burn who said no one wants foreign interference but that bill was overbroad and should be done in a bipartisan way. the unanimous consent effort was bipartisan, and her heisman was immediately hailed by president trump. now she s being joined by alaska senator lisa murkowski. make no mistake, this senate inaction is a derelict of duty, empowering our enemies at a time when fbi director chris wray says more countries like china are getting into the game and what we have experienced in the past is a dress rehearsal for what s coming next. any senator blocking election security efforts is short-term pl politics. they re betting you won t notice or remember until after the next election. at that point, it may be too late. bottom line, there can be no political excuse for failing to defend our democracy period, and that s your reality check. john you say surely congress will take action on election security, to that i say no, and
attention of every american. that s every american, regardless of party, but robert mueller s warning is again, falling on willfully deaf ears. we know that foreign powers continue to try to meddle in our elections. trump s fbi director and director of national intelligence have made this crystal career. when trump s homeland security secretary she was waved off by chief of staff and now we have a clearer indication of why because president trump just said he d entertain foreign offers of assistance in our e electors, a comment his elections a comment his campaign said it would take as a directive. all while president trump has repeated repeatedly floated the absurd idea we should have a joint cyber with russia. surely congress will step up and act responsibly to secure our elections, right, just kitdindd
for it. mcconnell, the national emergency that s going on is that the president is the constitution and taking away the power of congress for an emergency and they are allowing him to do it. he has pants them and they are saying hit me again. it is simply not true. he has the authority. it is that the congress not for it is a fake emergency and everybody knows it. sierra those are happening in those countries. they are not national this is fate. i don t agree. we are not going to settle here whether or not he has the right. it is going to go into the courts. he is is right about that. it is probably going to be struck down.
it will be a moment of truce for my colleagues. and you re referring to what the house will do to terminate the president s national emergency. let me talk to you about going a step further. it would be harder to get a veto on. do you think the president should change the law so the president cannot declare without the support of congress? there are reasons why the president should have the ability. the risk that the president tas ks is that we limit the president s power to act when it really is necessary, when it is not practical to bring the congress into session on a moment s notice. this president doesn t care about future presidents. he only cares about himself and in this case he only cares about his conservative critics.
the wall. he said basically that he believes that the wall should be taken down in his hometown of el paso, texas. i don t think we should be removing barriers. congress appropriated 1.375 billion this go around and 1.3 billion before. there are physical barriers. it is on the border. it resembled the designs. that s what we ought to do. no nation in the world that doesn t protect orders. i reject the idea that we should take it down. is that going to hurt him? i don t know. i don t know if it is or not. i agree with you. as democrats have been saying some portions need physical barriers. some need to beef up your security. you would take it down. right. this is into president trump s