Welcome back, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf. it s the bottom of the hour. let s start with the morning s top story. congressional democrats are preparing for the next steps in their fight with president trump over his national emergency declaration on his border wall. house democrats will hold a vote next tuesday to override president trump s we topography congress bill terminating his declaration. but the measure is not likely to get enough support in that chamber or the senate if it makes it to override the president s veto. the anticipated move comes after trump formally issued the first veto of his presidency on friday rejecting congress resolution joined by law enforcement officials as well as relatives of individuals who were killed by undocumented immigrants. the president used the event to defend his decision and discuss the republicans who side with democrats to rebuke him.
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I m ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. paul manafort is facing seven and a half years in prison following a second sentence hearing. in court yesterday a federal judge takd on additional three and a half years to the 40 month sentence he received last week. seated in a wheelchair manafort told the courtroom quote, i m sorry for what i have done and for all the activities that have gotten us here today. the judge responded saying i m sorry i got caught is not an inspiring call for leniency. the judge chided manafort s lawyers for using the charges in the case to try to disprove any collusion between the trump campaign and russian efforts to influence the 2016 election. despite that statement from the judge, manafort s lead attorney had this to say outside of the courtroom after the sentencing. judge jackson conceded that there was absolutely no evidence of any russian cluing in this case. that makes two courts, no
The california congressman recently said that he ll make his decision by the end of march. congressman seth moulton is headed to iowa as he considers mounting a presidential bid of his own. massachusetts congressman is expected to make his decision in the next eight weeks. the pool is growing and growing. and still growing. joining us now from washington politico daniel litman. only person in washington who has announced he s running. are you running? you ll be the first to know. we ll break that exclusively here on morning joe . talk to us about beto o rourke here and obviously this highly-anticipated announcement. perfect timing. vanity fair cover. with some sort of announcement as louis said coming this morning. he had major star power,
Welcome back, everyone. i m ayman mohyeldin alongside louis burgdorf. it s the bottom of the hour. let s start with the morning s top stories. president trump has formally submitted his 2020 budget to congress and it appears his promises to slash the government s debt will be easier said than done. he s proposing a $4.75 trillion budget with a focus on increasing military spending. the defense department s budget is to be boosted by $33 billion to $718 billion or more than half of the entire proposed federal discretionary budget. the plan also calls for $8.6 billion to be set aside for construction of trump s wall along the southern border with mexico. the budget would slash $845 billion from medicare over the next ten years. it would also remove $241 billion from medicaid over that same period. now the blueprint also aims to