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Let's weigh in with matt bennett. former white house deputy assistant under president clinton. christine is also back with he many. so mitch mcconnell didn't want the president to do this. lamar alexander has been offering up some alternative ways to get this funding recently and no go. why do you think, matt that, the president is so adamant about this? >> well, it's pretty clear that this is the thing he promises his base and going to deliver come hell or high water. >> even if he goes down, he's going to show i'll go down fighting. >> he's not going to go down. he's going to get this emerge...

Block your national emergency if it passes? >> on the wall, 100%. >> what's the calculus that democratic leaders are making at this point, betting it goes through the house, assuming it goes through the house and being vetoed by the president, where does that get this declaration? >> at this point to me the house resolution is significant in that it's making a statement but it's a statement. the real way that this is going to be tested is through the courts and we already know 16 states have filed a lawsuit against it. it's going to be challenged legally in all sorts of other places. that's ul...

Why is he so certain there would be an acquittal for him? >> well, i wouldn't -- he may be saying that. i don't know that that's necessarily what he believes deep down. you know, when you look at this indictment on paper, if mueller has, and presumably he does, have the evidence to back it up, this is about as simple and straightforward an indictment as you could bring. very heavily grounded in documents, in primary sources. you actually wouldn't need a lot of corroborating testimony from other sources to help bring this case. you know, i think this is obviously the negotiating position where ...

Prompt investigators to track down. >> after he crashes his truck, and runs these people over, he gets out of the truck with a b.b. gun and paintball gun. what does that tell you? >> i don't know what to make of that. you have someone in so ways been precise in the planning and execution of the event as isis has encouraged individuals to undertake. then you have the strange moment that thankfully in some ways minimize the whole incident. >> did he want to die? >> often these folks go down fighting. that's one thing about isis in particular on the battlefield in iraq and syria and where they at...

And not impeachment. >> those are the odds that some gave him to winning the presidency. they said there was a 30% chance he would become president. trump is to defy odds and at the same time anything is possible. i know some people speculated he won't run for reelection. i don't buy into that yet. i think he is someone who is not a quitter who will go down fighting until the end. that's what we saw from him through that bir campaign. i'm in the camp of another years of the trump presidency. >> i'm sure a lot of these questions will be raised in the briefing expected to begin momentarily. we w...