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

think in the case of tillis, yes, north carolina is bluing.conservatives always tell me is you still need republicans to come out for you. and they're afraid that thosemis combination. i agree with bob. this is a loss for thet. presid it shows that people are going to split from him. i don't think we're entering a p newse. i think it will be interesting to see whether the president strikes back. i don't believe he will. and tillis kind of sold his soul -- not his soul but sold his vote for a promise to work with trump going a forward. know that the president often times says he's going to work on this legislatively and then never follows up. so it will be interesting to see how those politics play for tillis. >> when theresident looked at this, he was told by majority leader mcconnell and this was a loser. yet he plowed forward. is that because he's making a case for his voters to stick with him in 202s >> interesting, because as sue was just referring to, when you speak privately to republicans, even some of them who voted with the presideo,

i think tillis is playing with fire here.cord and bold coming out early. >> very authentic. looks like you are making a decision. looks like you are making decisions based off on politics or pauling. tillis is going to be in trouble and we should mention mcsally voted for the president on this as well. she's going against markle kell in a tough race. voters will forgive you if you vote against something you believe in. if you go back and forth, that's when it is very hard t to -- especially if you made clear of what your principles are. >> i mean thom tillis could not have been clearer on these are my principles and he articulated them in the newspaper and he voted the other way. and, you know, it goes without saying, this emergency declaration with a broad electric is not popular. >> the only thing i would say to tillis' defense is he's going to have some headaches over the way this unfolded. this is not like obamacare vote. >> that's right, that's right. >> does it really penalize him? at the end of the day, probably not. >

thom tillis was adamantly against this the last i checked. >> it is not one of the reasons he gave, tillis carolina. he'll host the republican national convention in 2020 where president trump will be incumbent president trying to win reelection and central issue is border security, border wall, however you would frame it. so to have one of the home state senators opposing it, would be harmful to the president. a couple of new bits of information, the votes as i am told that are still opened, votes could change. some additional votes oppose the president and in support of the president coming from marco rubio and roy blunt and let me just check -- roger wicker. that's important because now we would be on a loose count here backup to 12 republican senators. that's more than a handful now. i need more than my ten fingers to count. that's significant. he's from missouri. that's notable. roger wicker who has been the leader of the republican senatorial campaign. marco rubio from a state that has a lot of immigration issues, florida, one of the most vocal people and paying a big political price

maybe that's what got tom tillis to change his mind?er: mark walker -- so that's significant as well. now, here's the thing to watch in the coming hours. we might even get this bill signed by the speaker of the house because the house and senate will have synced up after this. we're told there could be an enrollment ceremony by the speaker later today. this is key. there have only been 111 successful veto overrides in the history of the republic. there's about 2500 total vetoes, dana. veto override doesn't happen very often and it probably wouldn't happen in this instance. i asked nancy pelosi if she would commit to having an override vote and she wouldn't go there. they're going to be about 40 votes short in the house of representatives. this may not be a good vote for moderate democrats, especially freshmen who won in swing districts to vote to override the president. it's one thing to vote to override. here's the key. the last successful veto override came -- unsuccessful ride came when the republicans tried to override the veto by p

and tillis basically e his own column in front of everyone. it's ultimate humiliation. >> well, look, trump has a grip on the base. they don't want oo be primaried. what you have is a chamber dominated by the self-style defenders of small government and individual liberty. most of whom showed what they really believe in trump. and i think that's an important question that was answered by today 's votes. and the republicans who stuck to their guns are deserving of praise but they're the minority in caucus. >> they're not unrelated. the president has two big legislative setbacks in consecutive days. it's unclear that anything that gets done in the next year 1/2 legislatively, the president says this thing about his people being tough. if they go to certain point, it would be very bad, very bad. how do you interpret that? >> the president ran on vows to uses state violence when he was running for president in 2016. so it's not really surprising to me that he would openly fantasize about political violence against his opponents. because there's an

