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Have paid attention to it because it was mitch mcconnell's way of sending a signal to president trump saying, we are not afraid of you. we will do this to you again and they will do it certainly if there is this declaration of national emergency by the president. that will be tricky, though, because you already have people like lindsey graham who are saying, we need to get behind this president, so where does the party come out at the end of the day, if there is a vote to rebuke him on the wall in the national emergency? i don't know, but it's not going to be pretty. >> andrew, to put this in ...

Actually. >> it didn't, but people should have paid attention to it because it was mitch mcconnell's way of sending a signal to president trump saying, we are not afraid of you. we will do this to you again and they will do it certainly if there is this declaration of national emergency by the president. that will be tricky, though, because you already have people like lindsey graham who are saying, we need to get behind this president, so where does the party come out at the end of the day if there is a vote to rebuke him on the wall in the national emergency? i don't know, but it's not going...

>> are you concerned about the message this may send to the rest of the world, particularly the muslim world? >> i tell you, this is part of the never trump resistance to mischaracterize this as being a muslim ban. this is not a muslim ban. not anything that president obama didn't do when he was president. so i'm not surprised the supreme court ruled the way they did. >> his rhetoric has been much more strident to muslims, that rhetoric combined with the ruling. >> i think he was trying to keep the country safe. >> so that's really a breakdown of what you're seeing, wolf. booker just said, wha...

To be you that brings the republicans because right now the gun lobby would stop in its tracks. >> i love that responsibility. i think it is time that a president stepped up. i'm talking democratic and republican presidents they have not stepped up. and before a call on marco, i would like to have pat toomey and joe manchin, could you detail your bill because i haven't heard a lot about it. >> aiks. thank you, mr. president and our best chance is the bill, we got 54 votes. the first title is a title very similar to what cornyn and chris murphy's bill does. it strengthens the reporting of infor...

>> talk about the reality of the whole situation and take off from what cornyn and graham have said of the necessity of you working with us, and you're doing that by having this meeting and other meetings as well. but we've always talked in the united states senate about the necessity of getting 60 votes and that's pretty darn tough. but if we would right a bill that you don't like and you veto it, we're talking about a 67 vote threshold. two-thirds in the united states senate. so that's a reality of negotiating in good faith and getting something you can sign. the second reality is the march ...