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>> mr. president, your declaration of an emergency on the southern border was clearly authorized under the law. the security crisis we have is exactly the kind of emergency that presidents are permitted to address under the national emergencies act. what you've done from a legal standpoint is solidly grounded in law and from the standen point of protecting the american people, it's imperative. >> you don't see or hear that every day. so, this veto means many things including that the wall he promised that mexico would fund will be covered by american taxpayers. though, nothing here is inevitab...

Discernible agenda from this white house that involves congress, a typical process. what you have from a domestic policy standpoint is a budget that just came out that calls for tremendous cuts in domestic programs that no one in congress is going to go along, not only the democrats, the republicans aren't going to go along with. there's no formal plan to try to get any of those things done. you have the wall. the president is focused solely on the wall. in terms of foreign policy you have potentially military intervention in venezuela. you have the north korea situation and you want to talk a...

Against their president who tried to block the national emergency border wall and forced the first veto from this president. >> look, they were doing what they have to do, and, look, i put no pressure on anybody. i actually said, i could have gotten some of them to come along. i said i want you to vote your heart. do what you want to do. i'm not putting any pressure. i'll let them know when there's pressure. okay? >> noting the shift from abject party loyalty, the new york times writes, and we quote, politically the trifecta of rejections telling us the president's grip may will loosening. the...

As we bring another week to a close good evening. day 785 of the trump administration and let's toss this in with the mueller team offering scant clues about where they are headed, and we will get to that in a bit, today was in part about this president issuing his first veto. it was republicans, members of his own party, let's not forget who crossed over joining the dems to reject the president's self-titled national emergency. well, today he reinvigorated that talk and the need for wall along our southern border. >> it's a tremendous national emergency. it is a tremendous crisis. people hate...

Head against the wall for the past three years, this was a week to calm you. what on earth could you mean by something like that? >> well, you just laid out three headlines that a lot of us who have a feeling that james madison is ultimately more and kind of proto totalitarianism that this will work out. you had in the yemen vote. you can't get the house of representatives to agree on when to go to lunch. so to get 420 of them agreeing on anything is truly historic in this era and the border wall to have 12 republicans cross the aisle is an interesting data point in this idea that, in fact, wh...