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 think that's one of the reasons why senator tillis flipped to the other side. s >> john one of the questions we try to ask around here and we have taken this to the end of the week, is there a semblance of agenda. is the white house up on the hill as white houses normally do pushing legislation for a view of our country? >> it's the right question. there is no agenda. there's absolutely no discernible agenda from there wlous th white house that involves congress, a typical process. what you have from a domestic policy standpoint is a budget that came out that calls for tremendous cuts in domestic programs that no one in congress will go along with. the republicans aren't going to go along with. there's no formal plan to try to getfully of those things done. you have the wall. the president is focused solely on the wall. in t

please tell us about thom tillis. he's up next time around. he comes out and says publicly that he's going to break ranks, that he has to vote against the national emergency, fast forward to today, not so much he voted the president's way, what's his underpinning, what's his reasoning. >> he caved to the pressure, he had come out in an op ed and said i'm going to vote with the resolution and vote against the president, and he got a lot of conservative backlash. he's up for re-election in 2020, this is going to be a difficult vote for him either way. if he voted against the president, he was going to be vulnerable to primary challenges. now that he flip-flopped his position and voted against the resolution and voted in favor of the president, he's going to be facing challenges in the general election. from democrats who are going to say he's unprincipled. he doesn't stand up for what he believes in he's hypocritical.

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.

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 chance that the president would support them over tom tillis. so i think that's one of the reasons why senator tillis had been one of those folks who flipped to the other side. >> john, one of the questions we try to ask around here every week, and we've taken this to the very end of the week. is there a semblance of an agenda? is the white house up on the hill as white houses normally do pushing legislation for a view of our country? >> it's the right question, brian, because there is no agenda. there is absolutely no discernible agenda from this white house that values congress, that values a sort of typical process. what you've got from a domestic policy standpoint is a budget that just came out that calls for tremendous cuts in domestic programs that no one in congress is going to go along with. not only the democrats. the republicans ar

i know senator tillis and and senator ernest from iowa and senator gardner do not want to end up like him. i think that's why they voted with the president on this national emergency issue because, for example, with senator tillis, congressman mark walker and mark meadows were flirting with the idea of primary challenges to senator tillis. i think if you have a primary challenge from the right, from these guys supportive of president trump, i think there's a nonzero chance the president would support them over thom tillis. i think that's one of the reasons why senator tillis flipped to the other side. >> john, one of the questions we try to ask around here every week, and we have taken this to the end of the week, is there a semblance of agenda? is the white house up on the hill as white houses normally do pushing legislation for a view of our country? >> it's the right question. brian, there is no agenda. there's absolutely no discernible agenda from this white house that involves congress, a typical process. what you have from a domestic policy standpoint is a budget that just came

thom tillis moved. he said, okay, at least the president told me he would support an amendment to amend the law that a future leftist president couldn't do this like me. you can understand a politician being a politician is as unsatisfactory as it is. lecturing us to this extent is unacceptable unacceptable. >> we sometimes forget that senators are human beings. these people, this is their livelihood, they make a couple hundred grand a year, it's a process vote. and i know everybody wants to think of themselves as heros, but at the end of the day, your job, your livelihood, your family's well being is on the line and if i need to make a vote at the end of the day, this is not a vote on obamacare, it's a process vote, of course they're going to vote this way. >> not of course. >> let me finish, guys. but they're not being primaried. please, let me finish. to understand and not be surprised and not be intellectual and go how could they do it, they're protecting their jobs. s that -- that's reality. if any

>> thank you, chairman tillis. i also want to thank senator gillibrand for her advocacy for women in uniform. and her passion for stopping the crime of sexual assault in the military. this is also a passion of mine. for many reasons. and i think i bring a unique and important perspective. my drive to fight against sexual assault in the ranks is not from the outside looking in. and it is deeply personal. first, for two years, i was honored to be a fighter squadron commander in the united states air force. command is the most impactful duty one can have directly on the lives of service men and women. and their families. i was greatly privileged to prepare and then lead my amazing airmen in combat which is the apex's responsibility of any warrior leader. military commanders are placed in a position of authority and responsibility, like none in civilian life. they are not like ceos or managers or any other supervisor. commanders have a moral responsibility to ensure readiness of their units. which yes, includes war fig

thom tillis is up for reelection in 2020. jerry moran is not. every republican up for reelectionoted with the president today except for susan collins. >> woodruff: very telling, very telling. yamiche, we know the president plans the veto this. he's made that very cle how is he dealing with these ?enators who went against him >> well, this was really a stunning rebuke of president trump deliver by members of his own party, and the president had been trying really, really hard to avoid this, and they had been calling the white house and aides and the presedent him, talking to lawmakers, urging them to not vote against the president. i want to read two tweets that i think really iculate the president's message to lawmakers. the first was before the vote.et he twe, "don't vote with pelosi." then after the vote, when it wae clear that thate was going to be doing that, he said, "i think all of the strong republicans who voted to support border security and are desperately needed wall." then he's saying thanks for sticking with me to the republicans w

