but is ann coulter speaking for any trump voters not named ann coulter? the president was weakened today in more ways than trump voters and probably anyone in the white house actually understands. mitch mcconnell turned the ship of the united states senate around and started heading away from donald trump for the first time.

ann coulter is one the president can say i don't know ann coulter.resident has praised her in the past routinely. i can name three occasions he said something complimentary about her. but for all of those voices, there's not a lot of places for them to go. >> here's the power of ann coulter, and i never thought i would find myself in this position, but ann coulter saying the perfects is an idiot, he can be naked and not that i wish this on anybody, but he could be naked and the four of us could say for 60 straight minutes the president is naked, 40% of the country would think the four of us are liars. he's not naked. he's fully dressed. ann coulter comes out and said he's buck bleep naked and they suddenly see him as naked because ann coulter has had a more intimate relationship, agrees with his base on more issues than he does. i think the break with ann coulter is a thing because her calling him an idiot has a lot more power than anybody anywhere else calling him an idiot. >> i don't know -- heartening to hear ann coulter say that the way he got ch

emily: this narrative ann coulter has suddenly switched.spleased with him for a year. i think the president was eager to tackle this head on. howie: i have to praise you for giving a high minded answer to ann coulter's response. thanks so much for cramming a lot into this segment. i spoke to veteran sportscaster, bob costas, about his allegation that nbc benched him because of his criticism of nfl concussions effects. ♪ ♪ means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop. does this sound dismal? it isn't. ♪ ♪ it's the most wonderful life on earth. ♪ ♪ it's the most wonderfall of you.earth. how you live, what you love. that's what inspired us to create america's most advanced internet. internet that puts you in charge. that protects what's important. it handles everything, and reaches everywhere. this is beyond wifi, this is xfi. simple. easy. awesome. xfinity, the future of awesome. howie: bob costas spent four decades with nbc sports and now revealed why he wasn't in the booth during the super bowl. he said

so mission accomplished, ann coulter. represents or understands the views of the voters in this country. there's no question that the president will repeatedly make statements about acts that he may or may not even do. because he counts on people in his base, thinking that he's done them or being poorly informed on some issues. the wall is one of them. he put up a sign in his rally this week saying finish the wall. well the wall isn't even started. i think she's right in the sense that he tries to traffic in limited understanding of detail. the rest of it ann coulter will say anything to get in the news. >> lauren your comment about the cabinet standing by, by your description right there, is that the kind of thing that the cabinet should be doing, standing by no matter what? >> look, i think that we, i think that we often underestimate that there are people who really do share the president's views. if you choose to be in the cabinet with the president, given all the controversies that the president has been embroiled in

ann coulter who was a big supporter on immigration has turned critical. he was asked about miss coulter as well. president trump: i don't know her. i hardly know her. i haven't spoken to her in way over a year. but the press loves saying ann coulter. i just don't have the time to speak to her. but she is off the reservation. howie: here is a brief clip of ann coulter. >> forget the fact that he's digging his own grade. the only national emergency is our president is an idiot. cathy: he did her a huge favor. she is not affiliated with any news organization. she is an entrepreneur. she is an author and she needs publicity. so for the president of the united states to go on and on about ann coulter and giving her an opportunity to reply and call him an idiot. he did something so nice for her. howie: similar to emily's response, when the clashes come, they both get something out of it. i think the president sometimes . . . howie: bob costas spent four decades with nbc sports and now revealed why he wasn't in the booth during the super bowl. he said nbc benche

ann coulter. i don't know her. i hardly know her. i haven't spoken to her in way over a year, but the press loves saying ann coulter. i like her. but she's off the reservation, but anybody that knows her understands that. >> dara, i mean, that was just weird. the president was asked about influences and he named the three people who most observers think he is building his immigration policy for. >> yeah, although it's always hard to know with this president whether he's saying that because he actually does have relationships with them or whether he's saying that because he watches a whole lot of television. and so if those are the names that are coming up as influencers, he's going to interpret that. but it's definitely clear that trump is very afraid of any fight with people who he thinks of as mediating between him and his base. even to point where, you know, he's been saying for years at this point that any border barrier that is built needs to be steel poles or steel bollards or slats, but when he posted a sketch of a design in d

