have with mexico, it s massive. the wall is peanuts compared to what we re talking about. we re going to have a wall, folks. we re going to have a serious wall. it s a high ceiling. we will use the best technology, including above and below ground sensors, above and below. towers, aerial surveillance. the wall is a thousand miles, right? believe me. so easy. you build buildings, this is easy. still no late word on mechanics can funding, but the last thing before we go here tonight is something the president ran on and really constructed his campaign around. specifically, though, let s talk about something the president tweeted today. here it is. the text reads, great briefing this afternoon on the start of our southerner border wall in all caps. it s accompanied by photos showing what is apparently an incredible engineering and
court and ask the judge for injunctive relief. what the president is doing is violating the emoluments clause of the constitution, and it s really a very simple concept, because the founders were aware of this problem. emolument means profit or benefit. and the founders did not want, they specifically prohibited any person who holds a position of trust in the united states government from receiving profits or benefits from foreign governments. so that s what s going on. when foreign governments patronize these hotels. it s unconstitutional, it s a form of influence over the united states government official by the foreign government. the founders didn t want it. they put it in the constitution. and that s exactly what that language means. and we re going to expect the judge to rule on that and interpret the emoluments clause, explain it to the president what the law is. not just with respect to that hotel, but the law is the same with respect to the entire trump business empire.
we grant our presidents. it is illegal, however, and could be construed as such, to dangle a pardon. and we should also mention, it usually comes as a last resort, not a first. yeah, the constitution gives extraordinary leeway to a president to pardon almost anybody he wants for almost anything under any circumstances. and so the president discussing a pardon, i think it s going to be hard for a prosecutor to say that per se is illegal. what s so unusual in this case is that, of course the investigation is about the president, is about the president s conduct and the president s inner circle. so we ve never in our country had a circumstance in which the pardon was used to obstruct an investigation of the president. this may be a case of first impression for this special counsel. this might be the kind of thing that if litigated could go all the way to the supreme court. and that becomes a unique question is what you re saying to this case, that we ve never seen a pardon dangled in
on this. neither the house nor the senate want to do that. the republicans in particular are reticent to stand up to president trump on this issue, even though it s a serious constitutional violation. and that s one of the reasons i m looking at that senate seat in minnesota. i ve hired a republican political consultant to look at it. we need to have people in there, republicans in congress who are going to enforce the constitution of the united states. and meanwhile we re going to ask the judges to look at this and the judge in maryland is going to be doing that as well. this is a very, very serious situation. it was contemplated by the founders, it s in the constitution, and he s violating it. peter baker, let s call it judicial restraint. have you been amazed at the selective silence on the part of this president on all things stormy daniels related? i am reminded he has plans to go to the friendly confines of mar-a-lago as early as tomorrow night to catch the tail end of his fami
investigation. reporter: today white house press secretary sarah sanders was asked about high-profile police shootings, including the clark case. this is something that is a local matter and that s something that we feel should be left up to the local authorities at this point in time. that late report from joe fryar out in sacramento. that is of course why there is a movement called black lives matter. a lot of folks are paying close attention to sacramento tomorrow. more protests are planned there as is clark s funeral. a final break for us and then coming up, not for the first time and not for the last but the president today stirred up confusion on social media which we will attempt to fix right after this break.