most republican senators, including ben sasse, ted cruz, and thom tillis voted against the resolution to overturn trump's emergency declaration. to the border needs better enforcement and could use more laws, but it is up to congress, not the president to appropriate money and it should be up to congress, not the courts to make that statement emergency powers are not intended for cases the president wants something congress will not give him. congress delegated by statute. every conservative should have reported the resolution of disapproval. every member of congress should take this emergency as a signal it is time for congress to take back responsibilities it so casually shed over the years. you will find that op-ed -- editorial in the washington examiner's website if you want to look it up for yourself. freddie is next, democrats line from illinois. hi. caller: good morning.

when i said thom tillis and ben sasse. these are people who spoke out against the national emergency declaration but voted against this resolution today. >> thom tillis didn't just speak out against it he wrote an op-ed in "the washington post" that said it would be intellectually dishonest not to vote against the president's declaration because he had opposed similar actions by president obama when he was in the white house as an overreach of presidential authority. and, yet, he flipped on this. you know, it's interesting. 12 republican senators voted against the president on this. but of the 10 republican senators who are up for reelectiore-election next year e of them voted for the president. the only republican senator up for re-election next year who defined the president on this was susan collins of maine. >> bret: here is ceedges the kin

first year senator ben sasse. take a listen to him on the senate floor. >> everything cannot be simply republican versus democrat. we need democrats who will stand up to a democratic president who exceeds his or her power. and i promise you that i plan to speak up the next time a president of missed party seeks to exceed his or her legitimate constitutional powers. >> well, ramesh, here's his explanation. i think the national emergency law is overly broad and i want to fix it but at present nancy pelosi doesn't so i am therefore voting against her politically motivated resolution. i have a copy of the constitution in here. i've been looking all day for the pelosi amendment. there is no pelosi amount. >> it is a pelosi clause. >> is there a clause? >> you didn't carefully enough to 2015. he promised to speak up. and he did speak up. >> do we have to parse words like that? >> no. >> he's up in 2020 by the way. >> there aren't many splints you could use to predict which senator came out where among the republicans. p

i wonder, what are the chances that somebody like a ben sasse draws a tea party-style challenge in af someone who says, you're not a constitutional skr naal conserv. we're running against you? >> that's an interesting thought. but it is more than likely that that challenge will come from someone who has doubled, triple, quadrupled down with donald trump. and will hold up whatever little daylight that may exist between someone like ben sasse and the president as a reason why he should be taken down. so i don't think -- you know, if it's coming from his right, it's going to be someone who's more aligned with trump than the incumbent. and that's what has a lot of these individuals in the senate and the house nervous about 2020. look, they've got double problems. they've got their right flank where trump loyalists are looking to take them on, and certainly, at least create some pain for them. and then on their left flank, they've got center-right democrats, particularly in those purplish states and states that hillary clinton won, who are poised to take their seats anyway. >> yeah. >> so

and, my god, the notion that ben sass can't go get a job somewhere else? you don't support a candidate who is tearing down the constitution. the fact that there are 12 who did it and 13 in the house, all of this many are up for reelection. >> isn't it bizarre that the 12 brave people are not being primaried? >> that's not the case. >> that is the case other than susan collins. >> i'm not heralding them. i'm saying the rest of them doesn't deserve to be in office. we have to raise our standards. the way we got donald trump, well, they're all corrupt, this guy is my bully, he's my cheat. we have to recover some value system to our democracy. and i will rail until my last breath against a rationization that says, well, they're just keeping their jobs. >> you're not defending it. you're explaining it. >> i'm not telling you not to rail. we all have the same moral compass. you have to not take away the basic human reality and not be naive and not think the democrats would have done the same thing. >> i'm not naive. i'm not naive. om saying that we shouldn't acc

