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Texas, along the u.s./mexico border. get her to put that bill forward and see how many votes she's got in her own caucus. let's step back for just a minute. what this is all about is, do the democrats want to make the president suffer a political defeat? or do they want to try and get the issue resolved. it is becoming clear the democrats, at least in the minds of nancy pelosi and maybe in the minds of chuck shumer, they're more interested in using this for politics than getting a resolution on this issue. remember also this. president obama in 2009 and 2010 did nothing to resolve these issues...

Want but then they will negotiate after the government is reopened. >> john: well, what ye ought to do was take advantage of the fact that they are delegating to him all kinds of executive powers that he really doesn't have and perhaps, figure out a way to perversely use this newly delegated power that schumer and pelosi have been giving him to send the message and the aspects to the american public. >> eric: governor johnson, frigid new hampshire this morning. >> a little bit cool here. it was 3 degrees when i walked in and went up to 4 degrees away heat wave in new york, governor, thank you....

They're going to have to make. but any lawyer that works in the executive branch, i don't care whether he's the obama administration, who made similar arguments during the fast and furious case or the trump administration, are there to protect the executive powers. there's always this push and pull between congressional powers and executive powers. and they're all trying to get in their own, in each other's lane, all the time. >> but to be fair -- >> but hold on a second. jimmy, one point at a time. to be fair, they had chances to exert -- to assert executive privilege and they didn't. and now...

One other issue. >> go ahead. >> and the difference between the president's private lawyers and the whiteout counsel lawyers. there's a big difference there. >> the white house just staffed 17 lawyers to fight this fight. go ahead. >> so hold on a second. i'll get to that, too. but the white house counsel lawyers will and should have an opportunity to review this for executive privilege. and whether this -- and whether there are items in that report that are privileged and are subject to executive privilege and whether they can go before congress or the american people. because remember, the d...

Emergency's act none of them remotely resembles this. they are all about unforeseen crisis. this will go to court. who will bring suit is an open question. it's not clear who will have standing. but what i imagine the administration will argue and i don't doubt that they will be baktd backed up by the current office, what they will argue is nothing to sheer, move along. nothing has happened yet. it's ironic, a president who will use a national emergency as kind of a source of bragging rights can hardly say that nothing is really going on. there are a lot of people who are hurt by the sudden de...