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Withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash from my personal savings account, which i have kept for emergencies and the history of my family Facing Confiscation in cuba. He did address these on your screen, the gold bars, the stash of gold bars. He did address the gift of the mercedesbenz convertible. And of course, he is absolutely innocent until Proven Guilty in a court of law. And he is not the first lawmakers to even face corruption allegations. In a moment, im going to talk to former illinois democratic governor ron blagojevich. He served eight years of 14 year sentence for a pay for play crim...

Those. it goes to your point, matt, which is she said about her decision. i'm quoting, i truly don't see this as sending a message at all about one way or the other about border security but rather about executive overreach. look, if you skim the federalist papers, if you know something about separation of powers, if you know about the power of the purse and the constitutional authority given to congress, you can make that argument. but my question is do the voters care? >> they don't care about article one power. that's for sure. that's an elite argument going on. what they do care about is f...

Let's weigh in with matt bennett. former white house deputy assistant under president clinton. christine is also back with he many. so mitch mcconnell didn't want the president to do this. lamar alexander has been offering up some alternative ways to get this funding recently and no go. why do you think, matt that, the president is so adamant about this? >> well, it's pretty clear that this is the thing he promises his base and going to deliver come hell or high water. >> even if he goes down, he's going to show i'll go down fighting. >> he's not going to go down. he's going to get this emerge...

Is so upset. >> if the president vetoes and, again, congress unlikely to overturn that veto, does it actually become a victory for the president? >> i think the president knew he would have this declaration filed against him and he can veto it. he can go out to his base, see, i fought for you. i did what was necessary to secure this country. if the courts overturn this he's going to go out in 2020 and say if it wasn't for the activist judges, they'll be the new book end. and it's all a political strategy. it's no the a national security strategy. it's not an emergency. it's all about securing ...

For the american values institute. good to see both of you. >> great to be here. >> arthel: very good. so let's say that each of you is going to broker this deal. tell me the concessions you would make and what would be the deal breakers. i'm going to go with you first, matt. >> okay. so i'm in the seat of power. i guess if i'm a republican, i want to make sure that if i'm going to negotiate a deal that i've got real concessions in terms of getting a comprehensive tax reform bill and we've got real concessions in terms of entitlements. if i'm a democrat, i'm thinking -- and i'm the president, ...