it was incredible to me to see people like cory gardner, people like ben sasse. ben sasse is as constitutional can i have conservative as you can get and to have them cave on this, it is an excruciating moment. and while it was great that we saw 12 people buck him, the 41 republicans that stood with the president i think that they made a short term bet about their political prospects, but i think in the long term it will come back to haunt them. >> and danielle, we're talking again not just the wall, we're talking about the balances of power in the setup of the federal government has been undermined by this veto and the nature of the way this president is acting. he does not care about the other branch of government. he will have what he wants no matter what. >> he is an authoritarian. and republicans are incredibly short sighted. so what they would never let -- have let obama to, they are all of a sudden writing a blank check to this president. and what i have said time and time again, this will come back to bite them. because when a democrat is in office and th

that is a big embarrassment. >> you would expect the susan collins and lisa murkowskis and ben sasse's of the world, rand paul, rob portman just got added to vote yes. you wouldn't expect these names, so is there a certain senator who is surprising you the most and who else are you really going to be watching for? >> well, brooke, i'm not surprised by any of the names you mentioned. i'm really, frankly, shocked that there are not more republican members of congress who aren't voting for this resolution. >> really? >> there is an emergency. the emergency is the presidential assault on congress's power of the purse authority under article 1 of the constitution. that is the emergency. as far as i can tell, the loyalty here is to the constitution, not to the president. the president is taking defense dollars, military construction dollars and moving them for a nondefense purpose. that breaks the law. there's all sorts of problems with this thing. i wrote the military construction bill before i left congress, so i know a little bit about this. if you're a senator and you're going to vote ag

other constitutional scholars like ted cruz and ben sasse voted in favor of the resolution, saying, "look, congress has given the president this authority and we have introduced a bill to take some of that power back from the executive." democrats in the house led by nancy pelosi are not willing to vote for that bill to take back some of the power from the executive, which proves that for them it's political and for republicans it was about principle. >> harris: i just want to point back here, i'm looking at the whole list. those were executive orders that president obama issued on the national security issue with the border. >> katie: so not a national emergency. >> robert: national emergency was done for 9/11. those were true national emergencies. >> harris: other things, too. >> robert: but they were not done -- >> katie: we just want to disturb us the difference between a national emergency -- >> harris: south sudan, doesn't say what it was yet. for burgundy. there are some things that even outside of our country. this one is right on the edge of our country, kennedy. >> kennedy:

sway lawmakers on the fence.at the fence is exactly where senators lindsay graham, ted cruz and ben sasse found themselves last night after rushing over tite house gate an to leave until ere let in -- hoping to strike a last minute deal.graham: "we just kind of barged in on his supper - only in the trump presidency could you do that. if it had been me i would have told us all to go to hell and get outta here i am having dinner with my wife. but the point is we had a very good discussion - whether or not we can bridge the differences i don't know."but according to sources the president was irritated the senators had interrupted his family meal to present different proposals for resolving the impasse. graham, pushing trump to support a bill that would diminish future emergency declarations, and cruz pushing a new proposal that would not use military construction money to build the wall.a white house for the rejected that on the spot.the last minute lobbying didn't work, but trump is (ken) (ken) this afternoon... president trump tweeted a one word response to the vote: "veto!" before followi

the freedom to move their way pampers soledad: an abortion bill sponsored by republican senator ben sassem nebraska failed to get the 60 votes needed to pass. supporters say the bill would protect babies born alive after a failed abortion. the bill also included jail time for health care practitioners who didn't provide certain medical care. critics say the bill was unneccessary because infanticide, the intentional killing of an infant, is already illegal in every state in the country. plus, a 2002 born alive law already provides legal protections for infants born alive after an abortion. even with that, the term "infanticide" has been the center of conversations with talking heads on tv and conservative politicians. after the bill failed, president trump tweeted, democrats "don't mind executing babies after birth." doctor jennifer gunter is an ob/gyn in san francisco. thanks for talking with us. so what is this conversation that we're having about abortion and conflating it with infanticide, where's this conversation coming from? dr. gunter: well i think it's basically propaganda. aborti