>> obviously, i'm not senator tillis' therapist. happened the last couple of years, namely the first name that comes to mind is recently departed jeff flake, a colleague of senator tillis and ernest and sass', all these that came in this highly touted class of 2014 that will be facing tough elections in 2020. i think the last thing they want and need is to be on the president's bad side, especially the issue of such emotion and visceral residence of the president's base like this one heading into that re-elect. funny your principles on paper can be one thing but when it's time to actually cast the vote and you have the white house knocking on your door and issuing implicit or not so implicit threats your position becomes malleable. >> was that an implicit or explicit threat of a primary challenge in north carolina? >> i worked in the house a couple years. the primary challenges are very real, especially in the house. in a state like north carolina, it's very easy to get on the right or far right of a statewide candidate running in a

so if you're thom tillis, you think maybe that's not where i want to be. which gets me to the question, is this -- we saw it in the yemen vote, too, foreign policy question. a lot of members of congress sick of the civil war in yemen, sick of the united states support for the saudi-led coalition. so there's one vote where you lost some republicans. now you have the president's signature issue, immigration. is that it? they just happened to come up at the same time? or is there a broader disagreement and somebody, listening to jeb bush here, who came out on the losing end in 2016, says you know what, this is a president who hasn't balanced the budget, whose trade views are different from the party, there should be a challenger. >> i think someone should run just because republicans ought to be given a choice. it's hard to beat a sitting president. but to have a conversation about what it is to be a conservative i think's important. the democrats now are proposing new ideas, some of which i think are way out there. and if republicans think they can just say

ngton e tillie with wil trust. again, thank you for joining us tonight, luke. >> thank you. >>> on wall street the stock market closed out its worst week of the year just one day before the bull m turns ten. today that anemic jobs report did little to excite investors, as did newat out of china which showed a 20% slump in ports from a year ago. those economic growth concerns pressured stks. though the major averages finished way off of their worst levels of the day. by the close the dow jones industrial average fell into points, it had been down more than 200. the nasdaq was douwn 13 and the s&p 500 was down 5. we also wanting to look at the transportation index which is now dn foren straight sessions, its longest losing streak since 197 >>> there was some positive news on the economy out today. housing starts rebounded in january. they were up more than 18% on a rise in single family home construction. th followed four straight months of declines. and even though home prices have been cooling a bit cently, homeown

lisa murkowski of alaska, tom tillis of north carolina, and rand paul of kentucky are already on board. we expect if push comes to shove and there has to be an up or down vote on that resolution as it is, there are several other republican senators who have been waiting to see what the department of defense wants to reprogram where military housing or construction projects take theer, what they money away from to build the border wall. if the vote occurs before any of that information is public, it probably becomes a more lopsided vote. wrote about the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, his view on the emergency declaration itself. what has been his view of the resolution to end it, and how is he influencing other republicans? niels: senator mcconnell seems to be sort of keeping his powder of the influence on other senators. mcconnell had said he would support the president's emergency declaration, but he has not exactly been very strident in his support for it. he has generally demurred when asked about the legality of the emergency declaration. it is a message from mcconnell to republ

thaw chose to go along -- >> tom tillis. >> tom tillis is afraid of a primary.s up for reelection. ted cruz 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

sarah mentioned tom tillis. tom tillis wrote an op-ed in the "washington post" talking about integrity and honesty and that he would not support president trump on this issue. he turned in the last minute. he is up for re-election. that is definitely an issue that will come up in 2020. president trump still wealds great power among the republican party. we have seen that over the last couple of months. he's had some difficult months with the shutdown. with allegations of the mueller investigation, with cohen. yet he still holds a lot of power among republicans. his support is almost 90% in approval ratings. he holds great power. we'll continue to see that. i agree. i think we'll see this in 2020. >> 90%, that's a daunting number for republicans. does a presidential veto help trump in his reelection campaign? how do you expect him to use this veto to rally his base? >> i think we'll see the president seize on this as a chance for him to say democrats won't support the border. they won't secure the border. we saw

tom tillis is someone who implied heavily last week when he wrote that op ed decrying the president's use of his power here saying that he was going to vote against the president and vote yes to overturn this national emergency declaration and then shortly before the vote, he announced he was going to be voting no and siding with president trump. now if you read this op ed, he's arguing that when conservatives complain about president obama overstepping his authority, you couldn't just turn the tables just because a republican is in the white house but he did turn the tables because he did side with president trump on this. now, what's worth noting here is that tom tillis is up for re-election as his cory gardner, two people who the white house has been pressuring in recent days to side with the president on this and brooke, we reported that the white house was telling them not only is this not a throwaway vote where you can just vote how you feel, the president is going to be paying very close attention. this is going to effect your standing with the white house and if you're up for