to keep things interesting ann coulter's whose name was invoked.ho has been hounding and trolling the president responded during a radio interview. >> forget the fact he's digging his own grave. this is just the only national emergency is our president is an idiot. >> there's that to talk about with our guests. franco, do you believe the president when he says he doesn't follow ann coulter? >> it's hard to believe the president isn't listening to ann coulter. a few weeks ago when he was ready to sign a spending bill with that the democrats and republicans had agreed to that didn't have any funding to the wall. it was ann coulter who spoke out and others talking about the president is being scammed if he agrees to that. within 24 hours, president trump had changed his mind. said no. i'm not going to sign this and we got record breaking shutdown. for him to say that he's not listening is very hard to believe. >> emily, let's talk about your line of work and covering congress and we've watched them come around. people who have some age on them remembe

donald trump is afraid of ann coulter.ancy pelosi is not afraid of anybody, least of all, donald trump. he zim no choice and then he's go having to to go back and say but i declare a national emergency. >> let me go this way. you have a thought because i think -- i'll put my cards on the tanl. table. i think he's bent for trouble. i think he's going to shoot the moon mp it's classic bring down the temple. donald trump. >> to joy's point and i still think of politics as the art of the possible and last year in the senate, a pathway to citizenship for dreamers got 56 votes without any support from the white house at all. if this white house were to invest in an effort to get republicans on board, they could get this done. and that's why i think this is the biggest missed opportunity for this administration. they could have got immigration reform done if any republican president could have gotten it done, it was donald trump and it looks like groirltsing to go another two years without an immigration solution in this country

is he afraid mostly of ann coulter.s that what's come to, the president of the united states being led around by someone who wr writes books? >> good friend with sean hannity literally working for him. soutserx troedinary that a president who can tell the base that he'sall r already building wall, doesn't have a sense of his own strength that he doesn't feel he can defy this media crowd. he thinks he has to show them he's doing the most. >> tomorrow morning people puck up the paper. headline president declares national emergency. tonight because ann coulter rang the bell, he broke the glass. >> he's tear fews of angering his base. i can imagine him being on the phone with lou daubs and sawing i have to do this but i will do this other thing. republicans were this close to getting out of it. this is a worst-case nightmare ske nair ye. this sets a damaging precedent. conservatives should know this. i think lot of them understand what could happen with a democratic president who could do this on climate change, guns, healt

but the press loves saying ann coulter. probably if i did speak to her she would be very nice. >> i like her, but she's off the reservation, but anybody that knows her understands that. >> again, coulter has been criticizing trump for not getting the wall done. today she said that the wall is his mandate. >> no one thought, oh, look, he was governor of the biggest state in the union, he used to run the cia, he was reagan's vice president. you know, he was fdr's. no. it was one thing, the promise he made every single day at every single speech. >> on his campaign trail. >> so forget the fact that he's digging his own grave. this is just -- look, the only national emergency is that our president is an idiot. >> ann coulter during the campaign -- >> that's the first time i've agreed with her ever. >> more broadly, though, this event today, even people who are i think a little more sympathetic to trump, said this performance by his standards was uneven. what was going on behind the scenes there. >> that's a kind phrase. you kne