rand paul and mike lee voting to slap back and the president, and ben sasse and ted cruz going the otherwaythis was for an authorized project. he was using appropriated funds and following the law. howie: you don't think it's a setback? mollie: if they override the veto it will be a huge setback. howie: of course donald trump will veto it. so does that make it a largely symbolic vote? certainly it was shard fought on both -- it was hard fought on both sides. beverly: i think it's funny rino was used. howie: republican in name only. beverly: this is not a rebuke against a border wall. this is how he did it. many of the same republicans who didn't like the executive power of barack obama. howie: congress wouldn't provide the $5 billion. they don't like the method the president used. many pundits are saying this shows the president's diminished clout. six months ago h -- according to the press would not have crossed him. there was coverage coming out of msnbc saying this could be good politics. he has a foil saying i'm standing up for my principles and standing up against my own party. mollie:

sway lawmakers on the fence.at the fence is exactly where senators lindsay graham, ted cruz and ben sasse found themselves last night after rushing over to meet with the president -- waiting at the white house gate and refusing to leave until they were let in -- hoping to strike a last minute deal.graham: "we just kind of barged in on his supper - only in the trump presidency could you do that. if it had been me i would have told us all to go to hell and get outta here i am having dinner with my wife. but the point is we had a very good discussion - whether or not we can bridge the differences i don't know."but according to sources the president was irritated the senators had interrupted his family meal to present different proposals for resolving the impasse. graham, pushing trump to support a bill that would diminish future emergency declarations, and cruz pushing a new proposal that would not use military construction money to build the wall.a white house lawyer present for the meeting rejected that on the spot.the last minute lobbying didn't work, but trump is already passing the blam

. >> ben sass is someone who should have been on the side of the constitution, should have been on then of powers. i think he caved in, and the argument maybe it's a plausible one, he had to, right? you look at thom tillis down in north carolina. wrote an op ed in the washington post a couple weeks ago, talking about how unconstitutional this move was. he ended up backtracking and completely caving. why? because he wants to be re-elected. it's not a popular thing to do to go against the president. most voters think we elected a republican president. and we elect senators to be a rubber stamp to do what the republican president wants. i happen to think that congress actually is a -- maybe even superior branch of government that has the power of the purse, that gets to decide whether or not to spend money. that is a novel notion in the republican party and the conservative movement these days, sadly. >> matt lewis, alice stewart, good to have you with us. always appreciate when we have different opinions too. especially when you're both conservatives. >>> the president is ramping up his

yesterday people like lindsey graham, ted cruz, ben sass wanted to talk to the president because theyying to talk to the president about striking a deal where if they did vote that the president would agree to some kind of limit or change to his executive power to call for the national emergencies in the future. yesterday during the senator g.o.p. lunch mike pence went and the president told the senators he was not going to support a measure that would limit his own constitutional authority here. yesterday these three senators were trying to get to the white house but white house staff was saying there is no point in y'all coming so do not come for right now. now we are learning they showed up here last night including senator lindsey graham calling the white house to tell the president he was on his way while the president was having dinner and it turned into some kind of heated discussion. it seemed like the president was set on vetoing that measure. if it did get enough republican support. it is a question of how many republicans will break with the president. he seems to have reve

ben sass up for reelection.z who can no longer be talken seriously as a constitutional conservative. i think they're going to pay a prices for going against -- a lot of thethese guys are on top denouncing obama. and their spinelessness was on display as well. >> well said. lusn to ted cruz when a democrat's in the white house. >> we the senate are waiting in our duty to stop this lawless administration. sglr >> today he said current law empowers the president to declare a national emergency. he's not the only one seeing things differently when president obama took executive action on immigration. >> if president obama acts in defiance of the people and imposes the will on the country, congress will act. thesont should not be in the business to misuse resolutions to express opinions on moregeneral matters. >> this president, if he doesn't glt his way says i got pen a phone. i'm going to go it alone. that's a disaster waiting to occur. >> congress has granted the president the authority to do exact lawhat he's doi