why did thom tillis backtrack on his support of this measure?lins and lisa murkowski. there was kind of looking for safe haven i guess. but everyone else, is a polling showing may be that voters actually want a secure border? and maybe this is kind of a stupid thing to do on the part of republicans? >> collins will have a competitive reelection again come a swing state. the politics are there. they were really working on thom tillis along with some other senators to get them to align with the president. keep in mind the republican convention in 2020 will be in charlotte, north carolina. there is also some whispers out there that maybe there will be a primary challenge to him. certainly he had problems in the general peer we hear names like mark meadows, chair of the freedom caucus. also mark walker a republican congressman from north carolina. recently chair the republican senate committee which is a group way bigger than meadows group with the largest group of republicans in the house of representatives. it is not completely off the table any o

one republican who didn't vote yes, thom tillis who reversed course minutes before the vote and stood by the president after previously expressing his support of the bill. despite the increased republican support senate democrats are still short of the 67 votes that would be needed to override a veto by president trump. should be noted of the 22 republican senate seats up for grab in 2020 all but susan collins of maine stood with the president on this matter while senator lamar alexander voted to rebuke president trump he's not running for re-election. >> after the measure was approved trump tweeted veto before elaborating in another tweet, i look forward to vetoing in just passed democrat inspired resolution. i thank the strong republicans who voted to support strong border security. the president has ten days to officially declare a veto. in a statement following the senate's vote, nancy pelosi said this. the congress has voted on the an overwhelming and bipartisan basis to reject president trump's effort to ignore the constitution with his sham emergency declaration. president trum

senator tillis. t >> it eigoes to the senator. >> thank you all for being here. i want to begin first to make sure i understood because i came in, in the middle of the senator tillis questioning. he is requesting everyone go out and personally visit some of the housing on the basis under your control, and is that an intent of everyone here to do that? >> yes, ma'am, it is. i visited a few bases as the vice chief of staff and undersecretary have. we have 100% inspection of all housing units to be completed in the next week or half or so. >> the same with the navy and we've been out with the communities, cherry point, the west coast and the gulf. we are out there visiting and i know that the common death -- commandant and ceo rso underway. >> the chief went to maxwell and keesler. we did a directed review of all of the military family housing that had been finished by 1 march and the initial results of that. >> senator, if i could clear file for the marine corps, we cannot invade the privacy of their property without their permission. what our commanders have been

senator tom tillis chairs this to our 15 minute hearing. understand senator gillibrand will be here briefly. she is in the building. i think that will give me time to make a few brief opening comments. i want to take everyone for being here today. this afternoon to receive testimony on sexual assault and response

resolution for republican senators obligated they will vote in favor of it susan collins of maine, thom tillis of north carolina lisa murkowski of north carolina and senator rand paul of kentucky. the majority made commitment to a thursday boat vote when he met with Ãearlier today following caucus meetings >> madam president, today the entire senate democratic caucus and i are introducing simply ask the department of justice to do what it's supposed to do defend the duly enacted laws of the country. this resolution shouldn't be necessary but last year as 19 states joined texas and challenging the constitutionality of the affordable care act attorney general jeff sessions refused to defend the aca in court. and in fact, filed a brief arguing that several vital protections of the law should be ruled unconstitutional including protections for americans living with pre-existing conditions. in making his decision not to defend the duly enacted law jeff sessions himself acknowledged he was going against a "long-standing tradition of defending the constitutionality Ãbif reasonable arguments can be ma

here is a bit from thom tillis yesterday.video clip] >> a lot has changed over the last three weeks. a discussion with vice president and a number of senior administration officials and collaboration with my colleague from utah. it's a serious discussion about changing the national emergencies act in a way that will have congress speak on emergency actions in the future. the white house has been gracious and patient given my initial position in working with today, having as the president make a statement that he is willing to work with us. i suspect we will hear more from the president. we also heard from leader mcconnell and i was trying to remember, i don't know if it has been done before, but leader mcconnell took to the floor and said he encourages this discussion through the regular order and to work on a bipartisan basis to move and measure forward through the homeland security committee and this forum for a vote. i will work on that and hopefully gain consensus on a bipartisan basis after temperatures have cooled and w