so when he says, i barely know ann coulter. take the opposite. he knows ann coulter. he knows all these people. i was very surprised by the fact that he -- i had not seen this reported before, that the prime minister of japan, shinzo abe -- nominated him for a nobel peace prize. that's news. >> certainly news to me. >> right. and then the other thing, you played that clip where the president said, i didn't need to do this. i want to do this faster. george conway -- >> this is important. >> george conway tweeted out, this quote should be the first sentence of the first half of every complaint filed this afternoon. >> i didn't know to do this. >> george conway is important because he is the husband of kellyanne conway, one of the senior advisors to the president. >> so, kelly, let's pick up on that. the president said he didn't need to declare a national emergency to get the funding for the wall. he just needed to do it faster. worth noting. november 20, '14 when barack obama was president, donald trump tweeted this. repubs must not allow president obama to subvert the

ann coulter and sean hannity don't like this. the other thing going forward is the freedom caucus in the house has been the single most powerful group of voters in the last ten years. the minority within the majority. they are now the minority within the minority. they have no power. they are irrelevant. >> you called it a wall. i believe the language will specifically say it can't be a concrete barrier. >> yeah. >> does that matter, senator, that it has to be a fence? >> the president has been clear he's flexible on what kind of physical barriers that are appropriate for the area that's being fenced. as long as we work with the people on the ground, i think the president will be fine with it. i do believe he should look to other options to build additional fencing. i think that's really the imperative. i disagree with joe. i don't think it's ann coulter and sean hannity. there are a lot of people in america who are very concerned about security at the border. it is not a manufactured crisis. this is a serious problem at the bord

>> it's hard to believe the president isn't listening to ann coulter. e was ready to sign a spending bill with that the democrats and republicans had agreed to that didn't have any funding to the wall. it was ann kaucoulter who spoket and others talking about the president is being scammed if he agrees to that. within 24 hours, president trump had changed his mind. said no. i'm not going to sign this and we got record breaking shutdown. for him to say that he's not listening is very hard to believe. >> emily, let's talk about your line of work and covering congress and we've watched them come around. people who have some age on them remember when tip o' neil controlled the house. we watched democrats with breathtaking discipline come around. here is mark meadow, the head of the freedom caucus, republican, north carolina. now declaring that the potus declaration is legal and well founded of the national emergency. to my democratic colleagues complaining about executive authority, welcome aboard. good to have you. if you're ready to rein in executive branc

franco, do you believe the president when he says he doesn't follow ann coulter? believe that the president is not listening to ann coulter. let's just remember, a few weeks ago, when president trump was very much ready, according to sarah sanders and white house staff, to sign a spending bill with -- that the democrats and republicans had agreed to, that didn't have any funding to the wall, it was ann coulter who spoke out and others, talking about that the president is being scammed if he agrees to that. within 24 hours, president trump had changed his mind, said no, i'm not going to sign this. and then we got a record-breaking shutdown. so, for him to say that he's not listening is very hard to believe. >> emily, let's talk about your line of work and covering congress and we've watched them all eventually come around, and people who have some age on them remember when bob bird controlled the snap and when tip o'neill controlled the house, we watched democrat with just breathtaking discipline, come around. here is mark meadows, the head of the freedom caucus in

. >> ann coulter, don't know her, i have not spoken to her, but the press loves saying ann coulter. >> with this national emergency the president will have access to roughly $8 billion to build some of his wall, his wall would cost more than $8 billion to be clear, so what is he diverting from your tax collars? first 1.375 that congress agreed to in a spending bill. the language in there says specifically that money is for fencing and existing barrier technology, $600 million would come from the treasury department's drug forfeiture. money would come from the drug interdiction program. according to the chair of the house military committee, veteran's affairs sub committee, these are funds that could have been youthed for defense intelligence centers and f 35 maintenance facilities and hangers. it is not just something with which washington disagrees, trump himself said it. in 2014 donald trump slammed president balm for his use of executive actions. repubs must not allow prez obama to subvert with the constitution of the u.s. for his own benefit because he is unable to negotiate with

