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Sanders. standing next to each other but far apart on policy. one adviser to biden summing it up this way saying there is no need to try and draw contrast with senator sanders the contrast couldn't be more obvious or stark. and the big question is how is plays out tonight. because the message from the progressive left from the sanders wing of the party is loud and clear. >> i'm with bernie on medicare for all. i believe medicare for all is the way to do that. >> private insurance is not working for tens of millions of americans. >> that's one of the rallying calls for the far left. will joe bi...

Is just not a person who is terribly truthful and he's not a person who is terribly careful about details. we've seen both the north korean statement, but also the state department sent someone out to do a background briefing and, frankly, the state department and the north korean version are pretty similar. and what they described was a freeze of just the facility in exchange for what is a partial relief of sanctions going back to the situation before 2016. >> president trump spoke about his summit overnight on fox news. i want to take a listen to a little bit of what he had to say and get ev...

Most national declarations are about freezing property of people from dictatorial countries that are in the middle of a bad war, that kind of thing, sanctions in effect. this is an unusual step in the fact he's trying to win through a national emergency declaration what he could not win through a policy fight with congress. that will be an argument that goes to the courts, can he do something on his own authority that congress basically told him no, they wouldn't authorize. >> what is the legal argument? i imagine the white house counsel's office has been background briefing reporters and layi...

Court. so all of this very theoretical. you say 45 days? it could be stuck in the courts for some time, barbara starr, thank you very much. >> sure. >> the president's trip according to a report in "the new york times," the president said he did not even want to make. that's what he reportedly told news anchors in a background briefing before his trip tuesday. he said he was talked into going by his advisers and dismissed it as pointless. we'll go next to jim acosta in act allen, texas. how much closer is the president tonight to declaring a national emergency, jim? >> well, he said, anderson,...

Their hands on the money, if you will, and then figure out all of these answer after that. >> so if the president does declare a national emergency, how soon could construction on a wall begin? >> reporter: it would be about an 18-month project. but some officials are saying they actually could begin building that high steel slat wall that they're talking about within 45 days. but there are still other complications. there are areas where potentially the federal government does not own the land. they would have to invoke eminent domain, take that property away from private property owners, pot...