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Reporting to the fbi? are you worried about perjury? >> not at all. >> piece bear with us. the bouncing wall here. donald trump jr. walking out of a meeting with senate intelligence committee investigators. at one point the majority leader wanted to shut it down, were done, lets go away. are the chairman wanted donald trump jr. to come back because they wanted to take the mueller report which details a number of conversations, the trump tower meeting, direct messages to wicks, oth wick wikileaks...

Veto, its important to point out, and not necessarily because of policy differences over the border. rand paul saying he opposed giving the president extra constitutional powers. for senator portman, as you heard, it was concern about what future presidents might do, not what this one has done. others such as alaskas lisa murkowski worried about military construction earmarked for her state being used for construction of the wall. all that said incidentally is the biggest setback dealt the presi...

From some of these republicans like mitt romney, who is up on capitol hill today saying that essentially he felt it was his duty to try to protect the constitution. again, this is the kind of language were seeing coming out of republicans that a lot of trump critics have been waiting for a very long time. >> and the president is expected to veto this in front of the cameras, is that right? >> thats right. we think that could happen. i talked to a senior administration official earlier today who ...

Emergency for climate change, you know, they clearly would not want to go along with that. and yet these days the argument that, well, youve flip-flop and its hypocritical that you gave the republican president this power. youre not going give a democratic president. that doesnt seem to really matter anymore. people can flip-flop over years and no one really seems to care. >> yeah, i do think people are getting a little too used to it and maybe accepting it. so i think that the other big problem...

Criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. so i will take the mantle. i will be the one to shut it down. im not going to blame you for it. the last time you shut it down, it didnt work. i will take the mantle of shutting down. and im going to shut it down for border security. >> he would take the mantle. turns out the mantle was heavy, kind of uncomfortable, and he didnt end up taking it, at least not for very long. the shutdown certainly hurt a lot of pe...

A way that trades directly to tonight, whether its basis for calling the border problem an emergency or his oft repeated and pretty much ignored promises about funding for the wall. >> i promise we will build the wall. and whose going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> whose going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> who? >> mexico! >> it will be a great wall. mexico is going to pay for the wall. mexico is going to pay for the wall. >> mexico will pay for the wall. >> so that was the promise, of c...

Democratic president. that doesnt seem to really matter anymore. people can flip-flop over years and no one really seems to care. >> yeah, i do think people are getting a little too used to it and maybe accepting it. so i think that the other big problem here obviously is that there is no actual national emergency, and its sort of strange that weve gotten away from that as a conversation. you know, that he went to el paso to prove his point and in fact el paso, when the wall went up, the crime w...

Staying in particular lines in pursuit of the wall. most republicans to this point have not been eager to call him on it. he has clashed with congress over the sole power of the purse which the constitution clearly states article i, section 9, no money will be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law. most republicans werent exactly concerned than. but thats only the latest in a long series of examples of the president crossing lines without facing political conse...

For months, including today. even after seemingly admitted its false, as he did just last month. >> and we have renovated a tremendous amount of wall, making it just as good as new. thats where a lot of the money has been spent on renovation. in fact, were restricted to renovating, which is okay. but were going run out of areas that we can renovate pretty soon. aged we need new wall. >> so he is admitting there theyve just been renovating existing wall. now hes gone back to saying that theyve be...

President is going to sign this veto tomorrow some place in front of the cameras to remind the american people, to remind those folks who do care about this issue that he is not giving up, that he believes in the rule of law. listen, the president asses a believer in immigration. he believes the border needs to be repaired there are large gaps that folks flow across. listen, its not the only thing that needs to be done, but a wall is part of the solution that needs to be done. and that president...