and also fellow at new america and regular contributor to the new york times opinion section. and president trump as i mentioned is in tokyo. he landed there just a few hours ago after a combative week to say the least in washington, d.c. where a constitutional crisis continues. this morning the president finds himself again on the losing side of a battle with congress. his latest plan to build a wall on the u.s.-mexico border partially blocked late last night by a federal judge in california. who says that congress has absolute control over federal expenditures even when that control may frustrate the desires of the executive branch. that news as house democrats get closer to president trump s finances thanks to other court decisions and new legislation here in new york state, but the clash between the president and the most powerful woman in the country dominated the new this is week. a war of words between president trump and nancy pelosi. the president saying he refuses to work w
with what they see this afternoon, this report, or maybe they feel like the attorney general has cleared the president. maybe we get a whole different tone from the white house altogether. let s see how far this goes and how far william barr is willing to go to explain the president s vovrmt involvement in all of this. that s what everybody wants to know, how far does the attorney general go? we ll be following this today z we ll be here. much more on the mueller report and the political battle with congress. more after this. so recently my son s band was signed by a record label. while we re on the road, i can keep my parents in the loop with the whole facetime thing. i created a rockstar. (both laughing)
and this was a priority for me as a candidate and it is still a key priority even though we haven t gotten it over the finish line yet and it comes after he declared that national emergency to try to secure funding for his border wall and he s about to get a pretty sharp rebuke from some members of his own party. the house passed a measure to block him. now it seems that s poised to pass the senate with the support of at least four republicans. the president has said he will veto the measure and it doesn t appear at this point that congress has enough votes to override that veto, but bottom line there s clearly a real face-off over the border wall. the president s top officials are going to be holding a briefing today, andrea, the first in several weeks to try to map out some of the details of this budget which, by the way, also calls for an increase in defense spending and a slash to a number of domestic programs. so that is setting up yet another battle with congress, andrea. big c
all those zeros really add up. so maybe i ll win saved by zero so maybe i ll win conventional wisdom says you can t make a 400 horsepower sedan, that s also environmentally conscious. we don t follow conventional wisdom. president trump is setting up his next battle with congress. tomorrow he will release his 2020 budget, and among other things, he is expected to ask congress for more money to build that border wall.
800,000 federal workers, more contractors that would be affected. not just dealing with border security but all aspects of the federal government that has not been fully funded for the rest of this fiscal year. but, don, that s the ultimate question. how much does the president get to ultimately fund his wall after his furious battle with congress, the government shutdown that lasted 35 days, the longest in history? will he get anything better than what he would have gotten late last year? at this point, it doesn t appear that way. let s go to kaitlan collins now. kaitlan, hello to you. the president touched on this potential deal at his rally this evening. let s listen in. then we ll talk. as i was walking up to the stage, they said that progress is being made with this committee. just so you know, we re building the wall anyway. they say that progress has been made. what are you hearing, kaitlan? reporter: well, you see the president there.