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White house. just in your mind for a moment, if you were asked, lets assume for a moment that the house option is off the table. what would be your recommendation? >> number two, i go to the senate. its a smaller venue, you would have less heckling. you have mcconnell and pentz that are the two people with the president so the optics are better. you maintain the integrity of delivering it to a joint address, and if that didnt work then i would go to the oval office. but there is something very, ...

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♪ ♪ >> you hope hes -- the government shut down. this is a housekeeping matter. [ inaudible question ] you can make it to the oval office. >> laura: its time for another edition of petulant politics with nancy pelosi. while speaker mimi is is trying to pull a fast one in telling trump to delay his state of the union address citing security concerns because of the shut down, but the authorities are calling her bluff. joining me now is chief national correspondent ed henry. whats the scoop...

>> do you hope that he sees it as a consequence, the government shut down? >> this is a housekeeping matter when it comes to the united states responsibility and the invitation we extend to the president. >> laura: its time for another edition of petulance and pathetic politics. with nancy pelosi. speaker amy trying to pull a fast one and telling trump to delay a state of the union address, how convenient, she is citing security concerns because of the shut down. but the authorities are calling ...

The president insisting an emergency declaration over the border wall, 100% legal? is he right? >> hes right. theres been 58 declare d emergencies since 1978. the great blovator and deflector will never do it. because in reality, not the twilight zone, there is no crisis. there is no national emergency. and this will be the first time congress will seek to overturn a national emergency if trump decides to call it. hes doing it to bluff. hes doing it to bluff congress and make a deal for him. the...

That connotes -- it makes a difference to her, what he campaigned on was a 25-foot high concrete wall. >> martha: why doesnt she say to him, well, mr. president, im fine with border security, but i will not build a concrete wall? which basically can be done anyway? >> if the president were smart, hed say to mitch mcconnell, hold up that bill with 14 republicans and lets get a vote on that. that will call her bluff. because if shes really opposed to border security, then shell be against it. the ...

They voted yes, we nancy pelosi said they would not over in the house. he wants so, what im doing is called the democrats bluff. andy, thats what we are doing. that if you take out that four-letter word, "wall," call their bluff and see if its not the thing. >> andy: i must say, the semantics of this -- people know that walls make sense. the problem with the democrats position, they have taken the position that there is a morality. >> kennedy: they dont believe that. they are not reacting to the...

Their bluff, by stopping this word, "while?" im serious about this. thats what they say they have a sticking point on, but theyll agree that the the legislation has count for something. since democrats pass it into thousand six. so if you call it something different, call the bluff on it. >> they called it will fun it into thousand seven, and had money and therefore both dont like persecuted. the bluff has already been culprit lets call it what it is. it has nothing to do with the wall with the ...

Administration weve seen and this president routinely disregards the it law, the constitution, the congress. >> we did not elect a dictator, we elected a president. >> i think that was to prosecute without documents. >> and now you have someone saying hell declare a national emergency and he doesnt need congress to use these funds and the question is will republicans balk at that and to a certain extent they have started to say thats a bridge too far, maybe a wall too far. he cannot do the natio...

Using even 18 days ago. >> one would argue the address if it should have been on day one. >> right. the other thing to answer is if this is such an emergency y hasnt he spent the money he has been appropriated to build the wall. why isnt there a sense of urgency? because its not true. i think that what the president doesnt understand is the american people are smarter. they called his bluff. he doesnt realize that there are 800,000 people suffering consequences regardless of his political crisis...