ben sasse joins us now. thank you for being here. your state and you said that there was a hundred year flood in 2011 but this is much worse. >> we are with the national guard on saturday visiting some of the most impacted communities. it is quite stunning. and it three counties and 53 of them have issued emergency declarations. >> bret: what do you they need most? >> we are still in the response phase. we did no more rain and lots of neighbors helping neighbors right now. the town of fremont that was just mentioned, it is hometown. it is in the middle of the plaintiff became an island for days and nobody could get in or out there is a lot going on in the emergency response of the national guard is doing a great job and so is the governor. we been grateful. both president trump and vice president pence and i have been in contact. will be coming forward. >> bret: this comes at a time when we are entering the 2020 election season and their candidates were running specifically on climate change. one of them is governor hensley. take a l

are we going to see people kind of remaining in the ben sass mode of sound and fury and furrowed brow, kind of the flake model or will we see people finding courage in the corners of congress? >> this week alone you had this vote on the national emergency disapproval. you had a veote in the senate cutting off u.s. support for the saudi led coalition. in house you had the 420-0 vote on making the mueller report public. we saw this morning the president tweeted he doesn't think there should be a mueller report. just this week alone we had three very prominent examples of republicans starting to sort of warm up to bucking trump more often. you mentioned senator flake. i know senator tillis and senator gardener do not want to end up like him. i think that's why they voted with the president on this national emergency issue. senator tillis, it was reported they were flirting with the idea of primary challenges to senator tillis. i think if you have a primary collage from the rig challenge from the right, i think there's a nonzero chance the president would support them over tom tillis. i t

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are we going to see people kind of remaining in the ben sasse mode of sound and furry and furrow brow and go ahead and vote with the president at the end of the day. or are we going to see people finding courage in the corners of congress? >> well, i think this week alone you had the vote on the national emergency disapproval. cutting off support for the saudi-lead coalition there. in the house, the overwhelming 420-0 vote on basically endorsing this idea of making the mueller report public. we saw this morning the president doesn't think there should be a mueller report. just this week alone, we have three very prompt neinent exampf republicans starting to warm up to bucking trump. you mentioned senator flake, senator tillis and ernst and gardner do not want to end up like him. for example, with senator tillis, congressman mark walker and mark meadows, it was reported were flirting with the idea of primary challenges to senator tillis. and i think if you have a primary challenge from the right from these guys who are very supportive of president trump, i think there is a nonzero chan

this be what i was looking at pictures put out by ben sasse of nebraska.g. thank you very much. meanwhile, new fallout for boeing falling to the g dough mightily crashes involving its max 8 jets. reuters is reporting an indonesian airline has asked to cancel its current order for 49 of those debts. the order valued at $6 billion. the airline reportedly wants to order another type of boeing jet. president trump once again taking aim at the democrats accusing them of becoming radicalized, in a new interview with fox business network's maria bartiromo. the president also weighing in on his potential 2020 opponent. >> i would love to have biden. i would love to have bernie, i would love to have beto. beto seems to be the one the press has chosen. the press seems to have chosen beto. >> is it socialism versus capitalism? >> when i watch beto, we can dream about that. >> harris: let's bring in paul. our dreams, will they come true? who knows? as you look at this packet, can anyone take on donald trump? >> that's what the democrats are hoping and that's what they

republicans, a stunning rebuke, but arguably could have been a lot higher if tom tihom s and ted cruz and ben sasserebuke mean for the president's national emergency? >> it means basically that you've seen now play out in real time in an actual vote the frustration that exists in the gop about the way that trump is approaching border security and has been for a long time. there has never been complete support for his strategy of prioritizing the wall. and yes i know we've heard various descriptions of what it actually is as this debate has been playing out. but the gop has never been fully behind what the president wanted to do and yet when push came to shove, not everybody who had been very critical of this kind of you power grab, of the authority to be able to divert funds away from congress, this is kind of the most sacred power that the legislative branch has. and they didn't fight back in as large numbers as you might have expected listening to the way that members of the gop were talking about this being an overreach. it is also interesting that of the 12 who voted against the president, only

