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Constitution and of course the responsibility to have oversight.he the president is doing an end run around that.t. >> do you believe the president lacks the standing, the legal standing, to declare a national emergency? >> absolutely. >> many of his predecessors have done it .. >> its about what this president is doing. in all of the cases before. the predecessors did not reallocate money from congress for an emergency that doesnt nexist.when we talk about all e numbers and increases at the boa...

And the president is actuallyes trying to do. i think its an intelligence related operation to funnel all of the communications that are coming out of that country through specific areas in their network so that they can monitor them i mean, i think its a classic intelligence gathering information of what is going on inside their country and dont get me wrong as you said earlier i think all nation states are going to try to protect themselves especially in sophisticated war type scenarios nowada...

And the president is actually trying to do. i think its an intelligence related operation to funnel all of the communications that are coming out of that country through specific areas in their network so that they can monitor them. i mean, i think its a classic intelligence gathering information of what is going on inside their country and dont get me wrong as you said earlier i think all nation states are going to try to protect themselves especially in sophisticated war type scenarios nowaday...

And i have briefed plenty of his predecessors in the office he sits in about threats like this. when we talk about attacks that you eluded to earlier or turning the electrical grid or opening up dams, that is something, thank goodness, that our government and the united states intelligence services, all of them, have been engage million dollars for a very long time. doesnt mean that you cant do more. but i think its good for people to understand that the threats like that are looked at very care...

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 ...

That world of the world bank actually downgraded the forecast fairly recently from six point seven percent to six point four percent but ok you know even that is an amazing rate it still puts philippines as one of the top growing economies in asia and that was the growth that was achieved under debt and as you pointed out earlier the philippines itself has some very good cards we have more than one hundred million people the median age is twenty three a large concentration of english speakers no...

Thats something obviously, the leadership is worried about, and you have a situation with nancy pelosi that faces the same sort of dynamic in some ways that her two predecessors did, ted boehner who had to strike a deal with a democratic president that were not particularly popular on their flank and in their case on the right and the question whether nancy pelosi is going to make a deal that might or might not be popular with her flank on the left and its a test early in her speakership about h...

After giving him questions weeks in advance. so i think that the conduct here has been eminently reasonable and what we want in transparency on the mueller report also is eminently reasonable. the american people paid for this investigation and for the report. they deserve to know whats in it the legislation that ive introduced with senator grassley is bipartisan. ive been very encouraged by the growing receptivity of my republican colleagues, perhaps because they are sensing what that cnn poll ...

Attorney general, matt whitaker, because he is going to appear after giving him questions weeks in advance. so i think that the conduct here has been eminently reasonable and what we want in transparency on the mueller report also is eminently reasonable. the american people paid for this investigation and for the report. they deserve to know whats in it the legislation that ive introduced with senator grassley is bipartisan. ive been very encouraged by the growing receptivity of my republican c...

For everybody to under that, and i asked ken starr about this a couple of months ago that nobody knows what mueller knows. we find out things in bits and pieces, a transcript like this, partiallyis redacted. we have more of an understanding of what is going on. fats fascinating about this bit of news is that they believe ve that president trumps possible willingness toos pardon people involved in this investigation could have an impact on their testimony and wevect seen over the past couple of y...