me. can we thank though, i think kevin felt bad about the gosar thing because he s kind of him. he did? to lay all of these out so democrats are going to pass this historic bill when the whole world is watching. kevin, i am sure maybe a little coffee. as joe mentioned, we have our senior capital hill garrett haec garrett haake is with us. eugene robinson is with us and a.j. alrod and david
counsel who is an expert in constitutional law and that is only fueling speculation donald trump they be on the verge of declaring a national emergency. we will see what candy he hands out at the border if at all. as the shutdown lingers on the president s critics are pushing a narrative there is disunity in the republican party, some claim cracks are appearing in gop ranks. the ap describing the cop is jittery but later today the president told reporters talk of gop infighting was made up nonsense. senior capital hill producer chad program has been all over the core doors all they joining us from capitol hill to go over this. a lot of people trying to fan the flames i claiming lisa murkowski maybe confronted the president behind closed doors but she later said no, i support him on border security. what is the truth about where the gop stands? donald trump came out of that meeting with senate republicans and the term used was there was
we don t have everything that we need because we have cut the military budget 20% over the last few years. so i appreciate admiral harris being forthright about some of those deficiencies. we still have incredible military power and we can do a lot in north asia as well as around the world. but the point is we have to increase our presence there and rebuild our military. and that s going to take more money and unfortunately some time. shannon: you ve been part of these briefings in depth with top leaders of the trump administration talking about the realities of what you re facing. mcmasters talking about fact you have the military option as the backup or none of the rest of it has any real teeth. tonight i understand according to senior capital hill producer is the night you ll debate and vote on more sanctions. 20 years of sanctions and diplomacy. how would this round be
and they are targeting democratic lawmakers in particular who are not on board yet with the dianne feinstein proposal, but would like them to be, so anything could happen. i want to ask about something we saw earlier when dianne feinstein unveiled this proposal. she had props, you know the pictures of these guns, they look like pretty serious weapons, there are no handguns or rifles there, correct? well, now what? we actually just got a listing of the specific weapons that were there from our track senior capital hill producer. he was able to get us a list of the weapons and it does seem to include some handguns and rifles and shotguns although primarily what you could see in the shots were not those guns, the small handguns and those things. what you could easily see at the press conference was something that could be judged to be more readily viewed as an assault weapon because of the physical characteristics of the gun, but as i noted here, this law that feinstein is now proposing