other two branches to step up. and congress needs to step up and our judiciary needs to step up and let s do what is necessary to restore people s faith and confidence in this great country of ours. it is at the brink of disaster. and we ought to step back from the brink. you re basically saying, congressman, let s ignore the white house, because it is not rising to the level of leadership here, to the contrary, in fact, we re told that the president had no real planning on infrastructure, that there is nothing legislatively coming through the white house to the hill. that s exactly what i m saying. we have three co-equal branchs of government and everybody can see on yesterday that there is a total disaster in the executive branch. but the congress is representative of the people, the house of representatives, we call ourselves all the time, the people s house.
there was question about why the delay. it s happened. reporter: that s right. this bill was sent to president trump friday. he has been silent about it. we have confirmed with the white house that donald trump has signed this russia sanctions bill. you are right, if he had decided not to sign it, congress would have been able to overrule this veto. it would have happened. you are right, we have confirmed trump signed this russia sanctions bill. very interesting. we heard from congressman sanford. pointing out this bill is a sign that congress is going to assert itself for various reasons. number one, there might be a trust issue with the president. number two, the honeymoon period is over. just flat out disagreements there. very significant. also significant the president signed this without much fanfare. we don t see a picture of him signing it. there s no statement along with the signing. co-equal branchs of government at play today. ahead, another claim that
and he ll be lucky if he gets two out of three things. when presidents try to focus on too much, they end up getting very little done. zerlina, how unusual is it to see this just three weeks in a presidential term? the white house arguing he s not being given a fair opportunity. is there anything to that argument? i think they want to try to make the case the people in the streets aren t giving him a fair shot, but i think he has to demonstrate that he is the president for everyone and banning people from one religion and preferencing people from christianity because you re me comfortable with that is wrong d people are saying we don t agree with that. i think donald trump learned the hard way he didn t run to be king. he ran to be president of the united states and that we have three co-equal branchs of government and the judiciary may come in and check his executive authority from time to time. that is something that presidents have to deal with so he better get with the program.
extreme vetting and he is following through on promises in his campaign. what about the tweets, and we talked about this endlessly because he keeps tweeting things, in this case when it comes to the ban using the phrase, they some-called judge. what do you make of that kind can of language? that s okay when you re a candidate and you re talking about as he did, a judge with hispanic background, but this is a federal judge, appointed by a republican and a member of the judiciary. it is not very presidential to be saying so-called judge. what do you make of it? we re used to seeing fights that are partisan fights in the states where the democrats take on the republicans and vice versa. what we haven t seen in a while is a separation of powers. we have three co-equal branchs of government, and we see the president, the executive, fight with congress. we certainly saw a lot of that with barack obama and the republican congress. what we re seeing now are other battles that go on,
make this a priority. and so much of what speaker ryan has done has set that forth. our republican conference has been diligent, as we have looked at the obamacare replacement, as we are looking at tax reform. even the ways and means committee, under chairman brady, next week, they re going to be in d.c. working on a tax reform plan. but you have not said anything recently about your concern about the president-elect thinking that he can do things that are really within the purview of your job as a congressperson. is this something that just bothered you with a democratic president and doesn t bother you as much with a republican president? respect for the co-equal branchs of government is something they treasure. and i know that you re going to see the executive branch work within their lane in the appropriate manner in working with the legislative branch.