ends of congress dole is to venezuela. when the political crisis hit the streets many politicians exploited public frustration and transformed caracas into a battlefield. thoughts of the opposition resorted to extreme violence. he had to get off point you had a sad state mechanism responded cruelly and indiscriminately dozens were killed on both sides and many ended up in prison. when independent un experts alfred desireless visited caracas. he persuaded the government to release 80 prisoners are. just flat he insists though that some should be in prison and should be considered political prisoners. on the subject of political prisoners he said we should look at europe as well. they are 4 persons. politicians who are. in jail. now these 4. politicians are clearly political prisoners. whereas in venezuela many of the detainees were detained because acts of violence. they were. detained because they were just expressing their. desire to be independent. to be sure that they're all political prisoners in spain i went to barcel

would hurt states that have large latino communities, losing representation in congress, losing federal funds that are doled out based on population and, therefore, the government should not put this question on the census form. the judge ruled in their favor in january. it was appealed to the supreme court. and the justices there heard argument last month, so whether the court is going to do anything with this new information remains to be seen. >> may i just ask you -- >> yeah. >> -- given your long history and experience with this, what typically happens once a case has been argued at the supreme court but before a decision is rendered and new evidence comes in, is there a mechanism at the supreme court or do they just get to decide whether they look at it or not? >> well, the latter vais really more. there's no established mechanic mic mechanism, no set rule for this. often happens when something comes up and the case becomes moot and parties will write to the justices and say, never mind. when they want to get new evidence in it, there's no set procedure but the aclu found a way to do this. they wrote

congress since january 1st. five of those bills had to do with the government shutdown. the rest of them were naming bob dolemportant but not the big ticket items. >> it's very frustrating. >> so what do you do? you're new to the game but people put you in a position of trust. it is fair game for you to say, it's not us, it's them. we have been all about the border. pushback is, you have been all about the fence and the men and women down there were saying we're not a fence away from fixing this. i'm not against physical barriers. they have their place. i don't think they're immoral. what is immoral is ignoring the rest of the equation. what i don't get is, what is missing in terms of also up the food chain of people saying we have to do something about this right now. bring in -- we said we can walk and chew game. bring in the czar from hhs and bring in the new dhs acting guy and what do you need now? is it something that the president can do with the emergency declaration? why isn't that happening? >> it's something that could be done with the emergency declaration but such a huge problem down in washingto

the chief executive and the congress were at loggerheads, the american people had an anchor in the senate and it was the wise men of the republican party -- howard baker, dole, goldwater -- who were our anchor to the windward side. they are not there anymore. there is no functioning republican establishment. and that is the missing cog, i think, in the gear of government now. in addition to the eccentricity of the executive branch. >> ek sccentricity is quite the word. without diminishing the import of that, it has become clear that the democrats are not ready to do much about much of this. much to the consternation of a lot of people, of the grassroots base which is not necessarily how to resolve constitutional questions, but is politically relevant. the democrats are the ones claiming this would be politically bad. i want to play for you tom stire who's been on this show. he's a major donor to democrats beating the drum on this. take a look. >> for over two years this president has broken the law. >> and nothing happened. >> you told us to wait for the mueller investigation. >> and when he showed obstruction of justice. >> nothing happened. >> now you tel