[♪♪♪♪♪] GOOD EVENING.

WELCOME TO IVORY TOWER.

I'M DAVID CHANATRY FROM UTICA UNIVERSITY.

OUR PANELISTS THIS WEEK ARE TARA ROSS FROM ONONDAGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, LUKE PERRY FROM UTICA UNIVERSITY, MICHAEL TILLOTSON FROM SUNY CORTLAND, AND WELCOMING BACK TO THE PANEL, LISA DOLAK FROM THE COLLEGE OF LAW AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY.

LIKE TENS OF MILLIONS, OF AMERICANS WE WATCHED THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE LAST NIGHT.

IT WASN'T PRETTY.

PRESIDENT BIDEN APPEARED OLD AND DIMINISHED, WHILE FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS A FOUNTAIN OF DISINFORMATION.

PERFORMANCE TENDS TO MATTER AS MUCH AS ISSUES IN THESE DEBATES, AND THERE'S NO WAY TO SUGARCOAT BIDEN'S LAST NIGHT.

SHOULD HE STEP ASIDE >> WELL, I THINK YOU NAILED IT.

ABSOLUTEDLY RIGHT WHEN YOU SAID THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN LOOKED OLD AND DIMINISHED.

AND THAT WAS THE APPEARANCE.

THE REALITY IS HE DID FOR THE MOST PART STAY ON MESSAGE AND HE WAS FACTUAL.

I BELIEVE I THINK IT WAS "CNN" SAID THAT TRUMP THERE WERE 30 DIFFERENT LIES IN TRUMP'S PRESENTATION AND NINE LIES AND MISINFORMATION IN BIDEN'S PRESENTATION AND THAT'S WHAT THE DEMOCRATS NEED TO EMPHASIZE THAT IS WHAT THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO EMPHASIZE IS THAT HIS INFORMATION WAS FACTUAL.

HE STAYED ON POINT.

HE ONLY BECAME PERSONAL WHEN HE FELT LIKE HE WAS BEING PERSONALLY ATTACKED.

AND ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS HE NEEDS TO DO HE NEEDS TO FRANKLY PLAY ON THE COUNTRY'S SYMPATHY.

IT IS HARD TO GET UP FOR 90 MINUTES SORT OF ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT YOU AREN'T TOTALLY PREPARED FOR.

YOU ARE PREPARED FOR EVERYTHING, BUT YOU ARE NOT TOTALLY PREPARED FOR HOW THE QUESTIONS ARE GOING TO BE WORDED HE NEEDS TO PLAY ON THE PUBLIC'S EMPATHY AND REMINDS THE PUBLIC THIS IS NOT THE EASIEST THING TO DO.

IF HE DOESN'T HIS SURROGATES NEED TO BE DOING THAT.

>> AT SOME POINT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

WE NEED MORE THAN SYMPATHY.

I THINK JUST TO SHOW SYMPATHY IS NOT THE STRONGEST MESSAGE TO HAVE.

LUKE?

>> PEOPLE ARE NOT CONFIDENT AND DEBATES ARE MORE ABOUT STYLES THAN SUBSTANCE.

IF PEOPLE CAN'T HEAR HIM AND HE IS NOT FINISHING SENTENCES IT'S NOT GOING TO PLAY WELL.

THIS IS A DISASTER FOR DEMOCRATS IT WENT AS BAD AS IT COULD HAVE.

THERE WERE A COUPLE MOMENTS WHERE BIDEN CAME ALIVE TALKING ABOUT VETERANS AND HIS SON.

BUT DEMOCRATS ARE -- ON THE FLIP SIDE, DONNA CROSS DIDN'T DO GREAT.

THIS IS ALL IN ALL IS NOT A DEBATE THAT I WOULD ASSIGN TO MY STUDENTS AND IT IS A SAD MOMENT IN AMERICAN POLITICS.

>> IT WAS A NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT FOR SURE AND I FEARED IT WOULD BE.

I WILL DISAGREE WITH YOU A LITTLE BIT.

I THINK NOT ONLY DID BIDEN LOOK WORSE THAN I EXPECTED BUT TRUMP LOOKED BETTER THAN I EXPECTED.

MAYBE IT'S THAT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS LARGELY IS IGNORED THE LIES.

