Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190216:17:25:00
Lawyers to defend this move in court. historically, presidents make emergency declarations for a wide variety of reasons, often emergencies that aren't life or death situations. it is extremely unusual for a president to declare an emergency and then talk about how that declaration is going to affect his 2020 re-elect and to a stream of consciousness on the political impact of the decision that he's making and in addition to that, essentially to say repeatedly that the emergency for which he was declaring a declaration wasn't actually an emergency. he's making things harder for his lawyers eve...