of a chasm you know there is this split it's this tribalism mentality that i think is going to harm us in the long run because america in its essence is a melting pot and we're in we're all in the same team where this is our country we love it so we should be able to come to the table you know air out our differences and come to the meet in the middle separating children it's disgusting it's

disgusting and it you know i think the people who know the intricacies of of those laws and what have you. just to be more compassionate you know i think that there are people. up top of top who don't know they don't know the nuances they know that they don't know the intricacies of the laws they're just you know spewing off talking points and not knowing how it trickles down to real world effects in march of two thousand and sixteen before the election you tweeted that all trump cares about is winning he's not conservative or liberal not a republican or democrat he's a businessman that was two years ago what's your assessment now of the same thing tweeted it is more conservative than you thought maybe or maybe not maybe he's just pandering to that crowd that's the crowd that you know helped him get into office.

i think that he just cares about winning his cares about making money. and cares about the people who support him so you're saying he will have any core beliefs i don't believe so i think if he thought he could have one running democrat he went around democrat if he thought he could really realistically one independent he would have ran independent is he better or worse than you thought he'd be. even need to answer that question i mean he's. it's alarming the scene where our country is at right now. you know i guess you can't really judge a four year term into the four years is done but from what i've seen now no it's worse than what i thought it was going to be. you were on this show right after the election and you said you were both shocked and not shocked by what happened you also said you're always an optimist you were hopeful the country would come together. and you still an optimist. yeah i believe that from my

vantage point i believe that a lot of what's happening. said sorry to say but it's needed to happen for us to have real conversations about ourselves as people as human beings first and as an american culture in american society to really come to the table because i think when obama was in office a lot of you know liberals thought ok you know racism is over this is over and i was like no it's not it's you know people are dealing with a lot of stuff out in the streets and so now. people can see what it really is. they're showing who are openly calling trumbo races do you join that group i don't know if he's a racist i don't know what's inside a person's heart mean a lot of times policies can definitely come off as racist. and i don't know because i don't know them and he does seem to favor racist beliefs or leads races ideology

where supports those supports those are you know so obviously you know. this is these races adjacent. the recent gallup poll shows more americans approve of the job trump is doing as president than approve of him as a person. i'm sure president supposed to be role models. yeah of course the leader of the free world and presidents always have been at least attempted to be role models and. you know it's just a very bizarre it's a bizarre time. in those polls you know polls always relative to who you're polling so what you know who is who's benefiting from these policies i think that you know what the health care on a lot of these issues in another two years people going to feel a lot different every poll still says that barack obama is the most popular. living

american i can believe that i do mission i do miss i miss is grace and this is his compassion and empathy. and his intelligence and you know i think everyone misses and you know he was a beacon and at a time when we really needed it and hopefully you know there's another one the next big thing is coming unlike a lot of celebrities your twitter account doesn't have a lot of political content and why not well because i'd rather have conversations like this you know where things people can get contacts i think there's only but so much you can tweet out or you know you can't you know i was stream of consciousness and get full understanding sometimes so it's just not you know with certain things i feel that they're too delicate to just you know spew out a paragraph in a tweet. so you are in that respect you'd rather do this yes i rather talk about it so people here my feelings or thoughts and opinions they get the whole context of

something in that like a soundbite and t.v. series your own shooter involves a bunch of kids spirochetes and plots within plots your reaction to the idea that there's an unelected state operating in the united states from trolling the government that's the plot yeah do you buy any of that. i mean who knows who knows i mean i think that we have our structure and you know in any sector there's always going to be. some sort of conspiratorial. messaging but what's funny with our show is like i'm talking with jon levin who is our show and he created the show and like you know season one was about the assassination of a ukrainian president in season two and it's kind of like it's art imitating life or you know it's we're having a blast on that thing who do you play i play a character named isaac johnson who's a former captain of the marine sniper unit and in season one when you meet him he's now working for the secret service and he enlisted bob lee was ryan phillippe his