the people who are at mar-a-lago are not sean hannity and ann coulter disciples. that's the thing i don't understand. the people at mar-a-lago are not ann could ens. the highly affluent people who supported him and vacationed at that. he follows her. f what he says will get through to national media and he'll have to hear those words rngs and that's why he eads have to attack those words. he can't get away from that. >> the power of a woman. it's incredible. >>> coming upping if you missed am the in. many there would prefer the pruj that they're using for the wall should be spen else ware. we're going to look to el paso for pr's pr's emerging. he said the wall will be so big the my granls will have to kriener crime. it's very interesting to say the least. >> the main deference between jump's border wall and mchlt everybody gleb. they klain p that it would have to be, quote, extremely folt shape in orders to get over its improved border wall. that makes sense because he's in terrible shape and he can't seem to get over it. s in terrible shape and he can't seem to ge

but is ann coulter speaking for any trump voters not named ann coulter? the president was weakened today in more ways than trump voters and probably anyone in the white house actually understands. mitch mcconnell turned the ship of the united states senate around and started heading away from donald trump for the first time. when donald trump shut down the government, mitch mcconnell's position was he would not consider even bringing up a bill to a vote in the senate if the president did not already approve of that bill while it was being negotiated. >> we're not interested in having show votes here in the senate. we're interested in bringing up something, the house has passed, 60 senators will support, and the president will sign. >> and that is all over. the constitutional truth of the matter is that the president only has as much legislative power as congress decides to let the president have. this week mitch mcconnell decided to take his power pack from president trump. mitch mcconnell agreed to a bipartisan legislative package without president trump

(catherine) nationally, ocasio-cortez is getting high praise from unlikely sources -- ann coulter andresident trump's former chief strategist steve bannon. jason carroll has that. progressive firebrand congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez will soon be set to unveil one of her most controversial and talked about agendas... the green new deal. it's touted as a massive economic stimulus package designed to create jobs and get the united states on a carbon-free, 100-percent renewable energy system by 2035.ocasio cortez has been an outspoken proponent of the ambitious proposal.rep. alexandria ocasio-cortez / -d- new york: "this is going to be the great society, the moon shot, the civil rights movement of our generation." the freshman congresswoman is working with democratic massachusetts senator, ed markey on getting the bill done.while the wording of the bill is still being finalizedit's clear... this is legislation ocasio cortez has been pushing for.-nats-she ruffled feathers in her own party after she stood with demonstrators, who stormed house speaker nancy pelosi's office in novembe

can i play donald trump talking about ann coulter and ann coulter talking back to him. >> ann coulter hardly know her, haven't spoken to her in way over a year. i like her. but she's off the reservation, but anybody that knows her understand that. >> so forget the fact that he's digging his own grave. this is just -- look, the only national urgency is that our president is an idiot. >> she tweeted please drop the line finish the wall. the reality donald trump can't pull off the thing chris hayes and i said he should do she won't let him get away with saying there's a wall. she wants a wall done. >> i think i join most of america saying that ann coulter's tears taste delicious. this is someone who, you know, this is someone who proved the point that donald trump is terrible negotiating with opponents and he's even worse negotiating with his allies. they put him in a box he can't escape from and they understand their code -- ann coulter and her ilk they wanted an actual physical wall, 50 feet of concrete with lasers and robot alligators and never going to get it and thought that trump w

we want to say as we go to break that ann coulter is taking a swipe at the president today, saying that the only national emergency is that the president is an idiot. that's a quote from ann consult ann coulter. >>> coming up, a changing of the guard at the department of justice. what will it mean for the muller investigation? ice. what will it mean for the muller investigation? egy. the only fda-approved 3-in-1 copd treatment. ♪ trelegy. the power of 1-2-3 ♪ trelegy 1-2-3 trelegy with trelegy and the power of 1-2-3, i'm breathing better. trelegy works 3 ways to... ...open airways,... ...keep them open... ...and reduce inflammation... ...for 24 hours of better breathing. trelegy won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. trelegy is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. do not take trelegy more than prescribed. trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling,.. ...problems urinating, vision changes, or eye

