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mitch mcconnell told reporters he will hold a vote on the green new deal. socrats can go on record about the freshman congresswoman ground breaking and budget breaking legislation. >> i noticed with interest the green new deal, we'll vote on this. given an opportunity to go on record. and see how they feel about the green new deal. >> oh, the president told an el paso rally last night, reposal reads like a high school term paper that got a low mark. and alc shot back on twitter but no answer for gavin newsom, announced he is abandoning state a bullet train from jec i -- project because it would cost too much and take too long. panel is here. discussing, from town hall.com. katy pavlich. with "reason" magazine editor at large, matt welch. federallest culture editor emily is here, welcome about hello. >> this is so satisfying, we have so much trolling and so much boundary pushing, when one side gets a points, there is an immediate rally. once again, it feels like we're at love. >> did you notice mitch mcconnell was wearing a greenspaa greentie, when he anns maki

so we need to move our nominations forward. we need to break through this impasse, and i do want to thank leader mcconnell for moving so many nominations and focusing on our judges. we need to get the cabinet positions filled. i'm going to give a shoutout as well to senator blunt and senator lankford. they have worked very hard on solutions to breaking through the process that has slowed us down. we need solutions to get the administration in place. we need william barr in place. we passed a lot of great, great bills here, a lot of great legislation on opioids and criminal justice reform. we can't really move forward and implement much of that if we don't have an attorney general in place. so all of us pulling together, we need to get these nominations done. we need to get people serving in this administration so we can get our work done. thank you. >> i know so many hoosiers look forward hearing from the president and specifically about all the accomplishments that this republican president has been able to put forward and enact into law, working with a republican-controlled congress. whether it was tax cuts that have led to the creat

mcconnell? >> that's my understanding, as well. >> so that's why. because hep didn't understand that mitch mcconnell needed to come to the floor and say, i just got off with the president, i want to end the drama. >> mitch mcconnell, i have breaking news. >> i want to tell you, you, senator grassley, and everybody else in this chamber, he's going to sign it. no more guessing games, i put a call into him, i got him on the floor, i got him to commit, i had to give something, a pretty big something, which is philosophically mitch mcconnell is against the notion of a national emergency. >> in fact, i thought he had said earlier this week he would fight the national emergency declaration, should the president take that move. >> he did, but this is the art of compromise. you don't always get what you want. and what mitch mcconnell wanted and wants more than anything else right now is keep the government open and get on with it and move on, at least in the short-term and to do that, to get the president to say, okay, it seems pretty clea acquiesce emergency

so he is facing some of the similar kinds of pressure that mcconnell faced from his ideological wing of the obama years. mr. kane: they both became minority leader at a time they expected to be majority leader so mcconnell is the republican whip in 2006 heading into those midterms. they had a large cushion. they didn't think they'd lose six seats and mcconnell planned to be majority leader and boom. they lost six seats and all of a sudden he is minority leader and had to find his footing. chuck schumer in 2016 was certain hillary clinton would win and they were picking up enough seats in places like pennsylvania to become majority leader. he woke up the day after election thinking i got minority leader. how does my job work? what is my relationship with mcconnell like? it is a very different process and schumer is still sorting through that role and that relationship with mcconnell. it's better than it was with harry reid. but it is still not -- nothing like the old relationships of bob dole at this point. host: paul kane you mentioned you were at the mcconnell center that day that we

national emergency over guns, climate change, and we don't want this president, including mitch mcconnell, soet people saying there's real consequences to his behavior. it's extraconstitutional. dana was saying you are literally saying to congress who has budget authority, i'm going around you. >> jesse: that would be scary if the democratic president declared a national emergency on guns, started taking peoples weapons. that would be a revolution. >> dana: that would be an emergency. >> jesse: a real emergency. >> morgan: i can see where the administration gets frustrated with congressional republicans because they seem to be more worried about the constitutionality of his actions and giving him the wall in the first place. lindsey graham just tweeted before we came on the show that vice president pence said today that in 2014, obama clearly national emergency for 120,000 miners interdicted the border. we had 120,000, or that already, just this fiscal year. you can argue whether it's humanitarian crisis or a national emergency with democrats has spent billions of dollars working on the crisi

