could be wrapped up as early as next week. once the mueller report has been received by bill barr he will then decide what to give to congress, if anything, and to the public. the investigation initiated by a bunch of rogue fbi agents has been an anchor, an anvil around donald trump s presidency since his earliest months in office. here is former attorney general for bush 43, john yoo. a lot of networks contend bill barr is forcing an end to this investigation. what do you think? i think that is far far from the truth. under the regulations, under which mueller was appointed he s going to complete his investigation and submit a report to bill barr. bill barr s attorney general has it to write his own report to congress and he will decide how much of the report to make public. personally i hope he makes all of it public or as much as he can without revealing secrets or grand jury testimony. i think it s going to clear
nit-pick some of the details you ve brought to this article, it has been used twice before, first by bush 41, secondly by bush 43. bush 41 during the persian gulf war, bush 43 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. to take military construction funds and reroute them. my point to you, daniel, and charlie makes this, the president is making an in-run around congress. fiscally speaking. to try to get these funds around something they have already rejected, a prospect they have rejected. how problematic is this potentially? well, i think the courts will ultimately decide. democrats will tell you it s very problematic. and i think trump s arguments that there is a precedent for what he s doing are transparently false. you know, he said in his emergency declaration speech obama did this. we re going to use one of his. well, obama, as you said, as charlie said, didn t do anything like this. you know, he was thwarted by congress. he s now using the emergency to go around congress. and so i think
national emergency guaranteed. that s the first marker, the first veto of the president s administration would come if that joint resolution were to pass. it s unlikely to have the two-third majority to override a presidential veto but we are getting a little ahead of ourselves. another remarkable thing that stephen miller said, you heard him criticizes prior presidents before, calling out gorge w. bush, his fellow republican saying his immigration policy, alex, was an astonishing betrayal of the american people. alex. okay. thank you, mike, for that. appreciate it. joining me now jeff mason, white house correspondent of reuters, jonathan allen, national reporter at nbc.com and political reporter at the boston globe. jonathan, what do you make of the president calling out george w. bush in that regard? that s extraordinary, don t you think? yes. i think it s extraordinarily unusual. i think presidents and their
bush the iraq war still in place, sanctioning, trying to put in place sanctions to keep other foreign actors usually from abusing our relationship with them. nuclear proliferation, again easy for me to say clinton did this in the middle of his first term saying, biological chemical and nuclear weapons are a huge danger to our country and to the world. we need to direct resources to deal with any americans who are working on proliferation. we need to cut that back. so, you know, there s all that and then there s the politics. this is important. our new colleague mike warren, he wrote this piece about why republicans really are afraid of a national emergency declaration. this is important. okay. trump declares national emergency. possible he said all things are on the table as you said. the house, which is controlled by democrats in case you ve been on another planet for the last couple months, they passed a resolution, a privilege resolution that essentially says, we oppose this. pr
brooke. 9/11, bush 43, the iraq war, the great depression, fdr interestingly enough. that s pre-1976 but fdr closes all banks so all these banks don t fail and worsen the great depression. immediate reaction to something pressing, right, something that might fit our most obvious definition of national emergency. swine flu, this was the h1n1 flu. obama declared this. trying to make sure all the resources possible, whether that s hospitals or urgent care were deployed to help deal with that. nixon, this is fascinating, nixon dealt with a postal strike. postal workers went on strike for eight days. he deployed the national guard to deliver your mail. 58 national emergencies have been declared, brooke, since 1976. of those 58, 31 are ongoing and the reason is because most of these deal with sanctions.