noah: i am a professor of law at harvard law school. it is a good day job. ve teaching constitutional law to my students, it enables me to keep on writing and doing research. i write a column for bloomberg view which is a fun way of expressing a view about contemporary events alongside the serious work of trying to do research. brian: you dedicated your madison book to a professor at harvard. what does it mean to be his clerk? noah: they are both about relationships. the first is a living person, the second is a person i never knew. justice souter, whom i worked for and to whom i dedicated the book was an extraordinary boss. he was just a deeply inspiring figure in the justice system. he was a bipartisan-oriented republican. he was a member of the republican party for most of his career until he went on the bench and put aside his partisan affiliation. he was deeply committed to the constitution. he was just a profoundly humane, deeply well read, and inspiring person. a person of probity and rectitude, that everybody was struck by his honesty and his straight

politicking i'm talking with constitutional scholar on the harvard law school professor emeritus alan dershowitz he's joining us via skype and richard painter the former chief white house lawyer during the administration of george w. bush and alan can counsel. talk to president trump if he wants to. if the president wants to talk to him sure there's no problem with that at all look there are there are two extreme positions the one extreme position is that most are constantly subpoena the president make him come and answer questions on any subject without any advance notice of what the security matter going to be that's one position the other position the white house takes there's no the president should be asked questions in writing and he should be able to answer it in writing. i think in the end they'll be a compromise and that they'll be an agreed upon interview probably in the oval office probably was some time limits probably with some advance notice as to the subject matters to be covered and probably with his lawyers present and it will be transcribed but perhaps not b.t.o. to

>> sunday on c-span's q&a, author and her for all school professor -- and harvard law school professor, with his book, "the three lives of james madison." >> the whole three-part structure of government, the way the government interacts in the way people speak each other, all of that is modest and -- is madison's monument. wherease in st. paul's christopher rants monument says if you seek him, look around you. >> q&a, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. the senate failed to approve a measure to fund the government through february 16 resulting in the government shutting down at midnight. as a senate debate took place, a rally was held outside of the capital process -- protesting the immigration policy from the president. this is about 10 minutes. >> good evening. i am not from norway. i am an american and so are all of you. i am fired up tonight. how about you? three points. give it up for moveon for organizing this rally. i want to hear a big round of applause. point, give up -- give it up for united we dream and all of the dreamers here. point, and aal little more extended. we ar

and also on the other side and to become aware of those issues at harvard law school. also to discover liberal bias in academia and also donald trump's election with that virginia scandal so i really do think if you read this book allegedly said she didn't know anybody in that camp with donald trump this would help you understand. what makes you angry around america to be insulated if you have a fairly prosperous life it has personally touched you? >> i open up a little bit with my story. >> i will read some for a little bit. >> i planned those words carefully it is hard to tell your own story. but i am positive with an 84% chance to develop breast cancer in my lifetime. when i was just 22 years old so talk about a loss of use when i should have been worried about boys or finding a job i was worried about breast cancer. >> this dovetails a larger story about someone no who is struggling with navigating obamacare. a small business owner going through major health problems and spending hours trying to get it straightened out then you tell your story. an unexpected waterf

. >> tonight on c-span's q&a, author and harvard law school professor noah feldman, the three lives of james madison. >> the constitution is his monument and that way the constitution is around you when you come to d.c., the whole three part structure of government and the way they interact and speak to each other and the exercise of free speech. all that is madison's monument. sort of with the case on st. auls, look around you. tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> all weekend long american history tv joins our cox communications cable partners to showcase the history of newport, rhode island, to learn more about the cities on our current chore, visit c-span.org/cities tour. we continue with our look of istory on newport. >> it's the first test of the french american military lliance. >> it shows poor communication between the two and it

you grew up in new jersey and manhattan, and you went to the university of rochester and then harvard law school: right. it was a wonderful experience, but it was a daunting experience, especially because i didn't exactly like what i was doing. david: but you went to practice law in new york. paul: in the absence of a better idea. david: ok, so i practiced law in new york initially as well, and i practiced law in washington -- paul: sad to hear it. [laughter] david: when i gave up the practice of law to go into business, my mother said, you went to law school. what are you going to do? you don't know anything about business. what did your mother say when you said, i am going to give up the practice of law? she said what? paul: can you earn a living? [laughter] david: so you started, and you worked out of your apartment. you had the $1.5 million from friends and family. what was the strategy that you used to get off of the ground? paul: a tiny bit of context, my dad was a retail pharmacist, and after i started attending law school, he said, you have to learn how to be an investor. he and i traded

