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Intentions clear. i think we could expect him to signal one way or the other. >> i wonder if those two or three people doesn't include biden if he makes his intentions clear. >> good point. >> i quickly want to talk about the optics of sort of these dozen or so states that have made the decision to sue president trump on presidents' day. how does this look overall and also to his supporters as he approaches another fight for the office in 2020? >> well, you'll note that with the exception of maryland all states have democratic governors so i think president trump can point to this rightly or w...

Re-election in this election cycle. that's just one example. so they dovetail. so, yes, the republicans could stand up and they could stand with democrats and let's just say they say national emergency say terrible idea. we're not going to be with you on this, mr. president. we're going to approve this compromise. we're going to send it to you. if you veto it, this is what you're saying, ana, we're going to override your veto. it's possible but would be politically suicidal for most of these republicans, even in big states in the senate, in red states, to do that because it is the president's ...

Crises, spending deadlines until the end of september, something both house democrats and the majority over there and senate republicans and the majority in that chamber want to be able to get off their plate to be able to move on on their agenda, on their proposals, their bills, their nominations in mitch mcconnell's case. this was the trade-off. it was a trade-off that apparently had to happen to be able to move this forward. and now they are moving forward. 3:30 will be the first votes. the senate should move pretty quickly after that. the expectation before things got lately dicey over the...

He doesn't retreat here, even though he's signing a government funding bill that doesn't necessarily make conservatives sort of sing with joy. >> but dana, a lot of republican senators, other lawmakers, have not been onboard with this emergency declaration idea. they've been very vocal about it, in fact. and what nancy pelosi brought up in that press conference is the reason why. >> exactly. and we're already seeing some e-mails from our colleagues on capitol hill talking to republicans, senior republicans like roy blunt, for example, from missouri, saying just that. still saying, this is a ba...

That he would support it would not be surprised if that was part of the give and take that he had in the conversation with the president or with somebody at the white house. because senator mcconnell has been very, very clear, not just privately with the president, but publicly, that a national emergency is a terrible idea. but from the president's perspective, he's getting a terrible deal, a deal that the democrats did pretty well on and he didn't, after all of this time. so, it's a give and take that it seems finally that mitch mcconnell is in the middle of and capitulating on, because this ...