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Authority to maintain that national emergency but he hasnt wanted to yet because he wants to see what the legislative options are. what happened hen he runs out of legislative options? they made it clear he maintains that authority. >> what happens to democrats they were taking a victory lap yesterday. >> they should be because as the meme was yesterday going around the internet, the president got whomped by speaker pelosi. it was a clear win for democrats and more importantly for the workers th...

>> to that point, elliott abrahams did write a piece for the now late weekly standard and the piece is when you cant stand your candidate about his distaste for donald trump and his distaste for hillary clinton, as well i was asking mara what is next how does the white house explain what the plan is going forward and why they have seized on venezuela right now? >> first of all, when it comes to the way forward, theyre not saying theres going to be any military action, but theyre saying all optio...

Declaration is not off the table. john, let me start with you and this tweet from sara huk by sanders. in 21 days president trump is moving forward building the wall with or without democrats. the only outstanding question is whether democrats want something or nothing i read that and go back to what the president said yesterday there was all this talk about a national emergency declared. >> you are not saying there is a gap between reality? are you? nothing has changed. we had the government sh...

Theres been no activity thats taken more of our time over the past days than ensuring the protection of all those folks that are under our chief of mission authority there in venezuela. well get this right well make theyre that we protect our folks on the ground and take all appropriate measures to ensure that theyre protected. >> thats secretary of state mike pompeo on the safety of diplomates saying in venezuela nicholas maduro called for the embassys closure and ordered diplomates gone this a...

Hold my beer. >> nick akerman and the editor of abovethelaw.com well, another one of president trumps confidants in trouble after his pre-dawn arrest in florida telling prosecutors he will not plead guilty. >> i will plead not guilty to these charges. there is no circumstance whatsoever under which i will bear false witness against the president. i have made it clear i will not testify against the president. >> there was no mention of roger stone yesterday in the rose garden at the white house a...

A big player the white house says none of this has to do with the president. these are all people he barely new, copy boy or whatever it was. i repeatedly asked the white house about roger stone before we knew a lot about this maybe not who the campaign official was, but we knew the narrative story line he thought he was going to be indicted he was quite surprised that he hadnt he had robert mueller knocking down at his door and, so, as far as the narrative itself goes, the white house has told ...

Because the big question was was this man acting on his own or acts under instruction from political appointees from the white house. >> and your point about him not having access to these nsa intercepts it is something the president could authorize if he wanted to. >> absolutely to. >> thank you very much for the time. coming up, he may be richards nixons biggest fan with the tattoo to prove it, but right now even trumps base is distancing himself i thought i married an italian. my lineage wa...

From new york to d.c. shuts down, its game over, right? you know, open it back up. but, no, i think that the democrats should have some momentum here and they have actually established a pretty clear red line for the president. and they have also, i hope, you know, gotten some self-confidence back about whats really possible i think just pulling back and remembering that, you know, the government was shutdown and all of this pain to the economy, to these individual workers was felt, you know, no...

Because we had already known the fbi was saying it was quote, unquote making america less safe because there were investigations that werent able to continue because of furloughed agents. so the fbi thing had already been going on and the white house responded by saying, you know what makes america less safe not having the border wall i do think it was the airports that was the tipping points. that doesnt affect all of americans the same way as not being able to get to your holiday or wherever y...

He was, so i think thats something to remember. >> hes talking about canaries singing. can you trust the canary roger stone singing? >> he already said it is in the documents you would ask roger stone, is you taking notes on a criminal conspiracy he doesnt have to sing. we have him on tapes. >> coming back in just a moment here, do you remember this moment >> if he gives in now, thats the end of 2019 in terms of him being aneffective president. thats probably the end of his presidency >> her yan...