>> you grew up in new jersey and manhattan and you went to the university of rochester and harvard law school>> it was a wonderful daunting experience because i didn't exactly like what i was doing. >> you went to practice law in new york in the absence of a better idea. >> i practice law in new york as well. i practice law in washington so when i give up the practice of law to go into business. my mother said you went to law school, what are you going to do? whendid your mother say you said you were going to give up the practice of law. >> continue living? >> you work out of your apartment and you have 1.5 million dollars from friends and family, what was the strategy that you used to get off the ground? >> a tiny bit of context, my dad was a breach of pharmacist and after i started attending law school he said you have to learn have to be an investor and he and i traded tiny amounts of text docs and mining stocks of this, $5,000 of this so i became very interested in markets and in trading and in the. throughfrom 1967 and 68 1974, he and i found just about every possible way conceivable to

i have another chapter about my time at harvard law school and i talk about having "tens of being unfairof the racial injustice in the criminal justice system and how i think that ultimately solving the policing issue it's having a conversation realizing most police officers are good people but it also takes on the part of the other side there are issues that need to be resolved and looked at and i became aware of those issues at harvard law school. >> host: you've also discovered one that would be liberal bias in academia that i think helped drive the election with others like the scandal that you mentioned. if you were in that camp donald trump, this book would definitely help you understand. but what would have been that would make people frustrated or angry around america that you may be insulated from if you have a fairly prosperous life one of them is also healthcare which is a story that was personally touched you. >> guest: that's right i open up about my story in the book. >> host: and going to read some of it but go ahead and talk about the. >> guest: i plan the words carefully

announcer: tonight on c-span's "q&a," author and harvard law school professor noah feldman and his book "the three lives of james madison: genius, partisan, president." >> the constitution is madison's monument and in that way,, it is all around you when you come to washington, d.c. the three-part structure of government, the way the government interacts, the way people speak to each other. all of that is madison's monument. paul's,he case in st. if you seek is monument, look around you. if you seek madison's monument, look around you. you will see it everywhere. announcer: "q&a" tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. announcer: the senate was also in session on the first day of the government shutdown. this follows the procedural motion in the senate friday overnight to fund the government until february 16. majority leader mitch mcconnell has indicated he may hold a vote on a new, temporary funding measure at 1:00 a.m. monday morning. here are some of the remarks on the senate floor beginning with the majority and minority leaders.

. >> reporter: the movie tell the unlikely story of a brilliant olympic hopeful bound for harvard law schoolho ended up heading an illicit gambling game. i talked to molly. >> i became the owner and operator of the game. >> reporter: a seat at her poker table became one of the hottest tickets in towns, attracting players like leonardo dicaprio, ben affleck and toby mcgwire. the characters in the movie are fictional. you peeled back and it's not a pretty sight. >> it's not. just to be clear, in peeling back the curtain, i don't dish on anyone. i wouldn't want to under any circumstances. >> reporter: but making her game the ultimate boys club, bloom says she was earning up to $4 million a year at the height of her success, all legally. in the movie, bloom's success presented a threat to the men she worked wfl. >> you're going to stop paying me to do that job because i'm doing too much money doing my second job and if i say no i'll lose both jobs because it doesn't seem fair? >> reporter: she was penalized for being too good at her job. she also ran afoul of the mob, graphically depicted in the

i did go to harvard law school. i know what a privileged conversation. i know he had interlopers in the white house last june that was leaking information on him that was very unfair. you're telling me your president is not allowed to have a confidential conversation. let me finish. you don't want to let me finish. you're overtalking me. >> this distraction is about leaks and steve bannon. >> you don't want to let me finish because you know i'm making a lot of sense to your viewers. the guy was never fired. >> you're saying it was leak by bannon. >> i did not say that. i'm not saying that. i'm accepting the reporting. maggie is a phenomenal reporter. i listen to her on anderson cooper. i'm not saying that. don't say i'm saying that when i'm not saying that. what i am saying is he didn't fire the guy. he may have had a conversation about firing the guy and then made a decision not to fire the guy. >> that's not what the reporting is. >> you can't say he fired him fp. >> i didn't say he fired him. >> is the reporting he fired him? >> no. >> he contemplated