THE CLAIM THIS MORNING THAT TRUMP LIED HE LIED WE ALL KNEW HE WAS GOING TO LIE.

HE LIED.

BUT WHAT HE DID IN THE FORMAT FAVORED HIM IN THIS REGARD HE BEHAVED WELL AND HE LOOKED SHARPER MENTALLY THAN JOE BIDEN DID.

HE JUST DID.

HE LIED BUT HE LIED WITH ARTICULATELY AND GENERALLY SPEAKING AND COHERENTLY AND HE FINISHED HIS SENTENCES AND HE DIDN'T GET OVERLY PERSONAL AND MISBEHAVE AND ACT OUT.

HE WAS RELATIVELY RESERVED.

AGAIN IT'S ABOUT -- >> LIKE DESCRIBING A CHILD.

>> I GET IT.

BUT MY POINT IS THE CONTRAST IT WASN'T JUST THAT BIDEN LOOKED SAD.

IT WAS THAT TRUMP LOOKED RELATIVELY GOOD.

>> AND BIDEN DIDN'T CHALLENGE HIM WHEN HE DIDN'T LIE.

MICHAEL?

>> ASIDE FROM THE THEATER, THE PRESIDENT WHO WILL [INAUDIBLE] WE DESERVE A PRESIDENT WHO WILL SIT FOR POLICY AND LISTEN TO THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF.

THIS IS A STUDY IN CONTRAST.

WE HAD A CANDIDATE ONE OF A KIND WHO SHIFTED THE REASONS.

THIS MAN SHIFTED THE GEOGRAPHY OF EMOTIONS.

AND HE HAS CONVINCED A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT THEIR ANGER AND GRIEVANCES IS A SIGN OF LEADERSHIP.

ON THE OTHER SIDE WE HAD THE OTHER CANDIDATE WHO IS STEADY, ESTABLISHMENT DRIVEN, BELIEVES IN INSTITUTIONS AND THINKS ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER.

JOBS, INCOME, HOUSING, HEALTHCARE, HEALTH EDUCATION AND WELFARE.

WE NEED A 125ED HAND IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW.

>> SO YOU ARE SAYING THAT HE IS THE STEADY HAND AND HE DOES HAVE A RECORD TO RUN ON.

BUT A LOT OF THAT DIDN'T SEEM TO COME THROUGH.

HE HAD A STRONG LEGISLATIVE RECORD.

>> IT'S NOT WHAT THE DEBATE WAS ABOUT.

IT WAS ABOUT COMPETENCE AND WHAT WE WILL SEE WITH OUR EYES.

ONE OF MAYBE TWO TIMES I'M QUESTIONING WHETHER THERE WILL BE A SECOND DEBATE AT THIS POINT.

WHERE WE'RE GOING TO SEE THE TWO OF THEM SIDE-BY-SIDE IN THE SAME FORMAT LIVING UNDER THE SAME RULES.

AND WHAT PEOPLE WANTED TO SEE WAS HOW THEY PERFORMED.

AND BIDEN DID NOT PERFORM WELL.

>> WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A MAN IN THE OVAL OFFICE WHO HAS TO DO WITH THE QUIET, INTELLECTUAL AND SERIOUS WORK FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

THERE ARE 364 DAYS LEFT THAT A PRESIDENT HAS TO BE IN CHARGE.

LAST NIGHT IS NOT THE END ALL BE ALL.

>> OKAY.

AFTER THE DEBATE AND THE POST DEBATE DISCUSSIONS ON "CNN", JOHN KING SAID HE NEVER HAD HIS PHONE BLOWUP LIKE IT DID DURING THE DEBATE WITH PANIC FROM PEOPLE IN DEMOCRATS, IN WASHINGTON AND ELSEWHERE.

AND THERE IS THIS IDEA NOW THAT HE SHOULD HE BIDEN SHOULD STEP ASIDE.

AND DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?

>> IT'S TOO LATE.

>> .

>> IF HE DOES STEP ASIDE ANYONE WITH A PULSE CAN BEAT DONALD TRUMP.

>> MAYBE COULD HAVE BEATEN HIM EARLIER THIS YEAR.

LUKE, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE I AM [APPLAUSE] ABILITY OF THAT.