mitt romney, ben sasse, mike lee and others who stand up for separation of powers, it isn't about theout the division of powers. >> bret: next app, hickenlooper is in. holder is out. the latest on the democrats running for president. i hear it in the background and she's watching too, saying [indistinct conversation] [friend] i've never seen that before. ♪ ♪ i have... ♪ i have... that there's a lobster i in our hot tub?t. lobster: oh, you guys. there's a jet! oh...i needed this. no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on our car insurance with geico. we could have been doing this a long time ago. so, you guys staying at the hotel? yeah, we just got married. oh ho-ho! congratulations! thank you. yeah, i'm afraid of commitment... and being boiled alive. oh, shoot. believe it. geico could save you 15% or more on car insurance. that guy's the worst. jushis local miracle ear t at helped andrew hear more of the joy in her voice. just one hearing test is all it took for him to hear more of her laugh... and less of the background noise around him. for helen, just one v

when lindsey graham, ted cruz and ben sass went to the white house night before last and stormed hiswith his wife and said we have an idea. those talks didn't bear fruit. ted cruz was giving a very constitutionally, almost academic argument like michael was suggesting. the president was like i don't know what you are talking about. the base doesn't care. go away. >> no pictures in the presentation. what the president could do in this case is maybe threaten to have the people who voted against him beat up. i say it because of language he used in an interview with breitbart. he said, i can tell you i have the support of the police, the military, the bikers for trump. i have the tough people. they don't play tough until they go to a certain point. then it will be very, very bad -- very bad, michael. is the president threatening people here? >> can we put this in the broader context of the worldwide issue you have been covering all morning long? words have consequences. those of us who have microphones afforded to us on a daily basis because we are media, elected officials, celebrities n

you have a number of republicans, including ben sasse, who had an interesting vote to keep the nationalmergency, i thought he would vote against it and in his justification for doing so he says look, i do believe that we have seeded too much authority to the executive branch, which is why i am supporting legislation introduced by senator mike lee to actually take back some of that power from the executive and give it back to congress. from republicans about the issue of the national emergency in terms of a crisis on the border that is ongoing that nobody seems to want to fix on capitol hill. the issue was the separation of powers. the republicans put forward real legislation to actually take back some of that power and nancy pelosi and the house have said they are not going to take it out for a vote which proves that for them this is just political, not just about really taking back power from the president, whether it's a republican or democrat. >> chris: all right, let's get to the underlying issue here, and it's actually the one that mick mulvaney brought up and said that we should a

have a number of republicans including ben sasse who had an interesting book to keep the national emergencyi thought that he would vote against it. and in his justification for doing so he says i do believe that we have too much authority to the executive branch which is why i am supporting legislation introduced by senator mike lee to take back some of that power from executive and give it back to congress. there was no split from republicans about the issue of the national emergency in terms of a crisis on the border that is ongoing that nobody seems to want to fix on capitol hill. the issue was separation of powers, republicans put forward real legislation to actually take back some of the power and nancy pelosi in the house has said they will not take it up for a vote. it is just political not just about really taking back power from the president weather is republican or democrat. chris: all right, let's get to the underlying issue here. it's actually the one that mick mulvaney brought up and said we should ask republican senators. will ask our panel. as a crisis on the southern border

