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Government shutdown to actually take place. will that be enough to get the position, to get the president to move on his position? >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell went to the president last week in a reporting confirmed by "the washington post" and told him that the national emergency of not the way to go. that the senate and congress might have to pass a resolution of disapproval saying that trump was going above his executive powers. that was not to be respected by congress. and anyw...

Similar metical. -- symmetrical. >> reporter: the u.s. first began warning russia it was in violation of the treaty back in 2013, though theyve always insisted they have been in compliance. even after dozens of behind the scenes talks, theyve never budged. now officials are worried about the impact all this will have on u.s. military relations with china. chinas never been a party to the inf treaty, though president trumps hinted in the past he might be interested in adding countries to any new ...

Similar metical. -- symmetrical. >> reporter: the u.s. first began warning russia it was in violation of the treaty back in 2013, though theyve always insisted they have been in compliance. even after dozens of behind the scenes talks, theyve never budged. now officials are worried about the impact all this will have on u.s. military relations with china. chinas never been a party to the inf treaty, though president trumps hinted in the past he might be interested in adding countries to any new ...

And he would not move back from his $5.7 billion offer if the does look like, as john said, were getting closer to the emergency option where he could declare an emergency option and try to find many elsewhere in the budget. there are a number of republicans that are opposed to that, including senator marco rubio who said that would be a bad precedent and sour things with congress who has the power of the purse. so the president is potentially going to be on his own if he decides to go out and d...

Preparing possibly to make a run, but as an independent. and that news is already causing concern among some democrats who fear an independented by could split the vote and hand trump a second term. cnn also learning that hillary clinton may want to revisit her oval office dreams. insiders tell our jeff zeleny she is not closing the door to a 2020 run. meanwhile, a big morning for some 800,000 federal workers, its the first monday back on the job after the longest government shutdown? u.s. his...

Texas, along the u.s./mexico border. get her to put that bill forward and see how many votes shes got in her own caucus. lets step back for just a minute. what this is all about is, do the democrats want to make the president suffer a political defeat? or do they want to try and get the issue resolved. it is becoming clear the democrats, at least in the minds of nancy pelosi and maybe in the minds of chuck shumer, theyre more interested in using this for politics than getting a resolution on thi...

Want but then they will negotiate after the government is reopened. >> john: well, what ye ought to do was take advantage of the fact that they are delegating to him all kinds of executive powers that he really doesnt have and perhaps, figure out a way to perversely use this newly delegated power that schumer and pelosi have been giving him to send the message and the aspects to the american public. >> eric: governor johnson, frigid new hampshire this morning. >> a little bit cool here. it was 3...

Theyre going to have to make. but any lawyer that works in the executive branch, i dont care whether hes the obama administration, who made similar arguments during the fast and furious case or the trump administration, are there to protect the executive powers. theres always this push and pull between congressional powers and executive powers. and theyre all trying to get in their own, in each others lane, all the time. >> but to be fair -- >> but hold on a second. jimmy, one point at a time. t...

One other issue. >> go ahead. >> and the difference between the presidents private lawyers and the whiteout counsel lawyers. theres a big difference there. >> the white house just staffed 17 lawyers to fight this fight. go ahead. >> so hold on a second. ill get to that, too. but the white house counsel lawyers will and should have an opportunity to review this for executive privilege. and whether this -- and whether there are items in that report that are privileged and are subject to executive ...

Emergencys act none of them remotely resembles this. they are all about unforeseen crisis. this will go to court. who will bring suit is an open question. its not clear who will have standing. but what i imagine the administration will argue and i dont doubt that they will be baktd backed up by the current office, what they will argue is nothing to sheer, move along. nothing has happened yet. its ironic, a president who will use a national emergency as kind of a source of bragging rights can har...