these department of defense funds in order to get this wall built? is there anything this president has to prove this is actually a national emergency? he can declare it. make that declaration. outright? he will outright make a claim, no justification but there will be legal action taken. an injunction file. extraordinary steps to slow the process and get it through the courts and concurrently, remember, we have a democratic congress acting as a check and balance to this president. conduct oversight investigations, have hearings, parade every single administration official, a part of this decision, andprepared t so. absolutely pup looking at secretary nielsen, bringing her in to ask questions about the child deportation. inhumane treatments of children, prepared to have those meetings in the next couple weeks. guys, put that full-screen on what happens when the president actually declares a state of emergency.
of the united states. donald trump hasn t had to answer or his administration hasn t had to answer that many questions. that will change as of today. there are a host of investigations that the democrats say they re ready to launch, and not just on the russia investigation. subpoenas having to do with the intel investigations. but ethics investigations, oversight investigations. all sorts of things. she s now officially sworn everybody in. let s go to nbc correspondent kasie hunt and jill cull vin, michael steele, and steve israel, the chairman of long island university s global institute. and former obama administration deputy labor secretary christoph christopher how. lou. he served as a staffer.
make them mad and it s amazing how they backed off some of the things they use to agree, i could believe in, being anti-orwellian. they are not anymore, but they are going to do the investigations. they are out there hiring like crazy, lawyers, they are coming in and helping with subpoenas. it is healthy to have oversight investigations and i think republicans didn t do enough of them. but you don t need a colonoscopy after every minor decision and i think that s where they are headed. ed: michael cohen has been under the microscope he needed a colonoscopy. ed: while we believe that that for another program. that was picked up in the area of prague and 2016 which he has vehemently denied. a reporter went on msnbc and
control of the house on january 3rd, they are suggesting that they will launch numerous oversight investigations into president trump and his administration. the president has its own warning for democrats, listen. well then, it is probably presidential harassment. we know how to handle that, i handled that better than anybody. at the no collusion, after two years, no collusion. there has been collusion, but it has been by the democrats. no collusion, and you are talking about the millions and millions and millions of dollars of wasted money. there has been absolutely no collusion. julie: let s bring in the power panel, capri cup sparrow, a former democratic leader in the ohio state senate, and sick executive residence at public school affairs, , and amy tarkanian, republican strategist. he loves the word collusion. i think that he might have said it six times there. but his point is that they has been no proof of collusion on the president s part.
away from the president. if matt whitaker followed the ethics rules, he wouldn t be able to do that. you see him blatantly disregarding the ethics rules were there for jeff sessions not just to preserve the department but to protect himself. to protect the department s integrity and protect you from scandal. let s go through the problems matt whitaker may face. if he s told donald trump that he ll deal with this investigation. and let s say he s also offered to help him out in the southern district where we know the president is enraged to be named as individual one in some of those cohen filings. what problems do you think whitaker, is he thinking he needs a defense lawyer at this point? he s wise to have one. he s going to face oversight investigations of what s happened. just what s happened today with this recusal question alone is a problem. two he s going to face an inspector general investigation. to set up this end around around the ethics officials is so