and this, whether you're with me or you're against me, that's when -- i mean, ben sasse also someone who has spoken out about this, not as vehemently as tillis, obviously, also tried to say that this was a nancy pelosi political move. you can say that if your whole party follows that logic. not if you're an outlier. >> yeah. >> and so, process has never been a conversation that's smart to have about the trump white house, right? if you think about traditional process. but brendan buck, who used to work on the hill a long time, makes a good point. he's quoted this in the "washington post" -- "this was the inevitable outcome, and it's unclear why any effort or political capital was spent trying to avoid it. there aren't the votes to override, so why bother negotiati negotiating"? in other words, saying let's not talk about it. mr. president, you're going to lose, but just do it, get it over with. don't jack up the coverage of it and make a bigger deal of it. just make it move on. but -- >> yeah, i mean, not make a bigger deal of it? i mean, that's sort of what the president does. he li

the senator from south carolina along with ben sasse and ted cruz. they were trying to talk the president into accepting some kind of compromise by barging in to a trump family dinner over here at the white house. but something to address these constitutional concerns coming from some of these republicans like mitt romney, who is up on capitol hill today saying that essentially he felt it was his duty to try to protect the constitution. again, this is the kind of language we're seeing coming out of republicans that a lot of trump critics have been waiting for a very long time. >> and the president is expected to veto this in front of the cameras, is that right? >> that's right. we think that could happen. i talked to a senior administration official earlier today who said that aides behind the scenes are starting to hash out plans for the president to do this in front of the cameras as soon as tomorrow. he wants to make this a public spectacle, vetoing this resolution. and according to this official, it would be unusual for the president not to do th

you called came over ben sasse and lindsey graham interrupted my dinner. he had a an idea. didn't love the idea. therefore i will veto this thing. ainsley: the superlative goes to franklin d. roosevelt vetoed 635 bills while in office. steve: when we saw that graphic. ronald reagan had the 78 vetoes. he was overridden nine times. george herbert walker bush 44 vetoes only overridden once. the big question is would there be enough votes in the senate to override the president. jillian: no, you need a two thirds majority. nonetheless, the house of representatives is going to take it up again on march 26th. they have a week off. they have been working so hard. they need another week vacation so when they come back on march 26th, this are going to go ahead and take another bite of the apple. brian: meanwhile beto o'rourke decided he wanted to run for president. number one if it's true the world is going to end in about 12 years we have to do what we did at normandy, watch. >> those who were on the beaches in normandy, those who face existential threat to western democracy and ou

lindsey graham, i will give it to ben sasse and ted cruz.go against him, he is going to batter me. i have an election coming up. i need my base. that's why graham does it for south carolina. he goes without the president's support, i'm going to lose. ted cruz, same thing. every one of them knows, there's no crisis at the border. they know there's no national emergency. every one of them knows trump is the first president to use a national emergency to bypass congress. he went all in with the wall. there was a blue wave tsunami. he did a 35-day shutdown of the government, longest ever. the economy suffering, americans suffering, the republican party is splintering. he's going to stick with his base. >>> in the next hour, the chairman of the democratic caucus is going to join us and fighting to overturn the veto and national emergency. he is going to join us here in new york. >>> beto o'rourke makes it official, he is running for president. >> first, the campaign launch video. >> hi, i'm beto o'rourke and i'm excited. that's it. i'm just excit

corey gardner, ben sasse of nebraska all voted with the president. they clearly didn't want to offend the president and his supporters, but the senators have now created a political opening for their democratic opponents. dave, do you think that is the case, that now potential opponents could have something to run against the incumbents on? >> yeah, i think that's right, eric, and you're making an important distinction here. it's one thing to talk about this issue, helping the president with his base, it's another thing to talk about whether this issue helps senate republicans, house republicans up for re-election. if 2018, the midterms, is a guide, i think probably it doesn't help them, i think it puts them in a tough bind. if you look at polling, consistently, americans have not been supportive of the wall. americans believe we need tougher immigration, immigration reform, but they don't necessarily support the wall. especially if this vote's coming up every six months in the house and senate, that's going to put them, i think, on the defensive hea