that's something of a shift in rhetoric from especially mitch mcconnell. so really, again, it's back to the president and whether or not he's going to be able to think that he can declare victory with whatever they come up with, andrea. >> as all of us were so busy with fact checking, our teams last night, he's going to el paso on monday. he claimed that the border fencing made el paso safer. the sheriff and others there point out, as well as our own checking, that their crime rate was dropping for years when construction on the border fence began in 2008. the crime rate rose in the year after completion of the fence, in fact. there are a lot of others, on the economy and other issues. and peter, peter baker, you know, you've covered so many of these. you also did a report on what the president said at lunch yesterday before giving the speech. hardly signifying that he intended in this off the record lunch to be conciliatory. according to your reporting, he trashed chuck schumer, trashed john mccain. give me some of those details. >> exactly right, every year

it is in congress, available to vote on so mcconnell is taking them at their word.alked about this. howard dean and the democrats give counsel to fellow members of the party, discussions are good, because of the words you use, the things you say because they come back at you and years. heather: senator klobuchar said this about voting for it. >> the green new deal, i see it as aspirational, a jumpstart. i would vote yes but i would also when it got down to the nitty-gritty of actual legislation as opposed to here are some goals we have that would be different for me. heather: i would imagine every contender is going to vote yes because it is a race to the left and who will be most progressive. >> another way out is hold everybody harmless, you vote present in protest of mcconnell's tactics so nobody has to pay the price, if you're sherrod brown from ohio that is not our brand for you. he's an environmentalist and liberal in that way but not if you're from a manufacturing state, talk about an aspirational issue but don't want to get down to the details so they may co

they gave gave athe power of theierr leip to nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell. soy gave that away a long time ago. they're doubly bound into this learnethis -- leard helplessnes. >> woodruff: benders announced officially this week he's going to run again for president. his time it's a little different. >> it's a lot different, judy. the very s we peop wrote bernie sanders off in 2015 in our profession are writingim off again in 2019. bernie sanders is cranky, bernie sanders is not well-groomed, bernie sanders just connects with voters. i mean, in the summer of 2015, he on successi nightin port lrntiond seattle and louisiana -- this is august of 2015 -- drew crowds of 27,500, 5,000, and 28,000 into arenas. the idea of a democratic event in los angeles is basically dinner at george clooney's house with stephen speilberg and barbra streisand singing. >> woodruff: well, for some. yeah,'tut democrats don do big events, and bernie connected. i just point out he raised $135 million in small contributions. he really changed it. he raised 50 million more than donald trump d

he became the fulcrum of mcconnell's thinking of how he cared so much about the judiciary. the way that those nominations tilted, you end up with a slightly more moderate supreme court, because of the way those unfolded. mcconnell knows how much that impacted the arc of history from just -- justice powell. then again, and the mid 80's, you ended up with kennedy instead of bork. these are seemingly individual moments, but use them as the pivot points as judicial history. mr. kapur: if i can add to that, the single most important one that he saw was 2003 and 2010. mcconnell versus sec. he led the charge in the courts that laid the groundwork for citizens united. all it took was the replacement of one justice with another. pretty much the same case. one left and he got his wish. host: we will talk about campaign finance in a few minutes. a little bit more of the judiciary first. march 16, at 16, senator mcconnell rolls the dice. it is thenell: president's constitutional right to nominate a supreme court justice. it is the senate's constitutional right to act as a check on a pre

1969, 1970 that were very contentious and withdrawn, and that became the fulcrum of mcconnell's thinking of how he cared so much about the judiciary. the way those nominations tilted, you end up with a slightly more moderate supreme court because of the way those unfolded. and mcconnell knows how much that impacted the arc of history from justice powell and then again in the mid-1980's you ended up with kennedy instead of bork. these are seemingly individual moments, but he views them as sort of the pivot points of judicial history. mr. kapur: if i can add briefly the single most important one in the arc of mcconnell's career that he saw was 2003 and 2010. mcconnell vs. f.e.c. he levelled the charge in the courts that laid the ground work for citizens united. all it took was the replacement of one justice sandra day o'connor with a more conservative justice. pretty much the same case. one flip and he got his wish. host: we'll talk about campaign finance in just a few minutes. a little more on the judiciary first. march 16, 2016. senator mcconnell rolls the dice. sen. mcconnell: it is the president's consti