downy and it's done. >>> hey, as promised, i want to read you the words from anne coulter today. let's talk about the president's. national emergency won't help. it is over if he signs this bill. the second tweet she writes, there is no coming back from this. no emergency or presidential powers will allow him to build the wall, ever. after he signs this bill, trump has just agreed to fully open borders. the question is, how does he handle the base with talk like that out there? >> the white house is sensitive to some of the conservative talk show hosts that are out there. some are being vocal and ann coulter, some of them are holding their fire even though in the past they talked negatively about this bill. the white house works to make sure they do not have headline from the conservative base and the media. there are others holding their fire saying they are going to wait for the president to declare a national emergency and give them some space to maneuver on this because the president cares about what's happening in the expensive expensive ecosphere. this is what led to the 35

ann coulter is going at trump as hard as i've seen heir go at him on this.re always talk about this question of trump's base. is he going to lose dash does this have any bearing on that? because she shaz been, in terms of his supporters, until recently, when it came to the wall, she was at the forefront. >> there's a misapprehension about who the president is here. donald trump is the president. if the trump base was going to abandoned him over the wall, they would have abandoned him a long time ago. the wall is what the protagnist wants. it's not about border security or a crisis on the border. it is about whatever the president seeks and what he's done is erode the civic compact, particular la particularly national security. he did so in order to label japan, for example, a threat to national security. he did so to reward farmers who were hurt by his tariff trade war. heall most did so when heall most ordered the department energy to buy above market price power from inefficient coal and nuke aller gen raise. these are precedents that cannot be unset. powe

off. >> when we sat around this table and negotiated this deal, we didn't call sean hannity or ann coulter or the people you mentioned. this is a deal negotiated between republicans and democrats, house and senate. we think we came to a good compromise again that would secure our border because that's the goal. we have to uphold our values, secure our border, get a deal that we can support, and i think we did a good job. >> speaker of the house, nancy pelosi had said not a single dllar for a border wall. now, you're offering $1.3 billion for a border barrier. >> you're describing it. i guess you got the words from the negotiation. this is not a wall, this is a barrier, these are fences. i think $1.375 is a good number. you got the number. i didn't give the number. we were putting the bill together and getting all the details in place. i guess someone got the details. >> congresswoman, what if the president uses executive powers to take money from a different government pot say for disaster victims. what if he does that? will you feel cheated in this deal or is that okay and that's his prer

if i went opposite -- ann coulter, i don't know her. i haven't spoken to her in way over a year, but the press loves saying ann coulter. if i did speak to her she'd be very nice. i don't have the time to speak to her. i have nothing against her, in fact i like her for one reason. when they asked her right at the beginning who is going to win the election, she said donald trump. and the two people that asked her that question smiled. they said you're kidding, aren't you? no donald trump. so i like her. she's off the reservation, but anybody that knows her understands that. i haven't spoken to her. i don't follow her. i don't talk to her. but the press loves to bring up the name ann coulter. i think she's fine, i think she's good but i think don't speak to her. laura's been great, tucker carlson's been great. i actually have a couple of people on cnn that have been very good. i have some on msnbc the other day, they did a great report of me. i said where the hell did that come from? i think it was the only one in over a year. so the crazy

ann coulter has been weighing in. here's the president versus ann. >> ann coulter.rdly know her. i haven't spoken to her in way oaf a year. but i like her. but she's off the reservation. >> the promise he made every single day at every speech. so r forget the fact that she's digging his own grave. this is swrus the only national -- the president is an idiot. >> sounding like mariah carey there, i don't know her. if he's lost ann coulter, has he lost the base? >> i don't know. the one thing i would say about president trump's support, if you look at the polls over the last two years or so, it's remaining relatively stable. he's averaged in the high 30s to the low 40s. they're going b to be with him no matter who criticizes him on the left or right. he doesn't seem to be able to moderate or seems unwilling to try to appeal to independents. and i don't know if there's enough trump supporters for him to win. in fact i know there's not. until he tries to change and he's not going to, you're going to have this problem where he's speaking to 40%, yai they'll vote for him,

