our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidence of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and m. s. n b c's. john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate. and that violence is appropriate tool to remove human restore. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost exclusively left wing arena, with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t for activism. here i

our constitutional crisis is already here. writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidence of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave, and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and m. s. n. b c's. john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate and that violence was appropriate tool to remove human restore. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 a large scale, political violence was almost exclusively left wing arena. with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l, m, and t for activism her

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear afar from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emma send me, sees john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and that may be as many as 12 percent of the american people now say, the job was illegitimate. and that violence was appropriate tool to remove human restore. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 a large scale, political violence was almost exclusively left winger rena, with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t. for a

the very well—known republican writer and thinker robert kagan has quit the party because of his disgust at donald trump, and he says that, "we are right now in the midst of a massive american constitutional crisis." he says if donald trump runs again and if donald trump wins in 2024, "we could be looking at the destruction of american democracy." what's your view? i don't think we're looking at the destruction of american democracy. i think one of the issues that we have is that the left in this country have adopted socialist policies... ijust quoted to you a well—known republican thinker, not a leftist. can i finish my answer? sure. 0k. i think that the left has adopted socialist policies, they have adopted policies that are opposed to our veterans, opposed to our police, and most of america is upset about that. we saw a recent election in virginia where the republican candidate beat a former governor for the governor position. we see the shift in public opinion in this case in this country to the right, and we see it because of people rejecting the policies of the left. i don't thin

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emma and b c's. john heilman make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate. and that violence was appropriate tool to remove human restored. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost exclusively left wing arena. with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t for activism. hear

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidence of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emma send me, sees john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and that may be as many as 12 percent of the american people now say, the job was illegitimate. and that violence was appropriate tool to remove human restoring. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 a large scale, political violence was almost exclusively left winger rena, with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t. f

our constitutional crisis is already here. writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidence of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country. into warring a red and blue enclave, and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emerson. b c's. john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent, and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job i was illegitimate and that violence was appropriate tool to remove and human restore donald trump considering that throughout 2020 a large scale, political violence was almost exclusively left winger rena, with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t for activ

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emerson, b c's, john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate. and that violence was an appropriate tool to remove human restored. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost exclusively left wing arena. with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t for activism.

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidents of mass violence, a break down, a federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emerson, b c's, john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate. and that violence was an appropriate tool to remove human restoring. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost exclusively left wing arena. with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t for activism

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidence of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like hagen and emerson, b c's. john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right. at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate and that violence was appropriate to, to removing him and restore donald trump, considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost exclusively left wing arena. with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l, m, and t for activism her

and you've got to keep in mind who victoria newlands married to and that that's robert kagan and he is the nea con. nia cons, nia cobb. as far as i'm concerned and is in their interest to push nato it up to the border for containment purposes of russia proper. now, pub, ukraine has its own internal problems. it really is not eligible to join nato, even if it wanted to. because it has internal strife under the, under the rules of the alliance. and you don't see, and, and stoughton burgess pushing the same narrative along with deputy or long with us . secretary defense, lloyd austin, of pushing a ga, into nato. and add both of those are considered to be red lines for, for moscow. so if you do, the united states is coming half way around the world to, to assert this kind of action. when you have moscow, are alarmed by the activity, assertiveness by ukraine, meal and native generally and, and thereby they have every right to arm their, their western flight. as far as i'm concerned, it the big picture i'd like to touch in as well. michael russia has always claimed on it, received a promise

our constitutional crisis is already here. writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidence of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave, and to be clear afar from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and m. s. n. b c's. john heilman. make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent, and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate and that violence was appropriate tool to remove human restore. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost exclusively left wing arena, with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t for activism. here in

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidence of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emma send me, sees john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right. at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate. and that violence was an appropriate tool to remove human restoring. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost exclusively left wing arena. with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t for activi

our constitutional crisis is already here. writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidence of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country. into warring a red and blue enclave, and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and m. s. n. b c's. john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate and that violence was appropriate tool to remove human restored. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost an exclusively left wing arena. with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l, m, and t for activism h

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and m. s. n b c's. john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate. and that violence was appropriate tool to remove human restore. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost exclusively left wing arena, with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t for activism. here

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emerson, b c's, john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate. and that violence was an appropriate tool to remove human restored. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost exclusively left winger rena, with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t. for activism

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidence of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear of far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emerson, b c's, john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate and that violence was appropriate tool to remove human restored. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost an exclusively left wing arena. with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l, m, and t for activism he

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidence of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear afar from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emerson, b c's, john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate and that violence was appropriate tool to remove human restored. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost an exclusively left wing arena. with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l, m, and t for activism. hea

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidents of mass violence, a break down, a federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emma send me, sees john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and that may be as many as 12 percent of the american people now say, the job was illegitimate. and that violence was appropriate tool to remove human restoring. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost exclusively left wing arena. with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m, and t for a

