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Invasion of drugs and people. mollie: i think there is a deeper way you can go. part of this is our constitution allows congress to do this type of action and for the president to veto. rand paul and mike lee voting to slap back and the president, and ben sasse and ted cruz going the otherway. this was for an authorized project. he was using appropriated funds and following the law. howie: you dont think its a setback? mollie: if they override the

Veto it will be a huge setback. howie: of course donald trump will veto it. so does that make it a largely symbolic vote? certainly it was shard fought on both -- it was hard fought on both sides. beverly: i think its funny rino was used. howie: republican in name only. beverly: this is not a rebuke against a border wall. this is how he did it. many of the same republicans who didnt like the executive power of barack obama. howie: congress wouldnt provide the $5 billion. they dont like the metho...

Setback? mollie: if they override the veto it will be a huge setback. howie: of course donald trump will veto it. so does that make it a largely symbolic vote? certainly it was shard fought on both -- it was hard fought on both sides. beverly: i think its funny rino was used. howie: republican in name only. beverly: this is not a rebuke against a border wall. this is how he did it. many of the same republicans who didnt like the executive power of barack obama. howie: congress wouldnt provide th...

Veto, its important to point out, and not necessarily because of policy differences over the border. rand paul saying he opposed giving the president extra constitutional powers. for senator portman, as you heard, it was concern about what future presidents might do, not what this one has done. others such as alaskas lisa murkowski worried about military construction earmarked for her state being used for construction of the wall. all that said incidentally is the biggest setback dealt the presi...

Precedent. it opens the door for future presidents to implement just about any policy they want. each one of news this body has sworn an oath to support and defend the constitution of the united states. so today i will vote to support the disapproval resolution that is before us. >> senator portman and 11 other republicans decided to draw the line, not enough to override a veto, its important to point out, and not necessarily because of policy differences over the border. rand paul saying he opp...

A rare instance of republicans breaking with an issue central to his presidency the president has pledged to veto the resolution for the age of fifty nine. forty one the joint resolution is passed. a stinging setback for donald trump and the republican controlled senate a majority of lawmakers rejecting his border emergency declaration among them twelve republicans they told trump this vote is not about security at the you asked mexico border rather mr president it is so saw one occasion involvi...

His veto will be sustained. there are not of the votes to override the president. >> harris: you know this has been a week of votes, so the senate this week has already dealt with the president another setback. approving a bill that would end u.s. military assistance for the saudi-led war in yemen. robert, i want to get your thoughts on this. many of these issues are turning out to be bipartisan, which is an opportunity for democrats to reach across the aisle and work together to maybe find some...

Situation on the border with mexico the final vote was fifty nine to forty one with twelve of trumps own republicans crossing party lines to join the democrats in rebuking the president tried his pledge to veto this resolution it would be his first veto he declared the emergency access billions of dollars in funding for a border war with mexico which he says is urgently needed. our for more on this lets go to washington now our very own helen humphrey is on the story for us tonight good evening ...

This to go through the court system what is a setback for the president is the number of republican senators who essentially broke ranks we saw twelve senate says that wasnt enough though to rule out the possibility of a veto when the president says that he will veto and about twenty minutes ago i did just see a tweet from the president just in capital letters just saying the word veto so what we can expect now is this to go through the legal system potentially all the way up to the supremes cou...

And the washington post, i know has moved to try to get the judge to unredact those filings. if she does we can learn a lot. the judge made an interesting point in court today. manaforts refusal to cooperate and be truthful prosecutors did frustrate the mueller investigation. what he did say they cant take stock in because she has shown himself to be an unreliable witness and what he did not say theyll never know. while this is in one sense, a victory for robert mueller. this was the one case th...