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This isnt ideological. this could be in a few years whether president bernie sanders can take $100 bil and give it out for congress without giving it to congress, and theres a constitutional issue. senator, im excited to say im not letting you go. were going to keep you around for your first "fallback friday" in a few minutes. im going to fit in a quick 30-second break when i have malcolm nance talk about this question, what does putin have on trump, and donald trumps wild day undermining his ca...

Emergency act, because everyone is now catching up on it. this is the first time since the national emergencies act became law the court will consider this core question of whether a president can declare a national emergency that does not exist by any available metric, legal experts tell "the washington post," thats his tweet about it. is that overstated or is your few that nobody has ever pushed it so far that we have gotten this kind of ruling? >> so, the national emergencies act has been inv...

History. hes now been a former president for a record 38 years. so that is our broadcast for a friday night and for this week. thank you so very much for being here with us. have a good weekend. good night from nbc news headquarters in new york. another mueller friday. as muellers prosecutors win a new ruling to gag roger stone. that just happened. and its big. mueller also dropping the hammer on paul manafort. hes making a new push asking the federal judge to sentence manafort to prison immed...

Donald trumps headed down to mar-a-lago in florida. obviously thats a thing you do during a national emergency. trumps also given a rose garden announcement that i can only factually describe as rambling and at times illogical because it did undermine the core purpose of the presentation that there would be an emergency. i have some great guests, so lets get right to it. starting with lieutenant colonel ralph peters. first of all, good evening, sir. always nice to have you on a friday. >> good t...

Things seriously even if people no power dont. so folks who watch the show know we try to just deal with the evidence. im not here to make a lot of judgment calls about how donald trump talks and all that kind of stuff. but let me play for you something that is happening in this statecraft as he tries to seize billions of dollars. this was how he made the case today. take a look. >> we will have a national emergency. and we will then be sued. and they will sue us in the ninth circuit. even thoug...

Whether donald trump could be compromised by the russian government. hes let our country down. hes left americans to lay awake at night asking themselves what does putin have on our president? of course, we can consider the possibility that the president is an asset of the russian government. >> quote, an asset of the russian government. a possibility to consider. joining me to do so, malcolm nance, msnbc terror analyst and author of "the plot to destroy democracy." what do you think senator men...

Constitution, of the founding fathers. i always say they did amazing things for their time and they were also wrong about all sorts of things. if you have a 3/5 compromise, youre 100% wrong about one of the most fundamental things. yet in the system of government, they say well, the congress will check the executive. ambition will check ambition. everyone who has been in any office politics fight in their life is familiar with that, that people will represent their own ends. they tried to turn t...

This is one of the ways they think they can possibly win, is by obstruction and a lot of other nonsense. and i think that i just want to get it done faster. thats all. >> will you cite those comments in your court challenge? >> well, i think theyre very compelling arguments for us, for sure. i dont think they support his argument as well, and we have our wonderful colleagues right now working on the complaint, and im sure theyre listening closely to what hes saying. >> would you use them if you ...

It goes right at what roger stone prizes most, his ability to make his case in public. this federal judge finding mueller won the arguments for a partial gag order. that means it bans stone and his lawyers from public remarks that would prejudice jurors as well as even talking at all when they come and go from the court. anyone watching stones recent conduct knows that will require him to change gears or go to jail. because roger stone has been doing those exact things since being indicted for w...

And the question is why was he lying? was he just a congenital liar? or was he trying to cover up for the president in the hope of getting a pardon involving all of those years? >> you say congenital. i will say its funny to try to give someone a fairness defense that makes them look terrible. but there are trump aides who told me, look, paul lied about everything. he would literally lie about the color of his tie, like it was his thing. that doesnt mean he also didnt lie about important things,...