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President's interest in a national emergency. so i think that's exactly ha happene what happened. and you can tell in the body lang withitself of mitch mcconnell he's where he is because he thought it expedient to make sure that the government didn't shutdown. think that's what you're seeing. i'm hoping that there are folks working on the president now to try to get him to understand that take this as a temporary win, build on it, and there are reprogramming dollars that you could access throughout the year. and reprogramming basically means congress said you can spend a thousand dollars for t...

Global warming and climate change, they see sea levels rising in florida where there are u.s. military bases. u.s. military personnel at risk because of climate change, what's to keep them from declaring a national emergency on the very same basis that the president is doing it today? >> well, those hypotheticals are usually based in strange facts that you'd have to look at some time in the future. what i look right hie right now what is the emergency -- >> congressman, it's very similar. in that case we're talking apples to apples there. if the emergency is the perception of the president of ...

To help manage blood sugar, and start making everyday progress. glucerna. amazon is abandoning plans to build a new headquarters in new york city. this exposes a big divide among democrats. the new york governor andrew cuomo and bill de blasio supported the projects but some progressives like new member of congress alexandria ocasio-cortezcelebrated the decision to take the new jobs somewhere else. >> we should not give away our infrastructure, schools, teacher salaries, firefighter budgets to a company that has not shown good faith to new yorkers. >> joining me now, errol lewis from spectru...

President truman tried to get congress to give him the authority to seize the mills and keep them going. and congress said, no. he did it anyway. and in one of the most famous supreme court opinions of all time, in 1952 the steel seizure case, the supreme court said president truman, you can't do that. that unless the president acts with specific authorization under the constitution, a president cannot act in this way. this is one of the profound issues of how america is governed. congress has the power of the purse. the president executes and snaends money. here we have a situation with where...

Conventionally think about it. so you have this total mismatch in the debate. you had the mayor and governor lecturing the skeptics about 25,000 jobs, 25,000 jobs. when the nature of the pushback had nothing to do with the job creation. it was about a different set of issues that are more central on the left. >> it's a mistake to give alexandria ocasio-cortez too much credit. she was a supporting player rather than a central figure. however, when you look at this and look at her introduction into the national political stage and she's been a big player in the green new deal, a central part of ...