question is, what is the wall? one of the problems that we have here is that there s been no plan submitted that i know of for what we re talking about. where, how much it would cost, what it would do, what parts of the border it would cover. that s one of the real issues here is. he keeps talking about something called the wall but we don t really know what he wants. a typical construction project by the federal government, you ve got to submit plans and say this is what we re going to do. this is how big it will be. this is what it will cost. we have none of that. what does it tell you, senator? you make such a clear point i think people can understand. what does it tell you that the president wants a certain amount of money to say he s won on this, but according to you, does not have any record of putting forward even where the money would go. that s right. and what it says is, i think he s trying to make good on a campaign promise, one that he made hundreds of times. but, of
earlier, but it was unearthed of donald trump back in the day after his russia visit, toutth that they wanted him to do business there. interest reg. take a look. i went to russia at the invitation of the russian people and the russians. i went to russia in order to perhaps build hotels. at their invitation. they want me to build a great hotel in moscow. they still want me to. i m trying to drive the right kind of a bargain, unlike the bargains the city of new york drives. i m trying to drive a tough bargain. they want me back. they ve asked me back. i may go back. i don t know. i can do the deal in two months, i can do the deal. it will be done on my terms or not at all. two minutes or three decades, gives or take. professor tribe, your view of tying this all together. well, my view is that one of the possible reasons for the bl brouhaha about the wall and the
fencing would be more appropriate or drones or other sensor technologies? what, you know, what would be the best use mmm-hmm. to deal with the problem, rather than this sort of one size fits all? and, again, it goes back to what i said before. we don t even know exactly what they re talking about. there s already wall there. i ve seen it. there are some places where it makes sense. there are other places where it makes no sense and yet we don t know the president s basically asking for a blank check. let me build a wall. i ll put it where i want. it will look like what i want. you have nothing to say about it. that s now how this system works. would you say from donald trump s business experience that giving him a blank check is a good idea? i don t think it s a good idea to give a blank check to anybody in this situation. fair enough. if this were a military construction project, they ve got to go through engineering, come to congress. right. there s got to be acco
america. so what are we learning tonight? when you take this together, these key developments, what does it tell us about the investigations into the 2016 campaign? well, let s look at it like this. it all started with some indictments of americans and skeptics of bob mueller argued, well, crimes at home aren t collusion. then we saw remember those indictments of russians, rod rosenstein came to the podium and announced them. it was a huge deal. and skeptics said, well, okay, but crimes abroad don t necessarily have help at home in america. so here and here but not here. but now we are seeing a new indictment of a russian who was in america. not only in america, she was in a room at trump tower with donald trump s top aides and family members. today is the first time we have seen two people in that room, one american, one russian, are now both indicted. the american, of course, pled guilty.
this is unlike any national emergency we have seen. it s an attempt by the president to assume powers that belong to the other branches. and even if the courts don t see it that way, congress in hearings that look to possible abuses of power and high crimes and misdemeanors, may see it that way. that s where the ultimate remedy may have to come. vanita, your view on that. the professor mentioning within his criticism, he could see this is an area he could see the court might back up trump, depending on what he does. well, you know, i think we re going to have to focus on what he says tonight in the manufacture crisis. the media s devoting all this time. i think there is a real question why the networks are carrying this to begin with. remember, this is all a piece of his political agenda. from the start, the president has been demonizing immigrants. it has been an electoral and