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Counternarcotics work. its kind of ironic when hes claiming he needs to build a wall for both of those purposes. but, look, there is no emergency at the border. ive been there two times in the last year. illegal border crossings are down to a 40-year low. his own intelligence community when hey do the world threat assessment that identifies the greatest threats to the united states didnt even reference the southern border and certainly never said there was an emergency. so there is no emergency ...

Last year. illegal border crossings are down to a 40-year low. his own intelligence community when hey do the world threat assessment that identifies the greatest threats to the united states didnt even reference the southern border and certainly never said there was an emergency. so there is no emergency at the border and the presidents statutory authorization that hes referring to relates to military construction to support the armed forces, which is clearly not immigration related. so there i...

Democratic process. >> i will tell you, the one -- the one contrary take i have on that is had the president tonight announced, im declaring an emergency and i under emergency powers that i declare myself to have, im going to get my wall built that way. >> mmm-hmm. >> and so while i do that, congress can do whatever they want in terms of opening up the government, but i will get this wall built. the reason i think that might have actually been a practical advance for the country is because im as...

In correlate. that means that the other people who youre working with, other witnesses, can have confidence in you and that the judges have confidence in you. you didnt have that today. im not saying there was a vote of no confidence. i just said the thing did not go today the way bob mueller wanted it to go. and thats a setback. >> back to the idea of collusion and the president referencing you in his public statements on twitter. to be dlaer, hes using you to claim exoneration. you dont think ...

Weve seen that the russians at very high levels were interfering with the american democratic process. thats unconscionable. what we have not seen, then, is the next step of collusion or conspiracies between the trump campaign and these russian operatives. >> do you they they have taken the attacks seriously enough, as a sit sine? >> no. the administration -- theres been a difference between what the administration has done. i have said publicly i wish the president would stop in in way suggesti...

Visit kp.org to learn more. kaiser permanente. thrive. ♪ this is from the transcript. congressman elijah cummings. quote, director comey, can you elaborate on what the threat is that makes the russia investigation so vital? comey, the aim of the effort was to destabilize, undermine, damage our democracy. that was the overwhelming goal. so you have a foreign nation that is attacking the united states of america in an effort to undermine that which is essentially us, our democratic process. so...

Visit coveredca.com today. this is from the transcript. congressman elijah cummings. quote, director comey, can you elaborate on what the threat is that makes the russia investigation so vital? comey, the aim of the effort in 2016 was to destabilize, undermine, damage our democracy. that was the overwhelming goal. so, you have a foreign nation that is attacking the united states of america in an effort to undermine that which is essentially us, our democratic process. so, that is a very seriou...

Theyre going to get republicans on board. they cant move forward without that. >> to both of you, i want to play some sound. james comey, former fired fbi director over the weekend at the 92nd street y, talkin about 2020 and basically what he called an american duty here. have a listen. >> i hope donald trump is not removed from office by impeachment because it will let the country off the hook and it would drive into the fabric of our nation a third of the people believing there was a coup. and...

This is really dangerous. the extent to which hes willing to go to delegitimize the democratic process. and the nightmare that ive been having the last week has been, think of this as a dress rehearsal for the 2020 election. the willingness of trump and his allies to make these absolutely baseless charges of fraud and, you know, and vote stealing. look, democratic norms are much more fragile than i think we sometimes think. and this president and too many other republicans with the exception of ...

Governors race and also the senate race. >> republican candidate governor rick scott holds a razor thin lead over bill nelson. >> nelson is trying to commit fraud to try to win this election. thats all this is. >> rick scott is trying to stop all the votes from being counted and he is impeding the democratic process. >> tuesday night -- >> ron desantis lead shrunk to 33,000 votes. gillum conceded the race tuesday night but yesterday he took that concession back. >> i am replacing my words of con...