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International policy at the center for american progress. thank you both. it is a little late in the game to deny the ring leader is the ring leader when all along its been a one man band. >> i think youre right. it doesnt pass the laugh test. however as a legal matter and public relations matter it may be the only strategy they have. >> who is the audience for this stuff? who is going to buy it, that he didnt lead the band and he didnt have it in his heart to get some dirt on joe biden or at le...

To be traveling. he is going. considering -- if anyone has paid any attention to the news today -- >> yeah. >> -- theyve heard people saying, you know what, im not sure its the right time, but if he comes, i will welcome him and meet with him. there are many people on the ground saying, dont do it. but presidents are expected to do that in times of tragedy. these visits wi s will be tense >> hes expected to do it but nullified his effectiveness by everything hes done to date. it doesnt pass the ...

>> -- theyve heard people saying, you know what, im not sure its the right time, but if he comes, i will welcome him and meet with him. there are many people on the ground saying, dont do it. but presidents are expected to do that in times of tragedy. these visits will be tense. >> hes expected to do it but nullified his effectiveness by everything hes done to date. it doesnt pass the laugh test. theres something obscene when he stands up on monday at the white house and decries racism and bigot...

The american, make em here. maria: you mentioned usmca. a lot of democrats have said to me im not going to vote for it in its current form. do you have a plan b if it doesnt pass? >> maybe pre-nafta. naftas one of the worst trade deals ever made, probably the worst, and i do include wto. wto gave us china in its current form. theyre considered, you know, a developing nation. we put -- and, or you know, weve let them know were not going to stand for that. we let the folks over at the world trade ...

They want a veto override. so a lot going on right now. clearly democrats want to talk about this issue but will it actually strike down the emergency declaration? at this point, it looks like no. >> stand by to stand by. great to see you. thank you guys. joining me right now cnn chief political correspondent dana bash. lets talk about the emergency declaration first. there is a chance that it gets to the house, there is a chance it could get through the senate but it comes down to the margins a...

Suspicious or just stupid? or all of the above. >> it doesnt pass the laugh test. listen, i think there is a distinction to be made between this company lake and the companies like novartis and atennessee. there is a reason they need to know whats going on in the white house. i think it was in terrible taste on everybodys part. this company has no business that really is at hand at stake. and a $500,000 looks like its a pay off or a brib or its something that crosses a legal line as well as an e...

With me davidian gergen, and and david i want to start with you. and there is a lot of russian this and that. this is a american company linked to a russian oligarch. pretty directly linked. and this company paid michael cohen $500,000. >> right. >> presidential hangers on, its nothing new. but getting $500,000 from a company linked to a russian oligarch when there is a russia investigation going on, is that suspicious or just stupid? or all of the above. >> it doesnt pass the laugh test. listen...

Im going to be on the floor talking with the people that are going to be voting. so im -- im pretty confident im going to be able to get this bill passed. if it doesnt pass, then -- then no one could have got it done. im going down there with all of the energy. i got this lion inside of me. theyre going to have to face me at the capital tomorrow and wednesday. i want to know why they dont want our kids safe if they -- if they oppose the bill. you tell me. all of the other kids that goo to school...

You discuss it. if we could pull that up so they can see what we are talking about, go ahead. >> those four pillars are supported by the american people, recent polling by harvard shows majorities ranging from the mid-50s the high 70s support all four. there are three possible outcomes. two are good for republicans. first of all, they are able to pass it, get my democrats to cross the aisle, passes the house, then the republicans are able to say democrats had controllable three, both houses of c...

-- greater privacy restraints. will this amendment pass? rand paul said he expects it to but we really dont know. if it doesnt pass, rand paul is probably going to filibuster on the senate side. a lot of this right now in the debate over the trump dossier, whether or not americans were unmasked going back to the election of a year ago. >> sandra: the house is voting on the controversial fisa act today. this is the act that may have been used with the phony dossier to surveil and abuse the trump ...