from leader mcconnell in the senate to encourage and perhaps relieve and worries or fears among members who would be worried about taking this vote that, yes, the president would sign it. so the fact that we have been able to see a statement from leader mcconnell, get the white house to confirm it, normally that would not be a news event. today that is a news event that they lined up exactly where they needed to be in agreement and it's worth pointing that out. that's not something we take for granted? >> correct. >> but it appears to be rolling along towards passage, providing funding in a lot of different ways as the speaker laid out. then we open a whole new box of questions. what will the extent of the national emergency be? how will the president define it? what legal challenges will come abouting from a partner in standing if you will, the speaker of the house, meaning they could be injured by this if they're bringing a legal challenge or individual land or land owners as calipari was talking about, a wall or barrier or eminent domain was taken, could that pose a challenge? we don't know if the president making a declaration to the point of being able to see any res

so depressing. it was just awful. but we know that about mitch mcconnell. from time to time it that will just follow blindly down this rabbit hole which going to what so we understand having and and -- i'm going oh, my lord! >> that's lindsey graham. how do we explain mitch mcconnell, who is this proud insougs how do we explain his report for the president's support of a national emergency? >> it comes down in the other issue, yesh it's a vote on the constitution, i understand that point. pu it corey gardner's in a very similar position. it would not surprise me to see gardner come out and vote against the president. there are many sthats will have a purple dynamic going on, it very competitive. it's going to be increasingly difficult for them to be with the president where the hypocrisy of being able to support the president on this is going to come back to hurt them while at the same time if they had attacked president obama for doing the same thing. it's a constitutional party. but at the end of the day the positi position. i think this margin could be a

it's in the statute so mcconnell can't do what he does so well for the president which is keep thingsppening. >> i continue to believe that this is not what the national emergencies act was intended to be used for. >> the concern that we have got is that we not set new precedent. >> you're going to do that. so the question is what kind of precedent do you want to set with your president? are you going to stand up against him, something that very few in your party has done at all, let alone consistently. that's the big question about the political stop here. the president's grip on the party, it's hard to see mcconnell doing anything to stop this and get the votes for it. so what's going to happen? well the other way to challenge this is to sue. >> we're prepared to respond to it. >> they have to show what's called standing. that means that you have been arguably agrieved by the action that was taken. it's a little bit of precedent for that. in 2015 when the republican lead house was allowed to sue over obamacare and the alleged spending of public money, not authorized by congress cons

and so what mcconnell did -- mcconnell, by the way, we should remember, has been, over the past six weeks or so, on the -- obviously very involved behind the scenes but at least publicly not been as aggressive until now. until he had to be. i'm told he got his ducks in a row, he made sure that he had the votes, even though people weren't saying publicly that they would vote for it. he knew that to get it over the finish line in the united states senate, he had to have the blessing of the president because if the president didn't say publicly or at least through mitch mcconnell that he was going to sign this, mitch mcconnell might not have even gotten enough republican votes for it to even look good politically. so, what mitch mcconnell did, once he got his ducks in a row, he put the phone call into the president and got the president to say explicitly, i will sign this. and, remember, the context. we were on the air reporting. kaitlin collins and others reporting that even though the president said he was going to sign it, he was having second thoughts. mcconnell wanted to quash that and

it strikes me somewhat confounding, mitch mcconnell so vehemently opposed to allowing this emergencyrted left and right and every which way he said to the president, don't do this da because -- now he's like, okay. let's support it. how did that happen? >> blows my mind. shows two things. "morning joe" saw no other way out for the president. he knew that we had to get the government funded. another shutdown would have been just as bad for him and for senate republicans as it would have been for the president. and now this is the way that the president can save face. i think senator mcconnell is basically going under the assumption this isn't going to really work. that this will be held up in court. this is going to get blocked one way or the other, and so he's willing to just say, oh, yeah. sure. go for it. because he knew there had to be some kind of a way out for the president. but it is -- the willingness to be hiypocritical nerve ceases t amaze me every single time. unreal. >> get to michael cohen, testifies before your committee wednesday oversight there. look, always admitted t

