the local member of congress opposes his wall, because every member of congress who respects the border says we don t need a wall. they oppose it. so i hope he listens to them. but i m terribly worried that for political purposes he s going to try to assert some sort of national security argument for extreme emergency powers. i think this time tomorrow, we may be in a constitutional crisis. he seems to admire putin and erdogan and now bolsonaro, the new president in brazil, who all have moved to consolidate radical power in a way way outside of our constitution. i m sorry to be so alarmist. but i think that s what this president has up his sleeve. i think he s looking to try to assert a really radical presidential powers here. gloria, the real test of all of this is going to come, i guess, starting friday, which will be the first time the vast majority of federal workers do not get a paycheck. how much could that change the calculus? then you may have a real
loans and financial aid, attended boston university. in her sophomore year, her father died of cancer. we were really working on the classic american dream. and overnight, it was all taken away. my mom was back to cleaning homes. and driving schoolbuses to keep a roof over our heads. she moved back to the bronx after graduating college and spent the next few years working as a community organizer and advocate for children s literacy. in may of 2017, the one bedroom apartment she shares with her boyfriend became her makeshift headquarters as she launched a seemingly improbable run for congress. she was working as waitress and bartender at the time. like many members of her generation, she says she had student loans . i really understood the
what should alexandria ocasio-cortez and all the other new members of congress, what should they expect? well, she hasn t asked my advice. i m sure she s not going to. but i would say there are some people that really care that are there, that could really help. and so people are going to be looking and seeing if she s going to be a show pony or a work horse. they are going to want to know whether you re willing to put in the work. there is a lot of work. when you want to get a bill through, you have to convince your colleagues to support that bill. because she s calling for primary challenges against some democrats, which has already angered some democrats. right. so you ve got i would also say my motto was not to let perfect be the enemy of a really good win. so if i can move the ball down the field, i love football so i use football analogies a lot. if i can move the ball down and get a first down, that s really good progress. you re talking about compromise.
essential. professional staff getting furloughed right in the middle of investigations it s not a good situation. and under the current circumstance right now, we have the tsa negatively impacted. air traffic control, the border patrol, customs and border protection, the coast guard, the fbi, our entire national security apparatus is not being funded. it s a national security issue, for sure. the president says that the situation at the border is a national emergency and that he might bypass congress and use military funds to build a wall. do you see this as a national emergency? there s two questions there, number one, can he legally? and the second is, should he? and the can is a question of constitution law under article two of the constitution and title 50 of the u.s. code. i think if he does make that decision, anderson, it s going to get tied up in litigation. as far as whether he should or not, you know, i think this is an issue that needs to be resolved in a bipartisan ma
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