some are being vocal and ann coulter, some of them are holding their fire everyon thou in the past theyll. the white house works to make sure they do not have headline from the conservative base and the media. there are others holding their fire saying they are going to wait for the president to declare a national emergency and give them some space to maneuver on this because the president cares about what's happening in the expensive expensive ecosphere. this is what led to the 35-day shutdown that we had last month. this is something that the white house was sensitive to. it is not clear that the president has this conservative group on his side so far, they're willing to wait and hold the fire and see what they're going to do. a lot of them are not happy with the bill. there is some pieces of the bill, there is some legislative texts, immigration restrictionists are not happy with it. not only the dollar amount is not having enough to build a wall but also some rules and restrictions that democrats put in that make it difficult for the president to carry out his immigration agenda. a

they thought the president would sign the deal but it was the ann coulters and the rush limbaughs whois he going to listen to them or mitch mcconnell? >> i think the president would say stay tuned, because you're right, he has a tendency to drive toward the hardliners. that's how he got elected, is on the law. that's how he'll get reelected. >>> we now know the verdict in the chile of "el chapo" guzman in new york. brynn is standing outside the courthouse for us. br brynn? >> it was guilty on all ten counts for "el chapo." the first count was running a criminal enterprise, and of course jurors found him guilty on that. that carried a life sentence. now, it's important to note the judge in this is the one who is going to determine his sentence in the final ending of this, but again, that's what carried a light sentence. guilty on all counts is what we're hearing. been, we're at the white house. for reporters covering this trial from day one, out here to hear about his recollection, the government's recollection. we're certainly going to bring that to you, but that is the verdict. guilt

ann coulter is an outlier. it is interesting. donald trump doesn't want a wall as much as he wants the fight. he wants to take this in to 2020. what's interesting is he didn't have to declare a national emergency to move the money. jennifer is right. why did he declare a national emergency other than to make this look more controversial, make it look like he was taking a stronger stand than he was really doing. but, look. this thing has opened up a can of worms. it will be a defining moment for republicans in congress whether or not they are going along with this. they had been warning him over and over again, do not do this. do not challenge the constitution's system of checks and balances. the congressional power of the purse. don't cross the line. he has crossed the red line. it will be fascinating to see what elected members of congress do to protect their prerogatives. >> you are here dealing with -- paying attention to what's happening on capitol hill. lindsey graham has already sounded the bullhorn for any republican who m

and ann coulter, sean hannity have been very focal about that.ow, mark meadow is his a little different. because he is a member of congress. he said he will not support the bill itself and we want after it earlier this week. today he changed his tune a bit. i was tethering with him earlier today and he basically said if the president were to sign this bill, just as long as he was going to dos something else too get the rest of that money, possibly an emergency declaration which meadows said he would supporth or republican are talking about finding other funds to allocate. they are not clear on how that would be. the base would forgive the president on this. and basically avoid theav shutdown. they all know that the president was blamed in polling for the shutdown, so meadows is sort of giving trump i an out even if he didn't personally support the bill. >> phil rucker, i wasn't great at globes and maps, but i know 55 miles ain't no sea to shining sea. >> doesn't go very far.o >> what's the chance this weekend we'll hear words like an emergency de

