ways. i m not disagreeing with you that they re coming through airports. i m saying they come by air, by land and by sea. reporter: a state department report out last year found no credible information that any member of a terrorist group has traveled through mexico to gain access to the united states. president is also finding himself contradicted on his vow to withdraw u.s. troops from syria. after declaring late last year that isis had been defeated. national security adviser john bolton says the fight against isis will continue at least for now with u.s. troops. we re going to be discussing the president s decision to withdraw, but to do so from northeast syria in a way that makes sure that isis is defeated and is not able to revive itself and become a threat again. reporter: as for the white house claim that there are terrorists coming across the border with mexico, homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen was in the briefing with the vice president earlier this
following day, means that he s not anxious to have this have this dispute be resolved. i mean, i was a governor. i had difficulties with my legislature. i m a democrat. had a 2-1 republican legislature. when we had disputes, i put everybody in a room and we kind of locked the door and wouldn t let anybody leave until we got to an agreement. that s not this president s approach. he has it my way or the highway approach. and he s willing to hold literally hundreds of thousands of americans lives and economic wellbeing in jeopardy until he tries to extract what he wants. that s not the appropriate way. now, in terms of this national security explanation, i m not an expert on what he can declare national security or not. but i do know this, this is not the way normal presidents, democrat or republican, treat the constitution, treat the laws or treat the legislative process. are you, senator, personally going to try to block all bills in the u.s. senate until the majority leader mitch
these court filings this company s been using, essentially they ve been bringing up a lot of pop culture references including a reference to casablanca, mentioned the nude selfies, animal house and finally the judge who is a trump appointee, by the way, she s had enough and said you need to cut it out, you re undermining your own credibility with the court, and she told them that they should stop using these types of references in their court filings. as a result of this, the lawyer who s been writing these court filings says that now he has to go back to his client to determine whether or not he can continue to represent them because he believes now the court is biased against them. interesting. and amidst all of this, there s a deadline later tonight for paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman, to respond to allegations that he lied while he was supposedly cooperating with federal authorities. right. that s right. it will come some time in the next few hours, wolf a
spokespeople continue lying to the american people. reporter: democrats refusing to give the president his wall, mr. trump is declasaying he mig declare a national emergency to get his way. the white house counsel is looking at whether mr. trump can declare that emergency, despite the fact the president said on twitter there s no doubt he has that authority. i may declare a national emergency, dependent what s going to happen over the next few days. reporter: democrats predict that s a fight that will go to the courts. he d be challenged in court because there clearly is no emergency, there s no reason for this on border security grounds. it would be wrong, it would be horrible policy and i m totally and completely against it, but for a legal standpoint, he could do it. reporter: with a shutdown now entering its third week, hundreds of thousands of federal employees are facing the prospect of working without pay. president claims he can feel their pain. i can relate, and i
trump first learned about the sensational climbs in a private intel report about his russia connections. how much of the now-infamous steele dossier turned out to be true? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we re following breaking news on president trump, trying to use the powers of his office to get his way on his border wall. the president announcing plans for a primetime speech on border security tomorrow night followed by a visit to the southern boardboard border on thursday. this comes as he s threatening to declare a national emergency to secure funding for the wall. potentially going around democrats in congress who refuse to agree to his demand. the stakes are escalating right now as the partial government shutdown is now in its third week and americans are feeling the consequences. this hour, i ll talk to senator mark warner, the top democrat on