i don't think mcconnell has so far responded to that accusation.st these two rogue people at the fbi, at the doj, which is how the white house tries to spin this. i think it raises more questions, because if mitch mcconnell didn't say anything, i think the president will have some questions for mitch mcconnell. >> mccabe is helpful in connecting the dots which russia meddling in the election, you would want an answer to that. that's number one. then there's did trump commit collusion? then there's trump trying to obstruct the investigation. andrew mccabe says you have to connect all three dots. >> why isn't that just the normal obstruction of justice criminal inquiry which is substantial enough on its own, but what takes it to this next level where there is a suspicion that he's working for a foreign government? this is extraordinary. >> because you have to ask yourself, savannah, if you believe the president might have obstructed justice tore the purpose of ending our investigation into russia, you have to ask yourself why. why would any president

mcconnell has come out in support. very tepidly so. it's clear it was the only way to get the president to sign a funding deal that had come out of congress that does not include his wall money. it seems like almost a tit for tat kind of thing so mcconnell is very reluctantly embracing this. >> racheled by bade, we appreci your time and perspective on this. >>> in illinois, five employees are dead and five police officers wounded after a man started shooting. the man let go was killed in a gun battle with police. scott mcclain is aurora with the latest. good morning to you. what have you learned? >> reporter: hey, victor, this is an industrial complex, it's located in the middle of a residential area, which made for a very chaotic scene yesterday as you can imagine. what we know yesterday afternoon police got several 911 calls coming from inside this building reporting shots fired and when they got here, they immediately took gunfire from the suspect 45-year-old gary martin. the initial report was that he was shooting from a window. tw

so there will be plenty of u.s. power there. the idea that we're pulling out is simply nonsense. mitch mcconnelloesn't know the force layed down very well. so i'm a fan of bringing some of these troops home. that said, i'm not a fan of hoy discordant and disorganized our middle east policy is. the american people deserve that. >> you were in an administration that thought it knew what to do in the middle east and clearly didn't, and -- and, you know, we witnessed the -- the principal ministers, secretaries around president bush basically be in lock step with the war in iraq. having said that, i want to know your views now of the president having a whole number of very important positions filled by people who agree with him, people who are more inclined to agree with his, you know, his ideas on the middle east and elsewhere, whether it's pompeo and bolton who have replaced mathis, mcmaster and the others. are you concerned about that? do you think that there's enough sort of different dna in the room when the president is forced to make decisions? >> you make a good point. by and large you want a

. >> hearing that from mcconnell, he delivered it so dryly but he also called a vote i think 25 minutes later. we're votin right now before anybody has a chance to change their mind. >> he had tntorupt another republican senator to do that. he did not want to give one extra second for trump to change his mind, which he has repeatedly done in this back and forth really since 27 whe he first came in. the first time he threatened to veto that omnibus bill that ey didn't have m for the border wall and republicans again had to rush down to the white house and try to talk him out of it. the fact he had been pushed so far into the corr. they realized they had to strike while the iron was hot. buster: appropriations chairman richard shelby in the senate. nita lowy from new york. house democrat. they cut this deal. >> they absolutely did. in the beginning when trump was sponsor sworn in that is how they were doing these aapproach weighses bills. he was stayi at arm's length and they were cutting their aals and bringing them to the president repeatedly they did not have money for the border wall

so mcconnell can't not have a vote on it.ncredibly potentially embarrassing showdown. >> and mcconnell has already told the president -- >> bad plan. bad plan. exactly. there is incredible frustration with what bob was just talking about, which is this president is not just isolated and thinks his own -- ignoring the advice of his advisers, he's erratic and changing his mutual fund from day to day. so a commitment that you get to him on monday about what you're going to do doesn't necessarily hold true on thursday and as you know, joe, congress takes a bit of time to work. that span of time and the phone call the president took is upend everything and it's incredibly embarrassing. >> nobody knows that more than nancy pelosi, who will be sitting behind him. i wonder if she claps and how much. that will be fun to watch. >> i think you're going to see a more stoic nancy. she'll have that reserved face about her and particular will, as we know the president will do, will go off script. he's going to be believing words he does not