>> i'm trying to process the fact that i'm agreeing with ann coulter for perhaps the first time in my lifetime. california's prepared to call this what this is, which is a theater of the absurd. california is prepared to continue reminding athe people this is manufactured crisis. the lowest number since 1971. the reality is ports of entrees is where most drugs are seized. we're willing to work with theed a mun stragz but not on a monumental wall. >> the troops have been deployed from their mission at the border. >> we don't want to participate this show anymore. and he said he wanted 3,750 additional mu addition military personnel on the border. maybes our national guard troops look trivial and insignificant. we don't want to be part of this theater, part of this political you know misdirection. california is better than that. american people i think deserve better and so california wants to stand tall. >> i want to askia a question i ask asked beto o'rourke in el paso. fencing didn't exist for a long time, only pursuant to the secure fencing act in 2006. much is fenced in the state o

if i went ann coulter, don't know her. i hardly know her. i haven't spoken to her in way over a year. but the press loves saying ann coulter. if i did speak to her she would be very nice. i don't have the time. i would speak to her, i have nothing against her. i liked her for one reason. when they asked her like right at the beginning who is going to win the election, she said donald trump. and the two people that asked her that question smiled. they said you're kidding, aren't you? nope. onald trump. so i liked her. but she's off the reservation. but anybody that knows her understands that. i haven't spoken to her. don't followed her. don't talk to her. but the press loves to bring up ann coulter. i think she's fine. i just don't speak to her. laura's been great. laura ingram. tucker carlson. i actually have a couple people on cnn that have been very good. msnbc the other day did a great report on me. where the hell did that come from? i think it was the only one in over a year. so the crazy thing is i just had, as you know, rasputin, 52% i

they have somebody ann coulter, i don't know her. she's off the reservation.nows her understands that. i haven't spoken her, i don't follow her, but the press loves to bring up the name ann coulter, i think she's fine. i think she's good. >> cnn chief media corporate brian stelter. what are pundits saying? >> ann coulter is criticizing the president for signing this bill, saying all of this is 100% his responsibility. and challenging the assertion that trump doesn't know her, obviously he knows her, he sees her on tv. she's spoken at his rallies. there's a mission from trump trying to disassociate from one of his top critics. a lot of the president's other allies or right wing voices, sean hannity, rush limbaugh, et cetera, are very much in his corner, continuing support throughout this. rush limbaugh's been on the radio in the past few minutes, all of this, the democrats and the republicans, the compromise, the spending deal, all of this is designed to get trump supporters demoralized. when in doubt, they always come back to president trump. that is why this

the rush limbaugh's and ann coulters are.k in to the speaker of the house chambers. she showed she is not only defiant but she is using every quiver in her arrow. it's the antithesis of the statue of liberty, it goes against our values. he is trying to find a loophole of how to get himself out of that, whiem at the same time pasifying his base >> it's chris hayes. i interviewed congress members all week and the way we're going to solve the problem is reopen the government and let adult -- >> what are you trying to say? >> i saw the firs day a lot of good faith and ultimately will come down to is there some sort of face-saving fiction that can be put in what the conference committee eproduces that president can call a wall? am i wrong that's what it's going to end up being the final question? >> that's right. and one of the things i recommended is to provide this tiech of leeway so the president can demonstrate you're going to get some sort of funding. it doesn't have to go per se to the wall because most professionals agree w

it was not ann coulter's idea.hey seem more married to it than the author of the idea, donald trump. >> yeah, what a surprise that donald trump didn't have firm principles. but they didn't push him into this cul-de-sac, they basically, you know, trapped him on this particular wall. so we have a really fascinating moment, because so far, donald trump has been very, very reluctant to disappoint the right wing media. but as you pointed out earlier, he doesn't have an option. he's out of cards. mitch mcconnell is going to have a vote on this. and republicans have basically decided, you know, we have gone to the mat for you over and over again but we're not doing it for your fake wall. we're not going to shut the government down. and so you do have the conservative media which by the way is right that this is a humiliating surrender, i mean, it is humiliating for the president, they're going to get back in line, and now we're going to have to enter the emperor's new clothes phase of all of this where donald trump, who d