>> I UNDERSTAND WHY DEMOCRATS ARE FREAKING OUT NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HIM STEPPING ASIDE.

WE HAD A SIX MONTH ELECTORAL PROCESS AND IT'S COMING TO AN END.

WE HAD THE EARLY DEBATE AND YEAH IT DIDN'T GO WELL BUT IT IS A NIGHTMARE FOR DEMOCRATS TO TRY TO CHOOSE A NEW NOMINEE.

>> AND THE PRIMARY PROCESS WAS DESIGNED TO LOCK IT IN FOR JOE BIDEN EARLY AND BY THE DEMOCRATS.

SO THE IRONY IS THAT NOW THERE'S TALK ABOUT A BROKERED CONVENTION IT'S TOO LATE.

THE TIME FOR JOE BIDEN TO STEP ASIDE.

LOOK, I'M GRATEFUL FOR HIS LIFETIME OF SERVICE TO THIS COUNTRY.

AND FOR RESCUING US FROM DONALD TRUMP PLEASE DON'T GET ME WRONG BUT THE TIME FOR HIM TO STEP ASIDE IN THE INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY WAS 18 MONTHS AGO AND TO ALLOW FOR A PRIMARY CONTEST TO ACTUALLY HAPPEN.

>> OKAY.

THIS HAS BEEN QUITE A SEQUENTIAL SUPREME COURT TERM WITH SEVERAL DECISIONS AND A FEW YET TO COME.

THIS WEEK, THE JUSTICES HANDED DOWN RULINGS ON THE AUTHORITY OF THE FEDERAL AGENCIES, SOCIAL MEDIA DISINFORMATION, EMERGENCY ABORTION CARE AND THE OPIOID SETTLEMENT.

WE'RE TAPING THIS PROGRAM ON FRIDAY MORNING AND LIKELY MORE DECISIONS WILL BE ISSUED TODAY AFTER WE TAPE BUT BEFORE THE PROGRAM IS BROADCAST.

SO LISA, WHAT CASE STANDS OUT TO YOU OF NOTE?

>> THIS WEEK, THE JUSTICES THREW OUT A LAWSUIT AGAINST BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AGENCIES AND OFFICIALS ALLEGING THAT THE GOVERNMENT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO PERSUADE SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES TO TAKE DOWN DISINFORMATION LIKE THE COVID VACCINE, ELECTION ALLEGED FRAUD ET CETERA.

CONSTITUTED COERCION AND VIOLATION OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT.

THE SUPREME COURT DID NOT DECIDE THE FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUE INSTEAD THEY DISMISSED THE CASE FOR THE LACK OF STANDING THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE PLAINTIFFS HAVE AN INJURY THAT IS TRACEABLE TO THE GOVERNMENT AND IN THIS CASE CONDUCT.

AND ALTHOUGH THE PLAINTIFFS HERE HAD EXPERIENCE TAKE DOWNS, THE COURT SAID YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SHOW THAT THE TAKEDOWN YOU EXPERIENCED WAS ATTRIBUTABLE TO GOVERNMENT ACTION AND THE REASON I THINK THIS IS SIGNIFICANT IS BECAUSE IT'S THE LATEST IN A NUMBER OF CASES WE'VE SEEN WHERE THE COURT HAS DISMISSED CASES FOR LACK OF STANDING AND THAT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE, WE'VE SEEN AN INCREASE OF LITIGATION BROUGHT BY GROUPS, ADVANCING PARTISAN IDEOLOGICAL AGENDAS TRYING TO FORCE PUBLIC LAW QUESTIONS ON TO THE FEDERAL COURT'S DOCKETS AND THIS IS BURDENING THE COURTS, INJURING THE COURTS AND INJURING THE CREDIBILITY OF THE COURTS IT'S WRAPPED UP IN NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS AND CHALLENGES TO EVERY ACT A PRESIDENT TAKES I LIKE TO SEE WHEN THE COURT TIGHTLY APPLIES THE STANDING REQUIREMENT TO LIMIT LITIGATION.

>> I HAD MADE A NOTE ABOUT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S MORE DECISIONS THAT ARE NARROW LIKE THAT.

AND THEY ARE NOT ACTUALLY DECIDING THE CORE ISSUE.

>> I THINK THAT IS A GOOD THING.

