political career all the way back to the nixon days, as chris wallace was talking about with regard to the nixon tattoo that he probably has on his back. he has been a warrior and an eccentric character in republican politics for decades. there he is. roger stone, as he heads off to face what is going to happen to him. sentencing, as we said, februar. not a great day in his legacy. bret: right. dana, sorry we cut you off there as stone was leaving the courthouse. that s okay. if you want to continue to talk about stone, feel free to go back bret: no, seven counts, we ve got it. the everything i was going to mention about going back to the impeachment hearing, congress and mark meadows, he s not on the intelligence committee but he was there in the room. the members are allowed to do that. he was quoted by politico, and he said this.
clinton. sanders backers made life more difficult for hillary clinton even though in their point of view he didn t have a realistic chance of winning the primary. he still pushed her to the very end. there were some accusations made here and there that made it difficult, i think, with inside the party. now have you both of them going at it which, of course, only benefits tulsi gabbard. hillary clinton is not a candidate. we are all talking about her where we wouldn t be otherwise. brian: it benefits her now. remember then, februar february 2016, democratic donor to tulsi gabbard, one of the excerpts from it: we were very disappointed that she left. hillary clinton will be our party s nominee and you standing on ceremony to support the sinking bernie sanders ship is disrespectful to hillary. we no longer trust your judgment so you will not be raising money for your campaign. and then she said she looked back and she said this about what she was warned about. listen. i was heavily warn
they cooked up evidence regarding corruption involving paul manafort and brought up the dossier is what rick perry says, that s where that originated. so rick perry says i don t know what was true but this is what was said to me. he says rick perry that no demands were ever made, that the bidens never came up. but significant in all of this is again, why is the president going to rick perry and saying talk to rudy giuliani. that s they are going real conspiracy theory deep state here. the dossier, you know. that s the fbi counter intelligence agents began asking rudy ghoiuliani back in februar and march. there is added significance there. what is that? so when you open the counter intelligence investigation, you can have what s called a preliminary investigation. sometimes people are being unwittingly targeted. they may have come in contact with a foreign intelligence service for example and you want to see if there is a threat.
that in many quarters, it was not welcome. and that s just a remarkable thing for an american city that has experienced a wrenching tragedy, especially when it s not, you know, a big natural disaster where the city just can t logistically handle a visit. this was an american city telling the president of the united states that he s not wanted there because he was a contributor to the violence that has just befallen them. here was another thing that greeted the president today in el paso. a giant letter to the president on the front of the el paso el paso times. dear mr. president, quote, for many of us, our parents were born in mexico. we re proud of that and we are also proud americans. america is our country. we are home. not everyone who visits el paso has understood this. mr. fpresident, in your februar state of the union address, you claimed that el paso was one of our nation s most dangerous cities before a border wall was built. mr. president, that is not el paso. some in our
garden, listen, if worse comes to worse, we are facing a national emergency, he s prepared to announce that and do everything necessary to protect the american people. mike: does that happen februar? well, that s the latest from president trump. but of course, president trump has also been clear on why national emergency is not his first choice. he feels that he would be sued anin the ninth circuit and he wl lose there before a possible ultimate victory with the supreme court. he has the memory of the travel ban. it took more than a year for the travel ban to be upheld by the supreme court and in the meantime was put on pause. so if president trump went the national emergency route, there would not likely be an immediate victory on the wall. the wall would not be built immediately. things would be complicated. that s why he hasn t done so yet. mike: some suggest it could be tied up in the courts for a long time and perhaps the president may lose so a lot of questions there. steven ne