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>> mr. president, your declaration of an emergency on the southern border was clearly authorized under the law. the security crisis we have is exactly the kind of emergency that presidents are permitted to address under the national emergencies act. what youve done from a legal standpoint is solidly grounded in law and from the standen point of protecting the american people, its imperative. >> you dont see or hear that every day. so, this veto means many things including that the wall he promis...

Discernible agenda from this white house that involves congress, a typical process. what you have from a domestic policy standpoint is a budget that just came out that calls for tremendous cuts in domestic programs that no one in congress is going to go along, not only the democrats, the republicans arent going to go along with. theres no formal plan to try to get any of those things done. you have the wall. the president is focused solely on the wall. in terms of foreign policy you have potenti...

Against their president who tried to block the national emergency border wall and forced the first veto from this president. >> look, they were doing what they have to do, and, look, i put no pressure on anybody. i actually said, i could have gotten some of them to come along. i said i want you to vote your heart. do what you want to do. im not putting any pressure. ill let them know when theres pressure. okay? >> noting the shift from abject party loyalty, the new york times writes, and we quot...

As we bring another week to a close good evening. day 785 of the trump administration and lets toss this in with the mueller team offering scant clues about where they are headed, and we will get to that in a bit, today was in part about this president issuing his first veto. it was republicans, members of his own party, lets not forget who crossed over joining the dems to reject the presidents self-titled national emergency. well, today he reinvigorated that talk and the need for wall along our...

Head against the wall for the past three years, this was a week to calm you. what on earth could you mean by something like that? >> well, you just laid out three headlines that a lot of us who have a feeling that james madison is ultimately more and kind of proto totalitarianism that this will work out. you had in the yemen vote. you cant get the house of representatives to agree on when to go to lunch. so to get 420 of them agreeing on anything is truly historic in this era and the border wall...

Discernible agenda from this white house that values congress, that values a sort of typical process. what youve got from a domestic policy standpoint is a budget that just came out that calls for tremendous cuts in domestic programs that no one in congress is going to go along with. not only the democrats. the republicans arent going to go along with. there is no real formal plan to try to get any of those things done. you basically have the wall. the president is focused solely on the wall in ...

Say such a thing? >> matt schlapp, the chairman of the american conservative union. very close to donald trump. former member of the george w. bush white house political team. he says its a gift to donald trump because donald trump wants to run against washington again, and in order to do that, in order to run against washington, not only does he want to run against democrats, he also wants to be able to run against republicans a little bit. if you look at his 2016 campaign, he said he was going...

>> mr. president, your declaration of an emergency on the southern border was clearly authorized under law. the humanitarian and security crisis we have on the border right now is exactly the kind of emergency that presidents are permitted to address under the national emergencies act. >> right. >> what youve done from a legal standpoint is solidly grounded in law, and from the standpoint of protecting the american people, its imperative. >> you dont see or hear that every day. so this veto mean...

A close, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 785 of the trump administration. lets toss this in. with the mueller team offering scant clues today about where they are headed, and we will get to that in a bit, today was in part about this president issuing his first veto. it was republicans, members of his own party, lets not forget, who crossed over, joining the dems to reject the presidents self-titled national emergency. well, today he reinvigorated tha...

Against their president, who tried to block the national emergency border wall and forced the first veto from this president. >> look, they were doing what they have to do, and im -- look, i did -- i put no pressure on anybody. i actually said -- i could have gotten some of them to come along. i said i want you to vote your heart. do what you want to do. im not putting any pressure. ill let them know when theres pressure, okay? >> noting the shift from abject party loyalty, "new york times" writ...