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This speech in the first place. a lot of questions about whether the president will declare a national emergency tonight. i asked kellyanne conway about that earlier. >> reporter: is there any chance the president will declare a national emergency tonight? >> president has said he can do that, he has an absolute right to do it. >> reporter: will he do it tonight? >> he's never wanted to -- he's never wanted to -- to do that. he wants congress to finish its work. >> seeming to indicate, andrea, he's not leaning in that direction. of course a lot of republican allies are trying to urge him not t...

Rating of, let's see, 14% from the american people. can they do better than that? maybe they just want to see how low it can go. the writing was on the wall yesterday when republican budget chairman paul ryan told members they need to be prepared for a debt ceiling increase. the attitudes from republican leaders are a lot different today. senator jon cornyn of texas wrote an op-ed in the houston chronicle in hughes son saying it may be necessary to partially shut down the government in order to secure the long-term fiscal well-being of the country. now cornyn tells the chronicle editorial boar...

Rating of, let's see, 14% from the american people. can they do better than that? maybe they just want to see how low it can go. the writing was on the wall yesterday when republican budget chairman paul ryan told members they need to be prepared for a debt ceiling increase. the attitudes from republican leaders are a lot different today. senator jon cornyn of texas wrote an op-ed said it may be necessary to partially shut down the government in order to secure the long-term fiscal well-being of the country. now cornyn tells the chronicle editorial board we will raise the debt ceiling. we are ...

Points out, cornyn sang a different tune when it was his party in the white house. when alberto gonzalez in 2007, cornyn said it was turning into a political witch hunt. he was upset that the leader of the effort was the chairman of the democrat senate campaign chuck schumer. cornyn said it quote, undermined the legitimacy of what is a legitimate inquiry. interesting. because now cornyn's now the chairman of the very same committee on the republican side and his buddies over at the republican national committee are actually using the fast and furious issue to raise money. let's not forget the ...

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