>> IT IS SUBSTANTIVE THE STANDING OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT BUT I ALSO THINK IT'S GOOD THAT THE FORCE IS -- COURT IS LIMITING THE LITIGATION FOR SPORTS AND LITIGATION TO GET THE ISSUES ON TO THE DOCKET.

>> ONE THING THAT STOOD OUT WAS THE DECISION IN OHIO A RULING BASICALLY TO HALT WHAT THE EPA HAS BEEN DOING TO DEREGION LATING AIR POLLUTION.

IN 2015 NEW STANDARDS WERE APPLIED AND PART WAS THE GOOD NEIGHBOR PLAN DEALING WITH MIDWESTERN AND WESTERN STATES THAT PRODUCE AIR POLLUTION THAT BLOWS TO EASTERN STATES LIKE NEW YORK AND MAKE US SICK AND HELP KILL US: THE EPA SAID THE STATES HAVE TO CREATE NEW PLANS TO ADDRESS THE NEW STANDARDS.

23 STATES DIDN'T DO THAT AND THE EPA SAID WE'LL MAKE THE PLAN FOR YOU AND THE SUPREME COURT SAID IT WAS NOT A REASONABLE APPROACH.

IT'S UNREASONABLE FOR THE STATES TO PRODUCE THE AIR THAT HURTS.

MY DAUGHTER HAS ASTHMA.

MY MOM IS A LUNG CANCER SURVIVOR.

I THINK THE EPA IS TRYING TO DO THAT.

>> AND THE AGENCIES THERE THEY ARE BEING THEIR AUTHORITY SEEMS TO BE CURTAILED.

>> RIGHT.

AND THE LITIGATION WILL CONTINUE.

THE PRACTICAL EFFECT IS THAT IT WILL BE MONTHS IF NOT YEARS BEFORE THIS GETS RESOLVED AND THE AIR POLLUTION WILL COME IN THE MEANTIME.

>> TARA?

>> THE CASE I THINK IS INTERESTING IS U.S.

VERSUS [INAUDIBLE] AND IT IS A CASE WHERE THERE WAS A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROTECTION ORDER AND THE RAMI HAD NUMEROUS FIREARMS AND THREATENED PEOPLE DOMESTIC PARTNERS WITH FIREARMS AND HE IS MAKING THE ARGUMENT THAT HE HAS A RIGHT TO THOSE FIREARMS UNDER THE SECOND AMENDMENT.

IN THE BRUIN CASE THE SUPREME COURT HAS RULED THAT YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO OPEN CARRY IN PUBLIC PLACES AND THEY BASED THAT DECISION ON HISTORICAL TRADITION OF FIREARM REGULATION.

AND IN THE RAMI CASE THE LOWER COURT SAID THAT THERE WAS NO HISTORICAL LAW WARRANTING TAKING AWAY THE RIGHT TO FIREARMS FOR A CASE WHERE THERE IS AN ORDER OF PROTECTION AND THE PROBLEM HERE IS THAT BASICALLY, THE SUPREME COURT HAS REJECTED LAWS DISALLOWING GUNS TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND SUPREME COURT REJECTED THE IDEA THAT THERE WERE LAWS THAT DISALLOWED GUNS TO INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, ENSLAVED THAT HISTORICAL ARGUMENT IS SELF MADE.

BUT WHAT SEEMS TO BE GETTING LOST IN THIS CASE IS THE FACT THAT HERE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A CASE WHERE YOU ARE TAKING FIREARMS AWAY FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS A HISTORY OF USING THEM AGAINST DOMESTIC PARTNERS.

THERE SEEMS TO BE VERY LITTLE CONCERN AT LEAST IN THE LOWER COURT ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THIS IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES.

AND SO I THINK IT'S GOING TO BE VERY IMPORTANT TO WATCH HOW THE SUPREME COURT DECIDES THIS ISSUE.

>> SO THE COURT AFTER THE BRUIN CASE ESTABLISHING THE HISTORICAL PRECEDENCE THE LOWER COURTS WERE HAD TO USE THAT AS THEIR GUIDANCE, RIGHT?

SO THIS IS ACTUALLY THE WAY THEY DECIDED THIS RAMI CASE IS THAT A STEP BACK FROM SORT OF THAT SOMEWHAT EXTREME POSITION ON GUNS.

