thank you so much for letting us into your homes for another week of shows. so grateful. have a great weekend. always so good to see you. have a great show. and welcome to the beat. i m katie phang in for ari melber. trump s legal woes moved to florida in a most recent attempt to get this classified documents case dismissed. holding a multihour hearing. trump s lawyers arguing jack smith s appointment of special counsel is uns constitutional claims a special counsel must be appointed categorized unprincipled author and contending that the attorney general s ability to appoint a special counsel with the authority of a u.s. attorney is like appointing a shadow government. the judge appeared skeptical of the argument pushing back saying, is that really a realistic risk,s when there are well-defined statutes regarding the attorney general s appointment authority ? special counsel refuting the arguments says it disregards precedent and would have a pernicious consequen
fund is to fund most of the government through next year but only extend funding for homeland security which oversees immigration for a few months to buy time. it s going to be difficult to take meaningful action as long as we ve got democratic control in the senate. reporter: but powerful conservative groups are impatient and unhappy. one accusing gop leaders of writing a, quote, blank check for amnesty. what do you say to conservative groups who think this is caveing? well, i don t think you re caving when you re trying to restrict the actions of the president who ha been uns constitutional. i think you re taking every initiative that is possible at this point. reporter: house republicans will hold a vote this week on a bill that says the president violated the constitution by using his executive authority to change immigration policy. but since democrats who still run the senate have no intention of bringing that up, the vote will largely be symbolic. a way to mollify frustr