. >> ben sasse, thom tillis, cory gardner have a lot to answer for.hey're protecting themselves in their primaries but they could be knocked off in the general election for having no principles and for reversing themselves. they know better and they're going to pay long-term. >> i bet they're going to hear you loud and clear. jonathan, rina, rick, thank you so much. >> happy birthday to your dad. >> you're so sweet. i won't be working tomorrow. i'll going to be with my daddy. >>> trump the president's first veto coming up. why it may have given him a surprise gift. why it may have given him a surprise gif t. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. cancer treatment ♪ centers of america. appointments available now. >>> good day, everyone. from msnbc headquarters here into los angeles, welcome to weekends with alex witt. new details a

and you see issues like ben sasse that took a beating justifiably so.tution list and i think it gives a great window how the party has shape, shifted and molded itself into a trumpian party. >> and i think for sasse, it was particularly hypocritical and underscores that point. >> sasse being one of the most outspoken voices in 2016 and went to iowa and said famously anybody but trump and issued one pithy release noting his opposition know president, but when it came to put his money where his mouth was he couldn't do it. almost impossible to distinguish that from the fact he's on the ballot in 2020. >> i think it was this week, maybe late last week, the news, i lose track of time is another theme of the show, her comments about impeachment essentially saying the president is not worth it, is that a smart move on pelosi's part? >> i think it is. if she were to say impeachment is on the table it will rile up the far right base. we tried to use it in 2018 and say impeachment is something that the president has agenda item it might galvanize those on the fa

when you have a book that's endorsed by david axelrod and ben sasse you know you have won people overhen people read it, they will know how to win more arguments and be happier. brian: love your enemies and be happy. arthur brooks, congratulations. >> thank you. brian: crisis at the border talk about another argument we have about to get worse. record breaking surge of families coming to the u.s. is growing by a staggering number. former acting ice director tom homan here to put reality to the test. this marine veteran has a new mission, replacing american flags destroyed by the tornadoes in alabama one at a time. that hero joins us next. ♪ raise the flag ♪ i got stars in my eyes ♪ ♪ she's doing it again. no cover up spray here... it's the irresistibly fresh scent of febreze air effects. cheaper aerosols can cover up odors, burying the smell in a flowery fog. switch to febreze air effects! febreze eliminates even the toughest odors from the air. and it uses an all-natural propellant to leave behind a pleasant scent you'll love. use anywhere odors can spread. freshen up, don't cover up

interesting, you'll see -- you saw afterwards some people that were surprised did not join the vote, ben sassecriticize the president in the past, he did not join democrats with this, issued a statement about it. so i think his moment if he we wanted to join this pack, i do not expect the senators to be able to override trump's veto. >> maria, basically the veto doesn't get overridden, funds are appropriated, wall construction continues on and that's basically -- that's basically it, right, doesn't seem like this is a political hot potato that it was months ago? >> well, that's good question, i'm not sure that it stops here, keep in mind now that the president releases budget proposal this week, that's not going to become law, the president's budget never becomes law but the president not only asked for money to replace some money, he's taking from pentagon funds to pay for the wall with this emergency declaration but he's actually asking for additional, i believe, it's around 8 billion more for the wall. now, clearly he's not going to get that but i think he actually wants to pick a political

. >> then flipped on it, ben sasse and others. >> harvard law school or something? >> i mean come on. come on. tom, come on. >> also roy blunt got disinvited from a republican dinner after voting to reject the president's emergency declaration in missouri. >> that's such a terrible, terrible -- what? are you kidding me? that's like a good day. >> roy, here is the deal. you're welcome at our house any time. >> and you don't have to go to that dinner. you're in good shape. that's a punishment? >> these questions are at the heart of the cynicism. >> all the chick-fil-a he wants. i love it myself but we'll give you honey mustard. >> lots to get to, including why the president is acting so strange? barbecue actually. >> i was at the atlanta airport the other day, fresh out of the -- >> willie, why is the president acting so strange? >> you don't get that up north. >> no, you don't. one other thing about president trump denying his relationship with george conway and the way he feels about him, "new york times" reported recently that steve mnuchin's wedding, donald trump