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Ukraine. then trump goes on to talk about continuing to talk about giuliani continuing to have giuliani and attorney general barr talk to you about hunter biden and biden's dealings with the ukraine. and so what you're seeing is, you know, the president zelensky talk about his defense needs and the javelins, basically right out of the chute. and then having trump understand that and then go into his personal requests about his elections. >> your father, former defense secretary leon panetta and cia director was on with andrea mitchell a little bit earlier today. and he was asked whether or not...

Seeing from here in tel aviv or jerusalem. in i was his position, i would have issued the exact same statement. i'm willing to wager that all of my predecessors would've issued exactly the same decision. because we all know that israel's relationship to congress is vital. it sparks our defense needs, that stands up for us against delegitimate misation. it's congress that reflects the will of the american people and the will of the american people is overwhelmingly pro-israel to preserve that. and therefore we must do the utmost to preserve bipartisan support for the state of israel. as difficu...

Several republican senators voicing skepticism about that idea. >> i can tell you that for people on my side of the aisle, one of the concerns we should have is if today the national emergency is border security, tomorrow the national security emergency might be climate change. so let seize the fossil fuel plans or something. >> to repurpose almost $6 billion out of the defense department that is needed for defense needs and use it to build a border wall without congressional authorization is not what i think is intended by the najs? nancy pelosi and chuck schumer have shown no willingness to ...

The measure gets caught up in litigation and the president tells his base that he fought as hard as he could to keep his campaign promise. it's important point to out the president said he would declare an emergency only if he can't reach a deal with democrats. however as "the washington post" aaron blake points out using a national emergency as a back up plan undermines the idea of a true emergency on the southern border. several republican senators are voicing skepticism about this idea. >> i can tell you that for me on my side of the aisle, one of the concerns we should have if today the na...

Are told that their steel and aluminum anymore exports represent a national security threat. that is an abuse of section 232 of the trade act. i'm so glad that congress is finally, finally pushing back on this. we have neglected our constitutional role. >> this is an abuse of presidential authority. it's never been used by any president ever. >> this is a misuse of section 232 of our trade law. section 232 is supposed to be invoked when there is a specific threat to america's national security. let's consider the case of steel. the united states produces domestically 75% of all the steel we co...