give -- >> congressman kennedy is 37-year-old and he graduated from stanford university and harvard law school. during his speech last night he spoke in english and spanish and he told daca recipients they are apart of the american story and democrats will fight for them. we heard from east bacon greg man eric swaldwell. the congressman says the president is not doing enough for middle and lower income families. >> i was mostly disappointed that he didn't address the wage stagnation -- that so many family was working harder -- they're not saving to buy a home or retirement. >> congressman swalwall said he was skeptical about president trump's call for unity. this morning the president will meet with the vice-president and the secretaries of state and defense. then he will talk to a group of american workers about tax reform. later today, the president will meet with treasury secretary steve manuchi. our question of the day is this, how do you feel about president trump's state of the union speech? do you feel positive or do you some somewhat positive or do you feel negative or you didn't watch

i did go to harvard law school. i know a privilege conversation. i know he had interlopers in the white house last june that were leaking information on him that was very unfair. you're telling me your president is not allowed to have a confidential conversation with the whoit house counsel? >> so what. this is about the truth. if don mcgahn hadn't threatened to resign. this distraction about leaks and steve bannon. who cares about that? >> you know i'm making sense. to the viewers. >> you're saying don't believe the reporting it was a leak by bannon. >> i'm not saying that. i'm accepting the reporting. maggie haberman is phenomenal. i'm not saying that. don't say i'm not saying. what i am saying he didn't fire the guy. he may have had a conversation about firing the guy and made the decision not to fire the guy. the guy is in place. you can't say had e fired him. >> i didn't say he fired him. >> the reporting is he wanted to fire him. >> contemplating. >> he wasn't contemplating. he ordered mcgahn to make the move. mcgahn said i will resign if i h

. >> reporter: the movie tells the unlikely story of a olympic hopeful bound for harvard law school who. >> you can't believe that it's a true story, you think it's something hollywood made up. >> it reads like fiction. >> absolutely, reality's stranger than fiction. >> reporter: molly bloom's transformation into the poker princess began after an accident derailed her skiing career, prompting her to move to los angeles. i talked to molly to get the real story. >> my role was to bring these guys drinks. then within a year i became the owner/operator of the game. >> reporter: a seat at her poker table for the legal game became one of the hottest tickets in town. attracting, she says, players like leonardo dicaprio. ben affleck. tobey maguire. the players in the movie are fictional, composite characters. a creative decision made by the movie's writer and director, aaron sorkin. >> you peeled back the curtain on this inner sanctum of secret hollywood power. it's not a pretty sight. >> it's not. just to be clear, in peeling back the curtain, i don'tish on anyone. i wldn't want to undean circ

professor michael carmen is the current professor at harvard law school where he began in 2008. he received his jd from stanford law school and went to the university of oxford where he , was a marshall scholar. after law school, professor klarman clerked for the honorable ruth bader ginsburg on the united states court of appeals for the d.c. circuit judge you he at various times served on the faculty of university of virginia school of law, the marshall school of law, the college of william and airy, stanford law school and at yale law. mary, stanford law school and yale law. his first book "from jim crow to civil rights: the supreme court and the struggle for racial equality" received the bancroft prize in history. and "unfinished business: racial inequality in american history" comes from oxford university press. he is currently working on a revisionist history of the founding and in 2009 he was inducted into the american academy of arts and sciences. i ask you to please welcome our guest. [applause] >> thank you for coming. i am delighted to be here. there is some overlap fo

c-span's q&a, author and harvard law school professor noah feldman in his book "the three lives of james madison, genius, partisan and president." >> the constitution is madison's monument. the constitution is all around you when you come to washington, d.c. the w three-parth structureol of government, the way people speak to eache other, the exercise of free speech -- all of that is madison's monument. so, sort of as was the case in st. paul's where christopher wren's blindman says if you seek is my man, look around you. if you seek madison's monument around you, look around you and you see it everywhere. >> sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. on lectures in history, depaul university professor mark polad teaches a class on representations and president abraham lincoln in photographs. here is a preview. >> so, here's lincoln, mary todd. this is lincoln's oldest son robert todd who actually posed for a photograph that would then be used for the painting. but, again, i just wanted -- four art -- for art in this period, i want to get you the out of the idea that it is about artist th

