rep. mccarthy: that is not true. it is very simple. listen to what congresswoman omar said. she questioned the ability of an american to have allegiance to america if they were jewish. she questioned that. we have watched in history that question be asked before. what is really concerning to me is that if we don't speak strongly enough, that question continues to be asked. in this democratic party, they were not big enough to even name the individual who said it, nor this time, to even ask for an apology, nor to even bring it to the floor by itself. that is a turning moment and it concerns me as an american, and it is what concerns mefor the freedom of everybody else. thank you very much. a senior senate staff writer for rollcall joins us ahead of

the senate debate on the resolution to terminate the president's national emergency declaration to build a southern border wall. when will the senate take up this resolution, and what is the current plan? vote isost likely the going to be on thursday because the senate is about to depart for a weeklong recess for st. patrick's day. this will likely be the last legislating the senate does before it leaves. ist we are looking to see whether or not senate republicans get together and muster the votes to try to at least amend the resolution of termination as it came over from the house that would effectively stop the national emergency designation for the southern border wall. we do not know whether or not

there will be enough republican senators who will be supportive of making any changes to the resolution as it came from the house. 245-182.use last month 13 republicans supported the resolution. what will we see in the senate, and which republicans might support the resolution? niels: we are expecting a handful of republicans to support the resolution. there are several who are involved. susan collins of maine is the lead republican sponsor of the senate version. lisa murkowski of alaska, tom tillis of north carolina, and rand paul of kentucky are already on board. we expect if push comes to shove and there has to be an up or asn vote on that resolution

it is, there are several other republican senators who have been waiting to see what the department of defense wants to reprogram, where military construction programs, where they want to take money away from to build a border wall, if the vote occurs before any of that information is public, it probably becomes a more lopsided vote. host: you recently wrote about the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, his view on the emergency declaration. what has been his view of the resolution to end it? also, how is he influencing other republicans? niels: senator mcconnell seems to be sort of keeping his powder dry in terms of the influence on other senators. mcconnell had said that he would support the president's emergency declaration, but he

has not exactly been very strident in his support for it. he has generally demurred when asked about the actual legality of the emergency declaration. and so i think it is a message from mcconnell to republican senators that they should do what they think is best. now, of course, on the other hand, we have been hearing in recent days that the trump administration has been getting louder and louder in terms of pressuring republican senators to try and keep the vote total down. but i don't think they were going to get this down low enough that it will somehow not pass. host: if the resolution does pass the senate -- we have been hearing the president plans to veto it. what is the next step for the house and senate? niels: we would have to veto override situation that would

have to play out after the march recess week. we don't expect there would be enough votes in the house -- you mentioned that tally earlier when it passed the house -- we don't think there is enough votes to get to to a two thirds majority to override the veto. so then we are unfortunately to the courts, into the next round of feuding over appropriations. remember, there have been so many disasters of the national -- natural disaster variety, not the questionable disaster declarations, the border variety, that congress will he to do and which is a supplemental bill to deal with tornado damage, hurricane damage and the like. that is probably the next place where this becomes an issue. there we have emergencies that everyone will agree are emergencies.

so there will be money spent there that is not being spent on the wall either. host: we appreciate the information. reporting at roll call.com. instituteremont discusses unmasking the administrative state. >> congress adapted itself to the administrative state, but nobody understood at that time in accepting the legitimacy of the administrative state, you had abandoned the necessity of establishing separation of powers as a viable way of working our national government. >> saturday the 20th annual frederick douglas book prize. inners include

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