SENATOR MIKE LEE DISCUSSES LORETTA LYNCH NOMINATION AND TAX REFORM

JEB BUSH SAYS NOMINATE HER! NOW!

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people think up tea party Republicans in the Senate immediately me think of those

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that are running for president right now

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like some Rand Paul Ted Cruz and Michael reveal but if yes those three senators

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that I just mentioned with a trip actual backbone of the Reform Conservative

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will be here in washington the name just one senator likely a few times got a new

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book out

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our loss Constitution any joins me now senator Lee

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of like to express thank you about the book gonna get to in a minute but let me

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to talk peace a senate yes

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Jeb Bush had this just say

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about the Loretta Lynch delay is

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I think I think presidents have the right to pick their team

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in general if someone is someone is supportive of the president's policies

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whether you agree with them or not

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there should be some deference to the Executive we shouldn't this should not

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always be partisan

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longer it takes to confirm her the longer colder stays as attorney general

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that's been the part of this I've never understood what is the and game in

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delaying her nomination

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considering all love the anger that many conservatives like yourself had to order

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called

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there are a lot of concerns with Loretta Lynch that focus

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a lot on what President Obama did with our immigration code back in November

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he basically relatedness no she didn't but when question for the Senate

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Judiciary Committee on which

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I said she refused to acknowledge that there are limits to prosecutorial

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discretion limits that and must be taken into account for example when you have a

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president

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effectively on doing a huge swath of a federal law

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give about the in- that the parties I

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vote against her one adjustable I'm

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I'm certain she's going to get a vote I'm not sure exactly what I mean that's

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going to be but

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it's gonna happen you think six months has been is a reasonable I mean you

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think this has been a little ridiculous

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I'm not going to say that it said that it's ridiculous I do think it's

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ridiculous that the president rewrote the immigration code

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and that he still hasn't provided a full

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legal explanation of what empowers them to do this and when you've got someone

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who's been

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nominated to fill the highest legal role yet in his administration

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and that person doesn't come forward with an

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adequate legal explanation of either why the present was allowed to do that the

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courts are we doing

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that the courts are we doing since moved with her what congress

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the Senate in particular has a responsibility to review those who will

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be

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advising the President on legal matters and that's what's going on do you think

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there should be about now

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I think there will be a vote soon what a semi within the next few weeks

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are let's go to the presidential race you as you pointed out three friends

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running

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but there's one that you've got a plan that is going to get debated

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a lot and it's this tax plan that you've done with microbio

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what's interesting about it is that it seems to have a you get hit from

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both sides on this one some conservatives unhappy at it lowers

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marginal rates

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only from 39 to 35 a lotta Conservatives won at much lower than that

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and you keep a progressive tax rate their 1535 but

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it also increases the deficit by a lot by trying to buy

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billions of dollars in the first five years and it takes even with dynamic

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scoring and I want to get into that for a few hours this morning

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it could take over a decade before writes itself

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do you think this this the this tax plan can withstand scrutiny

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I do I do because this is a pro-growth pro-family

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tax reform 12 dramatically simplifies the code at a time when Americans have

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just experienced their annual tax day at a time

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when our tax freedom day keeps getting pushed out further and further

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the American people are tight ever on a tax code that a hundred years ago was a

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few hundred pages long

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today's seventy-five thousand pages long at their

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they're ready for reform the rate for tax code simplification my tax reform

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plan

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would get rid of the marriage tax penalty which is a concern to many

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people

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it's where the parrot tax penalty and would provide a new child tax credit to

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help get rid of that parent check

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tax penalty a new favorite among for I

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you know I really like all three at my Senate colleagues who are are are

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running for president and I

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intend to be a supportive of freedom as I possibly can what he say the criticism

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that says you know it

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the republicans to nominate a senator senators they can't run things

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governors can run things what he said what the other side that is

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with someone who has helped federal office you have the opportunity to

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examine

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how they view federal issues how

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the constitutional authority given to the federal government

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relative to the power that a governor wheels in the state me when I got a

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longer conversation about your book

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on press pass but I i'm curious you call it our loss Constitution you believe the

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Constitution is a living document

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or do you believe it is it is sorta as written a strict

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sorta document that shouldn't be over interpret

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each written in such a way that it can be amended

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with time over time it can be amended and it has been amended twenty-seven

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times

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it but what's it's written what's its provisions are put in place we need to

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follow it

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and if its not up to date that we need to amend it from time to time just as we

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have that's how you would make it

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yet so you changed amended only not trying to reinterpret

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well we reinterpret for the times certainly i mean for example

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it the founding fathers didn't contemplate interstate air travel

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right but it fits comfortably within the Commerce Clause is explaining the book

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to regulate channels an instrumentality of interstate commerce

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like interstate Airways even though they didn't contemplate that specific thing

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what explain in my book the Retiro Carlos constitution is because

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we drifted so far from the founding generations understanding

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that this is supposed to be a limited purpose government in there

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a number of provisions a half-dozen which I profile in the book

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that we've neglected entirely we need to restore the alright well maybe

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companies a cop

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