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Should be. as we go into the state of the union address tomorrow, president trump has teased what he'll say about the wall, but increasingly he's frustrated about what's happening on capitol hill and basically using the power of the pen to go around congress and get his wall if nancy pelosi doesn't give him what he's been asking for for weeks and months now. dana? >> abby, thank you so much for that reporting. here at the table to share with me, michael bender with the "wall street journal," sandra kim with the "washington post," cnn's kaitlan collins and andrew whitsky with the "washington po...

Obviously, we got to deal with this border wall issue. i will tell you, the democrats are going to provide whatever money is necessary for real security. >> i'll get to that in a moment. let's talking about the breakin news. you heard acting attorney general matthew whitaker telling reporters he's been fully briefed on the state of the mueller probe. he says it's close to being completed. how significant is that? >> those are the words we've heard for more than a year. we'll see when this is completed. i want a complete job done. i want everything that we need to know about the involvement of ...

Which ments -- which meant 30 days and then four months and then john bolton announced overseas troops will stay until isis is defeated and the kurds are safe. do you know what the timeline is? >> look, this is very similar to the border wall issue. it shows that our president literally doesn't know what he's doing. he is making it up as he goes along based on the whims of i guess what he sees on fox news or what his mood is. because john bolton raised the two issues blindingly obvious. i don't want us to have troops overseas any more than is absolutely necessary but the two big questions, if ...

Assault and battery, what do you need to prove that? >> you need to prove -- the key issue is consent. i think the actual touching -- >> the allegation is that he put his hands down this 18-year-old boy's pants. and one thing that seems to be agreed upon is that he was 18 years old at the time and his mother said that he said he was -- told kevin spacey he was 23 when they met. >> this will all turn on consent. did the individual, the victim, consent. now it is complicated by a couple of factors. the celebrity is a complication. could you argue -- you could argue he wasn't willing to say no to...

Security. what doesn't make sense is to build a wall even the president doesn't seem to know why he wants it except that he made the promise. and he promised that mexico would pay for it so where are we having this fight in the first place? but this is the key issue. there is no justification at all on border security grounds for a wall. everyone said the wall won't help at all. >> in terms of -- >> now when you talk about declaring an emergency, the president of the united states has an enormous amount of power. one of the reasons we need to be careful who we elect president. the president ca...