i thought, let me tht t oue.er sisters,oet to do. those women who had seen the worst decided we will step out; we will do what we have to do. even if we die trying, we wl do it. tavis: telmeah, leym, what the purpose was and how u came upon the idea to just sit holding those gn always insitt ag, again, women,si christians and muslims together, wearing white. tell me more about that. when we decided to do the proteswe hadt ifferent ideas, dd the first thing was we had no idea about dr. king, nonviolent struggle. the rest of the women -- i had read king, i read gandhi, but these were women who didn't have any ideas of any of these things. the only thing they knew was the bible and the qur'an, and the christian women were saying, "let's do as esther did when the children of israel were under threat. let's go to god in our sackcloth and ashes," and we didn't have the literal sackcloth and ashes to put on, so we thought, white. but then also as we put on the white, no makeup, no jewelry, and we cover our hair, so that's how the white came

, my oath actually says, and this is my 20 years in the reserve component, the military, i swore an oet ahead of me. a law, a legislative bodty has to pass, and then the president signs. we all learned that. this is a process. and to think that, es spispecian an issue, yes u it's emotionally charged. but what i am saying is the president cannot and should not unilaterally say with the wave of the hand this is what we're going to do. >> first of all, the president has made some proposals to congress. other things he's issued an executive action and certainly, that's within the law. but what i'm saying is that you said you will be the decider of what jou thi what you think is constitutional. if every law enforcement person decided that they think they'd do what was constitutional, you'd have anarchy. >> there's 3,000 plus elected sheriffs. i'm the third largest county in arizona. i have to enforce the law. we enforce laws, whether i agree with them or not. but these are not laws. >> who determines they're not laws? the president by executive order, that is not a law. what i am saying is h

presidents who have taken a second oet of office.e opportunity to put an indelible stamp on this country. but he also faces an inplaqueble republican party. joining me, washington bureau chief for mother jones, david corn. both are msnbc analysts. so, in this seconds term, i begin to think what i like is something like action on a lot of fronts whachlt are your views? i'd like to see this country rebuild the way eisenhower did it in the highway system. i'd like to see building go on, not just maintenance. your thauloughts, david, on whae should do? >> i think he has a very big and bold agenda. i think he talked about building highways today. he talked about reviving education for grade school and for university. he talked about climate change. now, he's talked about a$é+m) @% these things before. so none of this comes as a surprise. but he also talked about the need to organize. that citizens involved, and it's not a coincidence that he's making those points to and othe just a couple of days after he has transformed his political pre