. >> steve cortes served on the trump campaign.ins us now along with neal katyal and cnn chief political correspondent dana bash. are you hearing any more about mitch mcconnell's decision on this? >> it's pretty clear that he felt that he had to say that he was going to say that publicly, and actually follow through with saying publicly that he's okay with the national emergency in order to get the president to agree to sign this compromise. mcconnell was up against a wall. he was hearing from his rank and file that they were okay with supporting it by and large, but they weren't going to do it again, because, remember, the senate passed a bill to fund the government back in december. the president had said he was going to sign it and pulled the rug out from under them. they weren't going to do it until they got a real confirmation affirmation from the president that they were going to do it. that's what that was about. i was mcconnell doing whatever it took to convince the president to sign this. >> neal, you've argued 15 national

steve cortes is here, rick wilson. okay. good evening, gents. >> good evening. >> so by declaring a national emergency, rick, the president has opened up a door for a future democratic president to take action on maybe health care -- >> sure. >> -- gun control, climate change. is he going to come to regret -- are republicans going to come to regret this? i'll ask you why after that. >> of course they are. no tool in politics goes unused for long. and the minute you open this door up, you present a tool for the democrats in the future to take action in executive areas with the same justification, oh, well, i can't get what i want out of congress. congress won't pass my gun control bill, therefore i'm going to go ahead and just pass a coffnfiscation. gun violence is so out of control, we must do this immediately. and republicans will have to sit there and shut up because donald trump made up a crisis on the border, a crisis that doesn't exist, that no one -- that no one -- no rational person believes exists except for donald t

a bunch of heavyweights, angela rye and steve cortes. thank you for being with me. i appreciate it.e table, i just want to make it very clear the trump position on what they know. here is trump's son eric on exactly this issue. >> people think of trump as being just a face, just a brand. there is not one element of these club houses which we don't know about. you name it, we're involved. >> does that include the hiring of the undocumented immigrants? brother cortes. >> i don't think so. look i'm very glad and heartened that the president as president wants to be the driver of the solution of this problem but i won't minutce words his organization was part of the problem. >> is. >> there's no way around that. >> well, no they're cleaning it upright now, so i don't think you can say in the presentence. >> is part of the problem. >> as long as they have undocumented workers, he can't be out there out ttouting the f of the brown menace. >> i'm conceding to you that they're problem of the problem and in this regard, to their discredit as an organization they were little different from bu