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Hang your star on youtube and see how brightly it shines. ♪ cry me a river ♪ cry me a river >> justin bieber was the first of the youtube kids. he was using the new tools of the internet to really do an end run around the traditional industry. ♪ and i was like baby baby baby oh ♪ ♪ like baby baby baby no >> in the 2000s the music industry was undergoing a massive shift with all the technological change and the fact that the price of music had effectively been ground down to zero. >> im...

Of priorities we should set in terms of spending. and the president had a republican congress, republican senate and a house for two years, and we never dealt with this as an emergency. there was no effort to get them to come up with the money, and now that he cant get a consensus, he ought to do what most presidents do. he ought to go back to the drawing board, try to form a new consensus, find a compromise and not go down this crazy road were going on right now. he is treating the money that c...

>> hurricane victims. >> puerto rico. >> that wasnt what happened on the campaign trail, that was -- >> i dont remember hearing that at those rallies. >> also this morning michael cohen former trump lawyer now convicted felon implicated in campaign finance crimes has agreed to testify publicly in what should be a blockbuster hearing before congress next month. it may be just the beginning of the new democratic majority turning up the political heat on the president. the president tells reporters...

Were going on right now. this is a -- hes treating the money that congress puts forward on specific things, hes treating it like a piggy bank that he, the president, can come and over the top of the heads of whatever congress has said and spend it. that is not what the constitution says. this is an end-run around the constitution. its an end-run around the congress. and we ought to be very clear about that. >> kirsten, it is kind of incredible, if, in fact, they do take money for reconstruction ...

Will determine he has the authority. there is a difference, sir, between can and should. the national review, which i dont think you will call a liberal rag or fake news, the national review says it is an offense against the spirit of the system for a president to fail to get what he wants through congress in a dispute involving core congressional power, spending and then turn around and exploit a tenuous reading of the law to try to get it. the difference is between can and should. can the pres...

Wall if trump declares an emergency and orders the military to build a wall. john. >> this is called section 2808 and they kin voke it and 2.5 million sbl halfway between more or less what the democrats are proposing and what the president is asking for. if this was negotiated responsible this is probably where theyd end up. the problem is the court challenge. these emergency orders have been thing for as large as 9/11 and as small as freezing assets for foreign countries that are in conflict wi...

Antagonizing the president into this corner. not the majority of americans. >> as you point out, it was republicans who were weighing in on how much money they did or didnt want the president to spend on a vanity project that had nothing to do with national security, building the wall. the constitution gives the congress the power of the purse. if they elect to give the president money for a project he want, he can then spend it. he is not constitutionally eptitled to do an end run around the en...

Few days. he made a similar comment on friday. hes talking about doing an end run around congressional democrats who have made the clear the president will not get the money he wants for that all. the talks continue as they did today. the president at camp david. the vice president in washington. trump tweeting this. v.p. mike pence and group had a productive meeting with the a schumer/pelosi representatives. many details of border security were discussed. were planning a steel barrier rather th...

Barrier. although democrats have said all along that they will not vote to fund any kind of brrds barrier because they say its not emblematic of the nations values. you have william hurd whose district constitutes 47% of the southern barrier, he says a border wall is the most expensive, least effective way to secure the barrier, that manpower and technology is far more efficient and effective. the president seems to have in his back pocket this notion of declaring a national emergency as one way...

To build his wall. >> we can call a national emergency because of the security of our country, absolutely. no, we can do it. i havent done it. i may do it. i may do it. but we can call a national emergency and build it very quickly, and its another way of doing it. >> as we always say here, you know this is our mantra. facts matter. and the fact is there is no national emergency at our southern border. this is simply another attempt by this president to get his way by doing an end run around con...