BUT WE -- THEY ALSO TOOK A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO BUMP STOCKS ON GUNS.

>> I MEAN THE DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO CASES RAMI IS ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION AND THE BUMP STOCK CASE IS ABOUT THE STATUTE AND CONGRESS HADN'T BEEN SPECIFIC DIDN'T DEAL WITH BUMP STOCKS THAT IS MACHINE GUNS.

THERE IS AN EXPLANATION FOR IT.

>> OKAY.

MICHAEL, THE CASE THAT YOU -- >> WHAT I'M ANXIOUS ABOUT IS THE UPCOMING IMMUNITY DECISION THAT TO SEPARATE AMERICA FROM THE ARE PRESIDENTS AND DICTATORS AND HAVE AUTONOMY AND CONTROL.

WITHOUT CHECKS AND BALANCES OVER THEIR ACTIONS IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD WHEN AA PERSON LEAVES OFFICE THEY LEAVE THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY KNOW AT SOME POINT THE FORMER PRESIDENT WILL COME AFTER THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES AND DO TERRIBLE THINGS.

AND IN ADDITION IT OPENS THE DOOR FOR THE FORMER PRESIDENT TO BE PROSECUTED FOR THE CRIMES HE HAS COMMITTED ON THE CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS CASE.

FOR ME, THE IMMUNITY CASE IS GOING TO DEFINE THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT.

>> AND BY THE TIME THE PROGRAM IS ON THE AIR WE MAY HAVE A DECISION IN THAT CASE.

AND I HAVE NO IDEA CAN'T HANDICAP THAT.

>> THE BEST FOR LAST.

>> WELL, THEY HAVE QUITE A CRUSH OF CASES AT THE END.

>> SIX OR EIGHT LEFT AS WE SIT HERE.

>> I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY RUSHED THEMSELVES.

WHY THEY WAIT UNTIL THE LAST-MINUTE.

THEY HAVE MONTHS TO DO THINGS.

I'LL LET OTHER PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THAT.

>> THIS WAS PRIMARY WEEK IN NEW YORK AND OTHER STATES IN OUR LOCAL CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT NEW YORK 22 THE LINEUP IS SET FOR FALL AFTER JOHN MANNION DEFEATED HOOD.

24, CLAUDIA 10 ANY DEFEATED HER CHALLENGER AND THERE WAS AN UPSET DOWN STATE.

LUKE, WHAT DID WE LEARN ABOUT THE ELECTORATE WITH THESE DECISIONS?

>> WELL, I THINK WE LEARNED THAT DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO RECOVER FROM REALLY BAD SHOWING IN NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE AND THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS.

THE REPUBLICANS WON NEARLY EVERY COMPETITIVE SEAT AND THEY HAVE THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF POWER THEY'VE HAD IN THE HOUSE IN MANY YEARS.

SO I THINK THIS PRIMARY WHAT WE SAW WITH THE RESULTS IS THAT DEMOCRATIC VOTERS WENT MORE MODERATE MORE MALE AND WHILE IN SELECTING CANDIDATES IN A FEW COMPETITIVE RACES WE HAD.

AND NY22, HOOD, LOST ONONDAGA COUNTY BY 2,000 VOTES IN THE FIRST BID FOR CONGRESS AND SHE LOST IT BY 7,000 VOTES TO MANNION AND THAT IS THE REASON HE HAD A SIZABLE VICTORY.

SO I THINK THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE TRYING TO RETOOL HERE AND I THINK WITH REDISTRICTING THEY ARE IN A POSITION TO PICK UP SEATS IN NEW YORK.

AND NY22 IS THE DEMOCRAT SEAT TO LOSE NOW BECAUSE OF HOW IT'S CHANGED AND DEMOCRATS HAVE 30,000 REGISTERED VOTERS.

>> WHAT ABOUT DOWN STATE?

WE HAD THE GEORGE LATIMER, BOWMAN RACE THAT WAS I DON'T KNOW IF WE CALL THAT AN UPSET.

MAYBE I WAS INCORRECT IN CALLING IT AN UPSET.

>> I PAID ATTENTION.

