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Engine charlie wilson to help him. but that aside, the president in a sense is whipsawing himself. in one sense he's saying this thing is going faster, i want to do it immediately. that buttresses the standing and ripeness of the matter for el paso county and its co-plaintiffs. on the other hand, he's also suggesting the bogus nature of this emergency. i want to just harken to something that larry tribe just said. we're not unhappy in the 5th circuit. sure, there are plenty of conservative judges that are sitting, but the position that we're arguing constitutionally is a fundamentally conserva...

Eisenhower wanted to build the interstate highway system faster than we did, but they built it when they could as fast as they could. you could say that about an awful lot of federal building projects, we'd like to build it faster. >> well, the president has no engine charlie wilson to help him. but that aside, the president in a sense is whipsawing himself. in one sense he's saying this thing is going faster, i want to do it immediately. that buttresses the standing and ripeness of the matter for el paso county and its co-plaintiffs. on the other hand, he's also suggesting the bogus nature of...

>> the issue here is not only about honesty in government or corruption. it's about national security. who would have thought, i never did, that i'd be on the steps of a courthouse trying to enforce the emoluments clause against the president of the united states. it's never happened before because presidents have obeyed the law. >> donald trump never divested himself from his companies, his children allegedly run them and he keeps his stake. i want to bring in the senator to discuss all of this. senator bloomenthal joins me on a busy day for you and your co-plaintiffs. why was it important to...

Missed your program, we've been working for months on the ground. >> unlikely. >> we've been working for months on the ground to recruit, identify, and outreach those who may be affected. there are many folks in pennsylvania who, a, don't know about this law and, b, if they do, they're making an assumption that they have proper i.d. so as we're going door-to-door with a variety of groups on the ground to have the same interests we do to ensure pennsylvanians can exercise their constitutional right to vote, we're not assuming and taking their word at face value even if they genuinely think they...

To sue in united states courts to be able to collect money for compensation for their physical and mental injuries. >> and that pathway is also something you could help him reclaim some funds to get himself literally back on his feet again. how is that going legally? >> well, it's going well and in a sense that daniel and his co-plaintiffs have received a judgment from the courts, iran has been held liable and responsible for the terrorist acts that maimed daniel. there's a judgment against iran. but we're trying to find iran's assets so that we can collect on the judgment and the courts with ...