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President trump is staking his reputation with his base on immigration. he is hinting he could declare a national emergency if theres no deal for wall funding in three weeks. if this week taught us anything, its that the art of the deal president may need to adjust his expectations the last time congress was close to a bipartisan immigration deal was 2013 the so-called gang of eight tried an failed to get it done two republicans who were in that gang still remain in the senate. lindsey graham, w...

You had trump calling it pain but better for the better good. wilbur ross today says it is not a big deal. hassett says the other day it is a free vacation for all of these employees. we are going to get to that later on. we have all that sound. the way they are talking about this hans, i mean it is striking how out of touch these people are. >> they are speaking to their base and people really want to have that wall built or with the president proceeding his base to have. as good as anyone on t...

Protected. the president is offer aing that at least for three year period but he wants his wall built. will democrats bite? john? >> you would think the spirit of compromise would finally be all over washington. but no, its not instead were getting snow and rain. so -- the problem the president has is he has made the the wall so much his personal crusade that you might as well say trump instead of wall. democrats hate donald trump so much that they hate the wall just as much. and as a result, i...

Protected. the president is offer aing that at least for three year period but he wants his wall built. will democrats bite? john? >> you would think the spirit of compromise would finally be all over washington. but no, its not instead were getting snow and rain. so -- the problem the president has is he has made the the wall so much his personal crusade that you might as well say trump instead of wall. democrats hate donald trump so much that they hate the wall just as much. and as a result, i...

I now would like to revise and extend my remarks in the tradition of congress and say that tactically speaking it is now doubly inept. beyond inept. glaringly obviously just -- just such a blunder at a tactical level, the optical level. all of the arguments nancy pelosi would have made about being denied her chance to go on this important trip, seeing the troops, on learning things, doing all that stuff that trump was keeping her from doing that was important to the united states interests aroun...

I now would like to revise and extend my remarks in the tradition of congress and say that tactically speaking it is now doubly inept. beyond inept. glaringly obviously just -- just such a blunder at a tactical level, the optical level. all of the arguments nancy pelosi would have made about being denied her chance to go on this important trip, seeing the troops, on learning things, doing all that stuff that trump was keeping her from doing that was important to the united states interests aroun...

Who donald trump, lets not forget, thought about running against in 1988, having published in multiple newspapers with the help of his friend, roger stone, an op-ed, decrying u.s. policy toward the then soviet union. this isnt a new thing for consist. >> well, donald has no sense of history, he has no moral core of any kind. from donalds mind, whats going on here in the investigation of russia and what ive always seen as being interconnected, the evident to esstop the investigation to obstruct a...

President is standing, 1 million people who havent had a police force for 5 years because of drug cartels that threaten the mall, gunfight in the streets every night. that is four miles from american soil. we need a wall to keep the violence out particularly in the rio grande valley. >> last question. legal standing. the question whether there will be a legal challenge to declaring a national emergency and moving forward as getting the army corps of engineers, legal standing, people who are land...

American soil. we need a wall to keep the violence out, particularly in the rio grande valley where about half of the people who came in last year were illegal. >> ed: the last question, legal standing, theres a question about whether there will be a legal challenge to the president of declaring a national emergency moving forward with army corps of engineers funds, and the legal standing, the people who are landowners in your state who are saying, as you just heard, we dont want a wall built, i...

Can do whatever they want to open the government but ill get this wall built. the reason that might have been a practical advance for the country because im assuming you would have sued the heck out of him for any sort of unconstitutional assertion the president made, that would have put that fight in the courts where he would presumably lose and the rest of the congress could get on with reopening government and fight this or any other policy. >> i appreciate the practical kind of -- >> i count...