THE SEAT FOR THE INCUMBENT IS SAYS YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SENSE OF BALANCE A CERTAIN POLITICAL INSTINCT A SENSE OF MATURITY TO NOT FALL PREY TO THE SPIRIT OF THE MOMENT BOMB BASKIC OVER THE TOP RHETORIC.

IN A BROADER SENSE I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THIS IS PERHAPS A WAKE-UP CALL FOR THE CONGRESSIONAL PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS, PRESLEY IN MASSACHUSETTS, TO HAVE A BROADER APPEAL OUTSIDE OF THE BASE AND TEMPER THEIR STRONGEST EMOTIONS IF THEY WANT TO STAY IN OFFICE.

HOW THEY DO THAT IS A DELICATE DANCE WE'LL SEE HOW IT GOES IN THE FUTURE.

>> SO THE SQUAD IF YOU WILL.

>> I HATE THAT WORD BUT I LIKE PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS.

>> THE PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS, BOWMAN WAS THE FIRST ONE TO GO DOWN THERE.

AND COREY BUSH IN MISSOURI HAS A PRIMARY COMING UP.

SO WE COULD SEE.

>> THERE ARE LESSONS THERE.

>> PARTICULARLY WITH SUBURBAN VOTERS THAT 16TH DISTRICT HAS MORE SUBURBAN AND WESTCHESTER.

>> I DON'T THINK IT WAS AN UPSET.

I'M STRUGGLING HOW HE THOUGHT HE COULD HAVE WON GIVEN HOW HE HAS BEHAVED.

HIS SUPPORT HIS ANTI-ISRAEL STATEMENTS, HIS SORT OF HE SEEMED TO BE TRYING TO APPEAL ON A NATIONAL STAGE WHEN HE HAS TO GET ELECTED IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

I THINK MICHAEL'S POINTS ARE EXCELLENT ONES.

>> A LOT OF OUR POLITICS SEEMS NATIONALIZED A LOT OF THE LOCAL RACES.

>> THE OTHER THING MISTAKE HE MADE WAS AND SOMETIMES YOU SEE POLITICIANS DO THIS, I THINK HE SORT OF TOOK HIS BASE FOR GRANTED.

YOU KNOW HE DIDN'T SPEAK TO LOCAL ISSUES EVEN LOCAL ISSUES YOU USE THE TERM MINORITY ISSUES AND LOCAL MINORITY ISSUES.

HE CAMPAIGNED MORE ON NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ISSUES THAN HE DID ON THE LOCAL ISSUES THAT ARE MOST CONCERN TO HIS CONSTITUENTS.

>> AND BACK HERE IN NEW YORK'S 22, LUKE, WAS SARAH HOOD TOO PROGRESSIVE FOR THIS DISTRICT?

>> NO.

I THINK DEMOCRATS WOULD BE RELATIVELY SATISFIED IF IT WAS MANNION OR HOOD.

A LOT OF VOTERS DECIDED ON WHO THEY THOUGHT BEST EMBODIES THE DEMOCRATS THEY WOULD WANT IN OFFICE.

HOOD MADE AN APPEAL TO WOMEN BUT MANNION USED LABOR SUPPORT TO BRING HOME THE VOTES.

>> SARAH'S POINT I HAD A FRIEND IT WAS LACED WITH PROFANITY, LACED WITH SORT OF HOOD THAT HE IS SEEKING ON A LOCAL LEVEL.

TARA'S POINT IS EXCELLENT.

>> LET'S LEAVE THAT THERE AND MOVE TO OUR A'S AND F'S.

>> MY F GOES TO THE OKLAHOMA STATE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT RYAN WATERS WHO RECENTLY ORDERED ALL STATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO BEGIN INCORPORATING THE BIBLE INTO SCHOOL LESSONS ON THE HEELS OF THE OKLAHOMA GOVERNOR ENFORCING A LAW REQUIRING THE 10 COMMANDMENTS BE POSTED IN ALL SCHOOLS.

THIS WOULD NOT WORRY ME IF THIS WAS PART OF A DEVELOPED CURRICULUM ON AMERICAN RELIGION AND DIVERSITY.

HOWEVER, OKLAHOMA HAS THE LARGEST NATIVE-AMERICAN POPULATION IN AMERICA.

