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Primary challenge in the next year's election. the fact that we only had one senator who was up for re-election who was willing to vote for the institution and congress's power of the purse over the party shows that as trump himself said, he was easily going to win this fight at the end of the day. everyone could do the math on the veto and so it's more of a symbolic move. most of the party is still behind the president. >> jonathan, i want to point to you, you wrote an interesting piece on nbc digital in which you said it was titled there, "inside his veto fight with the gop, trump may have f...

Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and i have the duty to veto it and i'm very proud to veto it. >> and with that, president trump issued the very first veto of his presidency reject -- a rejection of his national emergency declaration to fund a border wall. in the meantime house speaker nancy pelosi vowed a vote to override the veto in just ten days. a move that she says will protect our constitution and our democracy. joining me now charlie savage, "new york times" washington correspondent and author and msnbc contributor as well as jonathan alan national political reporter wit...

And seth moulton, appearing at events in the granite state. nbc news ali vitali is in concurred, new hampshire where jay inslee is scheduled to appear in less than an hour. >> reporter: we're actually here in concord, we just finished up with seth moulton. we'll make our way to jay inslee's next event but basically what's happening over here, is all of my candidates that i've been following around have kept their feet squarely on the ground off of counters and pickup trucks. they're introducing themselves to new hampshire voters and doing it in a lot of different ways. i think about the three ...

Turkey is not willing to intervene militarily against the kurds in other words it's not willing to go against the wishes of washington. i think that's to be determined of course turkey has legitimate security concerns with respect to the p.k. k. and kurdish terrorism but also as the united states has said the national security advisor missed the boat and said that whatever takes place in northern syria can't impact the kurds and so there is a real challenge here right now of course there is the security imperative for turkey and there's also the u.s. relationship an ongoing relationship with k...

A disconcerting situation i think the worst case scenario for the united states is that isis re-emerges and that you continue to have a destabilize region. jonathan in cabs with the german marshall fund of the united states and we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you well the kurds have long dreamed. the miss region in northern syria but strategically the position of kurdish forces has become more precarious in the wake of washington's imminent withdrawal. this was the scene in northeast syria two days ago when a convoy of u.s. and kurdish led troops was bombed in...