the president s words on any number of topics. what s interesting beyond the political ramifications is you remember the travel ban initially. one of the things that got the trump administration in court were comments from rudy giuliani and tweets from the president himself saying muslim ban. ban the muslims. muslim ban and then they had to make a legal argument that this isn t a muslim ban. if this goes to court which it likely will and perhaps in very different venues. states suing over it. house and senate democrats suing over it. interest groups like the aclu suing over it. the trump administration will have to argue this is a legitimate national emergency and here the president of the united states is saying, i didn t have to do it, but i am. that could be legally difficult. yes, the president s comments came back to haunt the administration in the first go around but ultimately in the third iteration is passed muster. chairman rogers othe political side before we go, looking at
as sarah westwood reports, the white house is ready to fight back. trump s national emergency declaration has opened up even more divides among lawmaker on capitol hill, even among just republicans who are split on the president taking this approach. democrats have always opposed the idea of the president building a border wall no matter the funding source, but they also say the president using his emergency declaration powers in this way is unconstitutional, and while some republicans have expressed some disdmfcomfort wi the idea of the president setting a precedent by using his emergency powers in this way, others are arguing that there s a genuine national security and humanitarian crisis on the border, and they re also saying that this is not subversion of the will of congress. because congress did include some funding for the border wall in this spending package that trump signed on friday. take a listen to the startling different opinions expressed by democratic congressman ada
mccabe told rosenstein was absolutely onboard into launching investigations into the president. mccabe also added details to the claims rosenstein offered to wear a wire into the white house. we talked about why the president had insisted on firing the director and whether or not he was thinking about the russia investigation and did that impact his decision. and in the context of that conversation the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said i never get searched when i go into the white house. i could easily wear a recording device. they wouldn t know it was there. now, he was not joking. he was absolutely serious, and in fact he brought it up in the next meeting we would. as cnn has already reported rosenstein denies pursuing any recording and a source in the room for the conversations says rosenstein was being sarcastic. also senate judiciary chairman
firing relieved great pressure. on the rosenstein conversation, we reported on the fact that mccabe has alleged he had a conversation with rod rosenstein after comey was fired where rosenstein offered to wear a wire into the oval office. he described it much more detail. let s watch what he said. we talked about why the president had insisted on firing the director and whether or not he was thinking about the russia investigation and did that impact his decision? the context of that conversation, the deputy attorney general offered to wear a wire into the white house. he said i never get searched when i go into the white house. i could easily wear a recording device they wouldn t know was there. he was not joking. he was absolutely serious. and, in fact, he brought it up in the next meeting we had. i never actually considered taking him up on the offer.
we are talking to voters in one key state. a stunning new interview. he is asking current deputy attorney general of an illegal and treasonist plot. he claimed he offered to wear a wire into the white house to secretly record the president and even discussed the 25th amendment to remove him from office. president trump tweeted so many lies. he and rob rosenstein, another beauty looked like they were planning a very illegal act and got caught. the president also endorsing the idea that quote this was an illegal attempt on the president of the united states.