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he joins thom tillis, susan col thrins and lisa murkowski. it's important to look at the votes of collins and tillis. i would look at two senators from utah, myth romney and mike lee. lamar alexander made the case against the national emergency. and cory gardner faces a close reelection in a battle ground state. the president would veto it if it moves through the senate. he has not yet used his veto pen. but they just don't have the votes in the house and senate to override. they were 40-plus votes short in the house of representatives. they need 285, 290. overriding a president's veto is a big deal and it's also rare. last time it happened was in september of 2016 when the house and senate overrode president obama to help saudi families sue saudi arabia. in 2016 an effort to override president obama's veto on a repeal of obamacare. liz: with me now is kevin cramer. senator, thanks for joining me. what about happen after the president vetoes this. do you think it gets to the supreme court? >> i think it's two separate tracks. there could be t

tillis: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i come to the floor today to talk about what i believe is a real crisis at the southern border, and i think there's even a case to be made that we have challenges at the northern border. but i want to focus on what the narrative here in the country has been over the past couple of months, weeks, or really years, since i have been sworn in here in 2015. i think it's very important that we all know that we have the executive order from the president, or the emergency declaration, where he's clearly -- he clearly believes there is a crisis at the border, so much so that he was willing to invoke a law that -- that congress grant authority -- authority that congress granted him back in the beginning of 1974 in the national security acts, and amended in the 1980's, he believe he is within his authority to declare resources to get help down at the southern border as quickly as possible. it is no secret that i disagree with the method that the president is using to provide funding

prevent a disaster it's that urgency that has echoed around the world in india's highly polluted capital tilly these children are already suffering you. can have a right to breed and they are bent on getting because of the pollution increasing day by day week asia is particularly vulnerable to climate change. that goes for africa too as these kids in you can just come part know only too well. they're cutting down ditches and it's affecting us and our government to know that this climate action is real and it's needed now. in the u.s. students took their message straight to the seat of power addressing lawmakers in washington d.c. . leave their plan is dying and they're being paid off by fossil fuel companies and we know that we see them so we can follow the money and we're here to take them down and to stop them and we're voting act. back in europe where it's all began is the girl who's active resistance a global movement sweden's aggressive tune back. eighty's so after all there is a crisis before we have to live with it's a crisis that our children and their children will have to live with b

including tillis, mr.cause -- >> and collins from, senator rand paul. watch. >> i spoke to president last night, and we had a good discussion. he says he understands where i'm coming from, i must have said a thousand times that president obama was acting like a king. i feel strongly about the sep reactioseparation of power, i he seem failing now. it is about congress versus the president. and where the power should be distributed. kennedy: "house of cards." now. what the president will likely veto that decision. and then it goes back to congress wheretwo thirds of lawe required to override the veto, will the president get his way? joining me now, author of the brand new book you must get immediately, a perfect easter present, alienated america, tim carney, the author is here. >> thank you. kennedy: so let's discuss this. did rand paul make the right decision? were other senatorial republican decisions rooted in the same set of principles? >> i'm not in the position of trying to read lisa mr. -- murde --murkowski's find. the president has been given some

>> i think it's a good thing for tom tillis that he changed his vote. i have been in north carolina a couple times, the last being walter jones's funeral. i talked to folks in north carolina and it sounded like if he had voted against the president what the president was doing, it would pretty much seal his paid and he wouldn't be back. i'm glad for him in north carolina and the president. he did not vote for this thing. if you want a little as to what it accomplished by republicans voting yes you can find that in the accolades they got from chuck schumer and someone said at the studio when chuck schumer is telling you you did a great job you really messed up pretty badly. the country knows what this was about and you have some of those people, very good friends, people of principle of the problem is congress ever gave this kind of expensive power to the president of the first place. they should have left the authority to come in and reina declaration in but to wait to this point when there is a true national emergency on the border and now vote against

by the way, senator tillis who you just saw there is a no vote on the declaration. you can watch the senate debate live our on our companion network c-span 2. earlier today, house speaker nancy pelosi spos to reporters about the mueller report vote and the f.a.a.'s grounding of boeing 737 max airplanes. the house is not in session next week. ms. pelosi: good morning, everyone. will you ready for st. patrick's day weekend coming up? we will shortly be welcoming the president of the united states and the prime minister of ireland to the capitol for bipartisan, bicameral luncheon to honor st. patrick. and the bue i have to immigration tour country as people coming from ireland. i said to -- i'm going to say as a toast to them that my grandchildren, i don't have irish grandparents, but i have irish grandchildren. and they have this toast. dance as if no one is watch, love as though you've never loved before, sing as if no up with can hear you and live as though hetch is on earth. o beautiful. i asked is that a tradition in your father's family? they said no, that's some