. >> he's a guy from atlanta who to vanderbilt and harvard law school and moved to hollywood.pired by barry diller and couple of moguls who took same path. agencies long been the way to in hollywood. he became the first black in endeavor. after about 15 or 20 years in hollywood, he fulfilled his his ownf starting company and specifically bankrolling filmmakers of color. because hollywood for its reputation a this progressive place, primarily has white directors, white male directors. an agentet out both as in representing likes of tyler perry. he's trying it get more people of color behind the camera. made some interesting comments. he said casting in hollywood is appeasement when people are color are hired. he thinks think that he can change that specifically? thatthink he's hoping macro, his company, like movies.g colors of have a cast that's more diverse. if you look what's happening in hollywood now, there are a powerful directors taking. she made a tv show for oprah winfrey's tv network where all the directors and most the writers and most in the crew were people of color

>> guest: i went to harvard and harvard law school. >> host: and you decided to go to new york. i guess that's where a lot of the harvard trained lawyers were going. >> guest: absolutely. i clerked for a friend. i took the new york war and i didn't officially. i once took a job out wall street a couple of years later on and i never showed up because what happened was i had the wonderful opportunity to work on the supreme court with justice goldberg and that led me to the justice department when robert kennedy was via attorney general so for three months i was in the kennedy administration and president kennedy was murdered. but that was the real change in my life, getting to know, being in the same place and not knowing robert kennedy. and then when he ran for the senate that job on the law firm i thought i had never been in politics and i started with that that. senator elect robert kennedy asked me to go to work for him so that was a big change in my life. >> host: that was 1964 and you signed on to work on the campaign for senator kennedy? >> guest: yes. so i did the things th

. >> guest: i went to harvard law school, yes. >> host: and you decided to go to new york which is where a lot of the harvard trained voyeurs were going. i didn't initially. i took a job on wall street a couple of years earlier on and never showed up because what happened was a i had the wonderful opportunity to serve on the supreme court and that led me to the justice departme department. i was in the kennedy administration but that was the change in my life getting to know being in the same place and not knowing again so when he ran for the senate i thought maybe i could do something in politics and when the campaign was over and he asked me to go to work for him that was a big change in my life. >> host: that was 1964 and the campaign for the attorney general. >> guest: yes. he did offer a job after the campaign and so therefore i was on the senatorial staff for washington. legislative work in the policy iand the policyis what you did . what were some of the initiatives that you worked on as you were a part of that legislative shop of senator kennedy? >> guest: particularly if one is

after graduating from the wharton school of business and harvard law school, he started his legal career as a law clerk with justice douglas h ginsburg for the district of columbia up in a began -- columbia. that was in there twice. my bad. ladies and gentlemen, without further a do, deputy general rod rosenstein. [applause] deputy general rosenstein: thank you for that. i want to thank members of the foreign press for inviting me to join you in palm beach day. typically, i express my gratitude to bruce reinhardt. i'm glad to see that my good friend alex acosta, who served with me as a u.s. attorney in the bush administration will be here as your speaker next month. it was snowing when i left maryland yesterday. when i arrived in florida, someone mentioned it was unseasonably cold. [laughter] i hadn't noticed. yesterday, i hosted a forum about human trafficking at your local bunch -- attorney general's office. a headline reads rosenstein visits miami and does not talk about russia. [laughter] you will find the same headline here in palm beach today. studies -- when my teenage daughter fi

professor gordon-reed is a professor of american legal history at harvard law school. she's also a professor of history in the college of arts and sciences. her first foray into writing produced "lost at sea" which was written when she was 7. so she's an overachiever. since then, she has authored or co-authored six historical studies, including the hemingses of monticello, an american family, which was winner of the pulitzer prize in 2009. the highly acclaimed book also won 15 additional awards, including the frederick douglass prize. her 2011 study of andrew johnson, the subject of her talk this morning, was praised as brilliantly written and fair-minded. the book is not available in the bookstore today. you'll have to order it. but i do have her most recent book, and that is co-authored and it is titled the most blessed of patriarchs, thomas jefferson and the empire of the imagination. she will be available for a few minutes after her presentation to sign autographs, sign books for you. so please help me welcome one of my favorite authors, annette gordon-reed. annett