character to you know go on a secret mission for a country and then there's this takes them down a rabbit hole no in the series is a bunch of good spears as we said in the film of gun violence yet where do you stand on the issue of gun control i think there need to be tougher laws on gun control be honest with you i mean i'm all for you know the right to bear arms but we you know we have to move to i think we need to revisit some some of these laws and it's too easy for anyone to get their hands on a gun is just too easy you know and you can you can do background check you can do these sort of things it's like it shouldn't be as easy to get a gun is it is to it's hard to get a driver's license. that's bizarre and we live in a time we have to meet the modern times we have to amend some of those laws in my opinion. your memoir we have it here from fatherless to fatherhood yes what prompted you to write it well. i had a moment with my son

a few years back that caused me to question whether growing up fatherless had somehow crept into my fatherhood you go of yeah i grew up without my phone so i didn't die you know it just wasn't my life. and i met my father one time in my whole life. and so when i started to have that question it took me on a journey of self i started to explore my own history in to try to you know unpack this and it just started pouring out in this form and and when i got close to finishing it i realize that hey maybe my story could be used as a tool of inspiration to others you know maybe it's bigger than me there's a lot of people can relate. it speaks everyone kind of speaking specifically to men but i'm speaking to men and women you know people all across the board doesn't matter what color you are where you come from as a made you a bit of it all absolutely absolutely because not having a father made you a bit oh well no i can't say that you know i can say it because you never know

which way is going to sway you know people so i think we have to we rationalize saying you know someone even said to me hey will you know maybe the father was in your life you know you wouldn't have made it to anyone that done this and i'm like we don't know maybe i would be a better person maybe i'd be smarter maybe i'd be more successful i don't know but we have to rationalize. so that we can deal and move on so who knows we will never know the answer to my father when i was nine so i didn't have strong father influence in my formative years right so hard it is hard it's hard in you know as men were taught to you know took things away emotionally and you know it's trauma and you put traumas away and you impact on what as you go on in your life it's still there it's on your back and you know me writing this book is. it's just sort of trying to share my story it's and so people can take something from it you know

when to push on to push on in hopefully i can even can even be a tool of guidance to some people well we both grew up in brooklyn yes i grew up in bensonhurst would you grow up i grew up all of them so i was in east new york was and flatbush was in bed stuy i was in clinton hill so peace everywhere. now you saw a lot of crime. you saw a lot of crack you know around you how did you not get sucked into what was very easy this my mom who's who still to this day my super hero my super woman my mom in the black mother is maybe the strongest individual in america when argue against that. my mom instilled a sense of self-worth in me and a very young age and so always felt. i always had a sense of worth and know not to anyone else but you know going through those those peer pressure years and invite you know you're influenced by your environment i

just always have my own a certain prize and i never wanted to do anything illegal or do things the wrong way just to get ahead. because we're all connected no one wanted to put out good into the world you grew up as the title implies fatherless how do you learn the ins and outs of being of which you had no father to say i'll do this and that you know and do what he did or do not what he did right was definitely that i'll not be there but i had some great father figures along the way i must say some of my closest friends you know their fathers were there and you know take those those jewels that they would they would you know pass down and also to be quite frank i mean it's kind of learning on the job as you go because fatherhood in the self is like life it goes in phases so you know right now this is nineteen and. i'm like ok what's the thing is i guess we're in this phase now how do you think your kids would say you are as a father i don't know they my i hopefully they say i'm

a good father you know hopefully they sound good for what do you want readers to take away from the book. i want people to be inspired i want people to because different people will take away different things but at the end of the day i think the main message is about the power of choice we always have the power of choice so it doesn't matter if you get off track you can choose to get back on track and for people to respect one another when they bring a child into the world that person that you're doing that with is that's a a lifelong bond continued good luck thank you so much oma thanking them to all mars book from fatherless to fatherhood is out now and it's available everywhere including for download and season three of shooter is currently airing on the usa network thanks for joining us on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things that don't fit get

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