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Supporters. at the same time, you can see that even he recognizes this controversy continues to bubble up. it is unifying the democrats. there have been a lot of infighting between the democrats, the so-called squad who just spoke, and democratic leadership frankly, house speaker nancy pelosi. now they are all on the same page, denouncing president trump. the question becomes how many republicans are going to come out and denounce his rhetoric. lindsey graham earlier today saying that he really ...

Pick it up, let you hear what those four congresswomen have to say. as we do continue waiting for it though, im joined by charlie sykes. and with me here on set we have beth fui, senior politics editor. zerlina maxwell, former adviser to hillary clinton and an msnbc political analyst. charlie, let me start with you. we heard leigh ann talking about this. the reaction from republicans initially as these tweets came out yesterday, there wasnt much in the way of reaction. this afternoon started to ...

Declaring a national emergency. cnn reporting that the options have been prepared. what would your reaction to for the president to declare an emergency? >> i think it is a dubious claim that he is making. the people i talk to that are on the ground says the notion that there is an emergency a smith. we might agree that the president has extraordinary authority to act in the case of an emergency, but there has to be an emergency. you cant create one out of a political problem. his emergency is a...

Trading temporary daca protections for some wall funding, but they are saying they wont even look at that kind of propohut down. >> dave briggs, who i call dave, keeps going back to will herd, the republican congressman on the border who has said over and over that this is a third century solution to a 21st century problem and that the wall is the least executive and mo -- effective and most expensive. >> the only republican who has a district that is on our southern border. im surprised democra...

Democrats. >> ill give you that, that he did run against both of them on this. joan, what about here? now not only do they have issues on the republican side. now you have pence, jared kushner calling joe manchin who obviously is a democrat who can often, you know, go on the republican side, go with the president to try to get him to switch over. so theyre trying to pull over some democrats. >> i think thats crazy. i dont see joe manchin switching. he just won re-election. he has five years befo...

Susan collins. to the congressmans point, there are a number of people who are probably teetering right on that edge of saying, look, lets pass this spending resolution that weve had that theres been support for in the past, separate the border security issue, but really the other issue that the leaders are dealing with is the president and frankly, not wanting to put his members in the conference cross wise with the president. its more than just saying is the president going to veto the bill or...

Going to get tested today. the first is the one that the white house has been operating under for at least the last week and a half or so where they have said nancy pelosi cant make a deal with us yet because shes not speaker. nancy pelosi is now peekspeaker. she has been just as firm in saying there will be no money for the wall. she has not moved. the other is what happens as this republican wall starts to crack a little bit? youve seen these two senators, for example, on the house side there ...

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Queen? >> on my own, a medium cone. im a purist. you have to come join us. come on. >> reporter: what is your question? >> we are one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. i think you know that. >> yep. my concern is the streets. potholes. >> good education for our kids. >> reporter: why did nobody bring up the supreme court or russia? >> the issues being brought up are not only important issues, but affect us immediately here. these are the things we know are going to make a differe...

>> no. i know will herd, and i have spoken with him before. he is a proud republican from texas. he is also a proud cia officer, former cia officer. hes been pretty much tracking along with the president for many things. so it was quite surprising to see that op ed. but you have to understand something. intelligence professionals and those who were formerly in the community, they work for a higher purpose. they work for the constitution of the united states. when they see something is wrong, the...