Dropped the phone in the toilet and havent had a phone. You got everything done and then dropped it . This is a fox news alert im bret baier in washington president obama has vetoed a bill from congress to authorize construction of the Keystone Pipeline. Move comes despite the state departments conclusion that it would have no adverse effect on the environment. Chief correspondent james rosen is with the latest. This is the third veto president obama issued across his six years in office but the first since republicans regained control of the senate. In a brief written message to the Senate President obama said he was vetoing the keystone legislation on procedural ground
because the president wrote this act of congress conflicts with established executive branch procedures. It has earned my veto. The white house said earlier alerting to expect the action. The president intends to veto this legislation. Reporter the Obama Administration spent some six years delaying a decision and casti
I want to start with garrett haake, you are in the center of the action. Weve been hearing from lawmakers. To my ears, i dont hear any break in this gridlock. Whats your take at this hour . Reporter yeah, you with choose your own news here at this point, depending on who youre talking to. Im outside a meeting thats been going on Susan Collins office and the democrats coming out have said no comment, on made vague comments like theres been progress. Lindsey gram just left. Hes been probably the sagelemost key negotiator. He sees some of the dynamics as potential something to be optimistic about, specifically this idea that the senate would be able to move forward sometime
optimism their close to turning a corner. The work will continue at least until tomorrow. Just to drill down on the point you make, they are considering essentially the deal that seems to be gaining the most team is this shortterm threeweek deal. So the question is why would democrats go for this deal when they Wouldnt
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Speaking very calmly talking about the oath that members of Congress Take to, you know, when they are sworn into office. And asking them to stand as one institution to basically fight executive overreach, to stand up and defend the constitution and so it was enough to get republican support. He did not win over the democrats, but they were not needed in this case. Bottom line, republicans all day say that they were defending the constitution; that they feel like the president has gone too far in the spread of executive power. And so they say it may be a republican president in a couple of years and democrats may have wished they joined the lawsuit because perhaps the shoe will be on the foot in a couple of years. At this point the lawsuit goes forward. Republicans made it happen and he we will see where it goes in the courts, greta. Mike, any members of congress sticking their heads in the sand and not voting at all or any republicans or democrats crossing over . We had five republican
Hes attacking the front runner by a lot. Hes are joke artist. Donald trump has mocked everybody with personal attacks. If anyone deserves to be attacked that way, its donald trump. You know that is florida, they hate little marco rubio so much. Little more ka rubio 16, lying ted cruz, thats amazing no matter what you say with ted, hell change it. Today, gop candidates rally supporters in states with contests today and tuesday, and more of this. Get him out. Get him out of here. Trouble maker. A real trouble maker. Get that guy out of here, police. Thank you, get him out. Lets go, move we got to get him out. Were not going anywhere. All day. This is the place for politics. Even at this early hour, candidates are zigzagging across the country in what promises to be an exhaustive day for supporters in key states. Voters in louisiana will be the first to have their say with polls open at 8 00 a. M. Eastern, kansas is one of the states where donald trump and rival ted cruz are making their