the deadline at the end of this month. and well placed republicans for the hill told fox news today president trump may actually want a shutdown and use it as politically damaging for the democrats, who will not support that border wall. we will see how this plays out, back to you. mike: david savard, live in washington, thanks a lot. majority of republicans in the senate facing a squeeze for minority leader chuck schumer, trying to push a vote on president trump s border emergency and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell pushing ahead with a potential vote on guns. all this as the nation s capital digests the departure of national security advisor john bolton. much to discuss with senator pat toomey, republican from pennsylvania. senator, welcome. thanks for having me. mike: an issue you re working on very closely in a bipartisan fashion is guns. let me buy something from your colleague chris coons and i will get you to respond. i think paul s under the heading of let s enfo
democrats are putting pressure on republicans to take a vote on the senate floor to terminate the national emergency use to fund the border wall with mexico. the white house announced last week $3.6 billion will be moved from 127 military project to construct the wall. the president s national emergency declaration wasn t is an outrageous power grab by a president who refuses to respect the constitutional separation of powers. reporter: congress is up against the clock to fund the government, a deadline at the end of this month, a republican source on the hill told fox news donald trump may want a shutdown and views it as politically damaging for the democrats who will not support that border wall. thanks a lot. majority republicans in the senate facing the squeeze from chuck schumer trying to push a vote on donald trump s border emergency and mitch mcconnell
are going to have to take responsibility. this is the schumer-pelosi border emergency. they are refusing to make the changes that are necessary and to fund the resources necessary to deal with this. this is on them. ed: mark, to your point, we are showing video next to you a second ago of something just over a thousand immigrants crossing the border in one point. the video we saw just this week alone, one spot on the border. you can see it there. yet we played a clip earlier in the show in 2006. senator joe biden was saying we need a fence and he voted for 700 miles of fencing because basically he thought it was a crisis in 2006. what s changed for democrats? the democratic party has become increasingly radicalized. some is a reaction to trump. if trump wants it, then they are against it. this started before trump. and the basically the
bomb yemen in a war that so far has cost tens of thousands of lives and resulted in the worst cholera outbreak in modern times. to be clear, the humanitarian crisis in yemen is so ghastly and shocking to the conscience that both houses of congress with huge bipartisan majorities voted for the first ever invocation of the war powers resolution to stop the saudi-led war in yemen. the president vetoed that. congress would never have approved this arms sale to mohammed bin salman whose men hacked a u.s. columnist to death last october. so the administration took the extraordinary step of draeclari an emergency with the intent to evade the law. why is it an emergency that we need to sell arms to saudis? it s not. it s just like the fake border
congressional approval. an emergency power to sell $8 billion worth of weapons in the case of the saudis so the saudis can ostensibly use those arms to bomb yemen in a war that so far has cost tens of thousands of lives and resulted in the worst cholera outbreak in modern times. to be clear, the humanitarian crisis in yemen is so ghastly and shocking to the conscience that both houses of congress voted for the first ever invocation of war powers to stop the saudi-led war in yemen. congress would never have approved this arms sale to mohammed bin salman whose employees hacked a man to death. why is it an emergency that we need to sell arms to saudis? it s not. it s just like the fake border emergency, a transparently