and in reference to this group of chinese businessmen at the event, she said, they re all my guests. there are rules in this country about who can attend political fundraisers and by what means. foreign visitors can attend, but they cannot pay their own way, only citizens of this country and permanent residents of this country can donate to political campaigns. well, we have learned with the help of sec filings that in the days leading up to this event, yang donated serious sums of money to the president. yang gave more than $5,000 to president trump s campaign and more than $23,000 to the trump victory political action committee. so, again, these rules that govern our political campaign events are there to protect the integrity of our elections, and so it would be illegal for a foreign national to even reimburse united states citizens for paying their way to this event. we have reached out to the white house, we have reached out to yang herself, we have reached out to the rnc, the tru
defeat and reopen the government. the same thing will repeat itself. if he tries this again, we hope he learned his lesson. both sides are digging in for what appears to be an ongoing slug fest, the republicans begging the president to try to again and potentially face another government shutdown, fred. boris sanchez in west palm, thank you so much. lynn sweet, washington bureau chief for the chicago sun times and divergian, good to see you both. why would the president try another route asking for $8 billion from congress after all everyone has been through? well, they think this last push of that money will presidet and his white house and advisers have already said, which is the goal there to try to get that much. basically it s the double barrel
paid for a little bit of the wall money, $1.4 billion, it s a little bit compared to the original $25 billion. were they listening to these experts the way that you and i listen to them? and that is listening for solutions. they are not all on the same team in terms of politics, they are on the american team and they can get something done. i agree with melissa. my hand is in the air to call out people who are willing to sit at the table and do it. no, they are too busy fighting over, well, this will look like a win for the present. this is going to look like a win for speaker pelosi. you know who s not winning? us. melissa: michael, can i ask you because what worries me, building on what you are saying there because you are absolutely right it feels like we ve got to a point in politics where you can only get enough people to give it to say no. and you can t get enough people together to say yes and come up with a solution. everywhere. you even see it with the brexit situati
soul if i decided to treat president trump different than president obama. without question the president s order for more wall money contradicts the will of congress and probably struck down by the supreme court. i think the president s own picks to the supreme court may rebuke him on this. republicans warned that it would set a precedent for a future democratic precedent to declare a national emergency to address climate change or gun violence. the president addressed that. president trump: a lot of people talk about precedent. that if we do this, the democrats will use national emergency powers for something that we don t want. they are going to do that anyway, folks. the best way to stop that is make sure i win the election. that s the best way to stop that. last week the house passed a resolution to block the president s national emergency. the senate has to vote on it. that s upcoming in the next few weeks and it is expected. the president has said he will veto it if it reach
to you by our friend and colleague and everybody s favorite host on mondays, katy tur. doesn t everyone feel better now? me either. back tomorrow. the beat with ari melber starts now. good evening, thank you, chuck. this is the beat. coming on a huge news night. top intelligence officials spilling concerns about donald trump s approach to the summit with kim jong-un in vietnam. also at any moment, the house will officially vote and the count looks like they ll be shutting down donald trump s attempt to declare an emergency to get wall money. there s a new threat from the white house. we ll have that later. and mitch mcconnell dropping a bombshell over whether he thinks donald trump is doing something legal there. and tonight, rare to hear from bob mueller s witnesses, even rarer to hear from their lawyers. we have something special that we vice president done before.