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And what hes doing is hes handing over the keys to the president. it is a coequal branch of government. the congress is. and its just shameful. theres no national emergency, at least not with this border wall that we all know from experts is a failed policy, a humanitarian crisis what we are seeing at the border but not a national emergency. its shameful. its abuse of power and its blatantly unconstitutional. >> aaron politic, can you jump in on the two threads of what were grappling with here i...

United states government and sit ze zens they serve. now hes going to declare a national emergency. theres some legislative support for that. theres some -- >> theres tolerance for it. mitch mcconnell has actually warned him against it. >> tolerance for it is a better word but its not clear to me hes going to win this legal fight because appropriations are manifestly the province of the congress and hes taking that from them. >> i dont want to gloss over that. peter baker talked about, you have ...

Trump for the job and who will overtly make no commitment that muellers ultimate findings will be made available to congress let alone to the public. mueller thus far seems to be batting .1000 in all of the cases brought in association with this scandal, but in some of these cases and in the manafort case in particular as of tonight, that means these prosecutions are pushing this to the place where it ends for everybody involved, central matters a the heart of the investigation with the cases co...

Alongside on many an early morning briefing of the director, andy had counterterrorism, i had counterintelligence. we were groggy-eyed, drinking coffee, briefing the director every single morning. i know this. i know hes trained like all fbi agents to identify and mitigate threats. i believe he saw a threat. i believe he saw a threat in the president, and thats what caused him to formalize the opening of a case and i believe he may have viewed rod rosenstein as somebody who could be a threat in ...

Controlled the house, and now its in control of nancy pelosi and democrats so the idea they were going to do something that paul ryans republicans werent can going to do was always a stretch. i think hes frustrated with republicans as much as hes angry with the democrats at this point. >> what is the case that will be articulated in an emergency declaration when the flow of illegal immigrants over the border wall is at a 40-year low? >> yeah, thats a good question. in fact, of course, if its an ...

Most national declarations are about freezing property of people from dictatorial countries that are in the middle of a bad war, that kind of thing, sanctions in effect. this is an unusual step in the fact hes trying to win through a national emergency declaration what he could not win through a policy fight with congress. that will be an argument that goes to the courts, can he do something on his own authority that congress basically told him no, they wouldnt authorize. >> what is the legal ar...

Virginia. thats all she did. and she was attacked and he was attacked for it. then he was fired, 26 hours shy of his 50th birthday when we would have earned his pension. andy is not a perfect man. andy made mistakes and in the future he may have to account for those but hes a truth-teller. hes telling the truth about what he saw, hes telling the truth about what he heard and i want to echo something frank said, hes also a process guy. if the things he heard and the things he saw disturbed him, h...

Misleading. >> would that have normally been an aggravated felony? a marijuana possession charge? >> in certain circumstances it can be. it depends on circumstances involving it. its important for everyone to realize were talking about a quantity of possessory marijuana and not some horrific crime or hard controlled substances. >> that helps, right, charles, the idea that this has been eliminated does help your case. but the case that you would have to make or immigration lawyer would have to ma...

Like? >> first because hes been here ten years in the united states and children and a mom who are permanent residence and citizens, hes available for those with long-term residence in the united states and relief under a visa where he was shot six times in 2013 and because he was the victim of a crime in which his best friend was murdered, that also enables him to apply for relief in deportation proceedings. >> lets talk about this aggravated felony charge. is that actually the charge thats inv...

Thanks for joining us. charles, lets start with you. what is the issue at hand here in terms of immigration? >> right now we have a hearing that will be held in about a month or so. it will be the second hearing in this case. we have already admitted he overstayed his visa so we are pursuing relief from deportation. we have a couple avenues that we discussed previously. we believe it will take a couple years but well be able to secure for him permanent residence in the united states. >> what do ...