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mcconnell. they thought he was establishment and he wasn't getting things done. >> dana: so irritating. >> jesseking these democrats vote on the green new deal. >> dana: he never wanted to run for president and that is something people kind of forget. he's a creature of the senate for he loves the senate, studied the senate, wanted to be part of it and doesn't have aspirations beyond that. he wants to do the best he can. it's interesting to me that last week one marquis and acadia cortez introduced their resolution to great fanfare, among other cable stations, there was a bug that said count down to the green new deal press conference. they got a lot of press on it. these democrats signed on hand to me they are already on record supporting it. this vote is just formalizing it. >> jesse: these 2020 hopefuls are on the record saying they support demolishing air travel or giving free income for those unwilling to work, what does it do to them? >> greg: the vote is great because it exposes them is the most impractical children alive. they are voting for a rainbow made of marshmallows. mitch, he shou

let me -- >> so far, mcconnell -- mcconnell has not dropped the legislative goal from 60 to 50 because he's still an institutionalist. >> yeah. >> he understands the other party will probably be in control someday, but it's a very -- i mean, these are all students here. this is a creaky institution that we have, and maybe it does need some overhaul to operate in the 21st century. i look to all of you to make that happen. >> along those lines, because we're running out of time, di d want to open up to the crowd for questions. if you can raise your hand if you have questions for any of the panelists. why don't we go right up front here? [ inaudible ] is the partisanship today different than the -- which is when you were first elected to congress. >> yeah, we -- our class was a huge change class like the new class coming from for democrats at this point, thought we could change the world and found at very quickly that we ran into the senate. and that stops a lot of progress very quickly. but the difference today is the parties are ideologically sorted. you don't have -- we had liberal rep

we are moving into 2020, and senator mcconnell is going to bring up this bill to try to democrats, so we will see if they can maintain this cordial relationship as they proceed, and senator mcconnell has not been shy, nor has senator schumer, about taking shots at each other in those speeches out there. they are not buddy buddy. they still go after each other. >> you know, i remember when reid succeeded as democratic leader against tom daschle, and mcconnell succeeded after the republican leader, and there was talk about them, and they are both whips. they both know how to get things done. they are both pragmatic. years, how wrong that prediction turned out to be, because it is such a partisan job, and i think the senate is changing, and you talk to any senator who has been there a long time, it is the same. it has become more political and more partisan as the explosion of interests and fox news and msnbc and political roll call, and every story gets magnified, often through a political lens, and that makes it tougher to maintain a good relationship. we are seeing that that was a sur

so, listen, i'm hoping that's where mcconnell is. and if you see it, this isn't a full throated support of the national emergency, it's kind of well, you know, whatever. i think that's what you're seeing happen. and he's not enjoying that manure sandwich right yet this morning, i'm sure. >> i'm not sure one ever does, especially at 7:09:00 a.m., mike rogers. susan, there's also the issue of whether this is in fact an emergency here. as a factual matter the president will declare in less than three hours there's an emergency. i want to show people arrests at the southern border. and this chart is very relevant today as it is every day. arrests. southern border are at or near a historic low. ticked up slightly from last year, but still a fraction of what it was in the year 2000. so at or near a historic low is what he will call an emergency. by the way, the immigrants being arrest order obtained at the border are presenting themselves. they're families asking for asylum. a wall doesn't stop people from saying hey, i'm here. >> you know

again, i am surprised mcconnell is talking so much about. >> it got it. .er, thank you so much. good to have you on, sir. >> thank you. >>> we have more on our breaking news. a united states senator weighing in on cnn's reporting that the special counsel report may be delivered as early as next week and we now have the president's response to that. >>> plus, senator bernie sanders shattering money records on his first two -- first day of round two. van jones joins me to talk about what this means for his candidacy in an already crowded field. one hour pickup order? got it. ran out of ink and i have a big meeting today. and 2 boxes of twizzlers... yeah, uh...for the team. the team? gooo team... order online pickup in an hour. and, now save up to 40% at the furniture event. at office depot officemax. -it's our confident forever plan. -welcome to our complete freedom plan. -it's all possible with a cfp professional. ♪ -find your certified financial planner™ professional at letsmakeaplan.org. -find your certified financial planner™ professional ♪ ♪ t-mobile wil