professor gordon-reed is the charles wharton professor of american legal history at harvard law school. she is also a professor of .istory in the college of arts her first foray into riding produced lost at sea which was written when she was seven. she is an overachiever. since then she has authored or co-authored six historical settings including the hemming'' of monticello which was a winner of the pulitzer prize. acclaimed book also won 15 additional awards including the writer douglas prize. andrew johnsonof johnson, the subject of her talk ass morning, was praised it isantly written and not available today. you will have to order it, but i do have her most recent book and that is co-authored. it is titled the most blessed of patriarchs, thomas jefferson and the empire of the imagination. she will be available for a few minutes after her presentation to sign autographs, sign books for you. one of myp me welcome favorite authors, annette gordon-reed. [applause] prof. reed: thank you. it's great to be here. last night was fabulous, talk about stanton and the energy of the place. i'm

[laughter] he is still associated with harvard law school. >> it is so typical you are so generous i appreciate them to be at that the office at hoover i did put my papers at the hoover archives because there are so many other conservatives and anti-communist at the hoover as well so it is a rich trove so if you are interested in writing about or learning more about communism or anti- communism the place to go is the hoover institution which was founded by herbert hoover in 1919 so you should know the president's essay at the heritage foundation will be over another month or so side and helping to research and learning self -- learning so much who was a most admirable man but was saddled with the idea he was personally responsible somehow through the great depression that is not the case but ladies and gentlemen's what i have tried to do with what i have written and if you think about it they really were conservative giants who walked the earth of the 20th century. those giants were ronald reagan, barry goldwater and buckley. as a matter of fact a rope biographies of all three of tho

. >> sunday on c-span's q & a, author and harvard law school professor noah feldman and "the three lives of james madison, genius, partisan, president." >> the constitution is madison's monument. in that way, the constitution is all around you when you come to washington, d.c. the whole three-part structure of government. the way that the government interacts, the way people speak to each other, the exercise of their free speech. all of that is his monument. sort of as was the case in st. paul's, where sir christopher rand's monument says if you seek his monument, look around you. similarly, if you seek madison's monument in washington, d.c., look around you. you will see it everywhere. >> that's sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >>> next on c-span 3, georgia governor nathan deal delivering his final state of the state address. he talked about his time in public service, economic development in georgia, education, children's mental health programs, and the criminal justice system. his remarks are 45 minutes. [ applause ] >> thank you all. thank you all. thank you very much. thank y

harvard law. truman never finished college. the family was broke when he finished high school. he went and worked in kansas city for a little bit and at some point he took some more classes at night. he never finished. no college degree, no law degree and this is the man who took over for fdr. brian: what did he ever run in his life? a.j.: it is interesting to think, when he became president he had never been mayor or governor of the state. innk about that, following roosevelt's footsteps. he was the chief executive of a county. much of which was rural. it had kansas city and it. -- in it. besides that, he had never been chief executive of anything. brian: how did he ever get elected to the united states senate? , is amr. pendergast fascinating figure. he was a larger-than-life man and had a ball from head. -- bull frong head. we do not have city buses like like we- bosses now had then. he picked this seemingly random man named truman with no political experience and gave him a political career. the thing about it essentially is harry truman at 38 years old had been a head of a

if memory serves, he is a product of peace corps, stanford, harvard law school. and we'll see how this 37-year-old does in the morning after reviews. it can be a fraught role giving the response. ask bobby jindal and others. chris matthews, you were talking about this young members of congress last night. >> a friend of mine, a big democrat is the one that really urged john kerry to have barack obama speak at the democratic convention in 2004, and that made his career. i think it's perhaps ahead of schedule in this case. but i thought that was very bobby. that was very bobby, because bobby kennedy insisted he would support the people along the train tracks where he was killed when he was taken to arlington national cemetery. it was white families, it was black families. he refused to choose between them. and that's what he kept saying. i'm not going to choose. it's going to be both. he is not going to take the side of one against the other like trump does. he says we americans have support. he is a democrat, of course, we're going to support the progressive cause

