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But to nancy's point that john bolton may have had the day until something happened, earlier this evening in the show i spoke to michael crowley, one of the reporters at "the new york times" who broke the story. listen to what he told me. >> as late as 7:00 or so this evening, officials in the u.s. government did believe that there would be strikes on iran. our understanding was that this approval by president trump followed a spirited debate among top u.s. officials in which key officials including national security adviser john bolton and secretary of state mike pompeo were pushing for some ...

He told my colleagues that he's always been a gambler and he's gone with his instinct, and in talking with the team around him, his team has basically stopped trying to guide that and shape that and now they're just taking their cues, whatever he blows up, they run through the breach, and that is what senior official told my colleagues. >> that's interesting, nancy. maybe they'll run through the breach, do they agree with the president in that strategy, or, hey, we're team trump, we're going forward? >> well, i think the campaign is always very quick to defer to the president and say, he is ou...

Joining us now, nancy coke, white house reporter for politico and philip, for "time" magazine, both of whom are covering other stories and are going to be discussing them tonight, including the 2020 campaign, but i do want to hear from both of you on this. nancy, let's start with you. one would have had difficulty gleaning that this is the situation having tried to follow president trump's comments on iran over the last week. he has gone from saying it's dangerous and they have made mistakes to telling "time" magazine these were minor infractions prior to today's shooting down of the drone and...

Averted from his department to the building of president trump's wall. on friday nancy pelosi was in nearby laredo and spoke with reporters about the bill introduced by congressman joaquin castro that blocks trump's national emergency if it does pass. the house votes on that bill tuesday. now if it does pass, the bill heads then to the senate where it could force the hand of republicans in a floor vote. let's go to our panel nancy coke, and kevin ser illy and washington correspondent. kevin, we played this out in the terms of way this will game. at the end of the day it comes down to potential...

Well-heeled travelers going through the express lane moaning about the delays. the they're fine with sequester hitting the low-income people because that's not their agenda. and the president can't just bring them to heel by taking them out to lunch. >> ben there is some analysis out now that the democrats have really not played this one particularly well and the president hasn't played it particularly well. if you sort of look at the precedent that the faa furloughs and the unwinding of those, what that substantively means is it might open the flood gate to other special interests and lobbyis...