group to override a presidential veto. they are seeing whether they can. top democrats are skeptical that republicans will follow-through. the president is making his case for why the tariffs will hurt mexico more. what we have heard again and again over the last few months is they oppose a particular policy and then they fold. i have been watching how, for example, republican senators bob and weave even over the question whether a tariff is a tax. it has been republican orthodoxy since the days when the earth cooled that a tariff was a tax. they have to step up. if they don t, tariffs will go on. if they go high, companies will move back into the united states. it s very simple. we saw this play out with mexico on the new nasty deal.
better chance that you and i wake up tomorrow two inches taller. i m just saying if they want to do that, then why doesn t the president go through the same scrutiny? he wouldn t even do what clinton did. you know, clinton was in a box, right? they had clinton, right? he went in there. he did that deposition anyway. then he had to deal with these things, and then it became a legal matter for him, so they started to duck and bob and weave, and we saw what happened there. this is very differ in that this president from jump, he made these big boasts. talk about lies. how is this not a lie? the president said to you, i can t wait to do it. i can t wait to do it. then he says, well, my lawyers when have his lawyers ever made him do anything? come on. remember his lawyer said that he can t do it because he can t tell the truth. basically he said he cannot tell 9 truth. they said, we think he s going to walk into a perjury trap. if you re not lying, how is that perjury? that s
a way that is for 2020 accomplishments, but the president here seems very worried about what democrats will do going forward. pelosi s strategy is setting a legal presence dense that could hinder the house or two, and ari, speaking of their powers, there has been a flap about the acting attorney general, matt whittaker, who is supposed to testify. they may promise not to invoke that subpoena, who has a stronger hand here. this is weirdly intricate. they get a tusle with the justice department, but the democrats in charge feel like they don t want him to bob and weave and get out the door with
trump said he wanted 1,000 miles of a concrete wall. then he said later that it was going to be solid concrete from the ground to 32 feet high, and then he changed it to 700 to 800 miles, and then he changed it to steel slats, no more concrete wall, and then it has to be between 500 and 550 miles. every statement from senator schumer, the democratic leader is we ll just wait to find what position the president lands on and we will take seriously any public approved plan to re-open the government once we hear about it from president trump, and until then you can keep flailing around, and senator graham, you know, can come out and try and speak for the president and bob and weave and
george stephanopoulos and just underscore. we laughed in disbelief but the contempt it shows for the notion of the truth. remember, he kept trump from answering anything except very carefully sort of written questions, and now they are a little trapped on that one question of, did it go until november, october, et cetera? he now says over my dead body will the president of the united states speak under oath and combines that with a notion of, as long as you re not under oath, there s no notion to tell the truth to the american people. the idea that the basic responsibilities of the president are those of the mob boss to just bob and weave and demean the any fbi investigation. that s what really comes through with giuliani. i have a weird question, though, for you. are there criminals out there who will point to the president and say, well, you know, the president s lawyer said he