majority leader mitch mcconnell, apparently got word that the president was not committed to the agreement his party had reached and once again was threatening to blow it up. and somcconnell had to call back and forth very anxiously and essentially concede to do something he had already publicly warned the president against, said it was a bad idea. he base was forced to go around congress and subvert the congressional powers which are the foundation of mitch mcconnell's entire public philosophy. i think the last couple of years has been difficult for republicans as they're faced with a constant series to their principles -- steve hadler putting out free trade, nationalism, those have been at the bedrock of republican ort doxy. and over and over republican officials are forced to confront this contradiction between the principles they say they support and have for a long time and the leadership of their own party, the president. and, you know, i think that's the moment that we're in right now. >> well, i think clearly the republicans need to pray harder. thank you all. fascinating conversation. >>> next on "gps," we will bring you to the region of the world that i

so back to majority leader mcconnell. bob: i apologize. robert: that's fine. it's all good.ou're bob woodward. majority leader mcconnell steps back on a lotf fronts. he steps back and says i don't want to met well this president but on syria and afghanistan, the senate republicans rebuke their own president. what is going on? >> i mean, look, as we discussed a few minutes agoccnell is very reluctant to criticize this president on a whole host of issues. i ask him about the president every emwoo week. he does whatever he can to avoid critiquing the with the. yet on syria, it was his amendment. introduce it would amendment himself rebuking the president's position o pullingroops out of syria and afghanistan and that just shows, this amendment doesn't have teeth. it can't force the president to do anything but it is a very strong signal to the white house, republicans be in congress believe you are going down the wrong path.l robert: r quick is mcconnell pushing this or is he getting pressure from rank and file? >> i think it's both. i think they're very concerned that the pres

mitch mcconnell wasn't helpful. so you saw both sides dragging their feet. >> yeah.rgument in favor of more disclosure of what's in the report is as it concerns the president specifically. you can't have it both ways. you can't say the department of justice will not indict a sitting president and then sit on information and not provide it to the body that has the ability to potentially take action. >> strong point. >> that would shield the president for any accountability for his conduct. even derogatory information on the president, all of those findings need to be not only public but passed on to congress. since doj can't act, it is up to congress to decide what to do with it. >> congress has an easier route on the basis of your speculation. real quick, do either of you think roger stone winds up in jail for what happens with the picture of the judge? >> no. >> not for that, no. >> we'll all in agreement. thank you very much. >>> look, mueller isn't the only probe hanging over the president's head. he's clearly bothered by this digging into his business here in new

mcconnell fool you. this has nothing but to sabotage the movement we are building. he wants to silence your vote so explain mcconnell wants this to be the end. this is just the beginning. jonah goldberg tweeted come after that there seems to be more liberal outrage mitch mcconnell for agreeing to let dems vote on the green new deal then there is gavin newsom the governor of california for killing a high-speed rail. what a stupid time to be alive. what about all this, back with the panel, dave, smart political move by mcconnell, how does it read? >> david: cunning and smart for the democrats to vote for it. i think most of the democratic presidential candidates will vote for it, they are running in a democratic primary right now but they know realistic this will not happen. reducing the entire carbon imprint by 2030? that is in 11 years. even liberals are laughing at that nancy pelosi said she knows this isn't real. everybody is for the new green deal but nobody knows what's in it. look, she wants to take it up with total control of the house, but i think, if you are a liberal democrat running in th

>> nobody is accusing mitch mcconnell not being a master legislator. sote him but i think, you know with the green new deal there is a lot in there. there are not many details. i think it is significant it was introduced as a resolution in the house, so it is non-binding. there is clearly political play on his part. charles: deroy, it is interesting with this interview, the whole, democrats being misfocussed i thought would be the key. then he was asked about, idea that a lot of people are saying don't worry about deficits, quote, he says, now that is some crazy talk. he is worried about deficits and debt in a way i had not known before. he is warning that this is a big problem for this country? >> deficits are a big problem and we need to get some control of spending. i and other 130 free market leaders in the country signed an open letter for the president, number of things, war on waste, 5% reduction in spending. spearheaded by a group on american transparency whose advisory board i serve. so many examples of absurd government waste, duplication, overp