>> ann coulter said don't do this, it's the other side that lies. was in response to him saying, finish the wall, not build the wall. he's creating really uncomfortable tensions between a pretty unholy alliance, himself and some of the big cheeses on the far right. >> absolutely. to anyone who's paying attention, and that includes ann coulter, whatever you think of her, she pays attention to immigration, it's insulting to all of our intelligence. we know none of this is correct. but he's banking on the poorly educated and they like to jump on the media when we correct him. i feels he's helped by these fights when he's not in the race. >> here's why he never let go of the wall. the wall was about the year 2045. that will be the first time whites are minority in this country. in 2010, there were still 72% of the country white. think about that. that terrifies a core. it's not just about america or mexicans coming in or hispanics, it's blacks, asians, nonwhites. he knows, basically what he ran on, birther movement, muslim bap and mexican rapists, mark

, what do you do if ann coulter thinks you're a weenie in you would declare a national emergency. what would you put on the front page, national emergency andy mccabe or manafort? >> national emergency because it's a true issue. >> he pumped the country and we fall for it? >> the constitution originally said congress has the power to declare an emergency. in the 1976 emergencies act congress ceded that to the president. since 1976 the president declared 31 emergencies which congress has not actually done anything about. the bill said congress every six months has to review a national emergency and they haven't done it once. what this is all about, i think, and we may see a positive result, is congress having its own power threatened by unilateral abuse of power by the president to do something which congress doesn't really want him to do. the courts really don't have much say about the president declaring a national emergency. that legislation gave the president an extraordinary power. but congress looking at the usurpation of its own power can say, you know what, mr. president, t

he's already lost ann coulter, but i imagine that there will be some consultations going on between the president and sean hannity and some point he will buy in, too, and declare this a victory. >> let's watch sean hannity before we talk about the ridiculousness of this. >> by the way, on this new so-called compromise, i'm getting details, $1.3 billion? that's not a -- not even a wall, a barrier. i'm going to tell this tonight and we'll get back into this tomorrow. any republican that supports this garbage compromise, you'll have to explain. >> the president on line 3, sean, please don't call it a garbage compromise. it's all i could do, sean, please. okay. okay. all right. watch tonight. watch. this is -- i don't have words for how ridiculous that was. >> at the same time, hannity is correct about the politics here, which is the democrats functionally demolished trump on this border wall question, and let's remember, trump had two years of undivided government when he could have worked with republicans in the house to get border wall funding and instead, he just didn't do it. and now h

>> well, first, i'm just trying to process the fact that i'm agreeing with ann coulter for the first time in perhaps my lifetime, but california's prepared to file a lawsuit. california's prepared to call this what this is, which is a theater of the absurd. california is prepared to continue to remind the american people this is a manufactured crisis. border crossings up to 2017 were at the lowest level since 1971. the reality is at ports of entry, most of these drugs are seized and california's prepared to work with the administration, but not on a monumental stupidity of a wall. >> you polled the california national guard troops that have been deployed to their mission down at the border. why did you do that? >> because it was the right thing to do. we don't want to participate in this show any longer. the fact is the president of the united states announced that he wanted to put 3,750 additional military personnel on the border. rather makes our 360 national guard troops look pretty trivial and insignificant. we don't want to be a part of this theater. we don't want to be a part o

but the press loves to say ann coulter. probably if i did speak to her, she would be very nice, i just don't have the time. i would speak to her, i like her for one reason when they asked her at the beginning who is going to win the election, she said donald trump. and the two people that asked her that question smiled they said you're kidding, aren't you? nope donald trump so i like her. but she's off the reservation, but anybody that knows her understands that but i haven't spoken to her, i don't follow her, i don't talk to her, but the press loves to bring up the name ann coulter, and i think she's fine, she's good, but i just don't speak to her. laura has been great, laura i think gra ham, tucker carlson. i have a couple of people on cnn that have been good. someone on msnbc the other day, did a great report of me i said where the hell did that come from? i think it was the only one in over a year. so the crazy thing is i had rasmussen, 52% in the polls. my highest poll number and people get what we're doing. they get i