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Interesting about this is the dynamic, the dynamic between the freedom caucus, which in the house which has felt it does not actually have any meaningful leverage on this and president presidents own inclinations. the language of this bill, this is an appallingly written bill. as you say its very weird for it to be starting in the senate. funding bills normally start in the house. there is a great sense that a lot of this is being kind of made up as it goes along there are things in that bill th...

Interesting about this is the dynamic, the dynamic between the freedom caucus, which in the house which has felt i it does not actually have any meaningful leverage on this and president presidents own inclinations. the language of this bill, this is an appallingly written bill. as you say its very weird for it to be starting in the senate. funding bills normally start in the house. there is a great sense that a lot of this is being kind of made up as it goes along there are things in that bill ...

Called it months agobut he coops waiting and tries to use it as a leverage. he didnt get the money on the wall he wanted. he didnt even get that close so now he wants to use that because hes obsessed at this 13th century called a wall. >> what do you think the -- i want to read concern from susan collins, republican in the senate who says this. declaring a national emergency would be a mistake on the part of a president. i dont believe the act constitutes the president relocating billions for sp...

>> what do you imagine are the next steps if the president does invoke this legal authority many think is a dubious constitutionality? >> its certainly dubious. i think the supreme court has weve already talked about whether the president can declare a emergency. theyll say if theres an emergency, maybe he should have called it months agobut he coops waiting and tries to use it as a leverage. he didnt get the money on the wall he wanted. he didnt even get that close so now he wants to use that b...

He even involved in this campaign. and they were certainly always concerned about his relationships with russians and people connected to the russian government. the fbi has always been concerned about this. and, you know, when you look at the charges, the tax fraud and the other kind of money charges that paul manafort wound up getting convicted for, this is something that had been around for quite some time, and if the fbi and department of justice wanted to go after him for they could have do...

President wasnt going to get over one dollar for his wall in this deal and now he has over a billion and saying the president if he does sign this will declare some kind of national emergency or take executive action to secure further funding for the wall. right now they are not saying whether or not the president is going to sign this. they say they are still going through all the texts. we know the white house aides are privately relieved because they feel like they have run out of options. th...

And they were always very concerned about what was he doing in this campaign, why was he even involved in this campaign. and they were certainly always concerned about his relationships with russians and people connected to the russian government. the fbi has always been concerned about this. and, you know, when you look at the charges, the tax fraud and the other kind of money charges that paul manafort wound up getting convicted for, this is something that had been around for quite some time, ...

To mystify the result to zero people coming in from before signing and if the. north stream has been a point of contention between germany and eastern european members they opposed the first nord stream pipeline which opened under the baltic sea seven years ago now nord stream two will double that capacity when it opens at the end of this year the new pipes could bring up to fifty five billion cubic meters more gas from russia to germany that means that more than half of german gas would come fr...

Contain iran even while u.s. troops wont be there so thats the whole point how to create an alliance to push back iran until they see this very clear this is a political as well as a military strategy yes i mean president champ would like to have regional countries neighboring countries to fill the gap maybe saudi arabia egypt maybe the united arab emirates they are there and they are the ones who really all rivals of iran in the region they want to clearly contain irans influence in the region ...

Talked about iran a fair amount. not a single country objected to the fact base. they all understood the threat that we collectively faced throughout the world from the islamic republic of iran. we are committed to figuring out the best ways to push back against it and reduce that risk. >> bret: is one of the ways is to try to sabotage irans missile program? >> that talks about a lot of the activities that countries may take covertly, but make no mistake about it. america is using all its levera...