mixed signals from day-to-day. the president one day saying he s willing to meet with rouhani without saying with no preconditions. and then he said well that is not true. and then i m not going to meet with him and i don t care whether he s going to be in new york for the united nations general assembly and then pompeo spending an awful lot of time today with the crown print of saudi arabia. we don t know what the what the overall strategy is. it seems to change day by day by day. and it doesn t matter what we know. our allies don t know. and i think that is a problem. and with jeffrey said is so important, about wait a minute, what about saudi arabia. i listened to the former defense secretary leon panetta on with brianna yesterday talking about the fact the saudis have a strategy of come help me and i ll hold your coat. and you know this better than all of us, wolf. you ve covered so much of what
securing through the president s declaration of a national emergency. use know, this is an area where we re getting tired of being right. that was on cnbc. he s going to be testifying on capitol hill in the coming weeks to see where democrats and the white house can find common ground. geoff, before i let you go, i have to ask you about the axios reporting from over the weekend. the president at mar-a-lago t l telling people the democrats hate jewish people. i don t know that the white house has responded. they haven t. they ve not issued an immediate denial. we reached out to both the campaign and the white house to see if they had anything to say about this and no response yet. geoff, welcome back. it s great to see you. i m hopping over to the white house later. i ll see you there. let me bring in andy card, nancy
wall but not as much as the president wants? we know this week is going to feel like a return to january with a lot of focus from president trump, from the administration on the border, on the wall, on that battle over the national emergency. you ve got the washington post talking about the gop is bracing for donald trump to veto the congressional rejection of his emergency declaration. you have four senators now saying they re going to vote to block this thing. what happens if congress does end up blocking it and the president vetoes? i mean, technically we re sort of right back where we were originally. right? well, we are, but i understand the institutional reality is that the senate feels that they should not acquiesce all the time to the executive branch. this is not an unusual debate to have, and i do expect if they pass the bill, the president will veto it. i don t see how the veto will be overridden. so we re back to a stalemate. but i m not surprised by this. this is a t
president controls the parties in the house and the senate or not. there s still an institutional battle that always seems to take place between article one and two. let s talk about what we chatted with geoff bennett about. the president said it publicly on friday, that the democrats are the party that is anti-israel, anti-semitic. it comes as there are new pieces out this morning about the president s close relationship as we know with benjamin netanyahu and what seems to be a little bit of a narrative that took shape over the last 24 hours or so. listen to what liz said to chuck here on this set over the weekend. watch. the democrats have been in charge now for about two and a half months in the house. th . in that time they ve become the party of socialism. democrats is the party of anti-semitism. do you think that s the message they want to be sending or do you have concerns? i think the democrats are sending the message. they re the ones misspoken
happen. second and final issue, pam, if you want to control the white house as the chief-of-staff, if you walk into a restaurant and say whose the manager, because i want to complain and somebody says well the manager s here, but the owners brother s the bartender. the owner s sister is the head waitress, the owner s son is the chief chef here nobody s running that kitchen. if you walk in the white house, and say well, the owner s son-in-law has direct access to the white house as does his daughter. steve bannon has direct access to the white house. other people including anthony scaramucci has direct access. edon t care whether the general is a great leader, if you have that many people with direct access to the white house, he can t run the railroad just like you can t run a restaurant. and then the backdrop of all of this is that the president the point is to rein them in. can you? i think that is the question here. no. he ultimately sets the tone with his tweets, as we