THESE RULES IGNORE THEIR RELIGION AS WELL AS THE HISTORY OF AMERICA'S OTHER RELIGIONS AND DENOMINATIONS.

>> LUKE?

>> MY F GOES TO THE TRAGIC DEATH OF 1300 MUSLIMS WHO RECENTLY SUCCUMBED TO HEAT IN MAKING A PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA.

THEY ARE ELDERLY ADULTS WHO SAVED ALL THEIR LIVES FOR THIS JOURNEY.

>> MICHAEL?

>> MY F GOES TO MATT GAETZ THE GUY FROM FLORIDA THAT HE WANTS TO REMAKE THE G.O.P.

IN HIS IMAGE.

NO, PLEASE, NO.

>> AND LISA YOUR F?

>> MY F GOES TO BAYLOR ST. LUKE'S MEDICAL CENTER WHICH PAID A RECORD $15 MILLION SETTLEMENT TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

ACCORDING TO THE FEDS THREE SURGEONS REGULARLY LEFT OPERATING ROOMS DURING RISKY OPEN HEART SURGERIES LEAVING PATIENTS IN THE HANDS OF UNQUALIFIED MEDICAL RESIDENTS AND THEY DID SO WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT OF THE PATIENTS AND WHILE FALSELY BILLING MEDICARE FOR THE SERVICES THEY HAD DELEGATED.

>> THEY GET THREE F'S.

NOW TO THE A'S, TARA?

>> MY A GOES TO CHUCK THE PRINCIPAL CHIEF OF THE CHEROKEE NATION.

IN ADDITION TO THE CHEROKEE FREEDOM HISTORY PROJECT AND THE RESTORATION OF CHEROKEE NATION MEMBERSHIP FOR THE DESCENDANTS ARTICLES WILL GO A LONG WAY TOWARDS FILLING THE ROOTS BETWEEN THE NATION AND MIXED BLOOD MEMBERS.

>> LUKE?

>> MY A GOES TO A NEW $6 MILLION FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION GRANT TO INCREASE WALKABILITY AND BIKABILITY THROUGHOUT THE MOHAWK VALLEY INCLUDING 1.5 MILLION OF MY HOMETOWN OF KIRKLAND.

>> AND MICHAEL YOUR A?

>> AMERICA'S K-12 TEACHERS FINISHING UP ANOTHER YEAR.

>> LISA.

>> "WALL STREET JOURNAL" FOR THE EFFORTS TO PUBLICLIZE AND ADVOCATE FOR THE RETURN OF REPORTER EVAN CONCERN WITS WHO HAS BEEN DETAINED BY RUSSIAN AUTHORITIES FOR 15 MONTHS.

HE WAS PUT ON TRIAL THIS WEEK.

I ADMIRE AND APPRECIATE THE JOURNAL'S COMMITMENT TO IN ITS ITS WORDS CONTINUE TO TELL EVAN'S STORY UNTIL HE CAN TELL HIS OWN.

>> HE CAME UP IN THE DEBATE LAST NIGHT.

AND PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYING HE WOULD HAVE HIM OUT OF THERE IN A JIFFY.

I'M WONDERING WHAT YOU THOUGHT OF THAT?

>> WELL, WHO KNOWS.

HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH PUTIN IT'S NOT INCONCEIVABLE IT'S SOMETHING PUTIN COULD REWARD HIM WITH TO PROP HIM UP.

>> AND YOU MENTIONED THE OKLAHOMA SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT MANDATING THAT BIBLE IS TAUGHT IN ALL FIFTH THROUGH 12TH GRADES BUT NO IDEA WHAT THE CURRICULUM WOULD BE THIS IS JUST SORT OF AN OVERARCHING MANDATE INCORPORATE THAT INTO YOUR LESSONS ANY SENSE OF WHAT THOSE LESSONS WOULD BE?

>> NOT SO FAR.

THEY HAVE NOT SAID AND I KEEP TRYING TO THINK HOW ARE YOU GOING TO INCORPORATE THE BIBLE INTO FIFTH OR SIXTH GRADE MATH CLASS.

RIGHT NOW IT'S BROAD AND OPEN ENDED.

>> OKAY.

AND I EXPECT THAT WILL BE A COURT CHALLENGE.

>> YES.

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