>> guest: i went to harvard and i went to harvard law school, yes. >> host: you decided to go to new york. i guess that's what a lot of the harvard trained lawyers were going. >> guest: yes. actually i clerked for a judge on the second circuit, henry friendly. i did join the new york bar but, in fact, they didn't initially. or not, i once took a job on wall street a couple years later on. i never showed up. because what happened was that i had the wonderful opportunity to click on the supreme court with justice arthur goldberg, and led me to the justice department when robert unity was the attorney general. so for three months i was in the kennedy administration, then president kennedy was murdered. but that was the real change in my life, getting to know, being in the same place, not knowing him yet, robert kennedy. and then when he ran for the senate, that job on the law firm i thought well, maybe i could do something in politics before i started with that. and when the campaign was over, then senator, senator-elect robert kennedy asked me to go to work for him. so that was a big, b

. >>> sunday on c-span's "q&a," author and harvard law school professor noah feldman and his book "the three lives of james madison: genius, partisan, president." >> the constitution is madison's monument. in that way the constitution is all around you when you come to washington, d.c. the whole three-part structure of government. the way the government intersects. the way people speak to each other. exercise their free speech. all of that is madison's monument. so sort of as was the case in st. paul's where christopher wren's monument says, if you seek his monument, look around you. similarly, if you seek madison's monument in washington, d.c., look around you, you'll see it everywhere. >> "q&a" sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >>> now colorado governor john hickenlooper outlines his legislative priorities for the year in his final state of the state address at the state's capitol in denver. this is just under an hour. >> senators, representatives, ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure and honor to present to you the honorable john hickenlooper, hickenlooper, governor of the

senator, he went to harvard law school, a very standard rÉsume for someone running for high office. >ick durbin was a senator, and people said he didn't have as much experience but he certainly had some. >> and he was a very good president. he could have used more experience, but he was good because he had experience. >> i don't think that was right, anyway. >> and of course poor timing to say that he could use more experience because now there's somebody in there with zero. >>> when we dm back, what the white house is saying about a potential oprah run in 2020. hey, you every talk to anybody about your money? yeah, i got some financial guidance a while ago. how'd that go? he kept spelling my name with an 'i' but it's bryan with a 'y.' yeah, since birth. that drives me crazy. yes. it's on all your email. yes. they should know this? yeah. the guy was my brother-in-law. that's ridiculous. well, i happen to know some people. do they listen? what? they're amazing listeners. nice. guidance from professionals who take their time to get to know you. need a change of scenery? kayak searches h

. >> sunday on c-span's q&a, author and her for all school professor -- and harvard law school professor, with his book, "the three lives of james madison." >> the whole three-part structure of government, the way the government interacts in the way people speak each other, all of that is modest and -- is madison's monument. wherease in st. paul's christopher rants monument says if you seek him, look around you. >> q&a, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. the senate failed to approve a measure to fund the government through february 16 resulting in the government shutting down at midnight. as a senate debate took place, a rally was held outside of the capital

. >>> he graduated from stanford university and harvard law school. he spoke in english and spanish and told daca recipients they are apart of the american story and democrats will fight for them. >> we heard from eric swalwell and he said the president is not doing enough for middle and lower income families. >> if he wants to convince the american people he knows how to lead, he needs to string two constructive days in a row together. he hasn't done that since he's been elected president. >>> the congressman swalwall was skeptical about trump's call for unity. how do you feel about president trump's "state of the union" address? do you feel positive, some-what positive, negative or you just didn't watch? let us know what you think by voting on the ktvu twitter page. you can comment on our ktvu facebook page. >>> right now, it is 5:10. and facebook says no to [indiscernible] currency ads. details on why the social media giant is not buying into this virtual money craze. >>> big concerns about another possible drought after the most recent snow-pack s

you're a harvard law school graduate. this we thought was all settled law 47 years ago.it feel like this past week when we saw the president of the united states trying to threaten prior restraint on publication? >> you know, i think the president in a lot of slightly -- you know, i think that the president in a lot of other ways has been threatening publication, has been threatening, talking about fake news, trying to denigrate the press. >> creating a general air of intimidation. >> correct. and what's been incredible is how "the new york times," "the washington post" and msnbc and other organizations, cnn, have stepped up to really take that challenge on. he's thrown down a gauntlet and said, you know what, this is what we do, what we need to do is hold the leader accountable. it's not a liberal story, right? kay graham when she's holding leaders accountable, she's holding j.f.k. and l.b.j. accountable. because they all lie and we need to check on this when they do lie and we need to check on them and make sure they're not deceiving the american public. >> it was a dr

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