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidence of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emma send me, sees john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right. at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate. and that violence was appropriate tool to remove and human restore. donald trump considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost exclusively left wing arena, with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l. m and t for activism

our constitutional crisis is already here, writer robert kagan lamented that quote, the united states is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the civil war with a reasonable chance over the next 3 to 4 years of incidence of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority and the division of the country into warring a red and blue enclave. and to be clear, a far from believing that potential political violence could be a both sides situations where democrats and republicans alike end up taking arms for their respective causes. commentators like kagan and emerson, b c's, john heilman, make it clear that in their opinion, the threat of violence comes solely from the right, at least 8 percent. and maybe as many as 12 percent of the american people now say the job was illegitimate and that violence was appropriate tool to removing him and restored donald trump, considering that throughout 2020 large scale political violence was almost an exclusively left wing arena. with many american cities being burned or looted under the guise of b, l, m, and t for activis

chief justice roberts: justice kagan? justice kagan: mr. hearron, if i could turn technical for a minute. should one of your arguments prevail or another argument in support of your position prevail, it doesn't matter exactly which argument it is to me, what exact relief are you requesting? mr. hearron: we are requesting an injunction. so we have a pending class certification motion for a defendant class against the clerks, so we would be requesting an injunction against the commencement or the docketing of lawsuits against the clerks of the state of texas, as well as injunctive relief against the state executives for their residual authority to enforce s.b. 8. justice kagan: i mean, suppose i i think, tell me if i'm wrong on this, that just the procedural morass we've got ourselves into with this extremely unusual law is that we would really be telling the fifth circuit, again, if your position prevailed, that the district court had to be allowed to continue with its preliminary injunction ruling. is that correct? mr. hearron: i think, tec

just moments ago chief justice roberts along with justices kagan and breyer said their farewells. president biden spoke about that you are friendship and the legacy left behind. >> america has lost one of our greatest patriots. we may follow his wisdom, i hope, and his timeless truth. in a sense, bob belongs here. he too was a giant of our history. that's not hyperbole. it's real. >>> senator bob dole was a highly decorated world war ii hero. in 1945, seriously wounded while carrying a fellow soldier to safety, while serving in italy. the wounds left him permanently disabled. he was the last of the greatest generation to be a presidential candidate. he was 98 years old. tomorrow's funeral coverage begins tomorrow morning. may his memory be a blessing. >>> i'm jake tapper. you can listen to the lead where are you gets the podcasts. our coverage begins with our wolf blitzer right next door in "the situation room." i'll see you tomorrow. >>> happening now, breaking news, former president just just lot his battle to keep secret, as panel members have been meeting with a series of sign

. >> sotomayor, justice kagan and even chief justice roberts are hammering the idea of stare decisis. chief justice roberts asked counsel, what is the test for this? how do we know this is wrong today, then. it's been on the books for a long time. justice sotomayor also emphasized, listen, there's a lot in the constitution that's vague. our ability to decide what the constitution means goes back to marlboro versus madison. the last piece she said is what is the state's interest except for religion. this idea of when life begins is something philosophers and religious leaders have thought about for centuries. this is not something that the state can say it knows better than women. it's really a compelling exchange with sotomayor. >> i have to say following along on twitter, it is fascinating the tidbits being put out there. we're not able to listen to it at the moment. paul, based on what we're learning, in terms of the questioning and the responses, how are those responses landing? >> it's interesting, judge sotomayor is -- she sounds very, very aggressive and angry about what's happe

justice kagan, justice sotomayor. justice roberts -- chief justice roberts is a conservative on the court. justice thomas is not a conservative. he is a right-wing justice. he's trying to move the court. and what i will give him is that he owns up to it. he is constantly riding about this saying, we need to see what we are doing. justice thomas owns up to what he is trying to do. or he says, the court just overturned the precedent and acted like it didn't. so he is speaking with, i think, on honesty that i wish the others would. because it's not a matter of conservatism to overturn a precedent that is six or seven years old. that's the opposite of a precedent. if you are trying to move the court, just say you are trying to move the court because you think that's wrong. and it's very clear, when he's trying to move the court, he doesn't hide it. that's not a conservative position, i want to move this, because i believe that this was wrongly decided. and i think that, honestly, it's good, for the american people. i also

maybe justice kagan, justice soda mar, chief justice roberts is a conservative on the court. justice thomas is not a conservative. he is a right wing justice. he is trying to move the court he owned up to it we need to say what we are doing. justice thomas owns up to what he is trying to do. or he said the court just overturned the precedent and acted like it didn't. he is speaking with honesty i wish the others would. it's not the matter of conservatism to overturn that six or seven years old that's not conservative that's the opposite. when you try to move the court just say i'm trying to move the court because that's wrong. and justice thomas is one that disagrees with his position is very clear he's trying to move the corporate does not try to hide it and say it's not a conservative position i want to move this because i believe this was wrong when it was decided. i honestly think good and the people also think justice should make their opinions on bigger issues accessible to the regular newspaper reading of the american public. >> you see that a little bit with gorgeous

the other person i watch is justice kagan. she has been masterful at finding places where she can bridge gaps particularly with chief justice roberts and have a faction in the middle that controls things. she has been able, i think, to narrow some pro-conservative decisions that allow the progressives to live to fight another day. i am interested in the signal she sends as well. >> dana: tell us about the scene at the court. we can tell a lot of people have gathered and you are there as well. what do we see? >> as expected both sides have turned out in force today. bus loads of people have come from all over the country. they are having dueling demonstrations outside the court. the thing is we know that is heard inside the court. you can hear it in there. these justices will try very much to look like they aren't being swayed by political opinion. there is a lot of pressure on them. this is decades in the making getting this case, the challenge to roe back to the court. both sides showing up in force and very heated and passio