> reporter: the junior senator from kentucky join susan collins of maine, lisa murkowski tom, tom tillis of north carolina in opposing the president. the 47 senators who caucused with the democrats against the national emergency and it passes the senate. >> what is clear in the senate, there will be enough votes to pass the resolution of disapproval. which will be vetoed by the president. >> reporter: this is the math mitch mcconnell is counting on, even with four republican senator seen as possible additional defectors it is nowhere near close enough to the 67 votes in the senate needed to override a veto. the original resolution the house past with 245 votes, will short the 285 needed to override the promised veto. >> america's southern border must be strongly secured. we fight wars 6000 miles away, we spend billions and billions of dollars but we don't control our own border. >> donald trump didn't call his golfing partner out by name, and paul seem to be looking forward to his fourth presidential outing. >> i spoke to the president last night and we had a good discussion, he understa

tillis: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i come to the floor today to talk about what i believe is a real crisis at the southern border, and i think there's even a case to be made that we have challenges at the northern border. but i want to focus on what the narrative here in the country has been over the past couple of months, weeks, or really years, since i have been sworn in here in 2015. i think it's very important that we all know that we

thom tillis is aligned with it, a lot of senate republicans have a much more complicated political basel: jason, what will happen now is the present will veto, house or take up an override vote. probably not succeed. that will end politically in the near term. but that will have votes every sixmonths and then the states are suing . they probably will find a court somewhere to enjoyments of the president may not be able to use the money anyway. until the court case is settled. whereas if he had taken the advice of the senators, he could have had 5.7 billion to spend on it right now. >> i still think the white house sees this as a win-win. paul: why? what is the politics of this? >> to the point of dan, he think this is the issue that got him elected and will get him reelected. paul: do you agree with that? >> i think he's experiencing some of that. he is not removed the needle much in the past year or so. eddie tried to make it an issue in the midterm election. and the house went to the democrats. so i don't think it's working. paul: if you are a president in office why not get a victory

sigh is an collins, lisa murkowski and thom tillis also planning to vote to block the national emergency. it would appear lamar alexander will as well setting up a veto from the president. >> not clear when the senate plans to vote. it has to happen in the next two weeks. they would need two thirds majority in both chambers, and that is considered highly unlikely. >>> in the house, the judiciary committee accelerating its investigations of president and his inner circle. committee chairman jerry nadler expected to formally request documents today from more than 60 individuals. >> from the white house to the department of justice, donald trump jr., allen weisselberg, to begin the investigations to present the case to the american people about obstruction of justice. it is very clear that the president obstructed justice. >> allen weisselberg is chief financial officer, thought to have detailed knowledge of trump's tax situation. his name came up repeatedly in michael cohen's testimony last week. congressman nadler says the list will also likely include john kelly and don mcgahn. >>> presi

>> three came out quickly against the national emergency, susan collins, lisa murkowski and tom tillisern. >> fundamental to this debate is a disturbing trend the last 70 years of congress when they can't do their job of passing a bill to let the president do it. that's not the way to do it. >> a lot of people have asked me about the emergency orders that president trump did. i know it wasn't his first choice. it's not my first choice that anything would have to be done through the emergency order. the democrats have not helped the president. he knows he has to have border security. everybody says they want it. they don't do it. >> assuming all goes as planned, this would be the president's first veto. trace? >> trace: mike emanuel live for us on capitol hill. thank you. new week, new candidate. another democrat announcing this morning he's running for president. former colorado governor john hickenlooper joining a dozen contenders. alicia acuna reporting live from denver. alicia? >> hi, trace. the former two-time colorado governor acknowledged that he needs to introduce himself and he

obviously now hearing that mike lee supports it, thom tillis support its it as well. blow back could republicans face if his emergency declaration is shot down today? >> mike lee had been working with the white house in trying to craft something to save the president from an embarrassing defeat on this. >> yeah. >> clearly indicates that, you know, a lot of republicans or at least a number of them, they aren't going to give up their constitutional powers as a member of the legislature and the congress just because president trump is in their own party. there are certain things that congress has to decide on in term of spending and appropriations, and it's kind of indicating which members of the party are more, you know, aware of their constitutional role and which don't want to buck the president. so it will be kind of an interesting vote to see just those factions. >> if it, in fact, does happen, do you think republicans are going to see a major blow back from the president in >> i don't think he's going to view this as a hill to die on. he is not going to make as bi