harder sherrod brown or jeff networkly who both inside merkley who both decided not to do it. a lot of the operatives have been sucked up by other campaigns. but the other one is what you get to, which is we have an ascendant wing of the democratic party that s highly progressoff, very, very progressive, very, very intolerant of those in the middle, and i think some of these candidates like michael bloomberg understood that their views on wall street, on the idea that capitalism is a good thing, on the idea that maybe you can t have medicare for all, it s too expensive, those are just not very popular and would make a run very hard right now. charles: and, of of course, gillian, with the brown, senator brown not getting in, folks are wondering who could win back the blue collar vote, because that was his angle, right? the ohio game, he went to iowa recently. is there someone like that that
bloomberg says he won t enter the race although his money will. and ohio senator sherrod brown announcing he s also going to sit this out. hillary clinton says she s not runed but, reportedly, isn t ready to close the door entirely. all of this, of course, as the waiting game continues with former vice president joe biden reportedly in the final stages of preparing for a 2020 run. we re back with dan henninger and gillian melcher. i m losing track, kim, of 40 s in and who s not who s in and who s not. and i think who s not speaks pretty loudly about issues within the party particularly within the moderates. yeah. i think there are two main issues that are guiding the decisions for those who are not in. one just has to do with how crowded the field is. you know, it s one thing when you have 14 candidates out there and no one knows who they are, but you ve got a couple of big name stauers out there stars out there, so that makes it
our capacity is already severely restrained, but these increases will overwhelm the system entirely. this is not a manufactured crisis, this is truly an emergency. charles: that was homeland security secretary kirsten nielsen on capitol hill this week warning congress of what she s calling a serious and sustained crisis at the southern border. data released this week by the u.s. customs and border protection shows more than 76,000 migrants crossed the border illegally in february. that s an 11-year high. all this as the senate gears up to vote on a resolution blocking president trump s emergency declaration. the measure, which passed the house lasting week, now all but certain to pass in the senate. kentucky s rand paul becoming the fourth republican to announce his support, we re back with dan henninger, kim strasseling and gillian melcher. we know there s speculation, rand paul said maybe ten, i even saw an article in had the hill
group coming in through the borders right now. the ninth circuit court of appeals this week ruled that these immigrants have habeas corpus guarantees. more of them are going to come now. so congress and the president have got to sit down and figure out a way to rationallallize the immigration system and address this, because it has become a general win crisis. charles: kim, do you still think, ultimately, the president will get this funding, that this will survive his veto? yeah, i absolutely do. look, they kept the numbers very low in the house in terms of the republicans who actually voted against it. and, you know, you have to have two-thirds of both the senate and the house to override a veto. so whatever the numbers come out to be in the senate, it would be very tough for congress to, ultimately, override that veto. i think he gets his money. but they ought to be putting this aside and moving more quickly because dan s and gillian put their finger on it,
charles: in an effort to pass this, gillian, some very well respected lawmakers really went out on a limb, in james clyburn, for instance, suggesting her personal pain was more important and relevant than that of people whose parents or grandparents were in the holocaust. yeah. i mean, this has been quite the spectacle. it kind of cracks me up, was i remember because i remember two or three years ago when the black lives matter movement was at the front of the headlines. the progressives, this very wing of the party, w offended if you said blue lives matter, if you said all lives matter. but i think this is their all hate matters moment, and it s just fascinating to watch the hypocrisy here, especially when you have such an anti-semitic statement and such an unapologetic attitude to this. the fact that they wanted to stand up and pretend they re anti-far it, yet they can t even