so they have some decisions to make. right have you both with us, thank you. mitch mcconnellit is time to put up or shy it up plans to vote on the freshman democrat and her green new deal. this is a move that will put democrats including several 2020 contenders on the spot and now on the record. some democrats say, we are feeling optimistic. >> it is absolutely realistic and i think we need to set our sights high. california claims the brakes on an older green deal signing cost overruns with the lack of transparency. how was the responding to accusations that he is losing his progressive edge? ♪ arter... various: mmm. it's no wonder everything seems a little better with the creamy taste of philly, made with fresh milk and real cream. with who we are as people and making everybody feel welcome. ordering custom ink t-shirts has been a really smart decision for our business. i love the custom ink design lab because it's really easy to use. they have customer service that you can reach anytime. t-shirts help us immediately get a sense of who we are as a group. from the moment cli

so senator mcconnell forcing a vote.ning because we have seen democrats back pedaling on getting rid of 180 million insurance plans. that's not in the deal with it was. put your foot to the pedal, is that what he's doing? >> this is one of the goofiest puzzles i have ever seen. everyone agrees we should do what we can to make the environment pass safe as we can. this country emits 5 million tons of co2 each year, china is almost twice that much. -- canada and mexico a u.s. don't emit that much combined. i look at the subway, the train they tried to build between here and the airport in d.c. for 10 years it isn't done. governor newsom pulled the plug on the high-speed overpriced train out of california. it doesn't work. liz: senator warren is for it. senator harris has been supportive. if you could get them to vote, how in the world do you pay for it all? they are talking about overhauling 143 million buildings in the u.s. you have to overhaul 40,000 buildings a day including weekends. >> it can't be done in 10 years. i w

so we'll end this drama. >> mitch mcconnell said before the shutdown, he said there would be no shutdown. he had the power to prevent it all along, but when donald trump did the shutdown, mitch mcconnell went along with it. >> yes, he did. >> throughout the shutdown senators were up there saying you can bring a bill and we will pass it right now, it increasingly toward the end mcconnell was privately telling the white house there's 70 votes in the senate at least right now, a veto override margin for anything that i would bring to reopen the government. then mitch mcconnell says you shouldn't use emergency power. he says it publicly i don't want any emergency power used here. now mitch mcconnell goes out on the senate floor today and says he supports the president's use of the emergency power because that for him, i believe, is the end game. the president will try to use the emergency power, he will be immediately stopped with an injunction in court, and then mitch mcconnell doesn't have to pay attention to him. >> correct. it is for mcconnell a cost-free fig leaf to make this go away. a

president.but when i pressed senator mcconnell on this tuesday, he said, i am all for it. whatever he needs to do. so he is trying to fly your cover here for the present break-in signature. notice where mitch mcconnell came to the senate floor today, he announced two things. and speaking for the president. on thing of ever seen a senate majority leader do this. he sent got off the phone with the present he will sign the bill and will declare the national emergency.this didn't come from the white house or sarah sanders. it came on the senate floor which is what was so remarkable. -- remember that mcconnell felt he got burned back in december. that's really the government shutdown because he put a bill on the floor and then said he wasn't going to sign. kennedy: you're absolutely right. if you can stick around we would certainly appreciate it. but now, we are going to take the fight to the plexiglas oval.general former presidential speechwriter for george w. bush and american majority ceo, ned brian. and richard fowler, these two love to but heads! in the flesh for verily manly valentine's day. happy v

"don't let mitch mcconnell fool you, this is nothing but an attempt to sabotage the movement we are building. he wants to silence your voice so republicans don't have to explain why the are climate change deniers. mcconnell wants this to be the end. it's just the beginning." right now for of his colleagues support the green new deal, and they will have to go on the record. cory booker, elizabeth warren, kirsten gillibrand, and kamala harris, who i just asked about an upcoming vote. >> senator harris, mitch mcconnell bring a green new deal up for vote -- do you support that? >> i support the green new deal. >> republicans have been ridiculing the roll out of the green new deal, which included a now-redacted, frequently asked chet questions page suggestive air travel can be bad along with cows which be a problem for a senator iowa like chuck grassle grassley. >> a lot of people in this country, mostly city slickers, that think food grows in supermarkets and not on farms. i think it's very unrealistic. >> the green new deal, though, is more of an outline right now. there is no legislative checks that we know of, so there is noth